My Vox AC15CC1X Top Boost with Celestion Alnico Blue gets very close to Beatles sound. They also had Alnico Blue or Gold Speakers if I'm not mistaken also. The amp most people associate with the 'Vox sound' is the AC30 Top Boost, which is a circuit that never used an EF86. This means that if you are hearing an AC30 on a Beatles record, it's probably NOT an EF86 model. Early on, the Beatles may have used early AC30s and/or AC15s with EF86s, but they got new AC30s in January 1963, which would NOT have had EF86s. The EF86 was eliminated from the AC30 by 1960. The Beatles and Petty (and band) used a lot of different Vox amps, including solid state models. Muchxs wrote: The signature 'Vox' tone comes from an EF86 pentode used as V1.īuy a Winfield Cyclone if you want that tone. Also thinking about running it stereo with my Princeton. I'm thinking of this Amp for travel, small gigs, rehearsal, studio & noodling. I do like The Beatles & The Byrds sound a lot & I do like a lot of other stuff too. I like the Marshall/Vox hybrid sort of tones the AC30 gets, but if you want that classic 'Beatles' tone you might be underwhelmed. I usually play on the edge of breakup and add overdrive or fuzz to that, so the Greenbacks are better for me playing at volume, but if you play mostly clean and want that Vox chime, the Greenback won't deliver. Still retains most of the VOX tone, but different than what you get with Celestion Blues. I would expect something similar with the AC10. The throaty crunch it gets with a dirt pedal like a RAT or similar is more like a Marshall than classic Vox. The Greenbacks give the AC30 more headroom before breakup and the cleans have sparkle, but aren't quite as chimey, there is also some added lower mid range that I like, which is more apparent as the volume is wound up. Fuzzjunkie wrote:I don't have an AC10, but have an AC4 C1, had a '60s AC30 with silver bells and have a '93 Korg AC30 with Greenbacks.

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