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Vox DA5

Portable Guitar Amp from Vox belonging to the DA series

RaphRaymond RaphRaymond
Published on 01/21/07 at 07:07
So it's a little transistor amp with 11 channels (2 clean, 3 Blues, 2 crunch, and a 3 Higain drive) and a small multi purpose (11 too) quite nice and quite configurable. It is just 5 watts and is not bulky ... it will replace a cushion on your couch. It has in addition to a headphone jack, a line input and a TRS microphone input.

UTILIZATION

Configuration is very simple, if you use this amp just for home, to not play hard without taking the lead. In all other cases, there is no bracket so a user requesting to change its non-stop play is impossible. That said, I do not use it like that at all, and it is not for that either I think. This is an amp to have fun, cheap and not noisy.
The manual is welcome to edit the effects, because sometimes you push a button and turn a knob at the same time to access a control ... Space saving!

There is a power switch, which serves little point in a transistor since the sound does not change much with the master, but to limit noise to a minimum there a headphone jack that automatically cuts the sound coming out of the cabinet .

SOUNDS

Well it's not a god of fire coming out of there either. The bowl is 5 ", so there is not serious at all, and are quite sharp as planed, but it is no worse or it will break very ears. The simulations are all good, but difficult to identify all playable cepandant I put a small flat on HiGain not tip top but goes anyway.
The effects are very good and sometimes carefully assembled with a reverb.

Using a headset on the output line is defined as severe does not pass the 5 "and is a pleasant surprise awaits us for clean and overdrive blues ... at least for HiGain that are very concise, a overrated. It can therefore be used as multi-purpose simulator and in optical recording.

OVERALL OPINION

We must see this amp as a booster amplifier, working behind the scenes of "on the couch during commercials" for itches ... but nothing else. You can not have the sounds one by one and editing of effects takes time. But in this context, it is really very good. Must find one to match your living room or bedroom and is nickel.

on the other hand, to be avoided as a first / single amp if you want to play more seriously. An amp with a pedal while winning.