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Topic: Anyone using a Peavey Classic 50? |
Jeremy Steele
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Princeton, NJ USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 4:39 am |
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| I play steel and six string, have been looking for a good tube amp...would love a Fender Twin Reverb but they're a bit pricey for me.. and I have a chance to pick up a tweed 2x12 Classic 50 for what seems like a good price. Anyone have experience with these amps? I did a search and didn't come up with anything. Thanks! |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 4:54 am
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Here are more reviews than you'll probably want to read. They are not screened much, so one could be posted by a 30-year pro player and the next by a 14 year old garage thrasher, so you have to "filter" the results.
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/product/Peavey/Classic+50-212/10/1
IMO they are decent if bland sounding. If you want an inexpensive tube amp, they are an OK way to go, but in the 40-50-watt range a Fender '64 Vibroverb Custom (hand-wired and a little pricey) or a SF Pro Reverb (not the 70-watt version) are much better choices, and far better than a Twin in most cases. A Twin sounds great if you can crank it up, but suffers at low volume. A Classic 50 or Pro Reverb is probably far more practical. The Pro is a better built and sounding amp, the Peavey is inexpensive (again, IMO).[/quote]
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Jeremy Steele
From:
Princeton, NJ USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 9:55 am
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| Thanks Jim....I have checked out the Harmony Central reviews, but I think most (if not all) of them were written by people using the amp solely for 6 string...I am most interested in how people who have used it for guitar AND steel feel about it. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 1:20 pm
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These are GREAT amps...We have used 3 of them in our band, two 2x12's and 1/ 4x10..I bought one for about $350 and sold it to our Guitar player , I should have kept it for me. I actually like these better than my Fender Hot Rod Deville.
I would buy another( right price ) in a NY minute..
For the Steel be prepared though, it will be bright...
I think that these may very well be the best bang for the buck out there in the 50 watt category.. |
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Mike Brown
From:
Meridian, Mississippi USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 1:23 pm Peavey Classic 50/410
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| The late, great Curly Chalker requested the Peavey Classic 50/212's for his rig when he was still with us. Apparently, when playing the "monster" chords that he played, he liked the low end of the 12's in those cabinets. fyi. |
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Joe Shelby
From:
Walnut Creek, California, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2007 11:16 pm Classic 50/410
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I tried one in a store (that I worked in) that at the time had mostly Rivera and Peavey (including the
steel amps of the time, Nash. 400, and Session LTD).
The Riveras were "knob-happy," and I couldn't find a
sound I liked (maybe over time I could have tweaked a
good tone out of one, not sure...). The Peavey steel
amps always leave me feeling the same way (and I do
own one); cold and sterile.
So, the best sound of the day wound up being the classic 50/410. It was full and warm (at least compared to everything else in the store) and I eventually got it to sound better (warmer) than the
Music Man 115HD130 I'd been using for over 15 years.
Problems: Not enough headroom for medium sized club
situations, and worse the tone changed significantly
with it at the top of it's volume range. Breakup wasn't the issue; it sounded very strident and stiff
up there...
I used it only for steel, the clean channel, at practice volumes it had some nice midrange growl.
My two cents, YMMV, etc.
Joe. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2007 2:46 am
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| I've been using a Classic 30 for guitar for a decade and it's a great amp - tubed & set up right it sounds as good as a old Fender or old Marshall with better reliability. Bill Lawrence considers it to one of the best-designed amps ever. My 30 is way underpowered for clean steel though, and even a 50 would depend on the size of the room and the speakers - a head into separate cabs with Black Widows or JBL's might be a killer steel amp, a combo with guitar-voiced speakers much less so. I'd love to fall over a 50 head-alone at a good price. |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2007 8:04 am
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I like the Classic 30 better than the 50, it's warmer sounding and distorts more gently than the 50.
These aren't loud enough for loud clean gigs. |
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