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Topic: Doubling on two instruments? Here's an amp for you......... |
Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 11 Mar 2007 1:02 pm |
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I just found a used amp in a pawn shop for $229 which turned out to be a great buy! It's an older Peavey Stereo Chorus 400. At one point I had a Stereo Chorus 2-12 amp which had built in Delay, Reverb, chorus, channel switching, etc. which I traded for a Traynor Tube amp (big mistake) I was glad to find this amp although it only had reverb and chorus/vibrato along with channel switching. I noticed another input jack in the middle of the faceplate which I wasn't sure of how to use so I downloaded a manual from the Peavey website and found that this was to be used to plug another instrument into the amp in case you needed more than one guitar and you had separate EQ's for each instrument.
I took it to the gig this weekend and plugged my Telecaster along with it's pedal board into channel one and my steel along with a Boss Digital Delay into channel two and to my surprise I was able to work the whole gig with just one amp. This was great at I could crank up the treble or whatever on the guitar channel any way I wanted. Each channel has it's own master gain also.
If you want to use it for just one instrument, plug into channel one and you can switch between both channels through that input. You can't access channel one through the 2nd channel input though.
Another nice feature is the reverb and chorus/vibrato work on both channels.
This was a great find IMO! If you see one of these setting around gathering dust in a pawn shop or Cash Converter store you might wanna check it out. I love mine. I've used Peavey amps for almost thirty years now and they never cease to amaze me with new products and some hidden treasures of the past like this one. My kudos to Peavey "The Working Musician's Friend"....JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 11 Mar 2007 2:29 pm
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I also like this and the Peavey Stereo Chorus 212. I found these especially useful on double-duty with acoustic guitars with piezoelectric pickups. Actually, I generally kept one of these two around the shop specifically to demo amplified acoustics, and sold most of the ones we got for that purpose specifically. To my tastes, they sounded better for this than many amps designed for acoustic guitar. I think they're fine for general purpose clean amplification - electric and acoustic guitar, steel, keyboard, and so on, and a good substitute for a Twin Reverb or Roland JC-120.
The overdriven sounds are a bit grindy to my tastes. But I generally prefer tube amps for guitar. When I first heard one of these, I was pleasantly surprised. Even my tube-nazi business partner agreed, and we didn't blow these out the door by the pound like he normally pushed for with any solid-state amp. |
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Paddy Long
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 11 Mar 2007 7:47 pm
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| The guitarist I work with, and probably my best mate in the world, plays his Tele through one of these Peavey 2-12 Chorus amps and his tone is just out of this world. He has had this amp for as long as I've known him and wouldn't trade it for a whole sack of Bluff oysters ! :-} |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 12 Mar 2007 8:07 am
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I like to use an MXR DynaComp compressor and for some reason they work better with this amp than any other I've ever tried, must be something to do with the circuitry. I can get that compressed sustain like you hear so much of in modern recordings without the distortion..... The first of these I had was the Stereo Chorus 212 which was really a great amp. This one is also a 2-12 configuration. It's probably the forerunner to the SC212 as it doesn't have delay. On my old one I used to A/B switch between my Telecaster and an Ibanez acoustic/electric classical guitar for Willie Nelson stuff. The amp really cooked on those acoustic tones for sure!........JH in Va.
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