NAD- Victory V30 Countess!

Deijavoo

That's absolutely crazy.  So every UK owner is from Andertons?   If the owners club on Facebook is anything to go by I'd say "The Captain" will be laughing. 

Deijavoo

Saying that, 41 members???

I thought there was way more than that....maybe I was thinking of Cornford...

Fortheloveofguitar

leerocker said:

Deijavoo said:

100%?¿?¿

Yup every one of them came back, mine being one of them as well.

I did have it on good authority but was shocked that it was that bad!

Fortheloveofguitar

Deijavoo said:

That's absolutely crazy.  So every UK owner is from Andertons?   If the owners club on Facebook is anything to go by I'd say "The Captain" will be laughing. 

I'm a member of that group and if the poll at the top of the page is anything to go by ,then there are only 24 amps kicking around that group!

Fortheloveofguitar

According to the poll, nobody has bought the Silverback!

Adamski

and that's allegedly the best one!

Fortheloveofguitar

Just lifted the paragraph below from FB. Apparently the V100 is no longer known as ' The Duke'. More problems for Mr Kidd.

Believe this is due to an existing software amp by Scuffham already being called "The Duke" - It's a good software amp as well if anyone is interested see here -

http://www.scuffhamamps.com/product/amplifiers/the-duke

capo4th

Wow I read all that and googled it to find it was £799 wow it looks quite cheap and nasty for that kind of dough

RaymondLin

capo4th said:

Wow I read all that and googled it to find it was £799 wow it looks quite cheap and nasty for that kind of dough

A few weeks ago I think someone asked if the Bogner Atma is worth twice as much as the V30 (to be specfiically, it 's £600 more, not £800) as their spec are quite close on paper.

All the users feedback on TGP so far is that the Atma kicks arse.  The V30 sucks arse....i guess it is worth £600 more !

firks91

Fortheloveofguitar said:

The Cornford went over 3 years ago to pay towards my divorce along with half of my other gear. You did ask

Wanted something smaller now with 'that' tone and thought Martin had got it bang on with this new line but unfortunately not.

The quest goes on. I'd have an Mk50 mk11 again but the clean is awful on that amp.

i thought the cleans were nice. i really didnt like the distortion on the overdrive boost, on the mk50ii

firks91

Fortheloveofguitar said:

leerocker;311280" said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Another thing that I find annoying with the Victory range is the cheap look of the foot switches.



For £1500+ for the large heads you'd think they'd spend a few quid having them powder coated with the writing on it. Instead it's just a universal black box with really shitty labels stuck on and in most cases from what I've seen on FB they're on the piss.












Thats exactly what i thought when i bought the v100. 3 separate footswitches for the amp , apparently they did this to keep the cost down, For the life of me i dont understand why they didnt carry on with the mk50ii style footswitch which was perfect, Id be suprised if victory are still going in a couple of years at this rate ,Everyone i know whos played or owned one preferred cornford gear.

3 separate foot switches. That is crazy.

Talk about cutting corners on an amp of that price. I don't understand why they did that. The Cornford gear was billed as 'Boutique' amp tone with the whole prestige guff around it. But with Victory it's all looking a bit tacky and low brow but still with the same price tag

I heard through the grapevine that Peach stopped stocking Victory as they had a 100% return rate. Don't know how true that is.

thats not quite right about peach because i know of 2 guys that never returned them....but have since tried and failed to sell them haha. but no doubt the majority were returned, i returned mine!

peachguitarsdotcom

It definitely wasn't a 100% return rate

Fortheloveofguitar

peachguitarsdotcom;312547" said:

It definitely wasn't a 100% return rate

But not far off

guitargeeksimon

Blimey, I must be one of the few Victory owners who actually likes their amp then. There is no doubt my amp (V50) is quite dark sounding but then again I've never had any problem with it cutting through in a band mix. Horses for courses maybe.

Deijavoo

I still fancy trying one but as I live nowhere near Guildford I have very little chance just now  

Fortheloveofguitar

guitargeeksimon;312780" said:

Blimey, I must be one of the few Victory owners who actually likes their amp then. There is no doubt my amp (V50) is quite dark sounding but then again I've never had any problem with it cutting through in a band mix. Horses for courses maybe.

So you're 'The one' that kept one then >:D<

guitargeeksimon

Fortheloveofguitar said:

guitargeeksimon;312780" said:

Blimey, I must be one of the few Victory owners who actually likes their amp then. There is no doubt my amp (V50) is quite dark sounding but then again I've never had any problem with it cutting through in a band mix. Horses for courses maybe.

So you're 'The one' that kept one then >:D

Looks like it ;-)

dindude

Cap't lee here reckons the V30 is one of his best sellers, sold 25 to 30 of them.

Not a fan of the sound myself in this vid.

http://youtu.be/g193QF137nA

Fortheloveofguitar

dindude;313080" said:

Cap't lee here reckons the V30 is one of his best sellers, sold 25 to 30 of them.

Not a fan of the sound myself in this vid.

I would say the Captain's talking rubbish.

Also the video is typical Andertons style in that they make everything sound pants.

The amp doesn't sound that bad in the flesh.

sted

I like Chappers and Lee but that demo sounded awful for that thing.

I'd still like to try one though, see for myself.