Peavey Guitar Combo Amplifiers

I purchased this item from a local music shop for $500.00 canadian. The amp is great. I dont like tube amps much, but I think I can give this one a break.. the sound is amazing, the effects are awesome, and with 2 peavey 12" black widow speakers, the amps tone is very wonderful. Overdriven, this thing sounds terrible, and I often get feedback problems from it. Built like a rock, I must say peavey makes the most sturdiest and heaviest amps around. This amp does everything I want it to, meets my needs quite well. I suggest buying one if the chance ever arises. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

(Originally written by Natatoumaba/translated from Audiofanzine FR) - Three jack connectors: guitar input, player input (CD, MP3, etc.) and headphone output. - 2-band EQ (high, low). - Two additional lead and volume controls. - Two channels (clean and overdrive) - Output power: 10 watts UTILIZATION I don't think it could be easier... SOUNDS The clean channel sounds very good and the amp is loud considering it has only 10 watts! I don't like the amp's overdrive at all, the sound is very heavy. To get a metal sound (less heavy), I bought a distortion pedal and the sound got better. OVERALL OPINION I bought this amp a year ago when I started to play and I find it was a good purchase. As a summary, it's a good amp to learn electric guitar unless you want a heavy metal sound.

This is 10-15W Peavey backstage 2 amp it s made for beginers or practicing.Usualy it comes with Peavey Raptor guitar in starter pack. - 3.5mm input jack -Volume pot -Gain pot -Turn off-on drive button -High and Low EQ pots for tone -CD-Tape out -3.5 Headphones input -Power on button UTILIZATION This is one channel amp. This little one have great sound on clean and very nice drive. Overdrive is a bit smooth and deep but it is good for blues and classic rock,not good for metal or heavier stuffs...also you can play solos with this amp it have greath sustain and preaty lot of gain for one small amp. SOUNDS Overdrive is a bit smooth and deep but it is good for blues and classic rock,not good for metal or heavier stuffs...also you can play solos with this amp it have greath sustain and preaty lot of gain for one small amp. How ever it sounds better than any amp from begginer pack. OVERALL OPINION This is nice amp if you are begginer...very simple compact to use.

The Peavey Vypyr 15 is a 15-watt solid-state modeling combo amp with an 8" speaker on-board and a variety of different amps, channels, stomp box effects, and other features. Being only 15 watts, the functionality of this amp is somewhat limited. There is no jack to connect to an external speaker and there is no effects loop or any of the other advanced stomp box functionality that comes with some of the bigger (30-watt plus) Vypyr series amplifiers. Peavey incorporates a lot of the functionality by making the knobs on the front panel push/push knobs that activate different modes or different amp channel models. Each amp model has a low-gain and a high-gain channel, and can be incorporated with one of the stomp box modelers and fed into the equalization and output stages. The amp also has an 1/8" jack so you can hook up an external music player so you can jam along to your favorite tunes. It also has a recording out jack that you can connect directly to a DAW for direct recording. UTILIZATION It's not difficult to make this amp sound good. It's apparent that Peavey took the time to research the amps and try to emulate them as closely as possible. The amp is very touch-responsive, most likely due to Peavey's Patented TransTube technology. Being a Peavey product, many of the modeled amplifiers are Peavey models such as the 6505, JSX, and XXX amplifiers, but it also includes everything else you would expect such as Fender cleans, Marshall Crunch, boutique amps, and even some metal amps such as Diezel and Krank made the cut. The only gotcha with this amp is that if you don't have a 1/4" guitar cable plugged into the input when powered up, it goes into a "light show" mode to save the LEDs and won't exit until you plug in a guitar, then power-cycle the amp. It makes sense from a component-saving point of view, but it's slightly impractical. Also, one of the prevalent issues with the amp is that, at times, if you turn of the amp it will not turn back on unless you let the amp sit for ten minutes. SOUNDS I play most of my standard Dimarzio-equipped Neal Moser guitars, Ibanez, and Gibson guitars thought this amp and it really excels in the space of a practice amp. You might be able to get some good recorded tones with it but I never tried. The EQ is fairly wide and there are LEDs that track with the position of the knobs so you can see where everything it set easily. Mostly, I use the Fender Deluxe cleans with a slight chorus and the Krank overdrive with a Tube Screamer up front. With the gain dialed up very high it can get a bit "fizzy" but one must have realistic expectations from a $99 15-watt solid-state amp. OVERALL OPINION The Vypyr 15 is a fairly simple and easy to use practice amp. I happened to pick one up second-hand for an extremely low price. If you're in need of a practice amp and don't need other features like a graphical interface so you can edit presets via a computer GUI, this is a great-sounding little practice amp.

