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Published on 08/08/13 at 14:47All lights except the reverb circuit with operational amplifier (JRC4558), for the rest, it is still useful to have? tradiitionnelle spring reverb, Accutronics.
let's say I wanted to make review more than with the Classic 30 as a "cheap" amp ...
UTILIZATION
the configuration very simple! in clean, volume, tone corrector B, M, T (jointly lead channel), the knob of reverb (jointly lead channel) and that's it.
same for the lead with a "pre" for gain and a "post" for the volume.
The "boost" I never serve me, because it boost in the low / medium and suddenly the sound changes, not to his advantage to my taste.
entered a "send" and "return" output (or FX loop) output preamp after the reverb. when using the input "return" using an external preamp or type simulator Tonelab, there the preamp and reverb are part inoperative, adjust the volume as well).
For sound, this amp is a very polivalent, jazz, blues, funk, reggae, rock a billy, 70 rock, hard rock, Country ... Not for metal, not too much for an electro-acoustic: it sound fairly quickly supply (slight crunch), its bluesi! it is not suitable for a nylon string, or to a 12-string, but for some electro play for blues or country: to see! That said, since this amp gives potato mended volume 3, beware of feedback.
The reverb is not bad, good for coloring the sound, to give effect to the "surf" on Dick Dale, this is not a Fender ... Although we can still (with reverb background)! for the Duane Eddy, no problem (he plays Peavey Delta blues when it's not a Fender). Du Merle Haggard From Jhonny Hiland (not as farting that the fender to the country, but it happens), the Eddy Cochran ... See some Ry cooder.Bien safe through the Mississippi Delta blues to Chicago Blues, Muddy Waters, Jhon Lee Hooker, BB King, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightin Hopkins, or Memphis Slim or Pintop Perkins etc ...
if you like these styles, you'll love the Classic 30.
Which is ideal for blues, jazz, country.la heat EL84 with a perfectly balanced preamp!
With that just mentioned, m ^ me if the lead is approaching sound marshall without being, I hope you understand that this amp does not have a "British" sound, but the pure USA. I think it has character, Peavey sound, not the sound Fender or Marshall or Vox or Mesa, etc ... And do not have the reputation it deserves!
SOUNDS
Be it your style of music?
Yeah, if I do not speak, I did not inherit ...
This combo is perfect for the musician, who despite being strongly oriented blues, jazz, country, see a bit of hard rock when he nerves, not a "stage costume" to say loud and clear that it belongs to the family of "xxxxxx". short for one who is open to all styles, and tries all styles of the moment there are other musicians to play together (in fact it is not an amp to play at home, but group in concert to play at home all alone a 5W lamp is enough)!. I play outside for the music festival on a small stage, there was not enough microphones for all the world to the sound: no problem, but the recovery was heard 30 Classic (c good! 'is sure others did not have two bodies 100W Marshall).
With what type of guitar?
I play with a Telecaster "made in myself" copy, mahogany body and neck with a humbucker neck pickup and a classic telecaster bridge-type micro (2 wound by myself with a kit from Stewart MacDonald, famous provider makers) and a Gretsch G5125. Peavey Classic 30 fits very well with his Gretsch for "twang." And finally a Peavey Raptor TK that I use a little bit of everything, guitar terrain to go to guitar lessons, on vacation, and play in open tuning slide in the bottleneck.
What I hate her?
None, except when it starts to fuck up ... hissing, POCS, with reverb and feedback on the ratings graves.Il to wait a bit, after a few minutes it stops, except for the reverb: you must either lower the volume, or the reverb, ie good basses.Mais there are Fender 3000 Euros that hiss, which POCS and other frittures!
OVERALL OPINION
How long? Actually I do not know, 6-7 years. I've had several. Like everything, you want to try other things. At first I was thoroughly Marshall, my dream teens: A body 2 Marshall JCM800. I loved Fender guitars (a Strat MusicMaster and U.S.), but could not stand their amps: too garish! at the time the Fender tube amps made me feel that I m ^ balls musette accordion:. cheesy old music with cheesy stuff (it is true that Fender are not really beautiful) A this time also (80) Peavey for me was the shit, or amps player country (a little redneck in the era of hard rock and disco.) Then we get older quickly starts to hurt ears, no longer bear the rehearsals volume up ... We finally sell the superstrate and amps to make the sound, and m ^ me she finished up gathering dust.
And then I buy myself a tube amp, something I had never been able to pay me as a young man, and saw that my budget was "cheap" and no place for a 2 coprs home or in the trunk of the car it was a Peavey Classic 30 OCCAZ. I had several: as an electronics technician and passion for tube amps, I bought, I used a while, then sell them to the likings of the market, and in my ..
the last one I sold, although I had 4 other tube amps at me w 5 and 20, after 6 months I finally buy a Classic 30 because it really fits my sons.C ' is the only amp that I bought!
Marshall, Hugh and Kettner, Fender, Valveking, Peavey Triumph 60, 6505 112, I'm tired ....
Will I do it again this choice? yeah, the proof! I cross that is the only one who will always be my home.
Negative: the feedback with the reverb on some (not all), the vibrations of EL84 when they begin to tire, the fact that there have no tremolo as delta blues, and no standby (very easy to install).
So that it is a "cheap" amp, compared to what? a Fender or a Vox 2000 3000 Euros? How much is the maintenance of a Vox AC30 when to change the 10 tubes (4xEL84, 5xECC83, 1xGz34)? or when a grid transformer? for version 7 tubes is like classic30 (3xecc83; 4xEL84) at vox, good prices on parts and Fender? Mesa?
