Tweet
So have you ever had an inexpensive amplifier that you just loved? For me that amp is my mid 90's Peavey Classic 30 1X12!!! Aside for tubes it's all original including the original Blue Marvel speaker which is, well broken in would be an understatement!!! I bought it a few years back for almost nothing with the intention of selling it to turn a profit but when I got home & plugged it in my plans fell right apart! I absolutely loved it's tone clean or dirty so I decided to keep it & since then it's become one of my all time favorite amps. It's also currently the most inexpensive amp that I own & that's with it trending price in mind not what I paid for it! Unfortunately as anyone who's played one knows they are 30W's straight up with no power cutting & they start out on the volume knob loud so they are not the best home practice rigs...
Now because I enjoyed it so much I decided to part with my little Peavey 6505mh, essentially trading it for a Classic 20 mh head. The 6505 was a good little practice amp & the onboard speaker defeat was a great feature because I could get real tube breakup through headphones at 2:00 am without waking anyone up but it had way more gain then I really needed. I think I literally used the red CH on it twice the entire time I owned it plus I've got a 50W 6505+ combo in storage if I decide I do require that amount of filth for something in the future...
So with all those things in mind the Classic 20 seemed like a no brainier. Now I'm not expecting exactly the same tone at lower volumes because the speaker, cabinet, & slightly different circuit are all factors but I figure even if it only gets me 80%-90% of the way to the Classic 30's tone I think it's going to be a much better fit for me? Plus it's still got all the features that the 6505mh had (I.E.-1W/5W/20W operation, speaker defeat, silent practice capability, Etc) so I'm not losing any of that.
Now I bought this thing from a seller in Las Vegas on Thursday morning of last week & to his credit he got it shipped out for me almost immediately! Because it got shipped out so quickly I didn't bother tracking it until yesterday which was the following Monday. When I tried tracking it down for a ETA I was kinda surprised when the sight said it would be almost 10 business days! I've bought, sold, as well as shipped lots of stuff to AZ & NV in the past, nothing has ever taken that long?
LOL... After looking into a little more I noticed where the package was last scanned, a UPS hub in northern Ontario Canada??? Now I bought it from Vegas & I live in NH, reason would dictate as would experience, this package would move east until hitting the coast then start moving up north until it arrived here at my house. Nope, not only is it in the wrong country but it has been stuck in some kind of strange Canadian purgatory since 2:46am on the second...
I'm not really in that much of a hurry to get the amp, I've got plenty of others to hold me over in the meantime. Still, I can't help but wonder, WTF????
DISCLAIMER- NO CANADIANS WERE ACTUALLY HURT DURING THE PROCESS OF WRITING THIS POST, OR IF THEY WERE THEY WERE TOO DARN POLITE TO COMPLAIN....
Comment