1980’s Peavey Studio Pro And The Secret Feature On Old Amps
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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Been a Peavey fan since forever! Play a T-60 thru a Peavey Stereo Chorus amp. My god… such a perfect combo. Peavey will last forever!!!
Watch this... ua-cam.com/video/24ecD9M1Srw/v-deo.html I'm still happy with my Studio Pro 45 yrs on, but after seeing this, they lost my business forever.
This was actually my first amp. Bought it at a pawn shop 25 years ago. Traded it to my buddy for a bass amp, he still has it and it still works.
Mine too. I'm 57, but my grandpa bought this and a 1980 Les Paul standard for me when I was in high school. It was a decent first amp, but always got drowned out by the larger amps and drum sets of my friends jamming in basements.
Think this was everybodys first amp if ur born in the eighties late seventies 😅
I came for the review and stayed for the awesome playing. Very nice. And you make the amp sound great.
Thanks!
I have an awesome, old Peavey Bandit, with a nice Celestion speaker that I got back in 1989. Solid state, yet has a strangely warm sound. Cool video, full info useful info. So many musicians I know think they can only "the best" and made in America, etc., yet looking at many of the greats out there, they use whatever junk they like basically.
The truth is a lot of solid state amps sound good but had cheaper speakers. A lot of the "tube" sound was actually the speaker that had a good EQ curve that rounded off the highs without getting too muffled, same as having a good filter on a synth.
Truth 💯!! I’m a firm believer in the speaker making or breaking a rig.
So true. I put a vintage coffee can alnico ElectoVoice SRO in my Peavey special 150 solo series amp. Other "legendary" speakers couldn't handle the power for long, some sounded good, some didn't. The SRO really brought that amp alive, and I immediately noticed an increase in sensitivity on the volume knobs and quite abit more volume output and clarity, and a more "musical" sounding speaker in general. I think it's a more efficient design and its frame that does it. Whatever it is, it made that combo GREATer!
The speaker is a big part of the sound of any amp, but you should read the articles Hartley Peavey wrote about designing amps. He says the transformers are a huge part of the sound of a tube amp.
Sounds really good.. I love these old Peavey amps..
'85 thru 1995 I used either 2 Bandit 65s or 2 Special 130s. Recently I went back to the 130 and couldn't be happier.
I bought a Peavey Bandit 65 back in the mid 1980s, it has that brilliant JCM 800 tone, best solid state amp ever..
Hence, the nickname Mississippi Marshalls.
One of these fell into my lap today when I wasn’t expecting to get an amp. Got it on trade. Can’t wait to plug it in and start messing around. Finally glad to have a “vintage” Peavey amp! It’s solid state so not *vintage,* but vintage enough for me!
I've owned 2 Studio Pro 50's in the past. The first one I owned I replaced the stock speaker with a Carvin BR12 (Celestion type clone) and it sounded great! That was my workhorse rig for several years until I quit gigging. Some years later a friend got me into another gig situation and the little practice amp I owned wouldn't cut it. Picked up another Studio Pro 50 and again swapped in the BR12 speaker. I pushed it hard to be heard over a very loud keyboard player, but she did the job and never failed me. Loved those amps. lightweight but powerful.
Wow. You represented decent tones for a myriad of different styles. Nice guitar work too!!
Sounds awesome… spent a week at Peavey in the 90s at live sound school
Nice!! Peavey has been an integral part of my PA for pretty much my whole life. I still have my dad’s old XR-600b powered mixer.
i have a early 80s Peavey backstage plus ,ive been gigging wiyh it for years,i love it
Back in the mid 80's I used a backstage plus 35 run through a PV 4/10 cabinet 2/3 sometimes 4 nights a week every week for almost 4 years' never had the first problem out of it' was one of the best sounds I'd ever had along with a 68 fender vibrolux.
Hey bro. I still have my first guitar i got brand new for my 13th birthday in 1984. It's a 1983 peavey razor. It's also been heavily modded over the years. All new wiring, pots, seymour duncan jb and 59 combo and had a kohler trem installed back in 1989. New fret job in 2015. Built like a tank. Maple neck and body. Love any old peavey products. Still have my mint condition 1991 peavey special 112 i got new in 1991. Went through a couple peavey amps through the years until i got it. Went bigger each trade up...lol. nice to see old peaveys being used. 🤟🤟✌🥂
I had a Studio Pro back in the 80s . I loved that amp
I will swear by old solid state Peavey all day long
Got a SP 112 at a pawn shop here for $70 last year. Couldn't believe it. Never even tried it out. Grabbed it and headed home at high speed. The perfect straight through amp, capable of almost any tone. It puzzles me how they aren't fetching over a grand nowadays. They are rare gold.
