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Topic: My thoughts on setting your tone on a Peavey steel amp. |
Wally Moyers
From:
Lubbock, Texas
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Posted 19 Dec 2019 8:50 am |
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| In another post I mentioned the Peavey Nashville 112 preamp being very flat. I had someone send me a private message about it, this was my reply. Being in the sound business for 40 years I've learned a few things about sound. The main thing is how to think about the sound your hearing. I like to start with as flat a signal path as possible and then think about what is bothering me in what I'm hearing. The next step is to zero in on that and cut the offending frequencies. That's where the Peavey EQ stack shines. On steel you almost always want to cut some mids. If you start with everything on -0- you will be hearing what the guitar, guitar cables, volume pedal, power amp and speaker/cabinet sound like. When you adjust the sound start with the mids by boosting the mid control about 6db. Then start moving the mid/shift until you hear the frequency that is bothering you, then cut it 3 to 6 db to taste. On my rig that's all it takes. Sometimes I'll boost the lows or highs a touch depending on the stage I'm playing on.. I hope this helps some of you that are trying to figure it out. I wish more of the new amp manufacturers would just make the mids sweep-able.. Buddy Emmons and Hartley Peavey got it right the first time.. |
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Larry Dering
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2019 3:08 pm
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| Wally, thanks for the tip on adjusting the sound. The 112 sounds a bit better to my ears than my Session 400. I think those of us with less experience need to play a while then give it a rest before we can get it right. I find it takes smaller adjustments to find the sweet spot. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 20 Dec 2019 3:06 am
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I've had almost every Peavey model with the Parametric Mid controls. Session 500, Nashville 400 (with factory mod), Nashville 1000 and Nashville 112.
I've wound up with the same settings on all of them, with a D-10 PP Emmons with stock pickups and a D-10 Franklin with Lawrence 705's and later 710 pickups. With a pot volume pedal or Hilton.
Bass +9
Mid 800Hz and minus 2 to 3
High and Presence 0 |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 20 Dec 2019 5:06 am
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Yes, the NV112 pre/eq sections frequency curve with neutral settings is flat, apart from that the "roll-off of lows" filter components (capacitor) found between the two sections do start to cut off those lows a bit too high for my taste.
Raising the lows on the eq cannot compensate for that fixed "roll-off-lows" filter effect – just makes the amp sound more "boomy", so I simply choose to bypass the entire pre/eq section and plug my regular buffer/VP/effects upset directly into the power-amp input on the frontpanel on my NV112s. Pretty linear power-amp in the NV112 too, and original speaker and cabinet rounds and roll off highs and lows quite acceptable.
Bypassing the pre/eq sections has the added effect that my modified and unmodified NV112s sound exactly the same, and makes it a lot easier for me to play with/on/and play out the beats  |
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