The Micro Vibe is Voodoo Lab recreation of the original Dunlop Univibe from the 60's and 70's that replicated the effect of a rotating speaker cabinet. It was most famously used by artists such as Jimi Hendrix and others as as well. Voodoo Lab has created a fine product here, by offering a pedal that is 100 percent analog and even hand-wired, with true bypass. Pedals like this should make pedal-loving players drool.

The Micro Vibe accepts 9V batteries, and is packaged in a rugged metal casing that embodies simplicity.

It doesn't get simpler than this, The Micro Vibe has two knobs, for "intensity" and "speed". To state the obvious, the "intensity" knob controls the depth or degree of roatary speaker effect, and the "speed" controls the relative speed of the rotating speaker. No manual needed. Plug and play.

If you like psychadelia, or even just classic rock you can appreciate what a rotary effect can do to space out your sound. Well, the Micro Vibe definitely delivers. It can offer you a subtle chorusy tremolo sound, all the way to a deep swirling pulse that is lush, earthy, and organic sounding. Unlike a lot of the hand-wired pedals from the 70's, this one is a bit more predictable; you CAN'T get a bad sound out of this box. It does what its supposed to, and not much else. Playing with the speed dial will give you some eerie sounds, but nothing too crazy. Its just a good all-around tremolo pedal that is quite good at recreating the Univibe sound, which is something even the Univibe reissues don't really do. Voodoo Lab knows what they are doing.
This pedal interacted nicely with my small tube combo and my other floor effects, like placing distortion in front brings out a bit more of the modulation/phaser sound. Add in a delay and it gets spacier, a flanger and it gets downright scary-wierd quick.

The AC15CC 15-watt Class A tube combo is the next incarnation of the 1958 classic that guitarists have loved for years.

The AC15 Custom Classic (which is made in China) comes equipped with a few modern features and conveniences that its ancestor didn't have. Controls include Master volume, Treble and Bass controls and Tremolo with fully variable Speed and Depth, and features spring reverb. Tremolo and Reverb are footswitchable with the included footswitch.

It sports 2 EL84's and 2 12AX7's, and has a silicon rectifier. The speaker impedance can be switched between 8 or 16 Ohms so you can connect it to external cabinets oif your choice.. The AC15CC is available with either a Celestion AlNiCo Blue Speaker (AC15CC1X) if you fork out a couple hundred extra dollars, or is available with a VOX designed Custom speaker (AC15CC1). Its up to you.

This amp is fairly quiet. I've noticed slight hum in most or almost all of the lower end tube combos like Blues Junior, Epi Valve Junior. I was glad to not see that here with the Vox AC15.

The controls are self-explanatory. One thing I noticed is the eq section interacts a great deal with itself, and with the gain section. (most amps behaved like this back in the day anyway). It means you need to really explore the settings and protential to tweak, not just put everything at 12 o clock and settle for what you get. But getting a good sound from the start is easy.

The AC15 is all about earthy classic British tube tone. It behaves much like you'd expect from a small tube combo. It breaks up without having to shatter your windows and gives you a nice clean overdrive. This amp is very responsive to picking attack. It LOVES single-coil pickups, so break out the LP Junior with P-90's and Telecaster. Its like jangly classic rock heaven. Sadly, I don't play single-coils at all hardly. But it loves my Ibanez Ghostrider with Gibson P.A.F. humbuckers, it brought out a lot of brightness and gave me a nice raucous bark of a rhythm tone, and some stinging bluesy leads.

This amp has crazy, glassy high transients. It has brightness for days and can bring out the tinkly highs from even the darkest guitar (like an old Fernandes w/humbuckers that I have) with the treble dimed, without being harsh at all.

What this amp does not do is 5150 or bogner like high gain, which.... I would hope you weren't expecting. With a pedal thrown in front I'm sure you'd be happy with the high gain sounds you could coax this amp into, then maybe you'd get some versatility from this amp. In and of itself, its a pretty distictive sounding amp so you have to like that "vox sound" to really appreciate this amp.

A word here about the speaker: If you play it in the store and it sounds a bit "brittle" to your ears, you are not alone. But after a good amount of playing (a few weeks or so) you will significantly break in the vox speaker and it sweetens up for you. The more I played this amp, the better it sounded.

- For how long have you been using it?
I had these for about 8 or 9 years.

- What thing do you like most/least about it?
That i sold them.

- Did you try many other models before getting this one?
No, or i would have got the others.

- What is your opinion about the value for the price?
Ludicrous. Yes, the bad way.

- Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice?...
Obviously not.

Why...i hear you say!
These are closed headphones, that's good, they don't leak tooo much.
But they are hot, extremely uncomfortable after a while...(painful).
And they are very bassy. There is strictly no point trying to make anything sound right with these on unless you are totally used to listening to everything on these...
They are neither clear nor detailed enough...quite frankly i went on using them because i had not others. But you can't really do anything with them. They're a reference? Oh yeah? Well so are the 7506's and they're nothing you can do with those either...

They were 750 Francs at the time (£75), ie 115 euros, would i pay that again? No way.

Overpriced and overrated. Money back, please.

- What type of microphone? (live, recording, mixed...)
This is designed for live vocals. You could use it for other applications, of course. In fact you might want to cos from my experience this picks up feedback rather easily!

- What technology? (electret, condenser...)
Dynamic.

Has a very handy on-off switch, very good for stopping feedback... ;-)

Subjective bandwidth was not very extensive.

