VOX APTW AmPlug Twin Guitar Headphone Amplifier

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• Plugs directly into your guitar-a great-sounding headphone guitar amp that gives you serious sound fast
• AUX in jack lets you jam along with your CD/MP3 player
• 100% analog circuit faithfully simulates the response of the original amps
• Recreates the sound of the classic American clean 2 x12-Inch combo amp, plus a chorus effect
• Up to 15 hours of battery life with two Alkaline AAA batteries

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Exactly what I was hoping it was. On the website you can listen to the different AmPlugs and the Twin was right on with what I ended up with. Great sound and price.

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I use this little amp to practice, in my living room, when I don't want to disturb the family. To that purpose, it works well. With a few caveats:

1) As has been noted by other reviewers, there is a VERY LOUD noise when the unit is turned on.

2) There is NO REVERB. I went to the Vox website before buying this item, and I too listened to the sound clips. I agree that it appears Vox "enhanced" the clips just a little.

3) I like the Chorus. Although it is a little warblely and detuned, it is still respectable, and a bonus on a $40 item.

4) When paired with my solid body, (Dual '82 DiMarzio DP-103s), the mid range is lacking, while the bass is a little too pronounced. I know that all amps sound differently depending upon the instruments that's plugged into them and with my solid body acoustic, (Epiphone SST), the mid range is fine. Treble is a little twangy with both, but can be attenuated using the tone controls on the guitar. In any event, it sounds cleaner and better balanced at lower volumes.

5) I don't understand the "gain" control. No crunch, no overdrive, just louder with more ambient hiss. Totally unnecessary.

In the end, despite a few shortcomings, I like this little amp. At $40 retail it's a good value, gives decent tone and does what it's meant to do. I use it almost daily, for hours at a time. (Did I mention that the batteries last a LONG time? I've had this for about six weeks, and still on my first set of Duracells.)

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There's no doubt about it that this thing works fine and I recommend it, however a few things bother me. There is a very loud popping noise when you turn it on or off so you have to remember to remove the headphones before doing that. Also, I can barely read what the 3 controls are for. The words are only gently imprinted in very small print so I am always having to guess which one is which. The gain doesn't bring any crunch so I am not sure what the use of having it is. And, I so wish Vox could figure out a way to make reverb on one of these--I would definitely want that.

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I gave this amp 5 stars because of the extreme compactness and portability. There are better quality and better sounding guitar headphone amps on the market but you won't find anything this light and small.

That said...a word of CAUTION:

Some other reviews have referred customers to the Vox website to hear demo samples of these Amplugs. I was one such customer. The demo of this amp on the Vox website demonstrates the clean tone with reverb. This Amplug DOES NOT have reverb! Before you buy this, you should know that. Chorus? Yes, it does have a chorus effect--it does NOT have reverb. Obviously, Vox decided to dress up their demo a little bit to make this item more appealing. In my personal opinion, that was misleading and enters the terrain of false advertising. Just to be very clear, this Amplug does NOT have Reverb effect.

Now that we've established that this does NOT have reverb, I can say that this amp does have a decent sounding Chorus effect. The chorus fattens the sound up and can ALMOST give it a slight reverb-type feel to it (like a Delay with a very short slap back time can do). It also has a very good Clean tone (which is what I was looking for).

There is a Gain control which can add some distortion. The overdrive of the gain doesn't sound bad at all either! It can take you from that slightly dirty tone that is perfect for Blues all the way to a VERY distorted Metal tone that rocks hard!

If you want 100% Clean on this, you turn the Gain very, very low or all the way to 0%. You can turn the volume up to 100% and you will have a clean sound with no distortion--and in MY headphones anyway--it's VERY loud. The Tone control makes a huge difference in my experience with this. All the way down it almost muffles the guitar and wide open it gives it nice, shimmering, glassy highs. Of course using the volume and tone controls on the guitar itself will also have a great effect on the type of tone you can pull out of this little Amplug.

Overall, I think this was a decent purchase for the price. I would recommend it to someone who needs a headphone amp and doesn't want to spend the money on a more expensive, full-featured unit.

3 stars for sound quality, -1 for lack of Reverb, +2 star for extreme portability. 5 stars even without Reverb.

Really like this thing. Very practical when you want to jam along with, say, iReal b or any other source and you need to be quiet. I have other small amps with headphone and aux connectors, but this amp is much more portable and ends up getting used more. Tone is super-clean probably cleaner than a real Fender Twin, and maybe a bit too trebly, but both can be dialed back with the gain and tone controls. The controls are hard to read when using it, so you just have to remember what they are.

The selectable chorus effect is quite nice, but I'd trade it for reverb any day. Definitely worth the money!