Vox in a Box?

[pryde]

Are there any decent projects (from Madbean or other options) that do the AC30 top boost sound? I have vero layouts for:

Wampler Cranked AC
Catalinbread CB30
Lovepedal English Gent
ROG English Channel

Anybody have opinions on these? How about other options for DIY? Thanks for your thoughts

[jtn191]

I haven't tried any but here's some if you like vero:

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/search?q=vox
Hipkitty Oxblood Distortion = AC15
ROG English Channel

[jkokura]

I have had an etched Matchbox and English Channel on my desk, waiting to be built, for nearly two years. I haven't gotten to them. I originally thought I'd build both, pick the one I like the best, than drop it in a box with a Tiny Giant power amp and have a great little 'voxy' practice amp. I'm looking for a good cab to build it into, maybe with a 8 or 10" speaker.

Could be a cool project, I'd probably drop one of my headphone amps in there too for silent practicing, but I'm not sure if it would all work out...

Jacob

[slimtriggers]

There's a layout for the Carl Martin AC Tone over at FSB.  I built that a while back.  Sounds good, but I get a high pitched whine on mine that I never solved

[pryde]

There's a layout for the Carl Martin AC Tone over at FSB.  I built that a while back.  Sounds good, but I get a high pitched whine on mine that I never solved

Many people seam to like the CM AC-Tone. did you build one with a charge pump or actual transformer? I read through a thread on FSB and it seamed there were a lot of problems with the layouts? I might stay away from this one.

To bad madbean couldn't tackle the carl martin ac-tone and make it a "user friendly" project like the plexitone (boneyard) 

[mgwhit]

Check out the Guitar PCB V6 Overdrive.  It's supposed to do the cranked Box thing.

[pryde]

I have had an etched Matchbox and English Channel on my desk, waiting to be built, for nearly two years. I haven't gotten to them. I originally thought I'd build both, pick the one I like the best, than drop it in a box with a Tiny Giant power amp and have a great little 'voxy' practice amp. I'm looking for a good cab to build it into, maybe with a 8 or 10" speaker.

Could be a cool project, I'd probably drop one of my headphone amps in there too for silent practicing, but I'm not sure if it would all work out...

Jacob

Sounds like a cool project. Someone posted an idea awhile back about making the Vox Amplug into a pedal project. It might be cool. I own a AC30 Amplug for silent practice and it really does have a convincing cranked ac sound, at least through headphones.

[slimtriggers]

There's a layout for the Carl Martin AC Tone over at FSB.  I built that a while back.  Sounds good, but I get a high pitched whine on mine that I never solved

Many people seam to like the CM AC-Tone. did you build one with a charge pump or actual transformer? I read through a thread on FSB and it seamed there were a lot of problems with the layouts? I might stay away from this one.

To bad madbean couldn't tackle the carl martin ac-tone and make it a "user friendly" project like the plexitone (boneyard) 

Yeah, I did the charge pump one.  I tried multiple chips, I tried 150pF across pins 1 and 8, nothing solved it.  I kinda left it in a clump of wires and forgot about it.  I really liked the overdrive sound of it, but the whine ruined it for me.  It might be worth taking another crack at it-leaving off the charge pump section.  Maybe I'll try to power it with a Road Rage instead.

[jubal81]

I'm blown away by the demos of the new Catalinbread Galileo. It's supposed to be a CB30 with a tuned Naga Viper.

It hasn't been traced yet on FSB, but here's the thread:
http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18562

[pryde]

Thanks jubal

I have been tuned in to that thread. I got vero layouts for the CB30 and naga viper so that may be an option once the mods have been figured out.

I also may try building the englsih gent as it is pretty low parts count jsut to see what its about.

[atreidesheir]

It would be really hard to go wrong with either the ROG English Channel or Matchbox.  They both get into that Foo Fighter territory really well.  THe Matchbox will be smoother.

[gordo]

I've had the Cranked AC on my board for the better part of a few years and it's one of my goto pedals along with the MB King of Tone.  There's nice boards at http://www.toneclonepedals.com/Tone_Clone_Website/Voks_Boks.html.  Put a Karate Shop in front of it and it will be as subtle or squirrelly as you want.