VOX Amplug 2 Clean (AP2CL)

This is a great little amp! Absolutely worth the money. I've had it for about three weeks now. Lots of positives and only a few minor complaints below.- Use: I use it with headphones but you can also plug it into the aux input on your regular amp to hear it out loud without headphones (with an 1/8" stereo to 1/8" stereo jack.)- Settings: It has three amp settings and three effects. The three amp settings are: clean, a little gain and more gain. The three effects are reverb, more reverb and reverb with echo. COMPLAINT: The first setting is supposed to be effects off, but it still has some reverb.- Controls: it has volume, gain and tone. Even at high gain, there's not much break up, except on the more gainy amp setting. COMPLAINT: the numbers on the dials are small. It's a bit of an eyesight test, especially if you're older like me.- Battery life: I tend to use it about 30 min per day on average and two AAA batts last several days to a week.- Sound Quality: The sound quality is excellent. The reverb sounds really good.- Build Quality: I've accidentally dropped it more than once and it didn't come apart or stop working.- Ease of use (settings): It has an LED to let you know which amp setting it's on. COMPLAINT: There's nothing to let you know which effect setting you're on. Every time I use it, I feel like I have to click through all three to figure out which one I'm on, and since every setting seems to have reverb, it's hard to tell if I'm on the least-reverb setting which is what I usually want.- Ease of use (physical): It plugs directly into the output jack on the guitar, and you can angle it around so it sits nicely. On my strat and 335 style, it sits really nicely and I can see what the dials are reading. COMPLAINT: On my tele, it sits kind of underneath and is less easy to adjust. It all depends on where the output jack is on the guitar. In addition, just plugging it in it's easy to move the dials and hit buttons accidentally, so you do have to look at it after you plug it in.- CAUTION: Turn it on BEFORE you put your headphones/buds in. It has that very loud pop that most amps have when turning on.

This with a silent ukulele, 2x AAA batteries, and wired earbuds, I can practice to my heart's content without annoying my family or neighbours. I don't know how long this will last (the pots feel fragile), but so far it's a great sound for me and me alone. I was surprised to find that it does have a few sound profiles that it will switch between, but I don't have words to describe them.

I purchased this Amplug to use with my first guitar, an Anygig AGS-SE with a piezo pickup. It works exactly as advertised and allows me to connect to any portable or external speaker via the 3.5mm jack. However, when I first plugged it in, there was no sound unless I rotated to a certain position and held it there. At first I thought maybe it was a problem with the guitar, until I took a closer look at the actual 1/4" plug of the device. Comparing it to the plug of the cable that shipped with the guitar, the ring and terminal of the Amplug were just slightly too short, which led me to think that maybe it just wasn't making good contact inside the guitar's pickup. I ran out to my local Micro Center and picked up a 1/4" coupler and plugged the cable into the guitar instead, then coupled with the Amplug. That did the trick, and now I can use the device as intended. It was probably a fluke in my case, but there may still some possibility of needing to use a workaround like this.

Great sound, enough volume, they do the job nicely.Very Good

It’s ok - but just barely. The sound could be better - the battery life could be better and the durability should absolutely be better.

Very good clean tone. I'm using it with a full size hollow body jazz guitar. Sounds very good and accurate. Plenty of volume. Very little distortion or synthetic sound.Suggestions. Unless you can easily see the unit as when used with a Strat, it is difficult to make adjustments when its not visible. Solution: Use it with a 1/4" male to female extension chord so the unit is in effect in-line with the headphones. Also, there are only three selectable levels for each effect. Not a deal breaker because I use only reverb at the lowest setting. Great unit for the price Inexpensive simple solution made in Japan good quality.

We travel south in the winter in a Motorhome, I bring a small amp for outside playing but if there are neighbors nearby I use this Vox (clean). great sound and tone with headphones, now I can sit outside without bothering other folks. Nobs are a bit small but so is the amp. Good buy for me."update" I only used it occasionally, unfortunately while the amp worked it was great. Now it will not work as the plug in for guitar came loose, looks like the swivel is poor quality. I will purchase another but not this brand. Dang, it was sure nice when it worked.

Have the old design Metal VOX product. The new design with the swivel plug broke twice. I glued it and it held up for a few months. The second time it broke, it didn’t work after I glued the plug back together. It shouldn’t cost more than $20 with all of the corners VOX cut in materials quality. Sounded okay. Suck that it had to go in the trash.BUY ANOTHER BRAND’s product. Unless you’re going to play at your desk, at work. It will break.