Peavey Valveking

beggar_guitar

beggar_guitar

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Who likes these? I am posting a lot on Amps lately. I bought a POD recently and I like it, but I found a deal on a Valveking and was wondering about what people here thought about it.

How good is it at hitting rock tones? Modern High gain-ish stuff, but more classic tones as well. How well does it take pedals? I'd probably keep the POD and bypass the amp models but use the onboard FX.

I found a deal on a combo of this head, matching cab, and an American tele for $1,000. I might can swing it. If it turns out to be a good deal I may just do it.

I'd be playing through with the Tele(with Hot rails) and a Dean (56/C5)

Thoughts?
 
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Take the deal. Great deal.

Try to talk it down to $900 or $950 though, just for shiggles. But that's a really great deal. Valvestates are good, Teles are fantastic, and the Tele has upgraded pups already. :)
 
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Take the deal. The amp is a good inexpensive tube amp and is perfectly capable of high gain tones for modern music as well as classic tones. I have not ran any pedals through it though. I have 2 at my store and they are good amps, with the tele you have yourself an amazing deal. Jump on it, and fast before it disappears.
 
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Cool. I will have to give my friend a call and go give it a look. This friend of mine is always finding killer deals. He walked out of a GC today with a Gibson faded V for like $424! He sucks!

If I do this most everything I have is going on the trading post or the bay. A lot of it for the second time.Probably the bay it will be since I seem to move stuff quicker on there.

I haven't seen the amp or guitar yet, but this is a guy I would trust to take his word on it site unseen. I gave him a thumbs up on a $1,200 strat that he had to take my word on, and he's been happy with it so I think I can trust his word on this deal.

Who are some players that use the Valvekings or what would you compare it to tonally? Just so I can get a refrence of the sound. I honestly am not too familiar with this series. I am familiar with some of their other amps and have been fairly impressed by some.
 
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I've had mine for a while, and it's decent, but you get what you pay for. I've got the 112, and the cleans are okay, not something I'm terribly proud of, but they're not unusable. The cleans are mediocre at best. The classic rock/lower gain sounds are okay, it can get kinda' buzzy at times, it takes some fiddling to dial the Valvekings in, but they really shine at hi-gain type stuff. Mine takes pedals extremely well, that's probably the best thing it does! :D They have a bit of a humming problem with the effect's loop, check out the Peavey forum's for info on it, but I've found that a quick fix is to just jumper it. Run an effects cable, a short one, from send to return and it takes the hum right out. Other than that, it's a pretty decent amp, but I'd have liked to get a little more bang for my buck.

BTW, sweet deal, I'd jump all over it, even if you don't like the VK, you can unload it, make back half your money, and you just got an MIA Tele for 5 bills. :smokin:
-JJ
 
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Hey Alan, gimme' some songs that you'd like the Valveking to be able to do, and I'll see if I can't get it to give up the goods, or get some clips or something.
-JJ
 
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ElUnoAstuto said:
Hey Alan, gimme' some songs that you'd like the Valveking to be able to do, and I'll see if I can't get it to give up the goods, or get some clips or something.
-JJ
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I can't think honestly of "X" artist or album tone I have in mind. I know it in my head, but couldn't give you a refrence. Don't ya hate it when it gets like that?

I am not looking for anything with the nu-metal high gain tone. I'm in love with tones from early 90's grunge and Creed's 2nd album, to get a specific tone. but I know Tremonti mainly used Dual Recs on that.

I've never owned a tube amp before so if I go with this it'll be a step towards me finding "my" tone I supppose.

innerdreamrecords.co said:
Here is a 56k mp3 using a ValveKing 1x12 a Toneport and a EC400 LTD.

http://www.innerdreamrecords.com/nff_clip2.mp3

I used the Toneport as a preamp and the VK on full clean channel.
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Thanks! Cool tune, and the amp sounds good too.
 
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If you do a search for Valveking clips in tips and clips, I should still have four clips up on my soundclick, FWIW...
 
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Hey guys, my bro is thinking of getting one - Valveking 1X12" so for classic metal/modern euro-power metal, with good bright and pronounced cleans what speaker would you put in ? V30 ???
 
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beggar_guitar said:
Who are some players that use the Valvekings or what would you compare it to tonally? Just so I can get a refrence of the sound. I honestly am not too familiar with this series. I am familiar with some of their other amps and have been fairly impressed by some.
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I heard a very informative AB-clip on HC (about 6months ago now), where the the amps were a ValveKing & a Mesa F50.
The clips were also play'ed VK then F50, VK then F50, and so on, and so on !
Big suprize was - the ValveKing MATCHED (tonality-wise) the F50 every step of the way !
Yes, there was minute diff's in the character of the two, but sound wise, the ValveKing is a splitting image iof the Mesa F50.

Good luck with your great deal !
 
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Dr.Mavashi said:
Hey guys, my bro is thinking of getting one - Valveking 1X12" so for classic metal/modern euro-power metal, with good bright and pronounced cleans what speaker would you put in ? V30 ???
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I tested one about 6 months ago.
What i can remember from that time, is that the stock speaker is OK to start out with !

Play with the amp like that for a while at least.
When funds allow, get a V30, and then you WILL appreciate the diff's in sound quality !
 
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For the money, you can't get a better 50 watt tube amp. For a lot more more money, you can get a MUCH better tube amp. Its a good amp, not great, good. I retubed with all JJ-tesla and it improved the sound 100%. Distortion sounds buzzy and flabby before the tube swap. JJ's tighten everything up, give the clean channel a more "woody?" tone, and the distortion more focus. I tried the celestion speaker swap, but honestly, it didn't make enough difference to leave it in there, so I put the original back in.
 
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When I played through it in the store it seemed to have one general sound. I didn't notice any difference between the a/b mode but I didn't drive it full then.

Sounded a bit bassy. Tone controls didn't change the tone enough for me. (or maybe it's because it was in a store and I had to keep it quiet or something)
 
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Nah Markk, it wasn't the store! ;) The tone control's on the Valveking don't have much range, and it is a very bassy amp. As for the Texture/AB control, it isn't noticable unless you're running the amp at around 5-6.
 
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SirJackdeFuzz said:
I tested one about 6 months ago.
What i can remember from that time, is that the stock speaker is OK to start out with !

Play with the amp like that for a while at least.
When funds allow, get a V30, and then you WILL appreciate the diff's in sound quality !
Click to expand...

Thanks, would love to hear more input Dudes. Thanks !!!
 
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My guitarist just got a valveking, i play a 5150..

At band practice we plugged into a Marshall 1960 cab (Stereo)

I had 2 speakers for my 5150, he had 2 speakers for his valveking (not ideal but it works great for practice).


Both amps sounded Identical with very little tweaking on the overdrive settings, the valveking has a huge ammount of gain on tap, a great great sounding amp with a good cab.
 
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