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Hey, fellers!

Is anyone using the Vox MV-50 head for a practice amp? If so, any suggestion for getting the best sound at the lowest volume (I’m using a small, vintage Oahu cab with a ? I live in a condo with neighbors below and on one side of me (who knew they’d prefer hip-hip to Hawaiian and Western swing?!).



Any tips/insight greatly appreciated!

If it sounds good, it is good.

For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.

I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar

Anthony Campbell wrote:If it sounds good, it is good.

For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.

I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar

What's the Mooer Radar?

Mark Helm wrote:

Anthony Campbell wrote:If it sounds good, it is good.

For even quieter practice/recording, I have had food results with an amps line out into a speaker cab sim.

I use a quilter into a Mooer Radar

What's the Mooer Radar?

Its a speaker Impulse Response/Power amp simulator.

You can either use the ones supplied or download speaker impulses from major manufacturers. I.e eminence, warehouse, celestion, etc.

Plug a pre amp in, and then you can pick a power amp sim in the pedal i.e 6L6, EL84 ,etc.

Then you pick the speaker cab type. Theyve got twins, champs, marshalls, bassmans, to choose from. You can move the virtual microphone to get different sounds from the “speaker”.

From a recording/live perspective its incredibly useful. A double blind test between a micd cab and an IR is probably harder to discern than you would think.

....sorry, I usually just plug and play. If I'm using the VOX MV-50, what's the chain? Is is guitar to Mooer pedal to MV-50 to cab?

Or do I have it all wrong?

Would be guitar -> Amp -> Line Out -> Mooer Radar

The Guitar amp is simply acting as a pre-amp/eq.

Also recommend checking out the Strymon Iridium. Which you can use straight from the guitar into the iridium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0hrqUatkU

I use the MV50 for a backup amp. Works and sounds great. Sound great on recording also.