![]() By mid 1966, the original US Vox tube amps were phased out and replaced with similar but solid state versions. Thomas Organ viewed tube circuits as old fashioned and archaic. The matching 16 ohm 2 x 10" speaker cabinet for the V-8 Berkeley had English made Celestion speakers and a chrome roller stand. It did not have the elaborate Vib/Trem circuitry of the JMI AC-15. The amp featured "top boost" tone controls, tremolo and reverb. The Berkeley Super Reverb had two cathode biased EL-84s along with an EZ81 rectifier, three ECC83 (12AX7) and one ECC82 (12AU7) tubes. The V-8 Berkeley Super Reverb was an all tube guitar amplifier loosely based on the JMI AC-15. All of these models were powered by tubes. The first US Vox amps were the V-1 Pathfinder, V-2 Pacemaker, V-3 Cambridge Reverb, V-4 Essex bass, and the V-8 Berkeley Super Reverb. Thomas Organ introduced their first US designed Vox amps in late 1965. Importation of Vox products from JMI ceased almost immediately. After a one time royalty was paid to JMI, Thomas Organ was free to build Vox gear of their own design. They wanted to build their own Vox gear in their organ production facilities in California. Thomas wanted to stop the importation of Vox gear from JMI. marketplace.īy mid 1966, the inability of JMI to produce Vox gear in adequate numbers to satisfy the US market plus the high costs of importation drove Thomas Organ to renegotiate the distribution agreement they had signed with Vox only a year earlier. Thomas Organ renamed this UK tube model the "Berkeley" for the U.S. One of the Vox amps Thomas Organ imported from JMI was the AC-10 Super Reverb Twin. Vox gear was in scarce supply in the United States. With the British music invasion now fully in overdrive, the demand for Vox gear in the states exceeded the production abilities of JMI. The first shipments of British made Vox amps, organs and guitars landed in the Thomas Organ warehouses in Sepulveda California in November, 1964. In September 1965, Thomas Organ inked an agreement with the parent company of Vox, Jennings Musical Instruments (JMI) of Dartford, Kent UK, making Thomas the sole Vox distributor for North America. No use on online auctions, eBay or Reverb. ![]() © 1996 - 2023 The Vox Showroom, all rights reserved. V4083 - 2 Vox "Gold Bulldog" Oxford 10" speakersġ7.5" H x 27" W x 9" D (speaker cabinet less trolley)Ĭ over, chrome swivel stand, head clamp, foot pedal Three button foot switch (reverb, tremolo and MRB) Channel one: volume, treble, bass, reverb, tremolo speed and depth, E-tuner. V1083 - Two channel amp, two inputs each. Volume, treble, bass, reverb, tremolo speed and depth controls plus MRB. Volume, treble, bass, reverb, tremolo speed and depth controls. Clamp and wingbolt to secure Berkeley head to swivel trolley
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