The first Peavey I ever heard was the Butcher and I fell in love immediately! I've now owned a dozen vintage Peaveys trying to find that Butcher sound, but none compare. They were all solid state. I still have most and won't part with them if I can help it. But I must have an old Butcher one day
I’ve often said that cockroaches and peavey amps will survive a nuclear war. The 80’s peavey amps are just tanks and weigh 1 pound per watt. My tko75 is still going after 30 years, just some scratchy pots. 👏🏼
Back in the 1980s-1990s I used a PeaveyRenown 400 Solo 210 watts when I mic’d my drums or used my SD-1 kit. I could crush any guitarist I ever played with when they started play too loud and acting foolish.
Love the old Peaveys! Owner's gonna be happy. Please show mods :D My Triumph 120 Combo loved a 12AX7 for the PI and tube rolling. No idea what this does to the Bias, i'm curious though. It sounds fantastic after the usual mods too (EQ and Sustain, separated unit into a Head and vented Box). I don't need the JCM800 2210 now... :(
vtm series was a butcher with switch-selectable tone modifications and an effects loop. the vtm120 had as much power as the butcher with 4 6l6's, the vtm60 had half the power with 2 6l6's.
I have a question you or anyone else of all the amps you have had experience with what amps do you enjoy and find the most interesting and make the most logical sense. I know from my own experience of being an auto mechanic for years I always find it interesting how differently things are engineered from the Genius to the just plain stupid
Do you take on work? i live in Ohio... i have a 90's Randall RG100sc i had rescued from a pawn shop a few years ago and i loved it very much it sounded GREAT then one day i got nothing but crappy distortion on it and i know it could use new pots and recapped but i dont have the knowledge or test equipment. i have been looking for someone trustworthy on youtube to send it to but no luck in the past 2 years:( i have been trying for 2 years to get the Guitologist to work on it but he doesn't do solid state. She powers on good and i do get sound it is just very inconsistent and very distorted on the clean. Hope you see this and pray we can work out something somehow someday!
Being a 90's amp its probably mostly, or completely? analog, with little to nothing digital, and therefore any competent, solid-state experienced audio tech, even a hifi repair guy, should theoretically be able to fix it, *if* you can find one that is willing to try. Bad capacitors can be replaced, broken connections resoldered, pots and switches cleaned.....the only possible problem is if it uses any transistors or IC's that are no longer available. The hardest part for old, primarily hifi repair guys like myself, is dealing with heavy, bulky combo-amp cabinets. Maybe if you offer to pull the amp chassis out of the cab, you'll be able to find somebody that doesn't specialize in guitar amps to take a shot at fixing it. Try to find an accurate schematic for that particular model first, as this would save a prospective tech some time or give him something to mull over for a minute to see if the circuitry looks fairly ordinary or if it has any weird or unusual aspects. Good luck!
There used to be a guy across the road from Dave's guitar shop in Lacrosse Wisconsin who does amplifier repair that used to work for Dave at one time and started his own business so look into amplifier repair in Lacrosse Wisconsin and it should come up . Dave's guitar shop might even do it as well because they always have used amplifiers and gear for sale as well as new stuff . They also have more than one store now I see plus a drum shop but the original one is in Lacrosse Wisconsin and it's a pretty cool place to go look at the guitars they have a long with the old vintage collection of Fender electric guitars that Dave has acquired over the years on display upstairs with one such strat that he has that Eric Clapton wanted to buy from Dave but Dave decided to keep it lol .
Which flavor of De-oxit is appropriate for cleaning amp pots? What if the pots have been miscleaned with that tv pot cleaner stuff Radio Shack sells, which has mineral oil as lube iirc?
For pots you want DeOxit F5 Faderlube. Do NOT use DeOxit D5 contact cleaner (or most other contact cleaners); the solvents in the contact cleaner will often eat the resistive material right off the substrate in a pot (as my uncle found out to his chagrin when he used D5 on all the pots in a MAC-1900 receiver and essentially ruined it :| ).
