Those instantly recognizable, warm British sounds you?ve come to expect from VOX are alive and well in the compact, 10-Watt Pathfinder 10 combo ? plus a high gain capability that?s thoroughly modern!
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Moroten, on september 24, 2005 3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 120
Purchased from: Local Music Store
Features: I purchased this amp about 2 years ago. It's a small amp for my bedroom. The amp is pretty basic. It has an overdrive built in wich is pretty good. Gain, bass and a master volume is the knobs, so it's pretty basic. I mostly play this with my headphones when it's late. // 8
Sound: For the price and size of this amp the sound is amazing. I play it clean or lightly overdriven with a SSH-Strat. It's the strongest 10w amp I've played and you can get yourself heard more than you would think. I think it has a nice warm feeling in the sound. You probably wont find a better amp in that price range. // 9
Reliability & Durability: Never had any problems with it. It has taken a lot of beatings and it works as new. A quality product. // 10
Impression: I my opinion it's the perfect practice amp. // 9
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Mike_rocka_boy, on april 04, 2005 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: Local music store.
Features: The amp is basic and I reccomend for starting off on guitar. It has a gain, bass, treble, volume, overdrive/underdrive and a headphone input. This amp is good, It suits my styles of music: loud punk/rock. It is fairly small so it is good for taking around. Downfall: Can not be used for advanced use or for band use. // 8
Sound: It is pretty good for sound. Although when it is up to high gain and overdrive it tends to start drifting off the sound it should be plaing and just playing loud echoes. // 8
Reliability & Durability: I can always rely on this. Never has it stuffed up or bugged out. Although I only use it for practising at home so there is no suprises there. // 10
Impression: overall I think this amp is pretty good. It is a good partner along with my Yamaha guitar. It may not have been my choice have I had bought it (it was a birthday present). Although I am pretty happy with the amp I got. I am a little disappointed that it does not have more settings (master etc). Although I have been playing for 2 years and it has served me faithfully for 2 years. // 8
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The_Teleblaster, on january 22, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: A$ 100
Purchased from: Guitar Centre at the Gabba
Features: This amplifier was built in 2008 in Vietnam. It has very basic controls, gain, volume, bass, treble, as well as an input and headphone/line out port as well as a channel selector. It comes with two channels, which are clean and overdrive. Obviously this amp is quite basic, with a 10-watt output is obviously built as a practice amp. Seeing as the controls are so limited you really need to use all the controls to get the sound you want. It is solid state, as are most practice amps, but does have some quite realistic sounding tube characteristics. This amp was only $100 Australian which is very cheap, so I was not at all concerned about the lack of some controls which some people would like even in a practice amp. Although I do kind of wish it had a 'mid' control. This is a practice amp, so you don't expect the features to be anything spectacular at all, but they are quite good considering the price. // 9
Sound: I use a Strat, Tele and a Les Paul with this amp, but I only use it late at night when I want to practice out loud, as my other amplifier (Peavey Bandit 112) is simply too loud even at highly reduced volumes, particularly on the distortion channel. My music style is mainly blues and rock (mainly classic rock, Stones, Zeppelin, Who etc) as well as prog rock such as Pink Floyd (favourite band of all time). It suits these styles relatively well, but it is a practice amp after all so you can't be too critical. The distortion channel is a bit noisy at high levels of gain, but is relatively quiet for the most part.
The amp makes mostly classic-rock, overdriven sounds on the distortion channel and jangly cleans. Due to the limited controls the sound is limited, but you do have control over the general sound you get out of it, especially when coupled with a guitar's tone controls. The amp seems quite trebly though, even when the treble control is backed up all the way to 0. One cool feature that this amp has which gives it a somewhat tube vibe is that when you push the gain all the way up and pull the volume down on the clean channel the sound is just slightly distorted, giving a nice rythym crunch.
