Vox is the manufacturer of music accessories with company headquarters in England. The mark Vox for its guitar amplifier AC30 and the Vox organ is particularly famous.

Firm history begins 2 with the establishment of the Jennings organ company by Tom Jennings after that. World war. At that time one manufactured an electrical organ, the Univox. 1956 came closer thickly Denney, a former teammate during the war, at Jennings and showed it its prototype of a guitar amplifier. The name of the company changed to Jennings musical of instrument (JMI) and in the year 1958 the 15-Watt Vox AC15 came on the market. Groups of music such as The Shadows and other British skirt "n" roll musician began to use this model.

1959 turned out the sales figures under pressure, since with the higher performance Fender twin had appeared a serious competitor. As reaction Vox developed the 30-Watt AC30. The AC30, which was equipped with Celestion "blue" loudspeakers and the Vox "Top Boost" circuit, had large portion with the production of the special sound of the so-called British invasion. To the most well-known groups, the amplifiers of the company VOX used counted among other things The the Beatles, The Who and the Yardbirds. Later also musicians discovered such as Brian May von Queen or Paul Weller von The Jam the AC30.

1962 presented the pentagonale phantom guitar built by the Italian company EKO to Vox. One year later followed the phantom Mk. III; their prototype was played later by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones.

The mark Vox stands also for electronic organs to mention here e.g. the Vox Continental from the year 1962, and guitar effect devices (including an early version of the Wah Wah).

1964 sold Jennings of portions of the JMI to the Royston Group, moreover he sold the American rights to the Thomas's organ company. Jennings left the company in the year 1967, approximately at the time as if Mars-resound the dominating Kraft in place of Vox on the British guitar amplifier market became. 1969 went to Royston bankruptcy and the company went through a phase of changing names and owners. Expenditures were lowered, in particular with the production of the AC30: cheaper loudspeakers with inferior magnets came likewise to the installation like printed circuits and chip boards replaced the veneer wood.

The rights of the use of a name at Vox amplification Ltd. were acquired 1992 by the assumption of the Vox at that time of selling of KORG. Thereupon a Reissue of the AC30 was brought out. Besides they made themselves within the range digital modelling of the amplifiers a name.

See also

• List of guitar manufacturers

Related links

• Vox amplification homepage
• Vox Distributor Germany/Austria homepage

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