Oh, and I do have 3 PF15Rs, all bone stock. I turn the amp towards me on stage like a monitor. In the past, I put a mic in front of the cab, which worked fine, but the Line Out sounds just as good coming through the PA speakers, and it's a much simpler set up. At larger venues and/or outdoor gigs, I use the Line Out from the rear panel to a PA. It's Pathfinder all the way.Īnd the settings I use are the same for the majority of my gigs: Gain at 9 o'clock, Volume at 10, Boost switch off. I have a couple of Fishman Loudbox amps for acoustic/electric playing, but I no longer own any other amp for electric guitar. The Pathfinder 15R is my amp of choice for.well, I started to say "gigging," but really it's my choice for home as well.
Now, where will I find my third pathfinder as I only have two!
He shook his head saying he has heard millions of guitar amps in his time but nothing touches the sound of my PF15.ĭon't be fooled, this is no toy. I am working with a very experienced bass player who has been around longer than I have & he said "I can't believe the clear sound and sustain the amp is producing" he then asked what the power was, I told him 15 watts, he said shaking his head no way! He then asked what volume did I have it on? I tilted the amp towards him showing him my settings on the PF which are always the same, gain on 3 (at 9 O'clock) and the volume on 4 (at 10 O'clock) with the boost switched off.
VOX PATHFINDER 15R 20W PORTABLE
Since I bought two of these beauties, I took my modded PF15R with the numerous mods I did to many jazz rehersals and a couple of jazz gigs to see if I feel the same love as I did when I bought theses amps.īeing super light weight having lugged in my younger years the hernia inducing Marshall heads and quadboxes with Les Pauls in heavy steel flight cases weighing more than a 747, my PF15 suits my older jazz and blues style gigs perfectly being light weight portable & great sounding. In order to access the back of circuit board I also had to remove ground wire and transformer mount screws.Most amps seem to lose their appeal after the honeymoon period is over. This allowed me to pull the circuit board down out of the chassis Remove screws from aluminum angle (heat sink?) Remove 2 screws on top as well as all knobs and the nuts on the pots and jacks Remove screws from wood piece that goes across the back (this has 3 jacks in it) The most time consuming part is getting the circuit board out. If you're comfortable soldering, it's a pretty easy fix. ( but I still prefer the sound and portability of the 8" that's in there- my baby!) *I actually threw out the Cambridge chassis ( just frustrated!) years ago, kept the cab, which now was modified by a buddy, to fit a 10" Celestion as a matching extension cab for the PF15R. Fantastic sound- 6-7 years of gigs with it. So I still had the Cambridge amp, took the 8" Vox/Celestion Bulldog out of it and put into the Pathfinder. I did not notice 'till after purchase, but it had a 4ohm Crate speaker in it, instead of the stock one. Not sure when, it was a while, but I got my Pathfinder 15R used maybe 2012, for $85 on CL, sounded great. Then it got 'sick' lost volume, got super distorted, and I just shelved it, played one of my other amps.Īround 2006/7, I joined TDPRI and started constantly reading, over the years, about the Vox Pathfinder, and how folks were ( are!) nuts about it.
I first ( maybe 2000) bought a used Cambridge 15 and used it in my ( then new) own band, and it was a little rockin' beast, for maybe 6 mos.
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