Having used many early 60's AC30s (Top Boost / modded) in the past, and still owning an all original mid 60's AC30 Treble, well all I can say is this pedal lives up to the hype, to me. If you know old Vox amps you will know the quirks that contribute to the overall magic, and this has all of that, and all that one would expect from the real thing. The cab choices are excellent, so much variety of tones. So don't just stick it on the Blue speakers and leave it at that, try them all. The silver is excellent. They all are. So, the potential complaint of only one modelled amp in a modern sim seems kind of redundant to me. A huge variety of tones here. The Room option is excellent also. I usually very much dislike amp sims in terms of feel 😃. But well, this is quite different, to me. Most importantly: like a good old Vox when you dig in it kind of sinks, like a compression, is bouncy, reacts so well to dynamics when playing. In summary, so far I've used it in a live setting just direct into another clean amp, with and without the cab sim on, both sounded great, also direct into audio interface for recording, even better. Finally - yes if one was able to bridge the Normal and Brilliant inputs for maximum control that would be cool, though not sure how they'd be able to practically do that with a pedal. But that's certainly not a deal breaker to me. I'm still a bit flabbergasted by this pedal. That's my 2 cents. Thanks to Thomann for great customer service also!
