Vox AC30 Birch Stolec 1970 Here is a summary of the work done to restore another Vox AC30 Another Birch Stolec 1970. Background: When Jennings Musical Instruments ceased operations, the assets were bought by an organization called Birch Stolec and they created the company Vox Sound LTD. This is a rare model.  It was only manufactured for a number of months using the Jennings Musical Instruments design. It was replaced with a PCB version which […]
 Vox AC30CC1 a simple fault This Vox AC 30 model is a lightweight one speaker version and the speaker is a special light weight design. The amp circuitry is the same. Its big disadvantage is no lovely Alnico Blue speakers The owner reported the amp as sounding weak and intermittent. I played detective and asked a number of questions. When was the amp last used? It has not been used in a number of
A lovely 1964 Vox AC30/6 came along as it was felling a bit poorly. The amp sounded- well- just not like an AC30 should. The vibrator / tremolo pedal had disappeared in the mists of time. The amp had been recovered in the proper basketweave Tolex and had a new grill cloth so it looked the part. The exact model is the Vox AC30/6 and while not a Top Boost model it is the “Treble”
The Wannabe Shadows are doing a gig next April in Gillingham in Kent. They play Shadows music and give their Vox amps a good airing. They are raising funds for the RNLI charity . For those of you outside of the UK, this charity provides life saving inshore RIB’s and sea going rescue ships . They answer the Mayday calls and over the years they have saved many hundreds if not thousands of lives at
In the “old days” UK mains voltage was 240 volts AC and Ireland plus mainland Europe was 220 volts AC. With the tolerances back in those old days UK mains voltage could be as high as 264 volts AC, so running an amp that was set for 220 volts AC in the UK could  mean that the amp was being run at 20% over voltage. That means your valves have a heater voltage that is
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A Vox Ac30 CC2X arrived that was sounding mushy, crackling and popping and when you tapped the case made wonderful microphone ! On removing the back it was obvious that the EL84’s had been in the amp since new and I guess the amp to 5 or more years old. One of the ECC83’s had been changed for Groove Tubes at some point. On testing the EL84’s they were totally mis-matched to each other and
All of us that have a valve / tube amplifier at sometime find our lovely favourite all valve amplifier suddenly starts blowing fuses. Sounds like a disaster has happened and out wallet is about to take severe damage. Has the amp gone to the great gig in the sky ? A Vox AC30 CC1 blowing fuses was what was presented to me. The Vox AC30 CC1 is a hybrid amp with the reverb and tremolo