The Special also had a built-in 'E' tuner, which could be used to create a drone effect. Effects were operated by a series of push buttons along the bottom neck side of the pick guard, with knobs to control vibrato and repeat speed. The Special included on-board effects such as fuzz, tremolo, and repeat percussion. This enabled complex panning and switching effects that were in vogue because Psychedelic rock was popular at the time.Īnother variant of the Phantom guitar was the rare "Special", built in the UK then later in Italy, a white version being famously used by Ian Curtis in Joy Division's " Love Will Tear Us Apart" video. Both 6- and 12-string guitars were also made as "Stereo" versions, capable of operating in stereo with a special cable which connected to two amplifiers simultaneously. A 12-string version, the Phantom XII, was also made. It included a round leather-coated pad on the back for comfort while playing. Later models included a Bigsby-inspired tremolo, designed by Vox's founder, Thomas Jennings. Playing on the highest fret would eliminate all but one resistor, and make the highest tone.Ī remote power supply (seen at lower left) provided the necessary voltages to operate the organ circuitry and connected to the instrument with a multi pin connector cable.Custom colors also made in smaller numbersįeatures of the Vox Phantom included 2 or 3 single-coil pickups, open-back tuners, and a Tune-o-matic bridge inspired by similar Gibson bridges. This lower resistance would make a much higher tone. Depressing the same string on the twelfth fret would require the signal to travel through only 9 resistors, or 900 ohms. This high resistance would make the lowest tone. Hypothetically, if each resistor was 100 ohms, the total accumulated resistance from the first fret contact to the tone generator would be 2100 ohms. Depressing a string on the first (or lowest) fret would cause the signal to travel through all twenty one resistors before triggering the organ tone generator. To facilitate the production of the correct organ pitch for each location on the neck, a series of twenty one resistors interconnected the twenty one fret contacts under each string, one resistor per fret. The higher the electrical resistance, the lower the tone. The organ tone generators developed different pitches based on the number of ohms separating the organ tone generator input signal from ground. The circuit to the organ tone generator was completed when any of the guitar strings, which were grounded, were depressed to touch their respective fret mounted contact. Each fret on the guitar neck had six electronic contacts, one under each string. The contacts that trigger the organ circuits to play were found in the frets of the guitar. The Vox Guitar Organ had six organ tone generator circuits built into a cavity in the guitar body, one generator for each of the six strings. This allowed the Guitar Organ to be played as a guitar or an organ, either separately or combined. The brain child of Vox lead engineer Dick Denney, the Guitar Organ added solid state organ circuitry derived from the Vox Continental organ to a Vox Phantom guitar. The Vox Guitar Organ was one of the most complicated and innovative products attempted by JMI Vox in the 1960s. No use on online auctions, eBay or Reverb. © 1996 - 2023 The Vox Showroom, all rights reserved.
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