Peavey Amp Appreciation Thread - My Heads in Mississippi

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^^^^ I'm blinded by the shiny metal and the number of knobs!
 
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My first Peavey. Wish I still had it. I sold it, then I saw it in a pawn shop years later and should have bought it back. Would have been an amazing Blues/Classic/Southern rock amp, but I was into metal at the time....

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My second Peavey. Probably on elf the most flexible all around amps ever. First gen Transtubes sounded great. Insides eaten by a renegade hamster.

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Current Peavey. Close enough to the Studio Pro for me!

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Two Peavey's I'd love to have:

Classic 30 in tweed -

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And you just gotta love these - really one sound, but what a sound!

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I used one of the TransTube Bandits for years. It worked really well with pedals.
 
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My Studio-Pro is exactly like the one Ace posted except it has the Sheffield 1230 (out of a bandit) just like the Express.

The Express and Bandit have the extra dynamics and presence controls but the SP gets the job done and the smaller footprint is a plus for me in this case.
That's a very bright speaker model also, and the fact that it sits even lower to the ground in the SP really improves it's beef and pads the highs a bit more.

Interesting note on these original transtubes;
When you're on the clean channel play with the gain channel's pre-gain knob.
At about 3:00 you'll notice a happy medium.
Beyond that it will roll-off highs and really smooth it out. (more "tubey")
Less than that and it get's thinner and more shrill.

I would assume it was just mine from being old and all, but both my SP and my Envoy do it and an old beat-up bandit I recently tried also was just the same.

Hey Ace does your Express also act like that?

I find it actually very useful when running distortion/fuzz to take the shrillness out and thicken the mids. Between 2:00 and 4:00 sounds the best to me.
 
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I have not tried that. However....I'll get back here this afternoon with a report!

On those amps -

Clean = a nice full round fat clean
Clean/Bright - fender spank and sparkle
Gain = a great channel to clean up off the guitar, or set the gain right to edge of breakup, and go over when you hit hard
More Gain = Marshall 800
More Gain + Thrash = Metallica / Megadeth, or whatever with more gain than anyone really needs.

I often play More Gain/Trash with a 3/4/7 setting and a Duncan Distortion for a wicked evil ultra Marshall/5150 tone. And Verb on 3, of course....always
 
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I remember those JSX Models being introduced but have never run across one in person.
 
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I've had a Classic 50, and a couple Classic 30s. All great amps, had a lot of fun playing them!
 
Re: Peavey Amp Appreciation Thread - My Heads in Mississippi

My first Peavey. Wish I still had it. I sold it, then I saw it in a pawn shop years later and should have bought it back. Would have been an amazing Blues/Classic/Southern rock amp, but I was into metal at the time....

maxresdefault.jpg


My second Peavey. Probably on elf the most flexible all around amps ever. First gen Transtubes sounded great. Insides eaten by a renegade hamster.

peavey-studio-pro-112-transtube-320071.jpg


Current Peavey. Close enough to the Studio Pro for me!

peavey-express-112-706604.jpg


Two Peavey's I'd love to have:

Classic 30 in tweed -

peavey-classic-30.jpg


And you just gotta love these - really one sound, but what a sound!

f6btxrzguwotinhowr3o.jpg

A man who definitely knows his Peaveys! A BLOCK Letter EVH 5150 in there as well. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
 
Re: Peavey Amp Appreciation Thread - My Heads in Mississippi

Lots of Peaveys in my arsenal.

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There are a few more I haven't managed to take pics for yet.
 
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My 3120 is overkill for my needs, but it is a great amp. Using low gain tubes make the amp more usable for me as the 2nd channel has less compression and gives a nice hard rock vibe.
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I play bass through a Peavey TNT 130 at home and a Peavey Firebass 700 through a 4x10 and 2x15 at my friend's larger jam room. The Firebass was recently serviced to clean the pots and fix some loose connections. It will put 350 watts into 8 ohms which is enough for me to step on two half stacks and a 300 watt PA. If I want to.

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I play bass through a Peavey TNT 130 at home and a Peavey Firebass 700 through a 4x10 and 2x15 at my friend's larger jam room. The Firebass was recently serviced to clean the pots and fix some loose connections. It will put 350 watts into 8 ohms which is enough for me to step on two half stacks and a 300 watt PA. If I want to.

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Boom Baba!
 
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I've been enjoying this USA Bandit for the past 3 years.
 
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I've been enjoying this USA Bandit for the past 3 years.

That is a great version, it came with both scorpions and shefs, had the super-sat preamp and the same power circuit that they officially named "transtube" on the very next version, which was of course the original silverstripe transtubes. My friend has this same teal with the scorpion.
 
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