I’ll be honest, I never really got along with Vox amplifiers, too often they sounded thin and boring. Sure there were some vintage AC30s that sounded mint when you dimed them and their well broken in speakers were barely staying together. But all the lower, more reasonable wattage version, and even the new AC30s just sounded terrible. Honestly I’d rather have a rack effects unit running an AC30 simulation than the real thing!
And then on a whim I clicked on some YouTube demo videos Vox put out, just over a minute each in length with a Custom Shop red sparkle Stratocaster going through the newer Custom series AC10. There were all the Vox tones I had heard, loved and was never able to find.
The new Custom version is master volume with a gain knob, so you can crank the gain to get the sweet singing overdrive of a dimed Vox without the bleeding ears. The EQ on the new amp consists of a Treble and Bass knob with a perfectly sweet fixed mid. Both knobs at noon give you the chime and sweetness, while dropping both to the 9 0’clock position gives you a gorgeous pushed mid that breaks up beautifully as you turn up the gain. the on board reverb is a digital “studio quality” unit that sounds good enough and has enough range to give you more than enough. A foot switch to be able to turn it off remotely would be nice but not expected at this price range.
Gone is the vibrato channel of the vintage model, but the gain and eq that replaced it is a more usable and enjoyable alternate. Plus who uses a Vox for vibrato? Looks 
have been brought up to date and are beyond the price point, in fact I’ve had a few mentions of how nice it looks, even as it sits nestled between my Mark III Boogie and Two Rock Studio Pro. Go figure.
All in all this is a killer amp that begs for a simple setup. It is not an amp that loves all pedals equally like the Two Rock, but prefers simple pedals like treble boosters, fuzzes and echo. All the things that bring back the thoughts of the simpler years where it’s the guitar and the amp with very little in the middle. Plug in, use that guitar volume knob, and kick on a germanium boost when you need a bit more, and bask in the lush vintage gain.