Jaded Faith said:
For the record, I play my modded AC30 possibly more than any other amp. My LB50C is the #2 for personal use. I rolled every speaker you can think of through my Vox the past few months and Creamback M's won by a mile. I liked most speakers in there, but this did everything best. Blues and Golds were tops if I only did cleans. I can't stand how they handle higher gain though. Might be my least favorite speaker for that use ever.
That makes sense. My Dad's a blues player, generally with his '65 335 but occasionally with a Les Paul, and his best tones from the Vox are just on the edge of breakup. That's the way I hear AC30's as well, as I'm not a "fan" of the distorted AC30 tone. It's cool and useable of course, it's just not a part of my wheelhouse.
I tend to prefer using an AC30 for that edge of distortion and/or its very unique sounding clean tone.