The thing about that combination, at least back in the 60s and 70s, was that Vox, unlike nearly every other amp manufacturer, put the reverse feedback circuit of their amps as the first circuit in the chain, between the input channel and the pre-amp stage (rather than the last circuit before the output stage), so it acted as a sort of natural signal compressor. When you combine that with the lower output pickups Rickenbacker was using in the 50s and 60s, you get that nice, chimey sound that's on all those old Beatles records up until Rubber Soul. Since around the mid-70s or so, Rickenbacker went to higher output pickups, so that arrangement doesn't work so well anymore.
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