![]() ![]() This enables the preamp to be overdriven while keeping the total level of the amp in check. ![]() Gain and Volume Controls - Unlike the original AC-10, the Vox AC10C1 has both gain and volume controls. Tube Complement - The AC10C1 employs two ECC83 preamp tubes and two EL84 output tubes. The JMI Vox AC-10 was a dual channel amp with four inputs. The Vox AC10C1 joined the Vox AC4C1, AC15C1 and AC30C2 as part of the "Classic Series" of guitar amplifiers.ĭesign - The AC10C1 is a 10 watt, single channel amplifier with one input. AC-10 amps built in 19 were offered exclusively with black vinyl. AC-10 amps built in 19 were covered in fawn vinyl with a transition to black vinyl in 1963. In 1961 the cabinet was redesigned to incorporate the classic Vox "split front" speaker panel. The earliest version of the single speaker AC-10 arrived in 1959 with a TV front cabinet covered in tweed vinyl (see photo at right). The 1961 JMI Vox catalog suggested the AC-10 was ideal " for the smaller group." A close comparison of the AC-10 schematic (OS/008) and AC15 schematic (OA/031) reveals that both models have vitually identical electronic components, voltages and circuitry in their power amps. Like its bigger brother, the AC-15, the AC-10 power amplifier was powered by two EL84 power tubes in a Class A, cathode biased, no negative feedback amp circuit. The six tube AC-10 circuit included one each EF86, ECF 82 and ECC83 preamp tubes, two EL84 power tubes and an EZ81 rectifier tube. The JMI AC-10 featured two channels, four inputs, tremolo, a tone cut control and a 10 watt power amp section driving a single 10" Elac or Goodmans speaker. I nitially introduced in 1959, the all tube JMI AC-10 bridged the gap between the student grade AC-4 and the professional level AC-15. The Vox AC10C1 debuted in May 2015, fifty years to the month after the original Vox AC-10 amplifier last appeared in a Jennings Musical Instruments (JMI) Vox price list in 1965. ![]() No use on online auctions, eBay or Reverb. © 1996 - 2023 The Vox Showroom, all rights reserved. ![]()
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