Comparing 2 Tube Amplifiers - Vox AC15 VS Monoprice 15 Watt

[@landonbailey]

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[@rnegtr]

The Monoprice is the Laney Cub. At one time Laney told Monoprice to move the controls off the top (as it was made originally) because it was too similar and now they are on the front.

[@jarrettavery1747]

This is very much the truth, I have the Laney cub schematics so I can mod my monoprice and it’s exactly the same

[@vansongs]

Actually says Laney on the board.

[@jarrettavery1747]

It’s been a while since I opened mine up. I forgot about that.

[@larslevinberget9558]

@@vansongs Wow!

[@carlfrei2419]

I have done gigs with the Stage Right 15w Amp. I did put an Eminence Swamp Thang speaker in it and new JJ's with 1 Tung-sol and it sounds Amazing and plenty loud enough. All in I got under 300 bucks in it.

[@Nostrebor59]

l have the Harley Benton rebadged version if thd Monoprice. Stick an EQ in front of it and you take away the "muffled " tone which l would agree is there on the basic amo EQ Pedal transforms it

[@sasha-taylor]

I've found that true clean tone on the Monoprice is basically leaving gain on 0 and just turning up the volume. But gain at 2 and volume at 2 has some nice breakup and is about as loud as gain 0 volume 7 or 8

[@theother526]

Monoprice as far as I know is based on a Laney Cub12r, which is based slightly on a JCM800 circuit. I like both the VOX and MP. Thanks for the video.

[@DMSProduktions]

Correct!

[@dspguitarrebuild5281]

I have the Monoprice/Stage Right 15. Loaded it with a WGS Blackhawk Alnico 12" (not a fan of the Celestion 70/80) and made a huge difference. Played around with a few speakers I had around and anything was better then the 70/80 IMO. I have also run it through my 2x12 cab w V30s and delivers a huge sound. I use it as my drag and play amp (not worried about getting scuffed up). Just a good all around amp.

[@thseed7]

For an inexpensive little tube amp, the Monoprice isn't bad. That said, with hindsight being 20/20, I do wish I had saved up and bought a higher quality amp (not specifically referencing the Monoprice) when I first jumped into tube amps. Don't know if that helps anyone considering a purchase.

[@davidbeaudoin7923]

I dig my monoprice. Got it by ordering through WalMart in Canada. Great price, sounds super. It is not trying to be the Vox, and that’s cool, it’s a fine tube amp. The .5 watt setting a bonus for a practice amp.

[@TheChristafershawn]

I use the mono price as a head running a separate cab via the speaker out in the back, sounds pretty good that way. I’m not a big fan of the stock speaker but I’ve seen people get much better results with a speaker swap, but the cab itself is just cheap and boxy. it is well worth the money though if you’re just gonna use it as a head.

[@francoreia8147]

I have one, I removed it into a head. Felt the speaker distorted the reverb. Have couple eminence speakers and also a mojotone that love best as a single h series, now more than ever I want a vox with effects loop. Also have a Rebel 20 the first one love that one more. I want a vox 20 watts or less. Thankyou for your show demonstrations

[@alexraia1377]

I’m thinking of getting a monoprice amp to run side by side with my AC15. Two amp setups rock, and it’s cool you did this side by side with both of them.

[@jeffberg8015]

I believe that there is a lot less difference between any amps when played clean than when played high gain. When clean these two amps were almost interchangeable, but the Vox shined at high gain. I suspect the biggest difference between the two is the speakers in them. The Seventy 80 in the Stage Right really is a budget speaker while the Alnico Blue is much more high end. I'm sure this accounts for a decent chunk of the price difference between them. I own the Stage Right and have been mostly happy with it since I usually play pretty clean, but I am planning to eventually buy a 2x12 cab with upgraded speakers to use with it.

[@bigbasil1908]

I wonder if changing the potentiometers to different value pots would improve the sound and tone of the mono. I doubt that would make the mono sound exactly like the vox but it might make the sounds closer to it.

