Please school me on the Peavey Classic 20 head

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I blew up my MicroTerror which I used for smaller jams and home low volume practice. I have looked at a lot of lunchboxes, and I think I have settled on the Peavey Classic 20. It seems like it is featured packed and does everything soundwise I need. Does anyone have any hands-on experience with these heads? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It will be run most of the time through a Celestion G15V-100 Fullback 15" 100W at 8 ohm. I might drag it in the basement here and there and run it through a Fender 4x12 or my Marshall 2x12.

 

[stratguy23]

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Copying and pasting from my post a few years ago:

OP, if you mean the Classic 20 MH head, I don't currently own it, but did spend a good amount of time in a store playing it.

The clean channel is awesome, one of the best I've ever heard. It's sparkly and responsive. I am not even a clean channel kind of guy, but that was a delight to play.

The drive channel sounds to me like a driven Fender tweed - respectable, but not my thing.

What this adds up to is essentially a low-wattage Fender-ish tweed amp in head format, with attenuation down to 1 watt and USB out for direct recording. Also, you get a footswitchable global volume boost - something the other Peavey MH (ValveKing, 6505) heads don't have. Those boosts, as I understand, are gain boosts, not clean boosts.

In other words, it's filling a hole that Fender isn't right now.

Given how good the clean channel is, I may pick up this amp as a pedal platform. The matching Peavey 1x12 tweed cab is kind of large, so I'm thinking of going with a smaller tweed cab like maybe the Carvin 1x12.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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For every Peavey amp out there, there is someone on this forum who thinks it’s the single greatest product humankind has ever created.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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How did you blow up your Micro Terror?

 

[Demanic]

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How did you blow up your Micro Terror?

This is what I want to know too.

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[Securb]

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How did you blow up your Micro Terror?

It was in storage for a year when I pulled it out it was dead. I inspected the board, changed the tube, got the right read off the power supply. The thing was just dead.

 

[rbc]

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The Tone King did a review that you might want to check out:

 

[BloodRose]

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I dont have experience with the 20, but I have a classic 30. its a good amp.. cleans are good, and gain is ok. Im a high gain metal guy, so.... to get plenty of dirt, pedal is required. i have the combo and benefited greatly changing the speaker to a private jack. itll do great clean, and classic rock. pedal for metal... PVs get alot of flack, but for a good reliable rig, hard to go wrong

 

[rbc]

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Rob Chapman did a 20 minute review of the Classic 20 MH as well:

 

[Mononoaware]

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This thread is germane to my interests, too. Trying to decide between this and a Marshall Origin 20 as a pedal platform. Any other first-hand reports on the Peavey?

 

[rbc]

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Paul Riario did a shorter demo of the Peavey Classic 20 MH Guitar Amp:

 

[Securb]

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So....I pulled the trigger it seems like the right amp for what I want. Here is the intresting thing I found it for sale on Walmart.com $100 cheaper than any music retailer site and with two guitar cables thrown in. I am not sure how good the cables are but hey free cables are free cables.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Peavey-C...ric-Guitar-20W-Tube-Amp-Head-Cables/798388607

 

[BloodRose]

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Seems strange that you can buy music gear from Walmart.. But cant beat the price! Look forward to your review!


I like Pauls reviews. They are short but thorough. They give the features on the screen. Plus the dude can play! Chappers can wail too, but his reviews are too long. Entertaining, but long

 

[rbc]

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So....I pulled the trigger it seems like the right amp for what I want. Here is the intresting thing I found it for sale on Walmart.com $100 cheaper than any music retailer site and with two guitar cables thrown in. I am not sure how good the cables are but hey free cables are free cables.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Peavey-C...ric-Guitar-20W-Tube-Amp-Head-Cables/798388607

They're sold out. Looks like you might have gotten close to the last one.

 

[ehdwuld]

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Walmart is getting into the cross market like Amazon
Where it provides the market place for other vendors

I found NPN proximity switches for work at Walmart dot com

 

[Securb]

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It showed up today I am pleased at first blush. It sounds very full and round, the little puppy is loud as heck. I will get to spend a bit more time with it during the weekend.

 

[Securb]

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pedal for metal...

With high output pickups, it is pretty easy to push this baby into the realm of classic metal. I won't be playing any Meshuggah on it but I am more than thrilled.

 

[STLMTLHD79]

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Very cool looking little head. I owned a Peavey Classic 50 2x12 back in the 90s/early 2000s. It was a sweet amp and i would like to get back into a classic again. And like you said, it does classic even maybe thrash metal really well when pushed. The sound of my teen years was playing this thing cranked with a BC Rich ST-III with a Full Shred in the bridge. good times.

 

[zionstrat]

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My primary clean to crunch in one amp is a Classic 50 4*10- The 10s give it the big/tight bass that I love, but it's a monster to lug about, so it lives in the studio most of the time.

I love the size (and price) of your 20 and would love to compare and contrast- anyone have any experience with both?

 

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My primary clean to crunch in one amp is a Classic 50 4*10- The 10s give it the big/tight bass that I love, but it's a monster to lug about, so it lives in the studio most of the time.

I love the size (and price) of your 20 and would love to compare and contrast- anyone have any experience with both?

I have never played the 4x10 but I love that configuration. I am running mine through a single 100 watt Celestion G15V-100 Fullback. I do not expect any speaker breakup in my future but I love having the headroom. I am finding the amp to be very dynamic, really responsive to touch and attack. The pre amp is sensitive to the hottness of your pickups. My Paul with the MHS pickups and WLH deliver noticablly different amounts of gain. It is also very responsive to your guitar's volume and tone controls.