peavey valveking 212

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Does anyone have experience with this amp? It looks good from some video reviews I have watched and is well within my budget to buy used, and then enough to buy a nice pedal of some sort to go with it any ideas on that? I play primarily rock and metal, but I want a good clean. From the videos and reviews it seems this amp has those which is promising. I will be using it for recording, practising and live use in smallish venues (rarely any bigger than a large village hall). Any comments would be much appreciated, thanks :)
 
No personal experience with it, but Peavey quality seems to be hit or miss these days. I would suspect at your young age, and first tube amp, it will do ok for you. Down the road, assuming it hasn't crapped out on you, you'd want to replace the speakers.
 
I'm personally not a fan, there is some sort of fuzzy high end crap in the dirt that I can't explain that makes this amp a no win for me. Literally like all the other offerings from Peavey including the Windsor over this amp.

Honestly I sort of want a 3120, they sound really good IMO.
 
mjbphotos said:
No personal experience with it, but Peavey quality seems to be hit or miss these days. I would suspect at your young age, and first tube amp, it will do ok for you. Down the road, assuming it hasn't crapped out on you, you'd want to replace the speakers.
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when you say hit or miss do you mean each individual item or each series as a whole?
 
Guitargodgt said:
I'm personally not a fan, there is some sort of fuzzy high end crap in the dirt that I can't explain that makes this amp a no win for me. Literally like all the other offerings from Peavey including the Windsor over this amp.

Honestly I sort of want a 3120, they sound really good IMO.
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hmmm, is that something I can't just EQ out?
 
The distortion channel is just plain crap. It has a fizzy high end and bloated lows. I'd describe the sound as playing a tuba through a Boss DS-1 pedal. The clean channel is kind of "meh" but it's useable.
 
ocnor said:
The distortion channel is just plain crap. It has a fizzy high end and bloated lows. I'd describe the sound as playing a tuba through a Boss DS-1 pedal. The clean channel is kind of "meh" but it's useable.
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hm okay


what about any line 6 amps that are similar in price and ability but better anyone?
 
honestly I didn't think the new bogner spider one was that bad at all, have NOT recorded it though. Avoid the solid state spiders though.

If I can I'll post a recording of the valveking that I have and the 5150.

Why not try to find a used 5150/6505? The clean sucks, but the drive is great.
 
Guitargodgt said:
honestly I didn't think the new bogner spider one was that bad at all, have NOT recorded it though. Avoid the solid state spiders though.

If I can I'll post a recording of the valveking that I have and the 5150.

Why not try to find a used 5150/6505? The clean sucks, but the drive is great.
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okay thanks :)
well I know that if an amp has a good clean and an okayish distortion then I can put a distortion pedal with it, but if it's the other way round do you get many good clean pedals, if there are any?
 
Guitargodgt said:
Why not try to find a used 5150/6505? The clean sucks, but the drive is great.
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well, he specifically said he wanted a nice clean. You can always improve the distortion qualities of an amp with pedals but there's no pedal that'll give you a good clean if the amp doesn't have it.
 
Lt. Bob said:
well, he specifically said he wanted a nice clean. You can always improve the distortion qualities of an amp with pedals but there's no pedal that'll give you a good clean if the amp doesn't have it.
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In that case definitely a good clean is needed. When the peavey valveking was mentioned to me, the guy also suggested to buy a pedal with it to assist the distortion, would this perhaps clean up any 'bad' sounds that were in it to begin with?
 
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