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clockworkwar · Post by **clockworkwar** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:43 am

I'm a young bass player, and i want to know if the discontinued Vox T-60 sounds good or not? It seems good, i mean if not i will buy a Laney or something.

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randyz · Post by **randyz** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:41 am

Ross: I'm sorry to hear that the T60 has been discontinued. I had intended to buy one. I have a T25, and it's a great little amp. I'm not really a bass player, but I thump around on a Hofner V62 Beatle bass sometimes.

clockworkwar · Post by **clockworkwar** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:35 am

Cool! I think il get that amp the T60 or get a Marshall Bass State 65watt atm, they both seem good!

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:45 pm

hey Ross, I gotta say that (html speaking) that is one of the slickest web sites I've seen. great job!... however your one audio file wouldn't play for me. Where are you located? I dont know about the T60, but I use a VOX AC15 guitar amp (with a Ric 360) and it is like no other amp... simply the best.

>>>>Clockwork War began in 2005 with the target of bringing back proper Rock N Roll, not the music that it is associated with now; We vomit in a drunken rage at that music, and sometimes eat it and vomit some more! Were all about the music, if you want to give us an award and it’s not important, post it to us we don’t give an s***! We are trying really hard to get the bands name out there, and our music heard. A hectic few years for the band members this will be!

rkbsound · Post by **rkbsound** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:23 pm

Randy -- I think Jim Rhoads has a new T60 for sale.

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:21 pm

Vox needs to make a bass amp that has some real power behind it.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:52 pm

It's be a tough uphill battle. Ampeg has had this market sewn up for 30 years, plus.

clockworkwar · Post by **clockworkwar** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:43 am

Thanks for the comment Kent Fletcher, Ye they need to bring out a tube bass amp like the original T60. Im looking at a Fender Rumble now aswell!

Located in the Midlands in England btw.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:48 am

The original Vox T60 was a transistorized amp. That's what 'T' stood for, and that's why the T60 head was so small in size. I used to know a guy who used an old AC50 head to drive an old T60 speaker cabinet. That rig sounded pretty good.

clockworkwar · Post by **clockworkwar** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:59 am

I mean the later ones or the older ones i didnt really explain well.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:49 am

RE: Ampeg has had this market sewn up for 30 years, plus.

Paul, did you mean a particular level of the bass amp market? Meaning the boutique or high-end market? That may have been true at one time, but I don't think so any more. Or did you mean just bass amplifiers in general?

[Note: As stated elsewhere, I am the proud owner of an Ampeg bass amp head.]

The bass combo, head and cabinet market has become, as I’m sure you know, quite diversified and crowded over the last few years with lots of vendors vying for the novice / beginner / entry level market all the way to the high end / professional lines. And even though it seems like every band that comes on Letterman is playing Ampeg and I don’t have any statistics at hand but I’d imagine that Ampeg’s market share is well challenged by these (and other) manufacturers:

Aguilar – Ashdown – Avatar - Bag End – Carvin – Crate – Eden – Epifani – Fender -
Gallien Krueger - Genz Benz – Hartke - Hughes and Kettner – Ibanez – Kustom – Laney - Line 6 - Markbass (no relation) – Mesa – Peavey – SWR - Tech 21 - Trace Elliot – Warwick – Yorkville

leesh · Post by **leesh** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:48 am

I bought one of the last T60's I could find from Humbucker Music (online website, but located in Georgia).

I emailed Vox to ask why the T-60 was discontinued and they said because of the "waning popularity".

leesh · Post by **leesh** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:52 am

I bought one of the last T60's I could find from Humbucker Music (online website, but located in Georgia).

I emailed Vox to ask why the T-60 was discontinued and they said because of the "waning popularity".

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:56 pm

Is there an echo in here???

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:26 pm

How does that T60 sound Alisha? I was going to get one but they disappeared too soon for me to do so.