Members Blackwater Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Whats the scoop on the Rose Morris era 1980's AC30's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Armitage Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Rose Morris bought Vox in 1979, and in '85 put out a lower gain version of the AC30... (it can be modded). In '90 they did a cool Limited Edition (1000?) and '91 replaced that with a production one (with reverb). Rose Morris was bought out by Korg and became Korg UK in '92, and in '93 came out with a real nice AC30 with a rectifier tube back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackwater Posted September 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Seriously a lower gain version? how much lower? any other tonal changes in 1985? What kind of mod to get the gain back up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeathMonkey Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Rose Morris Voxs are an expensive way to burn down your house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackwater Posted September 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Rose Morris Voxs are an expensive way to burn down your house. What do you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeathMonkey Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 What do you mean? Think of them as 70's Fenders. Rose Morris, fresh off of almost ruining Marshall, bought Vox with no manufacturing facilities. While a case can be made for the late 80's/early 90's AC30TB LTDs, most of the Rose Morris Vox amps are suspect. It's no wonder they went out of business AGAIN, forcing the sale to Korg. With the number of n00bs out there selling any piece of crap that looks old as "vintage", far better to spend the money on either a new one or a JMI. Most components critical to the AC30 were no longer made in the late 80's, and remember, Rose Morris was never a music company, they were out to MAKE MONEY, much like the CBS takeover of Fender. Unless you are getting the thing free, walk away. No one services them any more, and the esoteric replacement parts are largely no longer manufactured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Intrieri Posted May 8, 2020 Members Share Posted May 8, 2020 Just ran across this... Actually, we own several 1991's w/reverb. They get rented/used and requested a lot. They sound great and with the little love we give them they are as solid as any new AC-30 and probably (well definitely) more so than an un-serviced JMI. We also have an inventory of parts for in house repairs. Don Reliablebackline.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerndB Posted August 11, 2022 Members Share Posted August 11, 2022 Hi there, I have a Rose Morris AC30TB obviously from '79 with burned resistors after a capacitor shortage. Can anybody tell what the values for the two 2W resistors in the power supply chain are? Thanks in advance. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted August 14, 2022 Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2022 On 8/11/2022 at 5:39 AM, BerndB said: Hi there, I have a Rose Morris AC30TB obviously from '79 with burned resistors after a capacitor shortage. Can anybody tell what the values for the two 2W resistors in the power supply chain are? Thanks in advance. Bernd try looking here: https://schematicheaven.net/vox.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerndB Posted August 14, 2022 Members Share Posted August 14, 2022 1 hour ago, daddymack said: try looking here: https://schematicheaven.net/vox.html Well, I did it already! but unfortunately the values are not readable. There is also only the ˋ78 version. The ˋ79 differs from this one. At least it could give me an idea if readable. I think Rose Morris changed the circuit all over the years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BerndB Posted August 14, 2022 Members Share Posted August 14, 2022 It's about these two green test-resistors (see attached picture) I have replaced against the burned ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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