Vox

Vox built its name on a single sound: the chiming, midrange-forward voice of the AC30, a 1958 combo that became inseparable from British guitar music and has never left production. The company also made the teardrop-shaped Mark series guitars and the wah pedal that carries its name. On GuitarBomb, Vox turns up two ways — its own releases, from the amPlug headphone amps to the V863 wah — and as the reference point half the industry builds toward, which is why our fuzz and overdrive round-ups keep circling back to it.