Vox Guitar Amps

Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer based in Britain, which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier and the Vox organ.

The Jennings Organ Company was founded by Tom Jennings after World War II and made the Univox, an electronic organ. In 1956 Jennings was shown a prototype guitar amplifier made by Dick Denney, an old workmate from a wartime munitions factory. The company was renamed Jennings Musical Instruments, and in 1958 the 15-watt Vox AC15 was launched. It was taken up by The Shadows and other British rock 'n' roll musicians.

In 1959, with sales under pressure from the more powerful Fender Twin, Vox produced the 30-watt Vox AC30. The AC30, fitted with Celestion "blue" loudspeakers and Vox's special "Top Boost" circuitry helped to produce the distinctive sound of the British Invasion, being used by The Beatles, The Who and the Yardbirds, among others. AC30s were later used by Brian May of Queen, Paul Weller of The Jam and The Edge of U2.