• Killer amp

  
  As reviewed by SVD on 6/29/2009

  I wanted to get a Mesa or something, but pretty out of my price range, so i decided to settle for this amp. Now, even if i had the money, i wouldnt trade up this amp for any other 2x12. First off, its loud. I run it at about 2 1/2 outta 10 and its the perfect level to match my drummer, and everyone in my small basement during rehearsals. I tried it at 3/10 and it was overpowering. Second, you can get some sick tones out of this. I crank my mids up, with the gain at about 7 and there can't be anything better for punk rock. I can scoop the mids, put the gain at 10 and it has a killer metal tone. Then i can back off on the gain and get an amazing blues tone. Another thing is the 'Presence' knob, which is almost like the tone knob on your guitar but without the hum, its a beautiful addition. The class a/ab control is nice too, cleaning up any muddiness. Only cons are that it's pretty noisy, giving me some mad feedback and hum, but thats partly my old pickups in my epiphone LP, and partly the small room. New pickups and a gate, I'm dead sure I wont have that problem. For the price, this amp is unbeatable. The 5 year warranty got me smiling, and i'm pretty sure I wont need to use it either. If it were stolen, Id replace in a heartbeat. It's not the most pristine amp, but I do punk, I didn't want a pretty sound. It's mean, aggressive, and can scream. Buy it

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• Incredable..$600?

  
  As reviewed by BobbyFitleburg12 on 8/29/2008

  Thhis amp is fantastic. Its got 7 tubes, 2 12inch speakers, 2 channles with SEPERATE EQ's, reverd and 100 watts all tube power, not to mention the class A/B knob function. All that for 600? Now you could have all that and have terrable sound, not in this case. The cleans are easily comparable to some fender amps. (But then again its always based on opinions and what you like) The distorion is exellent. You can get Black Sabbath, zeppelin, aerosmith, alice cooper, hendrix,guns n roses, metalica and the list goes on. It is superb sounding in every way, build very well, is 100% tube and 100 watts. For me that is pretty much perfect. Thanks peavey!

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• Meh...

  
  As reviewed by Eason Taylor on 2/15/2012

  I've had my fair share of problems with this amp. For starters, I will just go ahead and say this amp is poorly designed and manufactured. The first problem I had was with the input jacks. The jacks are PLASTIC, let me repeat PLASTIC, and after two weeks of playing in the first input, it crapped out on me. I didn't worry about it because hey there are two jacks. But then about two weeks later the second one followed suit and went out too. I took it to my friend who is an expert luthier/amp wizard and when I brought it in the first thing he said was "let me guess...its the jacks right?" so apparently im not the only one who has had this problem. Well that got fixed and the amp lasted for about 8 or 9 months and then another problem occurred. whenever I switched over to the distortion channel the signal would completely cut out and all I would hear was this horrible hissing sound. I messed withe the knobs and tried in both jacks and unplugged the footswitch and did just about everything I could do without tearing the thing open. Nothing worked so then I took it back to my friend and he said there were a couple of places that werent soldered properly. So he took it and got it all fixed up. And that ends my problems with the amp. What i do like about the amp is the fact that each channel has an independent eq and volume that makes tweaking this thing to what you want very easy. The clean was just ok, and the drive is pretty full and smooth, not really hardcore like other peaveys. The boost on the drive channel is something else I liked, and the reverb was not anything to praise. Overall experience with this amp is a 2.5/5. Cant wait to upgrade.

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