This is the Vox 63 Diamond: an affordable overdrive pedal based on the legendary Vox AC30 tube amplifier!

Check out the 63 Diamond here: [ Ссылка ]

Along with Fender and Marshall, Vox is one of the three amp companies that really helped define and popularize early rock and roll and its incredible overdriven – some would have said dangerous at the time! – guitar tones.

Bands like The Beatles and rest of the British Invasion brought Vox to mass audiences in the 1960s, before Brian May and Queen first stood in front of walls of AC30s in the 70s. Since then, countless rock and indie groups have rocked the Vox sound, prizing its mid-rich tones and its top end chime and jangle.

Now, for 2024, NUX is here with the 63 Diamond to try and bottle some of those AC30 vibes in a simple, and pretty budget friendly, Vox In A Box pedal. The 63 Diamond will set you back under $50/€50, and it’s a solid feeling pedal that takes its visual cues after Vox too.

On the front panel, you get four controls: Volume (this is the gain knob), Master (which is the volume knob), and Cut – which cuts high frequencies – knobs, and a Top Boost switch. This switch, as you might have guessed, gives you a hefty boost in high end frequencies, really helping you get those chimey and jangly Vox tones we all know and love.

The key question is: how good does it really sound? And can it turn my clean amp into a Vox AC30 with the press of a switch! That’s what we’re going to find out! Here, I test the 63 Diamond in as many musical styles as possible – from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, blues, punk, metal and more – to see how it handles my riffs. I use my Fender Telecaster for single coil tones, and my Epiphone Les Paul for humbucking sounds. There’s even a couple of loops where we really twist the knobs of the pedal to see just how versatile it truly is.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:12 Introduction to the 63 Diamond and also Vox
01:50 Pedal controls and features
02:54 Today’s rig and plan

Pushed Clean Tones
03:49 Clean tone reference chords and turning on the 63 Diamond
04:19 Grungey droning chords
04:36 Country ballad arpeggios
04:49 Country lead sound
05:02 Soul pop riff
05:14 Ascending droning indie chords
05:27 Blues progression
05:49 Funky rhythms
06:03 Surf pop riff
06:20 British invasion riff
06:31 Strummed folk pop chords

Light and Medium Overdrive Sounds
06:48 Thick indie rock rhythm chords
07:18 Droning open string indie riff
07:30 Choppy barre chords
07:48 Indie rock single note riff
08:04 Upbeat indie barre chords
08:27 Melodic indie riff
08:42 Garage rock riff
08:58 Indie octave chords
09:23 Southern rock picked arpeggios
09:43 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
09:55 Edgy indie barre chords
10:08 Queen inspired rock riff
10:26 Hendrix inspired riff
10:42 Rockabilly melodic double stops
10:56 Groovy classic rock riff
11:17 Classic rock riff
11:33 Quacky rock riff
11:42 Airbourne inspired rock riff
11:54 AC/DC inspired riff

Heavy Overdrive Sounds
12:08 Van Halen inspired riff
12:27 Glam rock riff
12:47 80s rock riff
13:07 Melodic hard rock lead
13:29 More Airbourne
13:51 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
14:08 Alternative rock riff
14:32 Vintage punk riff
14:47 Pop punk riff
15:09 Pop punk melodic lead riff
15:24 Punk rock power chords
15:37 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:52 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D)
16:17 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)
16:34 Metal chug test (Drop D)

16:51 63 Diamond as a boost into an overdriven amp

17:39 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
20:16 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop

23:12 My thoughts
23:42 Things I like: sounds and versatility
26:04 Price, build quality, looks
27:13 What other similar pedals are out there?
28:45 My conclusions on the 63 Diamond and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the pedal straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the amp’s Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to play the loops.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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