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The first Peavey I ever heard was the Butcher and I fell in love immediately! I've now owned a dozen vintage Peaveys trying to find that Butcher sound, but none compare. They were all solid state. I still have most and won't part with them if I can help it. But I must have an old Butcher one day
I’ve often said that cockroaches and peavey amps will survive a nuclear war. The 80’s peavey amps are just tanks and weigh 1 pound per watt. My tko75 is still going after 30 years, just some scratchy pots. 👏🏼
Nice and crunchy. I'd be happy with it just the way it is.
Back in the 1980s-1990s I used a PeaveyRenown 400 Solo 210 watts when I mic’d my drums or used my SD-1 kit. I could crush any guitarist I ever played with when they started play too loud and acting foolish.
Real cool old amp. Would not mind having one.
I always liked Peavey gear. This one def has that JCM thing happening. But what amp didnt from this time period?
Love the old Peaveys! Owner's gonna be happy. Please show mods :D
My Triumph 120 Combo loved a 12AX7 for the PI and tube rolling. No idea what this does to the Bias, i'm curious though. It sounds fantastic after the usual mods too (EQ and Sustain, separated unit into a Head and vented Box).
I don't need the JCM800 2210 now... :(
Was the peavey vtm series a modified Butcher? I had one with 4×12 with 75 w celestians man did that thing rock!
Yes pretty much! Butcher was a bit too close to a JCM for the lawyers involved.
vtm series was a butcher with switch-selectable tone modifications and an effects loop. the vtm120 had as much power as the butcher with 4 6l6's, the vtm60 had half the power with 2 6l6's.
I have a question you or anyone else of all the amps you have had experience with what amps do you enjoy and find the most interesting and make the most logical sense. I know from my own experience of being an auto mechanic for years I always find it interesting how differently things are engineered from the Genius to the just plain stupid
Do you take on work? i live in Ohio... i have a 90's Randall RG100sc i had rescued from a pawn shop a few years ago and i loved it very much it sounded GREAT then one day i got nothing but crappy distortion on it and i know it could use new pots and recapped but i dont have the knowledge or test equipment. i have been looking for someone trustworthy on youtube to send it to but no luck in the past 2 years:( i have been trying for 2 years to get the Guitologist to work on it but he doesn't do solid state. She powers on good and i do get sound it is just very inconsistent and very distorted on the clean. Hope you see this and pray we can work out something somehow someday!
Being a 90's amp its probably mostly, or completely? analog, with little to nothing digital, and therefore any competent, solid-state experienced audio tech, even a hifi repair guy, should theoretically be able to fix it, *if* you can find one that is willing to try. Bad capacitors can be replaced, broken connections resoldered, pots and switches cleaned.....the only possible problem is if it uses any transistors or IC's that are no longer available. The hardest part for old, primarily hifi repair guys like myself, is dealing with heavy, bulky combo-amp cabinets. Maybe if you offer to pull the amp chassis out of the cab, you'll be able to find somebody that doesn't specialize in guitar amps to take a shot at fixing it. Try to find an accurate schematic for that particular model first, as this would save a prospective tech some time or give him something to mull over for a minute to see if the circuitry looks fairly ordinary or if it has any weird or unusual aspects. Good luck!
There used to be a guy across the road from Dave's guitar shop in Lacrosse Wisconsin who does amplifier repair that used to work for Dave at one time and started his own business so look into amplifier repair in Lacrosse Wisconsin and it should come up . Dave's guitar shop might even do it as well because they always have used amplifiers and gear for sale as well as new stuff . They also have more than one store now I see plus a drum shop but the original one is in Lacrosse Wisconsin and it's a pretty cool place to go look at the guitars they have a long with the old vintage collection of Fender electric guitars that Dave has acquired over the years on display upstairs with one such strat that he has that Eric Clapton wanted to buy from Dave but Dave decided to keep it lol .
Which flavor of De-oxit is appropriate for cleaning amp pots?
What if the pots have been miscleaned with that tv pot cleaner stuff Radio Shack sells, which has mineral oil as lube iirc?
For pots you want DeOxit F5 Faderlube. Do NOT use DeOxit D5 contact cleaner (or most other contact cleaners); the solvents in the contact cleaner will often eat the resistive material right off the substrate in a pot (as my uncle found out to his chagrin when he used D5 on all the pots in a MAC-1900 receiver and essentially ruined it :| ).