[@PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy]

Thanks for sharing 🎸🎶🎶🎶

[@ChengLi1979]

the monoprice is based on a laney cub12r. love the cub❤

[@MarkMonolithOfficial]

Such a cool Tele I always thought it would be cook to have a humbucker in the bridge and the single coil in the neck, but be also able to split the bridge pickups. so versatile Black pick guard on black looks cool too. The American Ultra is still king tho in my opinion as far as comfort and playability

[@briandriver301]

I like my mono amp. But I only use it on the clean channel and occasionally put pedals in front of it. The crunch channel sounds like garbage. I still love it, because the clean tube sounds like a Fender Blues Jr. also the knobs on the front is great.

[@doctorskull8197]

Excellent video ‼️

[@musiqueurbaine]

Nice to have this comparison. The Monoprice amp is a good little rig for its value but the Vox has more tonal definition. In the end, not bad for a budget amp against a reputable brand.

[@gabbette7]

The Mono on here does sound "muffled and boxy" for lack of a better way to put it. But I have one myself, and you really have to max out the Tone knob and the Treble knob to make it feel more open and dynamic, right there I see the knobs for Tone and Treble are only about 45% up. While this is fair for showing a quick sample, you really need to spend time with the amp to learn it. And personally, I'd easily buy the monoprice one again, its so solid!

[@UncleAshGuitarZone-v6g]

@@gabbette7 For my personal preferences and purposes the SR15 is superior to the AC15 - and I absolutely love the AC15, it's one of my all time favorites. ... The SR15 has the ability to go from clean to high gain in ways the AC15 simply can't. While AC15 has more headroom and is a better clean amp the SR15 is more like an old tweed Fender deluxe in that it really wants to break up and it does so in a very sweet classic way. This makes it a much better edge of breakup amp tonally than the AC15 in my view. I am a classic rock/blues rock/southern rock guy and the SR15 is an outstanding amp for doing that stuff in environments where you can crank up the traditional amps used for such genres.

[@MotownGuitarJoe]

I have the Monoprice and replaced the stock Celestion 70/80 with a Vintage 30. Nice little amp, for those rare occasions when I use a physical amp. 😂

[@jasondorsey7110]

You're so right, the knobs should always be on the front!

[@ochayethenoo15]

I have the Monoprice, paid $200 last year when they had their 30% discount sale. It's perfect for me playing at home and takes pedals well.

[@briggsmiller7095]

Same here! It's my living room amp. It is perfect for what I wanted, and for $200! Unbeatable. I'm not going to spend any $ on modifying it. That defies the entire point for me.

[@ochayethenoo15]

@@briggsmiller7095 Me too, I watched videos of various "upgrade mods" but to my ear, it sounds good stock.

[@TheBoabby50]

Used to have the Laney VC30. Very Vox AC 30, but also Marshallish with 2 channels. Sold it to a friend moving overseas and shipping on his Marshall and 4x12 cab was extortionate. Loved that amp - and I could carry it - Unlike its replacement a Fender Twin reverb. Almost as heavy as a 4x12. Now have the Harley Benson tube 15 and happy with it, both in terms of tone, when dialled in, and weight. A winner for me. Early days I had a Vox AC 10 twin. 2 x 10" Fane speakers. Really good amp and now worth a fortune I wish I still had it :- (

[@dustdevilz4771]

I keep a Monoprice in my aircraft hangar to practice when I’m there. It’s perfect for that environment and it was so cheap.

[@Newnodrogbob]

You have an aircraft hangar?

[@dustdevilz4771]

@@Newnodrogbob Yep, I’m halfway retired so I have time to hangout in my hangar. When I’m not fiddling with my airplanes I watch Active Melody guitar lessons online on a big screen and practice. This cheap little valve amp fills up the 3000 sq/ft space with sound. I can crank it up without bothering neighbors.

[@Newnodrogbob]

@@dustdevilz4771 congratulations, dude; that sounds awesome.

[@dustdevilz4771]

@@Newnodrogbob Thanks

[@SeanAllocca]

How long have you been playing the Tube15? Does that speaker have at least 20 hours on it to break it in. My Tube5 got so much better after the speaker got broken in. Lack of&in the videos makes me sad.