- What type of microphone? (live, recording, mixed...)
Probably too sensitive for live use unless you're using a clever sound system of some sort.
Also picks up stuff off axis...
Has a pretty good bandwidth too.

- What technology? (electret, condenser...)
Condenser, works off phantom or standard AA batteries...just unscrew the mic and stick em in. Can't remember if it's one or two batteries.

No switches or anything on this, but being able to use batteries is a definite plus...mind you, you will lose out a tad in sensitivity if you do this.

Michael Kelly Dragonfly fretless acoustic/eletric 4 string bass . When i first picked up the dragonfly i was unshure, being that all acoustic basses i had tried were it seemed constantly buzzing from the fretts, i was told a fretless would be to severe for a novice player like myself . They couldnt have been more wrong, from the fist moment i began to play it my ears started tingling with delight. not to mention it was so beautifull with rosewood inlays of mother of pearl down the length of the board , and the see through black paint was to me and many others since i bought a thing of beauty. Every time i take it from the case all that see it stare in awe. Im a by ear player not a note per note , i seek the sound that stimulates that aspect of playing the dragonfly was a perfect fit for me. This has become my signature bass i also have a solid body bass that i will discuss later, but for now im going to stay true to this review . This sound so stimulated my ears to the feel of bass notes that immedeatly after playing it i began to play fretted bass eletric light years ahead of where i had been. its a jumbo body for the acoustic sound if you are playing with a unamplified guitar it can be heard easily . But remember it has eletric pickups and they really work great, as i said it sounds is as beautiful as it looks, and due to the fretless nature you can slide bass notes so easily it will make you cry. I suggest you get a 15 watt bass amp for pratice with 2 or more guitars you dont need much ,but the sound is soooo smooth folks will come over to see what your playing on then when they get a look at it they all say the same WOW.It has a very nice almost stand up bass sound and gives you freedom to give it your best without worrying about buzz. It has marker dots to show you where the major and minor notes would be if it were fretted ,im sold on this bass as you can tell , if i did not like i would not tell you i so . That being said the 4 string see through black is not being produced any longer, i was told now they have gone to a five string in that color . Im lucky to have picked up one of the few remainig in that color. The natural woods will sound just as good, but the see through black against the inlays is stunningly beautiful. So if you can find a four string in see through black or natural wood or your searching for a great acoustic string bass sound ,this is without a doubt an excellent choice ,i have let professional bass players play it at shows and they couldnt get over how great it sounded and how sharp it looked. I call this a win win senero. thank you Michael Kelly for opening these old eyes and ears and giving me something to be really proud of.

The Crossroads pedal from Digitech is like 7 distinct tones in one package. It offers a model of the following distictive Eric Clapton tones: "Sunshine of Your Love", "Crossroads", "Badge", "Layla", "Lay Down Sally", "Layla" (Acoustic), and "Reptile". The controls include a mode selector knob, 2 control knobs that allow you to tweak selected paremeters of the mode presets (like effect intensity or gain), and a level knob.

One interesting feature is the seperate amp and mixer outputs.
One frustrating thing is that the preset volumes of the different "modes" vary so much. It seems like they could have balanced them better, so you don't have to re-adjust them when you switch modes.

Not all of the 7 modes on this pedal are even usable in my opinion, let alone "good". There are a couple that are decent but it seems like Digitech bit off a little more than they could chew. The clean tones are impressive, the distorted tones are a bit bland, and the acoustic mode is just terrible. They should have gone without it. Overall, it lacked a warmth and depth to my ears.

Some effects are quite nice to have; like the rotary effect on the "Badge" model. Some effects are just cheesy, like the chorus effect on "reptile".

Boss's FDR-1 is an amp modeler with reverb and vibrato, based on the Fender 1965-era Deluxe Reverb, which is a coveted tube amp known for its distinctive tone. Apparently BOSS worked with Fender to try and nail the sound of the Deluxe Reverb, which increased my expectations for it.
The FDR-1 is packaged in the standard BOSS stompbox casing, which are always pretty sturdy. It would blend in like a regular stompbox on your pedalboard. It has your standard 1/4" input and output, and ac adapter input.

The controls on the FDR-1 are very similar to the actual amp it seeks to emulate. It has Level, Gain, Treble, Bass, Vibrato and Reverb. Other than to full understand how to tweak the vibrato effect, its very self-explanatory and I didn't even need the manual.

As far as the amp model, it is fairly good. I have played modelers that attempted a Deluxe Reverb sound like Line6 and Digitech. This pedal comes a LOT closer to replicating actual Fender sound than any other modeler I've heard. Its got sparkle, spank, and even grit that get pretty darn close to the real thing, without actually BEING the real thing.

As far as reverb, its good. Probably as good or better as the reverb on many amps people will plug this into. Sadly its not nearly as good as ACTUAL Deluxe Reverb reverb. It starts getting cheesy sounding in the upper range, so getting super drippy reverb like you can from the actual amp is not a reasonable expoectation to have. I still can't fault it much though.

The vibrato is great, very usable, and gives a fairly wide range of tweaking possible. I wasn't disapointed.

I played this stompbox by putting it in front of my low end tube amp; an Epiphone Valve Special. It added a new dimension to the already decent clean sound, so I can't imagine the miracles this pedal could work for a lackluster Solid State amp's clean channel. I was also able to use it to push my tube amp into a bit more grit and sustain. They interacted nicely.