My first guitar amp! I remember it fondly. I worked all summer to save up for my first big, loud mean guitar amp. Then...I broke my arm. My father took pity on me and offered to help me out. He took me to the music store and I picked up the biggest, loudest amp there was! 2 12 Shefield speakers, Reverb (actual tank not digital), Stereo Chorus and 2 channels (clean and dirty) I was in my local music shop. It was used. I bought it in 1997, I'm going to guess this amp is from the early 90s. I paid $100 for it. More power than anyone could ever use. The EQ was very tweakable. I cannot remember it off the top of my head as I don't have the amp anymore. I believe it had the standard 3 or 4 knob EQ for each channel and I believe there was a bright switch. Master Volume on the clean and I think a Pre and a Post for the dirty channel. Heavy, Heavy and more Heavy. Ever notice Peavey looks similar to the word heavy? This amp had to weight 100 pounds. When I was a young teen it probably weighed as much as I did! The distortion channel wasn't anything to right home about. I mean I loved it when I was 14 or so, but soon realized the amp wasn't going to get me to sound like my idol at the time Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Built so tough that if a Mack truck traveling at 60 mph hit it, the truck would explode and I could still plug this thing in and fire it up. If you dropped it down your steps, your steps would break, not the amp! I loved the fact that I could count on the amp. Too made more companies don't build things with Peavey's quality control. Sure sign of the 80s. Loud, Heavy, Reverb and Chorus! Man I really wouldn't mind ripping through some Van Halen on that amp one last time. If you packed one of these away in a time capsule, in 100 years you could dig it up and I am certain this amp would still crank up! This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

This black and red beauty is a very nice amplifier to have. I haven't played any shows with it, but it makes one heck of a practice amplifier. I bought this amp from a local music shop for around $450. One of the major attractions of this amplifier is the built in effects. It has all of the knobs and settings that a normal amplifier has, but it also comes with great effects (phaser, flanger, rotary speaker, chorus, funk wah, echo, tremolo). You can pick which effect you want, and how much of it you want. You can have a single distant echo, or many echoes within milliseconds of each other. You can have just a slight tremolo effect, or an extreme one. The amp also comes with a foot switch which makes it easy to change from a clean sound to a distorted sound and to change back and forth between effects while playing. My only possible complaint would be that it isn't bigger. I've lugged this amp around with me to different jam sessions, school events, etc. and it has held up very well. It is still in perfect condition after owning it for about 5 years. Overall, this is a great amp. It gives you all the standard features of a guitar amplifier but also adds in the cool effects. Buying this amp would be much cheaper than buying a wah pedal, delay pedal, etc. I am very happy that I bought the Peavy 112 EFX This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

35 year muxician. At 58 years old I'm still gigging. Played pro for a few years back in the day. I prefer Les Pauls but I also own a Strat and a Tele. This Envoy is the newest model-sporting the aluminum vertical strips, black face and chrome knobs. Mine was made in 2008. Bought it second hand from a friend, for 100 dollars. It's loud enough for small to medium venues. Six voicings-3 clean and 3 dirty. I like the boost feature a lot. The reverb is fine at 9 o'clock. Reverb sounds real even though it's digital. This amp sounds very good through the 10' blue marvel speaker. I installed an external jack for a 2 X 12 Avatar cab I have and the little Envoy III pushed the pair of Eminence speakers (Wizard and Swamp Thing) pretty well. The internal speaker is disconnected when the external cab is connected. With the 2 X 12 it sounds like it's almost powerful enough to use at a medium to large venue. I like the clean channel a lot and the dirty channel is good as well. This has a serious tubelike presence. It's just about the best sounding non-tube amp I have heard so far, pushing a 10 inch speaker. Very good low-end for a small sized amp. 1. It doesn't come with a foot switch. Luckily I had one already so it was no problem for me. 2. Weird, 6 ohm output impedance. The speaker is a 6 ohm job. Not really a problem...just weird. Must admit, the Blue Marvel sounds pretty good. 3. Hard to see the black indicators on the chrome knobs. 4. No channel indicator lamps. Chinese made. MDF with nice folded metal chassis. Glass PC board. Standard off the shelf components-caps, electrolytics, resistors transistors, voltage regulator, rectifier and ICs are all vanilla. Three prong, disconnect Ac cord. Buy one if you're looking for a nice, inexpensive amp for rehearsal and or smaller venues. Lots of features. Buy the foot switch. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

