TC Electronic Ampworx Vintage Series: Classic ’60s amps in a pedal
Combo Deluxe 65’, JIMS 45 and DC30
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The TC Electronic Ampworx Vintage Series consists of the Combo Deluxe 65’, JIMS 45 and DC30 pedals. Each one simulates a classic ’60s amp. Mimicking, classic Fender, Marshall and Vox tube amps and packing them into an affordable pedal format.
TC Electronic Ampworx Vintage Series
This new TC Electronic Ampworx Vintage Series offers guitarists the tones of old 1960s Fender, Marshall and Vox amps. But instead of large tube-driven combos, and stacks instead players can carry around these compact Combo Deluxe 65’, JIMS 45 and DC30 pedals.
Combo Deluxe 65’, JIMS 45 and DC30 · Source: TC Electronic
Amp Channels
Each pedal has two channels that can be accessed via the Channel footswitch and consists of six basic amp controls, plus an extra footswitch that is assigned to an effect, either Boost or Reverb, depending on the model.
They all have built-in cab sims, USB connectivity and DI on a 1/4” output, plus a handy 1/4” headphones output.
Fender voiced · Source: TC Electronic
Combo Deluxe 65’
The Combo Deluxe ’65 is based on a Fender 1965 Blackface Reverb Deluxe combo and has Bass, Middle and Treble controls, a Reverb knob plus standard Level and Gain controls.
The reverb should give you those classic Fender spring reverb tones, though this one is a digital recreation. It also has a control on the back of the pedal for adjusting the reverb’s tone and a Bright switch.
It comes with a Celestion 1×12 G12M Creamback cab sim built in.
MSRP – EUR 159 *
Marshall voiced · Source: TC Electronic
JIMS 45
Next up is the JIM 45 and this is, as the name suggests, a Marshall 1965 JTM45.
It has a Normal and High channel, each with individual gain controls. Along with global controls for Bass, Middle and Treble.
The speaker emulation is based on a Celestion 4×12 G12M Creamback cabinet.
MSRP – EUR 159 *
Vox voiced · Source: TC Electronic
DC30
Finally, there is the 1965 Top Boost AC30 combo voiced DC30 pedal. This model has Normal and Brilliant channels, along with Bass, Treble and Cut, plus a Level control.
For this one, there is a Celestion 2×12 Alnico Blue cab sim.
MSRP – EUR 159 *
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Video
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2 responses to “TC Electronic Ampworx Vintage Series: Classic ’60s amps in a pedal”
This seemingly looks good – amp pedals that are much more affordable than the ones from Universal Audio, and from a respected company. But remember, TC Electronic has never done any kind of amp modeling before (correct me if I’m wrong), and they’re owned by Music Tribe. I’m willing to bet that these amp models are from Behringer, likely directly from their discontinued V-Amp, their $100 cut-rate version of a Line 6 Pod, which can’t compete at all with the current generation of amp modeling.
Did we really need ANOTHER trio of Marshall/Vox/Fender preamp pedals? I mean, isn’t there a bunch of companies that did it across all price ranges? Nux, Joyo, Tech 21, Vox, Strymon, AMT, Victory, UAD, Mooer, Kingsley, Two Notes, and that’s only a partial list. I wish more companies would care about releasing original products that have their own sound, like KSR Ceres and Vesta, Driftwood Purple Preamp, Benson and too many few.