Ways to get Vox 7120 sound

cowboy_joe · Post by **cowboy_joe** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:45 pm

Anybody know a pedal or effect that does a good job of the distortion channel on the old 7120's that the Beatles used? I haven't really tried to get it, beyond cranking my AC-15, or using an overdrive pedal, which isn't quite right. Any ideas? Thanks.

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:20 am

Thats a hard one. You could make a pedal that copies the exact fuzz circuit in the preamp from those, and if you really study the circuit, you could also include the effect of how it would overload things by overloading the input of one channel with the output of the other like the Beatles did. Then stick it on the front end of a tube amp and you can get close. The sound may likely be too overdriven since you would be amplifying through the preamp of your tube amp where they just amplified it with a clean power amp section. You could probably adjust the gain levels to get close though it would take a lot of adjustment and troubleshooting.

If you're looking for an off the shelf thing to emulate that sound, I don't know of anything out there personally.

cowboy_joe · Post by **cowboy_joe** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:33 am

That's kind of what I though...I had a long drive the other day and was listening to Revolver, and I realized how much I really like that grungy kind of crunch they got all over that record. I did some tweaking of mine, and I'm surprised how similiar my little Vox VR15 practice amp can get on the crunch channel, with a lot of treble.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:44 pm

A Casino and a VOX will get you pretty close... Crank the 'middle' too on something like Paperback Writer...

I think my favorite Revolver sound is "She Said She Said"