Love those old Peaveys. So underrated.....
Peavey's are great sounding little amps that do not get as much respect as they deserve, I don't know many guitar players that didn't learn on one. (you always leave them because they are limited in what they can do compared to a real tube amp....and I am talking their small backstage series solid state type amps not the 6505's they later came up with...ohhh yeah and for you kids I am talking about learning guitar in the 70's and 80's pre line 6....when all there was really in the US was peavey solid state to learn on)....but they did always sound great....kinda a Fender Roc vibe.
Definitely. I learned in the 90’s on a teal stripe bandit. I’ve pretty much dwindled down my amp collection to 5 watt tube amps for smaller rooms and bandits for when I need to get loud.
@@Chucksguitargeekery I would credit my personal addiction to Mesa Boogie amps as coming from my experience with a Peavey when beginning(Peavey adopted the two stage gain approach with the pre and post gain which is a hallmark of the Mark series and frankly I think that the evolution in tone from a Fenderish sounding peavey to a mark series as the natural progression of the same-ish tone (more so than I get from Marshall, of which I do own a TSL100 but prefer my Mark V)
Agreed, my 50 watt audition plus is small but mighty
i bought a 1981 deuce for my main and other than heavy its awesome I've been a peavey fan since my mini trans tube practice amp made my fender look weak
Got a Peavey Studio Pro 40 at a pawn shop about 10 years ago for around $70, and I tried it it there and was happy enough. Boy, got it home (just a home guitarist myself), and WOW! Loved not just the knobs (push in/pull outs), but the VOLUME. I have yet to put everything at 11. Also HEAVY to carry but not too much.
Is it me, or is Marshall Co. just a spoiled McDonald's-endorsement-type-for-celebs. Rock and Roll definitely has a "Brand" look that leans toward Big Corp. Names and sticking a Brand name on whatever because they paid BOO KOO bucks to lease the name.
I still use my old Studio Pro for a clean amp/speaker for small gigs. Use my pedal board front end and plug into the return. Fast easy set up and it works - reliably.
I’ve gigged with this 20 watt one, mic’d of course. But, in my experience, old peaveys always make great pedal platforms
Very cool mixing old and new tech. Sounded great!
Damn UA-cam bots blocking blues jams!
That’s why I usually aim for weird chord progressions in the jam tracks I do. I guess it’s what I get for finally doing a cliche 12 bar blues lol.
I have a peavey encore 65 tube amp and I bought a peavey bandit from the early 80ies as a backup amp, because all-tubes amps are not that reliable as solid states. I was surprised how good and versatile the bandit sounded. I play country music and punk rock. The bandit is perfect for both styles. An amazing little amp, a guitarists best friend.
Nice! I always say there isn’t a gig that a Bandit can’t handle.
I played a Bandit with an original (first model) Zoom 505, at jam sessions for a couple of years.....got a lot of compliments on my sound.....Scorpion speakers are so great!!!!
Sounds really great! I went a commercial music college in the early 90s and this is what I took with me.
You're good at soloing over chord changes!
I dug that little jam - interesting progression, that doesn't sound easy to jam over.
I'm still a Peavey fan since 1986
Peavey back stage plus 35 watt with really good reverb with the
Peavey Falcon strat copy real Nice! Thank for the video and the trick !
Got an '88 backstage 110, which is 65 watts at 8 ohms, but I put in a 16 ohm celestion creamback just cuz I had it lying around...I'm never switching that speaker back out, the tone is to die for, my roster of vintage tube amps are collecting dust
My first guitar amp was a Peavey Special 130 with a 12" scorpion speaker. I got it back in 1987.
That's a bad ride......the back plate series....knarly...... generally, they sound great with multi-effect pedals
I still have mine from 1983. With all these rave comments, I’m bummed that my Les Paul sounds awful through it. Low freqs sounds like someone took a hacksaw to the speaker cone. But it’s not damaged.
Peavey is amazing man! I have a Peavey Envoy 110 (Silver stripe) that I had bought new back in the 90's. It was the 2nd amp that I have ever owned, and I still use it as my main amp at home. Although over the past couple years, there seems to be some connection issue in the input jack area that I'm looking into how to fix, because I really don't want to replace the amp. The sounds of the amp are just incredible, particularly the distortion, and the exact version of my amp is no longer made.