[@francoreia8147]

Thankyou

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

The Vox … all day. That Tele is punk rock & you should keep it forever. ☮️

[@johncollins5552]

They are both great, buy both plug into a boss super chorus pedal and Bingo Stereo Gig Rig.❤

[@weczq4]

I have an AC15, and I am biased because it is my favorite amp I own, but I think it clearly sounds better. I think the Monoprice would be really cool for someone wanting a cool scuzzy garage band sound, or for a kid to have something decent to learn on that you can actually get a good sound out of. Still just a little too boxy and tinny for what I like, though.

[@joibjalla]

Vox for me. The Monoprice sounded muffled. I love the clarity of the Vox amps.

[@bigbasil1908]

The mono sounded good clean but turned to 💩distorted

[@gringogreen4719]

Depending on what you want to do, if you want to play in bands, you want to go with a professional amp. You can get by with getting a cheaper guitar and upgrading that but you do not want to skimp on the amp. It's better to have a budget guitar going into a professional amp than a professional guitar going into a budget amp.

[@JuxtaCrucem]

Mono best sound for me.

[@cliveclive54]

The Vox has that glassy tone that is Vox! Speaker swap on another test maybe?😁

[@DMSProduktions]

Both souned good clean, but once you got them dirty, the AC sounded like arse! MP sounded much nicer driven! Eh!

[@idoob4720]

Here is a test. Plug the speaker of the Vox into the external speaker input on the back of the monoprice.

[@gabbette7]

Go get your potatoes... HAHAHAHAHA!

[@alphanumeric1529]

Ouch, I've never heard the Mono in person, but I've never heard it sound so bad in a demo. Perhaps close micing would help?

[@landonbailey]

Check out the full video when I do that

[@oldguy5381]

Landon must be English he sure knows how to waffle. 😂

[@grandpapafortyeight9483]

Vox is best for sure.

[@Vidar.m]

Do the monoprice amp have a closed back ?

[@drmarcfpelletier]

Solid video - not a fan of the Vox - unless your point is to sound harsh. No harmonic overtones just dirt without the cool part. Just my opinion (being a Fender, Traynor, Garnet player). And harsh can be ok, eg. Wayne Krantz, Oz Noi, or old The Who.

[@michaelmillican5592]

The Vox is just a higher quality amplifier. From the top to bottom. It sounds better. It looks better. And it costs more. You could gig a show with the mono, I wouldn't do that unless I had no other choice. I will play solid state amplifier before the mono.

[@brianchambers1399]

Apples and oranges! Put same tubes in each amp, and rig up a way to play Vox head through Mono speaker and vice versa. Also try switching speakers, since the cabs are different. Not to mention putting the same speaker in each cab ...

[@landonbailey]

I will await your video!

[@brianchambers1399]

@@landonbailey not much chance of that, I'm afraid ! But you do such a good job ... and anyway, I'm more in the "It's the fool, not the tool" camp. But I really enjoy your videos 😊

[@davestein940]

Ive had 2 monoprice amps for a few years ...they suck until you put in a good celestion (used) put in some good tubes (used) pull out the crappy reverb and crank it up!! Very marshally... I will say the the M P is lower quality...but it kicks and sounds great ...pure amp no pedals! One more thing...am I the only person who wants to hear amp demos with no pedals and other junk between the mic and recorder??? Please lets get real .....stick a sm57 in front of the amp and lets see what it can do!!

[@indigos290]

The SR15 sounds terrible overdriven in the video. But the one I have sounds great. All stock. I've tried the AC15 a few times at the store. I don't get the hype. I don't like my experience. With how good an experience I have with my SR15w combo I can't imagine paying anything like what the AC15 costs.

[@miguelmontoya1320]

“I don’t have multiple cameras. Just two.” Isn’t two cameras multiple cameras?

[@landonbailey]

Yes 2x1 😂

[@jonmurphy776]

Split personality negates that!😂

[@kenpullin4937]

Monoprice sounded tinney

[@standingbadger]

The Vox has much better transformers, which will go some way to account for the difference in weight.

