page_title: Vox (musical equipment)
section_title: Cooltron
hierarchical_section_title: Vox (musical equipment) / Renewal and Current Products / Cooltron
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Vox - CoolTron Brit Boost
context_page_description: Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer founded in 1957 by Thomas Walter Jennings in Dartford, Kent, England. The company is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, used by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Queen, Dire Straits, U2 and Radiohead, the Vox Continental electric organ, the Vox wah-wah pedal used by Jimi Hendrix, and a series of innovative electric guitars and bass guitars. Since 1992, Vox has been owned by the Japanese electronics firm Korg.
context_section_description: Vox developed a line of analog effects pedals dubbed Cooltron, designed to offer guitarists vintage-sounding overdrive, compression, boost, distortion and tremolo. The pedals used low-power 12AU7 tubes to create vintage soft-clipping preamplification. Two of the Cooltron pedals, the Big Ben Overdrive and the Bulldog Distortion, won the Guitar World magazine Platinum Award.
  Cooltron pedals:
  Bulldog Distortion
  Brit Boost
  Big Ben Overdrive
  Duel Overdrive
  Over the Top Boost
  Snake Charmer Compressor
  VibraVOX
caption: Vox Cooltron Brit Boost
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