Vox AC4HW with 59’ Thin Skin Strat

Vox AC4HW with NOS EL84 and Celestion Alnico Blue speaker, stock 1959 Thin Skin Strat from Wildwood with CS 54 pickups. Golden Age ribbon mic and Shure MVI.

[WingfootAthletics]

Nice tone and playing! I changed to JJs and to my ears made the tone stack more musical. I’m studying jazz standards and to get more richness I rolled back the treble and rolled up the bass. The tone was n my LesPaul at 8. Keeping the gain 1/4 up and master 3/4 up. To switch to rhythm chords change the pickup selection to use both pickups. The material of pick I use and where I play either closer to bridge or neck and how smoothly I play to make the amp blossom.

[erhnam]

Does your amp produces a little bit of hum? I just recently got an AC4HW and I swapped the old Ruby tubes with JJ tubes and it sounds better. But now it hums a little and I am not sure if it had that hum before I swapped the tubes. I put the old tubes back and the hum is still there. I am pretty sure that the amp was quiet but failed to notice the hum before I changed the tubes. Also, what tubes are you using? Do you notice the lack of low end that this amp has?