[@landonbailey]

Autobots vs Decepticons

[@carlc2597]

Man, that Mono sounds sad! Not really a fair comparison, being the Vox has the Celestion blue, one of the most expensive speakers you can buy, and the Mono has the 70/80, not a great speaker. In my Mono I changed out the speaker for the Weber Blue Dog ceramic 30 watt, installed TungSol power tubes and JJ preamp tubes with a 5751 in v1, which gave it more headroom and tamed the amp hiss. Also changed the reverb tank to a 3 spring Mod.I love this amp now! I paid 179.00 delivered and with upgrades I’ve paid a total of 390.00 - about half the cost of a new Blues Junior! It doesn’t say Fender on the front but I don’t care, it sounds great!

[@landonbailey]

Thanks for sharing!

[@allanflippin2453]

The Vox sounds like its nose is stuffed when its clean. With gain, the Vox seems to shine and the Monoprice is kind of muddy.

[@9216v]

The info in the last two minutes of the demo is most important. This is a Celestion Alnico Blue in the Vox vs. A Celestion Seventy/80 speaker in the Mono. Would love to hear them switched.

[@ZitherBeast]

I don't know for sure cause I wasn't there, but the VOX, not even close in this vid.

[@deezee8508]

Well. . . Vox is still vox. So good!

[@Guitarbluesicaster]

The Vox sounds much better.

[@richardelg4412]

Cool amp for cheap

[@lumpytapioca5062]

The mono sounds like generic "guitar amp". There, some tube breakup, but little memorable character. The AC15 sounds like glass. Better touch sensitivity and high harmonics.

[@misterknightowlandco]

Honestly, I think if you put the monoprice in a cab the same size as the vox… you wouldn’t hear much of a difference at all… barely heard one as is. Either those Chinese vox amps suck or the monoprices are pretty damn good 😂

[@Stratmanable]

Low wattage amps are the shit. I have 2 Fender Blues Jr's, and they are my main stage amps.

[@1rwjwith]

The Vox sounds way better to me.

[@spookswarbirds]

I think the Vox ends up making the Mono sound worse than it probably is. I don't need another amp, but if I did, I'd spend the extra $ on the Vox. I'm currently living with the consequences of buying a bunch of inexpensive import guitars during covid. The lesson I learned is, one $1500 guitar is almost always better than two $750 guitars. The $1500 guitar will get played far more than the two $750's combined. Despite what GearTube often believes, you're not just "paying for the branding". I have a shitload of cheap guitars I don't play and can't sell. My Gibson's and USA Fenders are still the guitars I reach for. Just sayin... Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

[@vinniesworld459]

So I learned in math class that a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square. So it follows that the monoprice is an AC15 but the AC15 is not a monoprice???? maybe????

[@davidbarlow431]

Clearly the Vox wins, but the stageright is a pretty decent amp, especially for the money.

[@JasonTMays]

Man...Imo...the 15 watt amp sounds the best.

[@briandriver301]

If you want a tube amp for a clean sound, buy the mono. If you want a tube-driven distortion, look elsewhere.

[@linleechiun]

Yeah monoprice the mirror face😂

[@ERIC-65]

Yeah,, the cheaper you get , the bettah you go! These days .

[@NoNameNo.5]

What the hell is happening in this video?,

[@humanexperiment61]

I don´t know🥸

[@seanhoward5562]

To me the Vox sounds better.

[@GaryBertolo]

Are you safe there from catching MONO? If so, stay in your room

[@peteleoni9665]

First six min = camera mic info. Video starts @ 6 min. Short story. Monoprice better amp most likely due to a better speaker choice.

[@bigbasil1908]

That's weird. The mono sounds much brighter and louder clean and the vox sounds more warm and not as loud clean. The Vox sounds much brighter and louder broken up, and the mono sounds muffled and lacking tone range broken up.

[@W1ZY]

Guy talks too much.

[@landonbailey]

how long talks?