ujnhunter wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:35 pm
I've had it (in a box, but used a couple times to make sure it worked and wasn't banged up) since a week after Black Friday. If you bought the listing that you posted, it's the Mahogany model which has the passive humbuckers, as I bought the same exact guitar from the same exact listing. Mine arrived double boxed (a giant rectangular box with a guitar shaped box inside) and in perfect condition. Even if you did lots of research... you'd probably not find out much, seeing as there isn't really much info out there... Vox don't even have all the info on their site. I haven't tested any of the modeling settings through anything other than the headphones for practice... so I'm not sure how the various settings would sound through an amp or recorded yet. Also not much of an acoustic guitar player, but the modeling sounded cool to me in headphones with a touch of reverb (which is the fx button/knob for all acoustic models where the fx/knob for all the electric models is a drive). The acoustic 2 (I think) and the resonator/banjo sounds pretty cool to me and I'm definitely going to test them out in a recording at some point. The 3 way switch on the Electric Models is switching between pickups (Bridge, Neck, Both), but the 3 way switch on the Acoustic/Synth models changes the presets (Synth, Bass Synth, Swell, 12 String, Resonator, etc...) If your guitar arrives like mine did and it's setup well (mine was perfectly fine out of the box after tuning it) then I think you're going to like it. If not for the sounds/recording features, for the ergonomics/practice ability for sure.
My new guitar arrived yesterday!!! I spent a long time playing with the really terrible sounding synth that I was initially sure, from watching the videos, was going to be one of the patches I just wasn't going to use... a) because it sounds pretty bad and cheesy, b) because I have a keyboard and a lot of synth sounds that sound better, and c) I'm better at playing keyboard than guitar... but it's super fun? And the bass synth goes wah wah wah womp womp womp, it's even worse (aka better)!
It was safely packaged in an enormous box. I should probably check the intonation with a tuner, but from casual playing it sounded fine straight out of the box! But the tremolo arm seems super tight, like I have to put some real elbow grease into it to use it. I'll have to find out how to adjust it (I assume this is possible. I've never had a guitar with one before.)
I think the banjo and resonator sound surprisingly good! Every 12-string seems to sound surprisingly bad! I think some of the acoustic models aren't bad if you turn down the tone, but the sustain on them is a little weird. I'm sure the sitar could be used sparingly and sound OK. And I do indeed have the passive pickup mode and it seems to work fine... but honestly I've mostly been playing around with the various weird noises!
It's really light and seems pretty comfortable to play, and I
love being able to just plug in headphones and practice without having to futz around with an amp or interface. I do have one of those little mini-amp doohickeys that plugs right into the guitar that I would use sometimes for practicing with headphones, but somehow it feels a lot easier to plug straight into the guitar than going to the trouble of finding that and plugging it in.
I tried it out with my actual amp at lunchtime and took some video of it, but it ended up as like 3 or 4 videos because my phone kept crashing.
Maybe I'll try again later once I clear some space off my phone.
Someday. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the Vox guitar owl.
