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The company is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, used by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Queen, Dire Straits, U2, and Radiohead; the Vox Continental electric organ, the Vox wah-wah pedal used by Jimi Hendrix, and a series of innovative electric guitars and bass guitars.
Dec 7, 2023 · Music instrument giant Korg acquired VOX in 1992 and began building VOX amplifiers by '94. The following year saw VOX producing a series of S-Type inspired guitars and basses known as the White Shadow and White Shadow M series. Surprisingly Korg/VOX did not make the Phantom and Droplet guitars from 1998 to 2012.
More budget-minded Vox guitars from offshore manufacturers occasionally surfaced over the years, but the brand wouldn’t be seen on a quality electric guitar for more than two decades.
Jun 13, 2016 · Beginning in 1967, Vox made guitars with built-in effects, like the V269 Starstream, which included onboard distortion, wah-wah, and a type of tremolo called repeat percussion. But Vox’s original guitars never caught on like its other products.
Nov 20, 2017 · Vox guitars caught the attention of teenage US Anglophiles who traded the reverb-drenched sound of the surf music of Dick Dale for the repackaged electric blues of The Stones, The Yardbirds and The Animals.
Although more well known for their guitar amplifiers, particularly the AC30, Vox also made electric guitars. They have never been a great commercial success though which is probably due to the era in which they first hit the musical instrument stores.
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Starting in England in 1961, Vox began to manufacture a line of solid-body electric guitars built at a local furniture maker’s shop. Import of American electric guitars into the UK was effectively prohibited at the time, so Vox stepped in to fill the increasing demand for solidbody electric guitars. started by the British Invasion bands that ...