Overall the sounds aren't anything spectacular, but are good for an amp of such a low price. Taking into account that this is a practice amp I do believe it sounds quite good. // 9
Reliability & Durability: I would not use this amp at a gig, unless I was playing in a very, very small venue with no drummer, and even then I'd have reservations. You have to take into account the intended use of this amp, though, it is simply not powerful enough to fill a reasonably sized room as well as having restricted sounds. It is not designed as a gigging amp. In terms of build quality it is surprisingly strong. I put a fair bit of my weight onto it the other day and the cabinet didn't budge. It has never broken down, but I have only had it for about 2 months and do not use it regularly. // 9
Impression: As I mentioned I mainly play blues/classic rock/prog rock and this amp suits them very well considering the price. I have been playing for 5 years and own a Tele, Strat, Les Paul (all genuine) and a Cort MR Custom and Kustom KAA16 acoustic amp, Peavey Bandit 112 and a DigiTech RP250. I tested the amp out before buying it and tested it against various other practice amps in the same class. I tested it against a Marshall, Peavey and a Laney and found this amp to have the most appealing distortion and clean channel. If it were lost or stolen I would certainly buy it again, as it is the cheapest and best practice amp in it's class. I love it's price and nice sounds but I wish it had more features and didn't lean so much towards cutting trebly sounds when treble is not wanted. Simply the best 10-watt solid state practice amp there is. // 9
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Immortal_Guitar, on may 22, 2006 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 88.2
Purchased from: Euromusica
Features: This amp has two channels, clean and overdrive, input, headphone jack (wich can be used to record)and master volume, gain, bass and treble knobs. Its features are limited, but I can't complain because the price isn't skyhigh. It's pretty solid, I used it for six months and never gave me problems. I play punk and pop rock, but the amp is versatile enough to other styles like heavy metal (with a proper distortion pedal). This is the loudest 0 Watt amp I have ever seen. I use it mainly for practice, and I don't think I would be using it on stage. // 7
Sound: I use this amp with my Aria Mac 55 (a Strat-style guitar), which is H/S/H. This amp suits my pop punk style perfectly, and it's very noisy for its size, especially with the overdrive knob, that gives the sound an extra punch. This amp hasn't got much of a variety, but it's perfect por practising at home. The clean sound is pretty good, and it sounds very good with single coil pickups. The distortion is fat, and I like it a lot. // 7
Reliability & Durability: This amp is very solid. Never gave me maintenance problems, and I have already bumped it once or twice. I wouldn't use it for a gig, it's too small. And this is a transistor amp, so no problems with tubes, since it has none. // 8
Impression: This amp is a good match fr my music style. I play it for about six months now, and it has never let me down or deceptioned. It sounds great with distortion pedals. I just love its overdrive channel, it sounds excellent with single coil and great with humbucker pickups. I don't like its sound limitations: hasn't got mid or reverb. // 7
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Kill em all89, on november 25, 2003 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 100
Purchased from: island guitars
Features: This amp was made recently. This is a very good amp you can play almost any style. It only has 2 channels clean and overdrive. It has a headphone/line out jack. It can be used for recording and its a practice amp too!! I wish it had reverb I never did use reverb before. I use this amp at home it's a practice amp. It's a 0 Watt amp. It's pretty loud for a 0 Watt. // 8
Sound: I use a Epiphone guitar which is shaped like a strat but I don't know the name of the model cuz I bought it used. I usually play classic rock and heavy metal and the amp makes the sound very good. The distortion is awesome!!! // 10
Reliability & Durability: I like this amp I would use this at a gig as a backup. Not a gig just like talent show kind places you know. This amp never broke down before. // 8
Impression: I play metal and hard rock, and classic rock. It is a good match for my music styles I play. I've been playin for about a year. If it was lost or stolen I would buy it again or get a Marshall. What I like about it is its loud and good. What I don't like about it is it needs reverb and lil bit of more features but it's a awesome amp. My favorite feature is the distortion cause it's awesome. // 10
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confuseus420, on march 01, 2004 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 80
Purchased from: Daddy's Junkey Music
Features: The amp is about two years old, and with the two channels, it can handle the heavy metal and classic rock styles that I tend to play. The headphone jack helps when I want to play late at night and not disturb anyone, the only thing I wish it had was an adjustment to the mid frequency. // 8
Sound: This really sounds good with the two humbucker pickups that my Ibanez has, the gain makes distortion sound very nice. The only thing is that it kinda buzzes in the cold, or when it is up more than half way. // 10
Reliability & Durability: I have never had to get the amp serviced, I use it on a regular basis, so I think I could play this amp at a concert, were it big enough... that is. // 10
Impression: The guitar's great for me, I am kind of a beginner, but my friends all like my amp, and how much power it can hold, I got it fairly cheap, considering the brand and the store, so I'm very happy with the amp. // 10
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jbdk, on february 11, 2006 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 146.4
Purchased from: Instrumentshoppen
Features: I play this amp through the clean channel, using my Boss DF-2. It also has an overdrive channel, but I don't use that very often. I does have a headphone jack and line out. I would like to have seen a reverb on it, but not at this price I guess. I use the amp at home, and it has plenty of power for practicing. // 8
Sound: I use a Samick guitar with S/S/H pickups. It suits my style pretty well, although I would have liked a more "bluesy" overdrive. I play mainly blues/blues rock. The amp can make some very crisp, warm sounds that I like very much. The overdrive/distortion is pretty brutal, but it's too heavy for my style. Overall, this thing sounds great! // 9
Reliability & Durability: I've only had it for about a week. It seems realiable enough. // 10
Impression: I play mainly blues/blues rock, and it's a good match. I prefer this to my old Marshall MG30DFX which cost 2-3 times more. I also have a Line 6 POD (which I plan to sell) and an old Boss DF-2 distortion pedal. If it was lost, I'd hurry out and get another one! I love it's looks. Very retro in a funny way. I "hate" the overdrive channel, it's too heavy for my tastes. I love the retro brown knobs. I also compared this to a Fender Frontman 15R and a Marshall MG15CDR. I choose this one because it got the best reviews and it sounded convincing in the shop. Still, I would have liked a reverb, but it doesn't matter, because I will soon get a proper multieffects pedal. // 10
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