Peavey Transtube 100EFXHD Head

Finally used some pedals through this Peavey Transtube 100EFX, but not through the effects loop, just straight in. The Vintage Clean is where this amp shines. I ran a Boss DS2 and a Mesa Throttlebox and man, it's beautiful. Especially with the Mesa pedal. Very very close to the Mesa Rectifiers I have played in the past. The DS2 just flat out rocks through this head. Using the onboard reverb and chorus with dirt pedals it still remains clarity. I wouldn't hesitate to gig with this amplifier. Now, off to search for the footswitch...
 
Securb said:
I have to mention I also really like that Randell combo you have
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The Randall is around the same age as the Peavey. Its a great sounding amp that I also have the footswitch for. Built in chorus is probably the best I've heard and cleans are top notch. Both distortions are great. Very Pantera. I don't think there's a better solid state out there that's any better for metal. Running through the 2×12 Marshall it's awesome. I've had the Randall RG a long time.
 
The EQ on the Peavey is really sensitive. Doesn't take much of a turn to change so much. Reminds me of the Peavey Supreme and how it's EQs are. I dialed the lows to 4, mids 4, and highs at 7 on the Lead channel. Gain setting at 8. Been running the amp at 50 watts now. The Modern has a chunky Pantera tone going on and the High Gain smooth mids and a bit more gain. Be cool if this amp had a contour, or presence switch, which it would benefit from. I no longer have an EQ pedal, but I'm considering another. Tried running at tube screamer through the Lead channel but couldn't get it to sound right. So, an EQ pedal should be better for more control and bite.
 
JamesPaul said:
That is likely maximum consumption. You know the deal with rated output power.

Does it need one of those PC[something] footswitches? Another great mystery of life. Those amps shipped with the footswitch, and they mostly only worked with their respective amps, so where the eff are they all now, if not with the amps?

Still a nice score, in my humble opinion. If you cannot find a footswitch, let me know. I may try and build one.
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Been looking for the footswitch but still no luck finding one. If you can build one that would be awesome! I'm not sure how many switches the original has. I would think at least 4. Clean, Lead, Effects, and possibly Reverb.
 
The manaul says it shipped with a PFC3. Let me check if that is in the generic schematics already posted.

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JamesPaul said:
The manaul says it shipped with a PFC3. Let me check if that is in the generic schematics already posted.

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Yep I just read through the manual again and saw that. And apparently you can save settings by double tapping the footswitch. On the amp itself you can't do that.
 
No one-stop shopping on the PFC3 schematic, but I think I can piece a schematic together between a drawn PFC3 schematic and an amp schematic. Gimme a couple days to get the schematic together and see how that looks.
 
JamesPaul said:
No one-stop shopping on the PFC3 schematic, but I think I can piece a schematic together between a drawn PFC3 schematic and an amp schematic. Gimme a couple days to get the schematic together and see how that looks.
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Sure no problem.

I don't think many of these amps were produced. Possibly just in 2003. Looks like two of the footswitches sold on Reverb years ago, but nothing since. I guess it had a short run and most people ended up keeping both. I can see why if that's the case. It's a sweet amp. I've had Peavey saved in my searches on Reverb for years and I don't remember ever seeing this head listed.
 
UnderTheFlame83 said:
Sure no problem.

I don't think many of these amps were produced. Possibly just in 2003. Looks like two of the footswitches sold on Reverb years ago, but nothing since. I guess it had a short run and most people ended up keeping both. I can see why if that's the case. It's a sweet amp. I've had Peavey saved in my searches on Reverb for years and I don't remember ever seeing this head listed.
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Yours is the first head I remember seeing. There was a guy in town who had a Triple XXX 40 EFX combo, which had a similar panel layout as far as the Digital EFX go. There are a few other combos in the manuals section, which appear to have the same Digital EFX. I am thinking it was cost effective for Peavey to quickly add the Digital EFX module to several current production amps. But I really do not remember seeing many of these EFX amps in the wild.
 
UnderTheFlame83 said:
Been looking for the footswitch but still no luck finding one. If you can build one that would be awesome! I'm not sure how many switches the original has. I would think at least 4. Clean, Lead, Effects, and possibly Reverb.
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You can build one.

If its like other peavey foot controllers, it uses a midi cable. Plug in the cable and cut off the other end, splice the wires and start touching pairs together to see which ones have desired effect. There are probably 3 or 4 (+) wires that when touched to the ground cable, will do something on the amp. Once you've identified the wires you can attach them to whatever switches you want.
 
After more experimenting with a boost pedal on the Lead channel, I finally achieved a great tone. I pretty much just plug straight into this amp and letting it rip. Great tone on the Lead settings on their own, though. Right now I'm running the Behringer TO800 for that missing high end sizzle, this pedal is awesome and brings that extra bite. The MXR Smart Gate is a nice noise gate as well, maybe my favorite. On the Beringer I had to set the gain all the way off. Chunky tone on those settings.

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Securb said:
Beautiful! You are now whole.
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Yes at last. I have to read back through the manual again because I can't figure out how to save settings. Says to double click but nothing's saving. Also present 1 doesn't light up when switching from Clean to Lead channels. The first mode switch seems to always need to be on in order for the others to work.
 
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What blows me away are the biases / prejudices that companies like Carvin, Peavey, Crate and other amps get .

Any musician who has any know how can make any set up sound good.
If not, they don't know their own way around gear, have no patients and or blinded with gear snobbery. :D
 
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