The Delta Blues 115, tweed cover: For the last 10 I've used it for EVERYTHING. Gigs, recording, just playing around, rock, jazz, blues, it's dang near perfect. The guitars I use primarily are an Epiphone Sheridan and Peavey Wolfgang. The guy at my local music store in MN (I think his name was Pat) suggested it to me. I played it, loved it and bought it for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400. Since then it's gone with me all across the country, south to Missouri and up and down both coasts, I now play it in a rock band in Philly. Great tone. This seems to be what everyone says, but really that's it's greatest asset. Huge lows, pure highs, and the mid don't get muddy. The clean channel sounds great all the way through, and it has great gain in channel two. Tremolo and reverb both sound good, and if you need to give it more for some reason, it sounds great with a pedal in front. Oh yeah, and the dials don't go to 11, they go to 12! My only issues are 1) it doesn't come with a footswitch, but almost no amps do, and that's a cheap purchase, and 2) the tubes are kind of fragile, though with all the traveling it's done I've only had to replace tubes a couple times, and you can by a tube guard. Like a rock. My buddy was helping load me into a gig and dropped it 5 feet out of his van. I wouldn't recommend this as part of it's usual maintenance, but it suffered only a couple scratches to the tweed, and played as good as new that night. Buy it, use it, love it. It'll be with you forever. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I used to play some 30 years ago casually and was in a band for awhile. Nothing serious - I found my niche as an audio engineer and only dabbled with the guitar. I recently got my five year old son an acoustic "real 'tar" he was wanting for Christmas and it rekindled the old interest in playing once again - even though I haven't I bought it in a pawn shop for $70 - bargained down from $120 - in EXCELLENT condition. It looks like brand new! I went the local pawn shop route since I didn't want to sink a wad on something that may be collecting dust in a month or two since my work keeps me very busy. It's small, light and easy to carry. Has GREAT effects built in - great clean sound and nice distortion - super chorus, rotary speaker emulation and delay. I also picked up a Cherry red and white Fender Squire Strat in super condition and the two compliment each other very well. Nothing really - except it doesn't say Hi-Watt or Marshall on it and it hasn't magically transformed me into David Gilmour :) But it can crank out great echo and chorus so I'm on my way... Very well built and solid. No issues whatsoever. Corners are protected and although easy to carry has a well built feel to it. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting an absolutely super sounding smaller amp that won't break your budget. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I am Brent Kathrens,I've been playing guitar for 7 years now. I play the following guitars. Epiphone Les Paul custom, and an Ibanez RG 350 DX. I have a Peavey Triple XXX half stack that I run my gear threw. I play in a metal band called In Sight of Silence and have for the past 4 years now starting from the ground up. I listen to a variety of music such as metal, country, radio rock, and classical music. I bought the amp used at Gearsourse Music For about $1300. I played every amp in that store with my then newly bought Ibanez RG 350 DX. The Tripple X stood out to me. I love everything about the Peavey Triple XXX. Its got dual distortion channels and a smooth clean channel. It's got sweet dampening controls tight medium and loose, and each channel's controls let you get the sound you want. It also has an effects loop spot with pre and post controls. The best part about it is the tubes. its got 4 preamp 12ax7s and 4 interchangeable El34s or 6l6gcs. I don't like how heavy the amp is but thats a given considering its all tube. this amp is heavy duty as is much of Peavey equipment. Over all this amp (or any Peavey amp) is a must have, its durable and has great sound. I recommend ruby tube 6l6GCs for the most natural sound from the amp. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Professional for over 20 years , covering everything from blues to country to rock . Have used this amp for as many genres as you can shake a stick at , and it has always come through with flying colours . Bought sometime during the 90's for about £550 from Dawsons . At the time , it was a similar price to most high end Fenders and Marshalls , but it sounded so much better in the testing booths , and when it was cranked up on stage , it really had a lot of charachter . Big sounding amp , capable of playing any style , and independant of effects pedals .Nice cleans , smooth overdrive . The clean is a very nice sound , and has a clean boost switch / bright switch which can be useful . The 2 dirty channels are crunch and Ultra , and these can be combined for rythm playing , and lead , in either channel . Very nice pleasing distortion when cranked . This amp is also a monster when cranked , but can hold a tone at low volumes too , which makes it ideal for smaller gigs and practise . It is quite heavy for a single speaker combo , but rugged . In over 15 years , it has only had 1 fault with a wire , which was easily rectified . Would prefer it to be point to point hand wired with gold , but I guess thats asking a bit much ;-) Construction excellent as always by Peavey . No issues whatsoever , and the black tolex still looks like new . This amp should be a future classic , and can be picked up quite cheaply second hand . One of the best amps i've had . This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I've been a musician since elementry school. I've played all strings including guitars, plus some brass and percussion. I like all music but prefer metal and alternative. My first amp was a joke. It was only a little pactice amp with a 3 inch speaker. My next amp was a 100 watt Fender Twin Reverb, which was stolen. My third amp was this Peavey Backstage Plus. My friend had a backstage so I thought I'd try it. I plugged in at the store, turned up the distortion and cranked out "Number of the Beast". It sounded great to the amazement of everyone in the store so I bought this amp, new in the box, at Lier's Music in Berdoo. I paid $159 for it in the 1980's. I like this amp because you can get distortion out of it without a pedal. It is light weight and is easy to carry over to a friends house to jam. There is a master volume knob marked "POST" and there is a pre gain knob which you can pull for "bright". This pre and post combination allows you to create an over drive kind of distortion. plus there is a distortion knob for true distortion, and there is a knob to pull for even thicker distortion. This amp was made for metal and with the right tweaking, it can sound like a Marshal. At only 35 watts, this is only a practice amp. You have to mic this amp to play with a drummer. The other draw back is the quality of the sound fades at higher volumes due to lack of power. Also a real distortion pedal like MXR Distortion Plus sounds better than the built in distortion. I've had this amp since it was new in the 80's and it is still in great shape. The box is long gone but the plastic packaging which it came in is still in use as the dust cover. This is now only a back up amp but is served as my main amp for several years of being played everyday. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com