I have one too! Damn amazing amp. Currently getting it modded to have a 8ohm speaker out
Got a Peavey Express 112 and a Mark III Bass Amp new in the 80s. Still sound great. Wish I hadn't let my Classic 20 go. My T-40 through the Mark III is excellent mojo. Need to get a T-60. Thanks for the vid.
I have one of these that was given to me. When I first got it the Pots were scratchy at best and most did nothing. A little clean up work and it plays great now (It sat for 10+ years in a Garage in humid Florida). I had wondered what it would sound like with some multi effects run through it and appreciate you providing this video.
No problem! One thing to keep in mind is the speaker, what you’re hearing on this video is a cab sim. The Oxford speaker that came stock is a little thin and raspy sounding.
Yeah but that amp into a nice 4x12 is a surprise!
My first amp in college was an Audition and later a bandit. Both were amazing with a distortion effect that pedals couldn’t reproduce. I wish I ventured into Studio Pro series. I didn’t gig at all.
A bandit will get you pretty much anywhere you need to go tonally.
Dude you won't believe it. I modded my (sometimes) main guitar JUST LIKE YOURS ! Ha ha It's a 1983 triple black Ibanez Roadstar 2
with Duncan Hot Rails and a Fender USA Vintage Pickup in the middle spot. I left the neck pickup stock. Etc. Oh boy!
OOh it is SO unique sounding. Let me tell you. I play old Peavey stuff too these days!!! ha ha ha From MTW in L.A.
Right on! Those old roadstars are great guitars
Peaveyholics call Mesa Boogies “Messy Boogers”
Ha. I have a Mesa I love too, and it was actually going to be the subject of this video because it has the same direct out feature. But when I went to set it up for the video, it made some loud static noise then the fuse went pop. I just haven’t had a chance to get a new fuse and power tubes to start troubleshooting it. So, that’s why I wound up doing it with the Peavey 🤷♂️
I used to have a Peavey Studio pro 112. It was a fantastic amp.
I picked one up to experiment with as it was my first solid state amp as a kid. Even then I thought; wow this is loud but terrible sounding😆 that also made it kind of fun.
Clean with verb was passable for practice at home but now I am going to mod that crap lead channel!! 🥳
I have a Made in the USA Peavey Studio Pro 112 “Trans-Tube” that was made sometime in the mid-90s. I bought it at Guitar Center I THINK in ‘97 ??? It’s a “silver stripe” version with the Blue Marvel speaker. I’m not a big fan of the speaker itself but I bought it because I was shocked at how good the amp sounded for a solid state.Whatever the “Trans-Tube” circuitry consists of, it’s pretty impressive. It truly does sound A LOT like a tube amp. When you crank it up it has a very Marshall-like tone. It does alright by itself but I really like it with just some slight gain and then using my PlimSoul pedal in front mixed in with it. Sounds pretty damn amazing. You can not beat these amps for the price. They’re great quality, sound good and made in the U.S. if you get one from the late 90s backward. The pots tend to get very scratch with age but nothing some contact cleaner spray won’t fix.
Nice! I have a bandit from that era, it’s a great sounding amp too. Maybe look into a Sheffield speaker, those are surprisingly good.
Got a renown in '81 and it was high school heaven. Later paired it with a 412f cab cause of the ext cab jack looked and sounded great but heavy
My first amp. Good versatility. Unplug it and set it facing out right in front of a kick drum and watch what happens to the LED when you kick the bass.
Interesting experiment, do the sound waves give it some energy?
I found a 1984 Peavy 200watt drum amp at annual local Church yard sale fundraiser. Bought it for 12$$. The normal channel needs repair, very low volume output. It’s bright channel works great!!!! I just adjusted the EQ and it’s 15” speaker sounds great 👍
The Studio Pro is a really cool amp. Kinda the little brother to the Bandit (with the Special 130 being the bigger brother). The EDI line out is a really handy and useful feature. Peavey was waaaay ahead of the competition with that onboard feature and in their EDI box in the early 80s. Outside of this, most everyone had to get a custom made sim box to do the same thing at the time. Later into the 80s and 90s there came the Palmer PDI03, ADA MicroCab , RedBox, etc... Granted, these didn't sound great, kinda compressed and nasal, but they did sound way better than direct with creative HPF and LPF EQ.
I have a studio pro 40. The thing the mic won't tell you but you can hear it live is, the 15" speaker. Sounds great. I have many amps but this was my first real amp. Paid 275.00 for it at a brook mays. Lol I was 12. Was on layaway 6 months 😂. Great headroom for effects. Gain is very smooth.
