New Amp!

A week ago yesterday, I received my latest amp. It's a new Vox DA5 that I bought from a member of one of the forums I belong to. It's a small, portable, 5 watt practice amp. I had been wanting a practice amp with an earphone jack and an AUX input for a while now. This little amp has those two features plus a whole lot more! It has 11 amp sounds/styles and 11 effects, with some being multiple effects. It also has a separate MIC input with it's own volume control AND it can run on batteries! If that wasn't enough, it has a power select switch which allows the output wattage of the power amp to be adjusted. The switch can be set to 0.5 watts, 1.5 watts, or 5 watts. I am currently using it with batteries, so I have the switch set to 0.5 watts to prolong battery life. The switch can also be used to control the volume of the amp. If I had the switch set at 5 watts, and I wanted to turn up the volume to the maximum to drive the power amp, the resulting volume would be too loud. With the power select switch, I could lower the volume without losing tone by setting the switch to 1.5 or 0.5 watts. The parameters of each effect on the amp can also be adjusted via three edit modes and a 'tap' button (used to 'tap' in the desired speed of certain effects).

I compared my new Vox to my Fender Champ 600 tube amp, which is also 5 watts. The Vox compliments my Fender very nicely! Even though the Vox is a digital amp, I can get it to sound very close to my Fender tube amp. This Vox amp has a very nice tube-like sound to it. It sounds better than my previous solid state amp. I have been experimenting with the different settings and have been able to get great tones out of it for different types of music. Needless to say, I am very happy with my new little amp! I'll try to record my next sound clip with it, but for now, back to 'experimenting'!