Vox Brian May Special Guitar Combo Amplifier

10 Watts. 6.5 in. speaker. 'Deacy System' electronics.

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 8 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 8 out of 10

"Big things come in small packages."

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from gmail.com

Submitted: 3/4/2009

Style of Music: Classic rock and Melodic Metal.

Musical Experience: Active Muscician, Hbbyist

Location: Florida

Feature:
It has recording line outs, and external outs and the sound to make it worth using.

Quality:
You get what you pay for, it's cheap so it's own speaker isn't amazing, but for a little 10 watt amp its one of the best I have seen. Besides, the real quality is in the electronics not its case.

Value:
This for $200 + a Marshall 4X12 cab for $279 = a whole lot less money than the Brian may combo. If I needed to replace this I would go as high as $400, then other solutions would become more cost effective. But I got to admit, I fell in love with this sound after playing with it, I might go as high as it takes to replace.

Desirability:
I gutted my little Brian May, which was done easily, replaced the transformer with a more powerful one, and put it in a rack. I got it a new faceplate and knobs. I gave it a bypass pedal that lets me replace a Marshall head. Its fun to have a different sound to play with once in a while. For the price, I never expected this to be as useful as it has become, I love it.

Sound:
This amp's best sound is not with it's own speaker, it is designed to use an external speaker and a recording line out. It's sound for both of those things is unreal for $200. I hook it up to a Marshall cabinet and it can get quite loud, but most importantly, it sounds like the expensive Brian May combo AC30 but cost a lot less money.

Ease of Use:
It has 3 knobs gain, tone, volume; and a push button for clean or distorted. It has four jacks, all clearly labeled.

Support:
Vox is a great company. They are honorable are very helpful when dealing with issues.

Overall:
Love it. Its so small it takes 1 slot in my rack now but still offers a great sound when I want it. It goes with me everywhere.

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"Yes, this will do it for you!"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 7 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 6 out of 10

User: a customer from ncnm.edu

Submitted: 10/28/2004

Style of Music: Wide range - work with many types of music in my recording.

Musical Experience: Active musician and recording engineer.

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Feature:
I love the flexibility of being able to drive another amp for another completely different sound and having a recording output. This is NOT an amp for playing clean jazz through, so don't look for THAT kind of flexibility! For what it does, though, it has the features I need.

Quality:
To some degree this is made down to a price, but not to the degree of affecting reliability - at least so far, after a year's fairly hard use. Fit and finish on some of the trim is not up to AC30 standards, but neither is the price!

Value:
I think it's superb value for money.

Desirability:
If this amp was taken, I'd immediately replace it.

Sound:
I use my Guild Brian May guitars through numrous amps - vintage tweed Fender, vintage Selmer, Dean Markley Signature (tube 60w). BUT when you want to sound like Brian - especially buiding up that incredible 'orchestration' layered sound with multi-tracking, nothing else comes close. It sounds very 'big' for such a tiny amp.

Support:
One of my amps didn't have a manual, and I was referred to a website to download one. Effective for documentation, but I would have preferred a factory printed manual.

Overall:
There really isn't another product likely to come along that would compare.

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"Really hot looking... not so greatly built"

Overall:: 7 out of 10
Features:: 4 out of 10
Quality:: 3 out of 10
Value:: 4 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 7 out of 10
Support:: 7 out of 10

Submitted: 2/14/2005

Style of Music: punk, Rock

Musical Experience: Active Musician

Location: Houston, TX

Feature:
Simple, I don't like tons of knobs. You can get alot of different combinations with very few adjustments. But the speakers are crap. Mine blew within 2 weeks of buying it and I never turned it up all the way

Quality:
My speaker blew and had to be replaced and then the input jack.

Value:
You can get a decent 15 watt for 80... this is 10 and 150? Something isnt adding up.

Desirability:
It's really nice looking. All white with the brown cover and golden Vox. The only reason I bought instead of a 15 watt Fender.

Sound:
I love the sound. It can be bright and it can be raunchy.

Support:
Would of been better if I hadn't thrown away the receit

Overall:
I already replaced it witha Behringer. Which seems to have alot more settings and you can get more diverse sounds out of it.

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Vox Brian May Special Amp Customer Review

Overall:: 1 out of 10
Sound:: 4 out of 10

Submitted: 8/17/2005

Feature:
The tone was of a good variaty but the volume was no good. My speakers blew within 2 months and they were very hard to replace. The gold VOX logo has also began to ware slightly.

Sound:
The sound is warm and rich but doesnt sound like brian may live. If thats the sound you want just find a decent pedal. This amp is not very loud and the speakers are a bit dodgey. I wanted my les paul to sound like brian may so i bought this amp. Try and guess what? It was a waste of money.

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