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Since the mod the trem is 'psychedelic': it will go from a weird <1 cycle per second to super fast (like a Thomas Organ Viscount or Beatle.) It has a bit of hiss that stops me from using it more. I haven't used it in a while, but a friend did and he said it kept up well with 'the other guitar players' Deluxe. Now it is almost bleedingly loud - I'm sure it would blow the speakers if I really cranked it, which I never need to do.

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It had 'cambridgitis' and I had the optocoupler fix done plus the 'Will Page' power mod.

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It was one of the first off the line (2 digit serial number). That will solve the problem if you are short on headroom. and it did carry over to some pathfinders as well. All of these issues came to be known as cambridgitis. There went all your volume and the amp sounded like a blown IC. since the light had to be on all the time it would eventually fail. if that light level varied it would effect your headroom and/or the volume could vary while playing.

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The light had to remain at full power for proper resistance. This meant the vox opto could cause a lot of problems. The light had to be on full for trem off while a fender style is no light for trem off. The stock opto was reversed from a fender style. Now that I have the new 'fender style' opto in place it works fine with the intensity at 0. There may be other ways - that is just how I did it. You could put that on a toggle to turn the trem on/off, but you would need a shielded lead for that or it will get really noisy. With this resistor in place the tremolo will not work. The amp had a little more volume than when the opto-coupler got connected again, but not much.

I soldered a 1 Meg resistor across the two 'left' leads. Facing the back of the amp (with cover off) There will be two leads pointing to the outside of the cabinet (right), and two leads pointing to the center of the cabinet (left). I am going to assume you know where the opto-coupler is. so it was unusable with the blown opto coupler.

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While I was waiting for my new opto-coupler to come in I learned how to bypass the tremolo so the amp would work. I will evaluate it once I know it is safe to operate. That amp is real pain to take apart and work on so it will be a rainy day project. It fires up (with a light bulb limiter) and everything works but needs a complete set of new caps and a three prong cord before I can really test it out. I believe it was chopped up from a combo in it's previous life. I also have a Vox Cambridge Reverb SS from the 60's sitting on the shelf. I'm not so sure about the latter anymore. My original intention was to fix it (just to know I could) then trade it off. Maybe not AC30 tone, but still very good.

I'm am pleasantly surprised - both the clean and dirt channel provided plenty of Vox tone. It sounded way better than I thought it would, and it is much louder than I thought it would be.

After replacing both and giving it a good once over/cleaning I connected it up to a light bulb limiter and fired it up. The TDA-30 output was blown and the amp suffered Cambridgitis. I had a 10' Jensen (pulled from a Fender) so I put that in. It wasn't working, was missing the 12AX7 and it needed a speaker. It came up as a project on my local classifieds so I traded an unused overdrive pedal for it. Share your Cambridge here rather than in the Pathfinder thread! This is my later generation (roughly 2000) Cambridge 30.

60's (Tube or SS) or the late 90's generation that seemed to be the precursor to the Pathfinder. I'll start one.Īll Cambridge amps welcome. I'm a basement player so I don't gig with it.Įvery review you listen to or read on the Champ sings its praises.I found a Vox Pathfinder thread with 146 pages (and growing ) and there were Cambridge entries there but there doesn't appear to be a dedicated Cambridge thread. And I use a Boss Fender '63 Reverb pedal. I've upgraded it with a Warehouse G8C speaker. Ive had Vox Pathfinder 15R for many years and I love it.

Anyone else hate it? How is it possible it can be that bad, especially for that kind of money? The Fender is completely handwired, has a solid pine cab, uses a Weber Alnico speaker and lists for $1200.Įvery review you listen to or read on the Champ sings its praises. I paid $70 for the Vox and $50 for the speaker. I plugged it back into the little Vox Pathfinder. It sounded muddy, lifeless, anemic, flat and terrible, even with the reverb pedal with its tone knob turned nearly all the way up. And was completely and utterly disappointed. I found a Fender '57 Custom Champ on a great deal through the Sweetwater Gear Exchange. I'm a basement player so I don't gig with it.īut I started thinking I could probably get better sound from a tube amp.

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