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Peavey ValveKing Royal 8

Tube Combo Guitar Amp from Peavey belonging to the ValveKing series

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Published on 08/27/07 at 00:00
- Prampli / all-tube amplifier (EL84 12AX7 +) 5W approx.
- 2 entries Netherlands (all guitars) and high (PDAL pramplifie or line input).
- Otherwise, trs simle: Gain, Tone volume, and a headphone output.
- A house of HP 8 "
- Caisse solid, well finished with pan mtallique amp well ventilated.

For the price you can not ask more about CHARACTERISTICS.

UTILIZATION

- Operation could not be more simple.
- The rapid prchauffage mnager does not exempt the gain in Premire minutes, you prserverez lamps.
- The headphones, the sound is excellent.
- The entry "level" is really low for a guitar or can be with active pickups. It is the only feature pramplifis effects.
- The low level between (the one with the most gain) is really good dose, one arrives easily add the grain to the desired sound.
- In quibble, I would have AIM knob of a more efficient Tone.

SOUNDS

On a good headphone, his lamp is recognizable EMBL.
The amp section is excellent, no complaints.

Trs little breath, he excels in clean sounds, crunch lightweight any more.
Rock, Blues, Jazz, clear "bright" is his record.
It seems a little more comfortable with simple microphones (Fender or P90), and the quality of humbuckers (Gibson '57, '58 Ibanez ...).
Mics in his heavy, dull, serious, and most assets are not Ideal with this amp. It is for the harmonics.

On an LP with two doubles, you get no trs large saturations.
The death / trash is not his thing, but still intelligible to the end of knob gain (EDIT: with a high gain guitar distortion gives a dirty trs, not terrible).

The weak point of this combo is the speaker.
At that price it should certainly not stay little for this component.
Its efficiency is low trs, and ds half the volume, we feel we will come no more Dcibel.
The biggest concern is that he eats a lot of treble.
This is a shame, because on the contrary the amp is full of harmonics and shine.
In short, it's not dramatic for an amp working at home, but DMAG derrire a beautiful little amp any lamp.

With better t have a 10/10 HP, but HP is 5 / 10 so I put 7 / 10.
For me that is mostly used with headphones, it is perfect.

EDIT: I just replace the original HP, for one Eminence Legend 875A.
Whaaaou! DOUBLE!
2 times heavier, at places of 960gr 1830gr. The magnet is the Balze.
The dual performance, easy 120db is impressive, without spitting.
Twice treble finally EXACTLY the same as his headphone, regardless of the volume.

OVERALL OPINION

I have since come on the market because of all the award-lamps, there is no better.
I bought it to work for me because I like to have a good sound.
The headphone, I am fulfilled and fully justifies the purchase.
For the distortion pedals to be added or a multi purpose, but it's not what I wanted.

I had a Roland Micro Cube, and there is no photo, j'change modlisation willingly with a whole bunch of effects against the true "lamp".

THE FIRST thing I will do is change the HP, ds that I found the right couple, this j'diterais tests.
I thought dpart to replace lamps in the high-end Electro-Harmonix, but I admit that the quality of the original sound satisfies me, so I'll wait until they die of old age.

I would do without hsiter this choice, even if it would be good if a little Peavey amliore the quality of HP, and too bad if it's a little dtriment price, which is canon.

EDIT: With the speaker Eminence Legend 875A Finally we see the ultimate small combo.

For 200 total (+ Combo replacement HP) he can finally leave compltement express the sound of any amp lamp.
It's hard to believe that the volume has to be with so little power, but everything is in the performance of HP.
For mtalleux, I would advise plutt to mount the amp on a box with a homemade 12 "high yield (100db/w/m minimum, there will be spoiled for choice in this size .)