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Whereas later Vox AC30 versions such as the AC30CC2 and the current AC30C2 are designed with modern features, would I be right in assuming the Rose Morris AC30 is a top-boost model with 6 inputs but no master volume (some versions had a tube driven accutronics reverb)? And particularly with point to point AC30's I think you'd even struggle to find two that sound exactly the same, even from the same production year.
There's more info on the Rose Morris versions (1979-1985) here:
http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/rmac30tbr_1979_hood.html
If you mean a Rose-Morris reissue 'Vintage' AC30, it's PCB. Nicely made, pretty reliable, and the circuit is fairly accurate to (and sounds like) a vintage AC30, although it doesn't have a valve rectifier. (Which is also like the C2.)
No master volume, no reverb, no FX loop, but it does have the - important in my opinion - classic Vib/Trem channel, which is far superior to the plain tremolo on the modern models.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
That should illustrate the difference too.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Now, if you really want to make it complicated…
The amp is a PCB amp - that's indisputable, it contains PCBs. But it is *also* hand-wired to a considerable degree - all the connections off the PCBs are done by hand. It's also reasonably likely that given the age of the amps, the PCBs were hand-fitted with the components, rather than it being done by a robot. So you could legitimately argue that it's a hand-assembled PCB amp - but it is not, by the usual definitions guitarists use, a hand-wired amp - that would require that it doesn't use PCBs.
Does it matter? Your guess is as good as mine! Personally I think it doesn't if many of the usual problems with PCB construction have been avoided - which they have. The most important thing to avoid is fitting components which get hot onto the PCB, and also anything heavy enough to vibrate and crack its solder joints. It is useful to identify various different series of amps though…
It's very important to know why this is different from the Birch-Stolec era Voxes, which are one of the reasons why PCB has such a bad name - these are terrible, shoddy amps with just about every design error possible in them - *and* they use a PCB, of extremely low quality and with all the wrong types of parts mounted on them.
It's also important to note that no AC30 is "point to point" - that means no circuit board of any kind, with the small components connected directly between the chassis-mounted ones. Almost all hand-wired amps are made with either tag boards (like Vox), turret boards (like Marshall) or eyelet boards (like Fender), or occasionally tag or turret strips (like Hiwatt).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein