“We found the perfect 1963 AC30 and we took it apart and figured out what made it tick”: Vox is making ‘classic’ amps and pedals again, as its Hand-Wired AC Series and Vintage wahs put the firm’s most iconic builds under the microscope

NAMM 2024: Vox has been the home of many guitar innovations over the years, but its two biggest have to be the wah pedal and the AC series tube amps that powered The Beatles – and much of the British invasion – not to mention, Brian May, The Edge and many more since. 

In 2024, Vox has opted to return to both of these builds, prying apart their best vintage examples in order to offer some of the most exhaustive period-correct takes on its early wahs and AC amps since they were first manufactured in the 1960s.