I feel the need to gush a bit.
I'd heard many good things about this amp over the years and I picked one up s/h a little while ago. For a 15w tranny amp with an 8 inch speaker, it's rather startling.
Last week I took it to a (reasonably sedate) jam session hoping it would keep up. As
@HAL9000 will attest, it coped rather well and sounded, to my ears at least, rather spiffing.
So last night I thought I'd give it a really hard test and take it to band rehearsal. This is where things got a bit silly.
I normally use a 50w Marshall JCM800 in the band,. so how the hell was this 15w teeny amp able to put out enough volume to cope easily with the rest of the band? Admittedly I was right near the top of the volume knob, but still, it coped perfectly well and even had enough headroom for me to kick in an overdrive and get even more volume out of it for solos. I didn't even need to plug it into an extension speaker, I just used that 8 incher.
I think someone must have cast magic spells on them or something to be able to do that. That speaker must be hugely efficient.
Oh, and why the hell did Vox stop making them? Too good for the price maybe?
Anyway, just felt the need to share.
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They are pretty good, on the other hand the Pathfinder 10 is absolute crap, it gets fizzy as soon as the gain is above 12 o'clock.
Or they ran out of magic fairy dust.
It's a proper Spring Reverb as well. I'd have one of these Pathfinders if it was more Fenderey.