It's like those rolls BMW: 40KE when you slam into a box, it does not boast too much when it breaks down ...
let's say I wanted to make review more than with the Classic 30 as a "cheap" amp ...
UTILIZATION
the configuration very simple! in clean, volume, tone corrector B, M, T (jointly lead channel), the knob of reverb (jointly lead channel) and that's it.
same for the lead with a "pre" for gain and a "post" for the volume.
The "boost" I never serve me, because it boost in the low / medium and suddenly the sound changes, not to his advantage to my taste.
entered a "send" and "return" output (or FX loop) output preamp after the reverb. when using the input "return" using an external preamp or type simulator Tonelab, there the preamp and reverb are part inoperative, adjust the volume as well).
For sound, this amp is a very polivalent, jazz, blues, funk, reggae, rock a billy, 70 rock, hard rock, Country ... Not for metal, not too much for an electro-acoustic: it sound fairly quickly supply (slight crunch), its bluesi! it is not suitable for a nylon string, or to a 12-string, but for some electro play for blues or country: to see! That said, since this amp gives potato mended volume 3, beware of feedback.
The reverb is not bad, good for coloring the sound, to give effect to the "surf" on Dick Dale, this is not a Fender ... Although we can still (with reverb background)! for the Duane Eddy, no problem (he plays Peavey Delta blues when it's not a Fender). Du Merle Haggard From Jhonny Hiland (not as farting that the fender to the country, but it happens), the Eddy Cochran ... See some Ry cooder.Bien safe through the Mississippi Delta blues to Chicago Blues, Muddy Waters, Jhon Lee Hooker, BB King, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightin Hopkins, or Memphis Slim or Pintop Perkins etc ...
if you like these styles, you'll love the Classic 30.
Which is ideal for blues, jazz, country.la heat EL84 with a perfectly balanced preamp!
With that just mentioned, m ^ me if the lead is approaching sound marshall without being, I hope you understand that this amp does not have a "British" sound, but the pure USA. I think it has character, Peavey sound, not the sound Fender or Marshall or Vox or Mesa, etc ... And do not have the reputation it deserves!
SOUNDS
Be it your style of music?
Yeah, if I do not speak, I did not inherit ...
This combo is perfect for the musician, who despite being strongly oriented blues, jazz, country, see a bit of hard rock when he nerves, not a "stage costume" to say loud and clear that it belongs to the family of "xxxxxx". short for one who is open to all styles, and tries all styles of the moment there are other musicians to play together (in fact it is not an amp to play at home, but group in concert to play at home all alone a 5W lamp is enough)!. I play outside for the music festival on a small stage, there was not enough microphones for all the world to the sound: no problem, but the recovery was heard 30 Classic (c good! 'is sure others did not have two bodies 100W Marshall).
With what type of guitar?
I play with a Telecaster "made in myself" copy, mahogany body and neck with a humbucker neck pickup and a classic telecaster bridge-type micro (2 wound by myself with a kit from Stewart MacDonald, famous provider makers) and a Gretsch G5125. Peavey Classic 30 fits very well with his Gretsch for "twang." And finally a Peavey Raptor TK that I use a little bit of everything, guitar terrain to go to guitar lessons, on vacation, and play in open tuning slide in the bottleneck.
What I hate her?
None, except when it starts to fuck up ... hissing, POCS, with reverb and feedback on the ratings graves.Il to wait a bit, after a few minutes it stops, except for the reverb: you must either lower the volume, or the reverb, ie good basses.Mais there are Fender 3000 Euros that hiss, which POCS and other frittures!
OVERALL OPINION
How long? Actually I do not know, 6-7 years. I've had several. Like everything, you want to try other things. At first I was thoroughly Marshall, my dream teens: A body 2 Marshall JCM800. I loved Fender guitars (a Strat MusicMaster and U.S.), but could not stand their amps: too garish! at the time the Fender tube amps made me feel that I m ^ balls musette accordion:. cheesy old music with cheesy stuff (it is true that Fender are not really beautiful) A this time also (80) Peavey for me was the shit, or amps player country (a little redneck in the era of hard rock and disco.) Then we get older quickly starts to hurt ears, no longer bear the rehearsals volume up ... We finally sell the superstrate and amps to make the sound, and m ^ me she finished up gathering dust.
And then I buy myself a tube amp, something I had never been able to pay me as a young man, and saw that my budget was "cheap" and no place for a 2 coprs home or in the trunk of the car it was a Peavey Classic 30 OCCAZ. I had several: as an electronics technician and passion for tube amps, I bought, I used a while, then sell them to the likings of the market, and in my ..
the last one I sold, although I had 4 other tube amps at me w 5 and 20, after 6 months I finally buy a Classic 30 because it really fits my sons.C ' is the only amp that I bought!
Marshall, Hugh and Kettner, Fender, Valveking, Peavey Triumph 60, 6505 112, I'm tired ....
Will I do it again this choice? yeah, the proof! I cross that is the only one who will always be my home.
Negative: the feedback with the reverb on some (not all), the vibrations of EL84 when they begin to tire, the fact that there have no tremolo as delta blues, and no standby (very easy to install).
So that it is a "cheap" amp, compared to what? a Fender or a Vox 2000 3000 Euros? How much is the maintenance of a Vox AC30 when to change the 10 tubes (4xEL84, 5xECC83, 1xGz34)? or when a grid transformer? for version 7 tubes is like classic30 (3xecc83; 4xEL84) at vox, good prices on parts and Fender? Mesa?
It's like those rolls BMW: 40KE when you slam into a box, it does not boast too much when it breaks down ...