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Not Shabby At All
I will admit, I am a Peavy fan despite their media hypocracies. This Valve King amp is perfect. I would agree with the "sounds like Mesa Boogie" statement. It really does, and when you start to use the features, you can get a marshall sound, mesa sound, fender sound. Every definable sound you can think of. To top it off, it's totally tube driven. It's not a hybrid, it's no modeling amp. Just 100% badass.
Reviewed by Kelso on 4/3/2007 who plays Rock, Active, Mainstream, Classic, Fuzz.
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Wicked!!!
I went in the store turned it on messed with the knobs got a decent tone and told the salesman bag it up I'm sold. I used to own a Boogie and i'll have to say that this thing, for the money, blows the Boogie out of the water. If you want face melting distortion turn on the volume boost along with the gain button and turn up the gain knob and stand back!
Reviewed by Bugman1620 on 6/29/2007 who plays Hard rock,metal,Alternitive.
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great amp for the money
i think this beats out the blue voodoo, and everything else in it's price range, it's good for many styles of music, i only wish it had a master volume for both channels, and a footswitchable reverb.
other than those two things, i love this amp, it sounds amazing, if it died, which i find unlikely, i would buy it again.
Reviewed by on 4/5/2007 who plays death metal, indie, acoustic rock, noisecore.
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Current Amp King
Peavey has hit the mark with the Valve King by providing a quality tube amp at an affordable price. The VK100 has many features found only on boutique amps. Out of the box you will be able to experience true vintage tones from the four 6L6 tubes. If you're on a budget and looking for a great amp Look no further. This is it!
Reviewed by WorshipNerd on 11/2/2006 who plays Rock, Worship, Pop, Jazz, Blues.
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Awesome.
I just picked this up at guitar center. I was skeptical of peavey at first. I had tryed my friends mesa boogie and thought it was pretty nice. I wanted to get one but I tryed a bunch of peaveys first. I was immediately sold by this thing. It is very nice tone and distortion is extremely good and if you get the matching cab it sounds amazing. I dont know why everyone says it doesnt do heavy metal well. I beg to differ it actually does good if you set it up right. Of course you can always use a boost if that doesnt do it for you. But overall its a great great amp for the price.
Reviewed by deandude on 3/6/2007 who plays heavy metal, death metal, blues, classic rock.
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The best I have played
I bought this amp last fall and I thought I would give it six months before I reviewed it. When I began shopping for a stack I was playing $1200 guitar heads (XXX, Shockwave, JCM's) and I was just not happy about having to spend that much. But then I tried the Valveking and loved the versitility of it. The clean channel was like a fender amp and the dirty was better than any of the top brands out there. And it is tube. Best of all, it was only around $500. So I got the complete stack for around $1000. This amp is perfect for intermediates or professionals. I am stuck on the Peavey brand from now on.
Reviewed by J. Merwin on 7/16/2007 who plays Rock, Experimental, Progressive.
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Stop looking and buy this head
I recently bought this head and I can tell you right now, if you are looking for a super sweet tube head, you need to look no further. I have been a Peavey guy since I bought my first 212 Classic in 76 (which I still own and play). I also have a 100 watt XL Supreme solid state head with a 4X12 cab. My Classic went into the shop to be retubed and I got thinking it would be nice to have a tube head to drop on top of the Supreme cabinet, so I started shopping around. I listened to the Marshalls to the Crates and everything else even out of the price range and the ValveKing is far and away the best SOUNDING head I played through. It is really hard to describe the way it sounds. But it is almost like the guitar takes on another dimension of harmonics. When messing around I normally crank up the distortion, but with the ValveKing the clean channel sounds SOO good that I leave it on the clean channel most of the time.
I have a Aphex harmonic exciter and a Microverb in the effects loop. That just adds to the sweet sound of this thing. Yes the reverb is not too hot, that is my only complaint, but with the Microverb, I don't need it anyway. Close your eyes, don't look at the price tag. You can save yourself some time and stop looking and buy.
Reviewed by Bad Brad on 4/23/2007 who plays Rock, Blues.
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outstanding tone
This a great amp for someone like my self. I like a amp to be simple but straght to the point. The valve king is a what a tube should be - power and tone.If you are like me i love the old marshall 800's . The valve king 100 head is the one for you. I got the head unit from guitar center . I tryed out b52's, marshalls,line 6 . You name it . But the peavey valve king was the one for me. I have a custom made cabnet that i run mine through. the cabnet has 2 vintage 30's and 2 shefield 1205's in it. Together it is a tone monster.
Reviewed by temperman on 1/12/2007 who plays metal , rock.punk.you name it i play it.
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Love it!
This amp is a tone monster for the money. I have owned Marshall and Mesa and this thing really knocks me out. All this amp needs really is a better foot switch to go from channel to channel and the lead boost. The switch has a hesitation if you leave the button depressed too long. I now use a Fender two button switch. Buy this amp now. It will make you smarter.
Reviewed by paint2it on 11/27/2006 who plays rock.
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AMAZING, Versatile head
This is the first head i've ever owned, and i don't think i'll ever need another. It has a really great sounding clean channel, and the bright switch is a really cool feature, i use it all the time. The distortion on the lead channel sounds super-crunchy if you turn the gain boost on. Plus, if you put it in input 2, you can crank the gain up all the way with very little noise. The reverb's ok, just don't turn it up too far or you'll get a lot of buzz. The texture knob in the back is awesome, as well, I usually keep it turned to Class A, which give you a really thick, powerful metal tone. If this thing got stolen, i would track down the jerk who did it, steal it back, and buy another one anyways. :)
Reviewed by Jay on 9/12/2009 who plays Metal.
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