#Vox amp review manual

If you're trying to decide between this amp and the larger Mini-5 amp, note that the Mini-3 does NOT include any sort of drum machine/rhythm device. If you plan to use this amp on battery power, make sure you bring extra batteries with you.

#Vox amp review manual

However, the user manual warns NOT to use any type of battery other than a standard alkaline. If I were going to use batteries in this amp, my first reaction would be to use lithium batteries because they last longer. This amp can run on battery power (for busking or playing outside), but I haven't tried that yet. If you are carrying this thing around on a regular basis, you probably want to look into a better strap solution of some kind. The strap is a somewhat thin, no frills nylon strap. Straight up, the AC adapter feels pretty flimsy and cheap, but it does work. There is a strap and AC adapter included with the amp. In an apartment setting, I cannot turn the volume up more than 20-30 percent (with my guitar turned up at least 3/4 of the way) without creating a problem. Regarding volume, this amp is much louder than you might think. You can use the effects and the delay/reverb at the same time though. To be fair, this is pretty commonplace with these types of small practice amps. For example, you cannot blend both chorus and flanger effects. The downside is that you can't use more than one effect or reverb at one time. The effects and delay/reverb settings included with the amp are about what you'd expect, nothing too exotic. You'll have to control the volume from the input device. No separate volume control for that, unfortunately. There is a also a 1/8'' Aux input for playing along with an external source, like a smartphone or mp3 player. I like that Vox included a volume control for the mic input. There is a microphone input on the amp, which I guess would be useful for people that are busking on street corners or that like to sing along while they are practicing with their guitar. You will need a separate tuner in order to tune your guitar. If you are a beginner thinking you don't have to buy a tuner when you buy this amp, wrong. It's only a reference tuner, which means it will only tune the low E string, then you have to tune the other strings by ear. In today's age of cheap clip-on electronic tuners, the tuner included with the amp is pretty useless. The amp has a lot of extra features, some of which seem like they could be useful and others which seem pointless. However, if you do a couple of Google searches, some folks have used clues and guesswork to deduce what these amp modeling presets are supposed to be. Note that Vox, for legal and other reasons I'm sure, cannot spell out exactly what non-Vox amps they're attempting to imitate with these modeling presets. I don't think that most extreme metal players, especially those playing the latest 7, 8, or 9 string guitars would be looking at Vox amps anyway, so this setting seems like a novelty more than anything else. It's also the setting I'll probably use the least, mainly due to my musical preferences. It sounds like the type of distortion you hear on a lot of modern, slickly produced extreme metal recordings. The Cali Metal setting is the most explicitly metal-distortion type tone. These are heavier, hard rock and metal type settings. Once you get into the UK 70s, UK 80s, and UK 90s settings, you're basically getting tones that were designed to imitate a Marshall type amp. They're not going to be dead on with an expensive vintage-spec tube amp, but I don't think anyone realistically expects that. The clean and 50s-60s overdrive type sounds you get here sound pretty good. I ended up choosing Vox over the other brands in the same price range, mainly because I thought (rightly or wrongly) that when it comes to digital modeling presets, Vox's models would probably be the closest approximation to the 60s rock and British Invasion type tones that I like. Note: there is a 1 watt Vox amp, but I didn't like the sound of demos I checked out and it seemed like a cheap toy overall. When I found out Vox made a 3 watt amp, it seemed like an even better idea. My current living situation is in an apartment complex, and anything over 5 or 10 watts would be extreme overkill in terms of volume. When I was looking at small practice amps, there were a lot of choices from brands like Fender, Line 6, Roland, etc. Please keep in mind I've only been playing the guitar about a month, so more experienced players may have entirely different opinions: