What virtual amp/settings/FX would best capture the vintage 60s Vox sound a la Beatles and the other Brit invaders?

 

Gotta be more specific. Early, mid or late 60s?.. The amp most used by the Beatles was a ‘63 bassman with a 6G6-B circuit. The cab used with it had Utah 12” speakers in it... The early stuff was Vox AC15s, AC30s. The pepper era had other Voxes like the 730UL and other Fenders like the Deluxe.. Late period Beatles used silver face Twins... As for best emulations in software Id say Amplitube or Helix.. IR speaker responses are the weakest part of those sims in my opinion.. Red Wire does speaker impulses better than both in my opinion... If you want the best of the digital world I’d say save up for a Kemper

 

Hi!! The raw early sound is what I'm after, but not Cavern Club early. Let's say 1964 hysteria through 1966. The later Beatles stuff is much more eclectic.

 

don't forget a lot of that sound has to do with the guitars of the day. Rickenbackers have a unique, easy to recognize tone. More "jingly-jangly"-- to put it into technical terms.

 

Also, besides the guitars... The gear behind the glass like the REDD3.1 board, RS124 comp and Tape made a giant impact on the tone you’re hearing on the recordings

 

Absolutely and without a doubt. I had a Rickenbacker 360 (with stereo outputs...sweeeet) that sounded totally unique to anything else that I had ever played or heard. It also had the smallest neck circumference of any guitar that I had ever played also. Fuck, wish I still had it. I bought it for $350 in 1992. At a party a drunk girl smashed into it and the headstock smacked into my 4X10 cabinet and cracked the headstock. She thought that I looked like Dan Fogelberg and couldn't help but tell me in the middle of a rendition of Iggy Pop's " I Want To Be Your Dog". What a bitch (the circumstance, not the drunk chick)!

 

Let me take advantage of this thread to anounce that we now have a guitar specific sub forum.

 

Can our excellent Mod relocate this thread?

 

I have an Epiphone Casino Coupe that is modified for more jangle . . . not a Ric, but I think it will capture the 1965 sound well. What plugins will simulate all the other stuff?

 

I listened to a few examples of the Epiphone Casino Coupe and it sounds nothing like a Rickenbacker. If you want it to sound like a Rick you're gonna need a Rick. Lots of modeling of Vox amps out there though.

 

Lennon used the Casino circa 65/66. It still had a bit of jangle for rhythm. I had a Ric and will get one again. For now, I want to get my virtual set-up squared away. What is the best modeling of Vox amps for that sound?

 

I gotta say it...I
For a cool hundred bucks bought a Vox AC4TV and it sounds really good even at the 1/4 watt setting. . I also have an AC15C1 but I can't any longer use it where I live because of the volume issue of living in an apartment. I was thinking of buying a long mic and speaker cable, putting the cabinet in the bicycle room and recording it that way. I did something similar when had a Mesa Boogie Mark IV with a 4 X10 cab. Had it far from and isolated from the control room and it worked like a charm. Anything but a Kemper lacks the finesse of a real amp for me. What comes in a far third place has been Line 6 Helix.

 

Then you need the real thing. Real guitar, real Vox/Fender tube amp and real plate reverb (well, maybe not real plate reverb).