The first channel incorporates the preamp circuitry from the original AC-30 "Normal" amp while the second channel featured the Vox AC-30 "Top Boost" circuit. The AC-30C2 is produced by Vox in China and offered a number of significant changes from the AC-30CC2.
#Vox ac30c2 vs vox ac30cc2 series#
If you want a stock amp that sounds great out of the box the C series is better purely on the basis of how important speakers are to the sound and the fact that there aren't any reported design flaws.The AC30C2 replaced the AC30CC2 in January 2010. Doesn't make a big difference to the volume but does let you get a little more breakup early on. Also the CC series has some switches on the back that adjust the filtering (basically how tight or loose the amp is to get either a "vintage" or "modern" sound), and the biasing of the power valves to give either 22 or 33watts output power.
#Vox ac30c2 vs vox ac30cc2 Patch#
On the C series to jumper the channels you need a patch lead, on the CC you just flick a switch. There's a superficial difference in the control panel/ input jacks layout. There were various revisions to the design so that after around 2007 the CC amps were very solid and reliable, but they never recovered from the early reputation as unreliable, which is IMO why they redesigned them with the "C" series. Early CC series amps had some stupid design/ production flaws, with some incorrect value components used and a few silly decisions like soldering the speaker cables directly into the chassis, and incorrectly adding a standby switch when it's not needed on GZ34 rectified amps and can in fact blow the rectifier tube, which did happen - a lot of users learned not to use the standby (vintage ac30s don't even have standby). C series amps have the valves hanging down behind the speakers, which makes them easier to access but means they're being shaken about a little bit more. CC amps are like vintage AC30s with L shaped chassis and that makes it a little harder to get to the tubes (though I don't think it's as big a deal as people make out). And the Celestion Blues are made in England, whereas the CC series Celestion blues were made in China with cones that were a bit brighter and stayed a little fizzy once they were broken in. The stock speakers are better on the C series - the lower price option is Greenbacks, and they sound much better than the Wharfdales that came in the lower priced CC amps. That makes the CC cabs a little more resonant and lively sounding and also means they'll probably last longer, whereas MDF is a deader sound and can age more quickly.
The CC cabs are birch, the C cabs are mdf. One isn't necessarily better than the other, the '60s AC30s had valve rectifiers and it supposedly makes the amp a bit smoother at high volume, which I think is true based on my experience of my CC amp with both a valve rectifier and solid state drop in replacement. CC series has a valve rectifier, C series is solid state. The C series comes with two greenbacks or two alnico blues, and the CC series came with two wharfdales, two alnico blues, one neo-dog, or a head version. The current AC30 series is the C, and the previous one (2004-2010) was CC, which is pretty retarded and confusing.
Ah cool just wanted to be sure I wasn't talking about a bunch of stuff you weren't interested in!
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