Vox MV50 Rock 50-watt Hybrid Tube Head Reviews

I love my MV50 Rock. I took the handle off, and mounted it on my effects board with Velcro. Now, my rig consists of my Carvin 1x12 cab, my pedal board, and that's it. LOVE, the Impedance switch that turns it from a 12.5 watt, to a 25 watt, to a 50 watt amp. It will even drive my Carvin 4x12 half-stack. Pretty amazing amp, so small, and packs a huge punch. Perfect for my needs. I often use the Line-Out for recording, and I find that it's rare that I mic my cab anymore.

I took a chance on this little amp and hit the jackpot. I play it through a Carvin closed back 1x12, and it sounds fantastic. I have a 2x12 Marshall Valvestate, a Fender Princeton, and an all tube Fender Supersonic. Humbuckers sound better on one than the others. Same with single coils. But EVERYTHING I play through this little Vox amp sounds great. I've started running my Helix Lt through it and am just blown away.

Set this up on 5 through a 4 x 12 blackstar cab at 4 ohms and literally had to dial it back down to 3 having underestimated its delivery.

Very pleased with the tone and amplitude it produces and can hide away in my backpack not even knowing it's there.

Great little unit!

I've bought a good bit of gear from Sweetwater over the years, but I believe this is my first review. This little thing is absolutely amazing! I'm gobsmacked out how good it is.

I'm running it a 8 ohms (25 watts at this impedance) through a 1x12 Mesa Thiele, and it just blew me away. The little thing sounds great, fits in the palm of my hand, and has more than enough juice for practice and smaller gigs. Plus, it would easily fit in the tool box that I take with me to gigs, basically giving me a more than solid backup amp should my tube amp do what tube amps sometimes do.

The NuTube black magic responds enough like an actual tube that it cleans up nicely when you roll back the volume, and it's a vicious little bugger with the gain cranked. You probably couldn't do Meshuggah with it, but you could probably get through a set of Corrosion of Conformity and Black Sabbath covers with it if your mic was amped (and maybe if it wasn't depending).

Basically, if you're a gigging guitarist, you'd be nuts not to give these a look, if for nothing else to throw in the glove box for those "just in case" moments.

I was extremely skeptical, but I LOVE the sound of this amp. With my Little '59 Tele pickup and my 1x12 Heritage G12M 20 Watt sealed cab, I couldn't be happier. One of the ways I judge amps is how the B string sounds when I play songs like Unchained, and whatever this amp does.... it does it right!
This Nutube technology is extremely encouraging. It simply ROCKS!!!

Coolest thing since sliced bread. Great little amp, had to have one when I heard it at gearfest. Will drive my Marshall cab 4x12 with no problem and sounds great through it.

If this thing is any indication of future technology, then amps as we know them will become dinosaurs. I can't imagine lugging an extremely heavy amp around anymore. It sounds that good. If it just had an effects loop, which they will probably come out with next year...and as always, thanks to Sweetwater for the great deal and quick (2 days) shipping.

Great amp, great price

I gig a LOT and often don't wanna lug around a big head. Solid states need to be at least 50W or more to sound any good since cranking them brings out the fizz. On the other hand, my tube head is heavy as hell and only sounds good at higher volumes unless attenuated. I'd been using a DV Mark solid state, which is a dark amp, but small, but also sometimes unreliable. I have a Vox Beetle 30W, but, again, a bit fizzy with pedals at higher volume. Then I saw this thing, got a demo model for cheap, expecting to return it. I opened the box, and thought this has to be a joke. It's even smaller than it looks. Almost like a toy. I figured there's no way this tiny thing can sound any good at any volume. Wrong. I plugged it in and it was... perfect. Took to pedals like a fish to water. Very little tone-chasing is required. Utterly shocked by this tiny thing. I'm gonna gig with it this weekend. If it sounds as good live at higher volumes as it does out of the box, I might get another.

I like the simplicity of a one channel amp. It has adequate gain and cleans up nicely when rolling back the volume on my guitar. I have the BC108 cab for practicing in the house and have used it with a mxr analog delay. It sounds like the speaker is "clipping" even at low volume with the delay settings all at minimum. No problem without delay, although with the desired gain it sounds fizzy. It is also fizzy with my 1x12 cab with a Celestion 70/80 speaker. Looks like my Katana 50 still reigns!

I purchased this mostly for headphone play. Definitely has the Vox sound...... but the 60 cycle hum drove me crazy. Maybe I got a faulty one. For the money I'd go to a Blackstar HT1 head or HT5

Had to return the unit as it was extremely noisy-like some kind of 60 cycle hum..ice tones and plenty loud. I was going to get the hybrid but they were out of stock and I tried this instead of waiting. Wouldn't get as clean as I wanted. They treated me great and gave me a free exchange so hopefully the hybrid will be better. Really hope the next one works out as tone and concept is killer.