Replace OEM Pan with Accutronics pan # 9EB2C1B. Replaced R18 with a 28K ½ Watt Metal Film Resistor.Īdded a 470K resistor across lugs 1 and 3 of the reverb drive switch. This helps the amp run cooler and more stable. Jumpered R49 to get more Pre-amp gain on the "Normal" channel.Īdded a permanent 68pf cap to the circuit and replace C12 (220pf) with a 68pf cap to obtain switching from 68pf to 136pf values.Ĭhanged the 100 ohm screen resistors on the output tubes to 470 ohm, and the 1.2k grid resistors to 2.2k.
#REVERB PEDAL IN VOX AC30CC2 EFFECTS LOOP MOD#
Top boost channel Mod to tame excessive treble: Replaced R6 & R7 (100k Plate Resistors) With Vintage Specs.
#REVERB PEDAL IN VOX AC30CC2 EFFECTS LOOP MODS#
Google "Lyle Caldwell Mods AC30CC" for more info. The CC is difficult to work on though, the boards are hard to get to. If you do the mods yourself the cost is cheap, just a handful of resistors and caps. Everybody sez you gotta get the blues, but I'm not convinced it's worth the $500+ bucks cost. Mine has the Wharfdales and I'm ok with them. I was in the same boat as the OP, then I did the Lyle Caldwell mods on my AC30CC2 and it was an amazing change. So yes, you'll get that tone and more changing speakers and will get even better by doing a couple simple circuit mods. I'm not kidding, it's just sublime now.įrom here, most people will change the reverb tank to something a bit nicer, and you might want to change a capacitor in the effects loop. This, combined with the speaker change will have your amp sounded BETTER than the C2. This replaces two resistors in the preamp to give the normal channel more gain, and changes or removes a host of treble bleed caps that were poorly selected. Circuit wise, do the Lyle Caldwell mods.
The speaker swap will get you 80% of the way towards a new one. This has a lower, slightly more modern tone. Myself, I changed to a Vox Silver bell (the modern equivalent is a Scumnico) and a 70th Anni G12H30. Replace them with Greenbacks, or similar speakers, or with some sort of Alnico speakers. get those terrible Wharfedales out of there.
There are 2 main things on the cc2 that if you fix you'll have one hell of an amp: Stock the cc2 is really bright and has a really intense horrible midrange due to the Wharfedales you're not just hearing things, it does sound worse. Ok, so I have been *exactly* in your position and it has worked out very well for me. I'd like to hear other peoples opinions on this. The way I see it, is if I can make it sound just as good as the new ones by a speaker swap then I'll save up and get greenbacks or blues, but if this amp just doesn't have the capability to sound as good as the newer ones I may just sell it and save up for the newer cc2x. I was wondering, how different is the circuitry of the 2010 cc2x to the new c2 and cc2x? Is this basically a completely different amp design than the new ones at guitar center, or is it just the speakers? I realized this one doesn't have greenbacks nor Blues, It looks like a rather cheap vox speaker. It still sort of has that vox sound, and it gets nice and loud but something just doesn't sound as good as the one at guitar center. I was really excited because I thought the cc2 was the higher end one. I ended up buying it, but as soon as I played it at home I was a little disappointed. So I obviously didn't have the money to buy a brand new ac30 from guitar center so the other day I stumbled across an AC30cc2 on Clist. I would literally go to guitar center at least once a week and play the AC30c2x (not sure the correct model name it's the newest one with greenbacks)įor some reason this amp created a tone that just inspires me. I have been looking into vox ac30's for a while. Recently, I picked up a 2010 vox ac30 cc2 off of craigslist.
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