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Peavey ValveKing 112

Tube Combo Guitar Amp from Peavey belonging to the ValveKing series

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steinbeck steinbeck
Published on 10/28/08 at 08:20
Already mentioned.
For making several small scenes, I felt no lack.

UTILIZATION

Setup could not be more simple. 3-band EQ per channel.
The distortion is warm enough and ranges from simple overdrive at a small disto hard enough.
Caution, however, not to mention the knob that is behind and who can change the "class" of the amp. Basically, more or less power, so do not forget if you want to send some more!
Otherwise, you turn, it sounds live. This is what I like.

SOUNDS

Is perfect for my style of music (Red Hot, RATM, Police, No Doubt, everything that moves and sending).
I play a PRS or a cort in the style. I change according to the good of his guitar. The amp only distorts nothing. The heat lamp is present whatever is said, and I just love the look of the non-typed.

I put 8 because I have never had the pleasure of a small forced Mesa thoroughly. So I have nothing to compare, if not the heads JCM (800, 900 etc ...) I tried to repeat, and all the amps (including mesas), I have a small pushed in stores.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months with some early dates, I'm really happy, especially for the price I confess. I tried lots of amps: Mesa, Marshall, Rivera, Vox and more. Either the sound was very distinctive and I did not, or I could not see anything extraordinary to justify the price.
The guy told me: Well listen, I have this one, at value for money is unbeatable, but it does not have much personality.
I tried it ... and put it on immediately.
For some, this lack of specificity is a default, an amplifier to have its own sound. For me, it decided that the guitar style and especially the affected, so the attack. The amp is only to amplify and embellish the sound, not the typing (just the heat of the lamps what). So I was very happy with this amp.

Note though that like any tube amp, one realizes what he has in the belly on stage. It is not by trying to a volume in the store or that can be realized if the guts of the amp or not. (Hence the usefulness of the advice)
So I played on stage and he did not disappoint. Other guitarists with whom I also played me all remarked: It sounds your amp, how much you have paid?
When I told them they make me 400 euros a head pretty funny. Especially when they play on a Rivera or a mesa at 1200 euros ...