Just got one…
I needed a new small practice amp, went to Guitar Satan today, and ended up getting the Vox AD 30 VT. This is worth a look and a listen. Sounds great with my strat. One complaint - no external speaker jack. But I can live with that for now.
The digital modelling is actually good - and I’m not a fan of that sort of thing usually - but most interesting is what is essentially a power soak on the back - at least I think it is something like that - the amp has an electro-harmonix 12ax7 in the preamp, and a knob next to it to run it at low or full power. It works. The tone is pretty much the same at lower and higher power. And the models are reasonably on. For a bit mroe than 200 dollars US, this is a great buy. 
Early Christmas/Solstice present from my wife. Now…what in the world should I get her? 
This is really a bad suggestion…
But…
I’d think about getting her another mic… 
Something that’d make that amp come alive… On the tracks…
Bill…
OH, Bill, that is a WONDERFUL suggestion. Y’know, i sold her on a few mics, because they were needed to record her flute better. It was no lie, either. And they also are useful on acoustic guitar…
So I’ve been playing around some more with the amp. Turns out the tube is in the power section, and the digital modelling is all for the preamps. That is, it models preamps from specific amps they chose for their sound - a specific fender twin, a specific marshall, a specific AC30, etc… and the preamp choice sets up the tube as either class A or class A/B - whatever is appropriate for the amp model. And the power soak then really is a power soak on the low wattage tube pwero amp stage. They really thought about things. I gotta hand it to Vox, I guess there’s a reason why they are experiencing a kind of renaissance right now. So far I’d say that this is a great product for home recordists like me. Won’t replace a real twin cranked all the way in some iso booth at a full fledged studio, but in my humble basement…
Oh jeepers, I have to go spend the day with my extended family tomorrow. And monday it’s back to wrk. Groan. argh. grrr. [gnashing of teeth sound here]. argh. 
Oh, as for micing it, I haven’t tried it, but it also has a line out - so I figure one of the salmon hammer EV664 neighbor of the beasts, the line out, and an sm 57, or perhaps the mxl 990. Mix those up. mmm. tasty.
Hey Tom,
I spent about an hour with that amps big brother, the 60 watter. I will say to my ears, VOX has it going on with that setup. Side by side with a much more costly Line 6 Flextone for comparison, I liked the VOX MUCH better. It did not sound as…well…‘digital’ as the Line 6. My geetar pickin buddy with me also preferred the VOX. If I were not “amp poor” aleady, I’d snag one those 60 watt 1x12 jobbies with the floorboard controller. Sucker would be killer at church where I need squeaky clean to metal madness and everything in between from one amp.
Good score dude!
TG
Great on the amp Tom. I’d like to get an old vintage VOX someday - I’m a collector you know. I just got a '67 DR on eBay that I’m restoring, and a '62 Vibrolux last year that I’ve restored. Also, my stable amp is my '84 Super Champ.
Mike
Yes, Vox has realy figured it out with these. It should help my sound a lot. I never did like the Line 6 stuff. Like you say, you can tell what it is. The 60 watt version of the vox was just too much moola… oh, to be a member of the upper .5%… think of all the good I could do for humanity if I could just buy me a Pro Tools setup.
Hey, Mike, I had a Vox head back in the 70’s don’t really know what model, but it had a lot of tubes and a crispy tone - first real amp I had, other than a little Gibson Skylark - we despised both back then, couldn’t wait to get soemthing “bigger” - oh what funny folk we be.