Have to point some things out.
According to the manual the line-out is compensated to sound like a speaker. The line out = the preamp with speaker sim at line level.
Also, there is no guarantee that a solid state amp will function well, especially over time, with no load, ask a amp tech who really knows electronics.
I use this exact same amp, the front input is dirty and crackely and useless but plugging a pre amp/effects unit into the power amp input located on the rear panel is quite nice.
Have you tried cleaning the inputs and pots with deoxit? It’s probably just gotten dusty.
Not sure if I used that exact product. I’ve tried cleaning up a few other old peavey SS amps with not great results.
And also you really sounded great.
Very good post for people who know very little, understood enough.
I have this amp, love it. I bought it second hand for $80 and it was well spent. I wanted it because this amp comes stock with an Eminence speaker, so I think it has a brighter type sound than the Black Widow.
Shhhhh, that’s a secret of the budget models 🤣
I love old peavey amps, there very musical, these junk amps today in the 500 dollar and below are terrible sounding. Solid state or tube. Good tone is good tone. I don’t care if there’s a mouse on a wheel powering the amp. Good is good, this studio pro sounds great.
I bought one of these just to reminisce. I replaced the reverb tank with a 3 spring tank for around $ 20-25, So $90 for the amp plus a little upgrade and I got a pretty decent amp.
Nice. You can’t knock old Peavey stuff. The only upgrade I did was swap out the Oxford (I think?) speaker that was in it with a Scorpion I had taken out of a bandit.
Seems like you’re saying the secret is you can hook it up to other cabinets kinda like a head? But then again you said a lot of things that were over my head. I love these amps. I added a 1/4 jack in line with the speaker on my Rage so I can run through a variety of 12” cabinets. I have one with a Swamp thing and it sounds like melted butter.
The secret is you can send the line out to a cabinet simulator, so not an actual cab. It’s a great option for silent, direct recording, which is blending some old-school analog tone with modern technology.
@@Chucksguitargeekery Gotcha. Ya know people are going apeshit over the “Decade” model, but the differences in these small solid estate Peavey amps from the late 70s to the mid to late 80s is really minimal. It comes down the the stock speaker, eq, reverb. I do prefer the distortion on the mid to late 80s models that have the smaller conical knobs instead of the cylindrical knobs that came earlier. I have a bandit 112 which is a little heavy to lug all over. But I want to pick up a backstage or studio pro. They really are versatile and the crappy little rage can be made really great by swapping in a $25 used Jensen Mod speaker. And I say used because it will probably already be broken in.
I always grab old Peavey's when I see them. I snagged a Peavey Deuce for 100 a year or two ago. That thing is crazy loud. It weighs a metric ton.
Nice score. Any Peavey amp $100 or less is a no brainer for me.
@@Chucksguitargeekery Peavey stuff is rock solid.
The Studio Pro in this video is super light, 😁
Old USA Peavey gear is the most reliable gear on the planet, and it sounds GREAT !!!!!! I am a Peavey USA bass player for life. BEST BASSES, EVER. Their guitar stuff is not as popular as their bass stuff, but it is still AMAZING and people are done being ashamed of it. I never was. I ALWAYS had the last laugh. Now, all those old friends LOVE Peavey USA gear. They LOVE it.
Snap i would not swop my peavey mk v1 bass head and 2x15 cab for anything , but my back is killing me :)
I had a t-40 bass a long time ago and ended up hating it with a passion, but their amps and the old 2x15 cabs are killer
I bought the late 90's version of that model with the Transtube Technology, back in '98 when it was new. I still have it today, and it is pretty much my go-to amp, even though I have tube amps to choose from.
I used to have that.
A friend sold it to me for $25.
Later I gave it to another friend of mine. 👍
I have two Peavey amps - a U.S. Classic 30 and a 208S with lots of cool built in effects! Great amps for the money!
Awesome video! The initial playing made me think of Thin Lizzy, well done sir.
4:26 - Why shouldn't you never pull off the speaker wires on a tube amp ??? What if I wanted to replace the speaker with a better one? I'd have to disconnect the old one to put the new one in. Please let me know, thanks.
To clarify, you should never disconnect a speaker with the tube amp turned on. You can swap speakers, just make sure the amp is off while you’re doing it, and make sure the new speaker is completely connected before turning it back on. I go an extra step and unplug a tube amp just to make double sure. You can run solid state without a speaker connected though.
Thanks, that's what I was thinking, but I wanted to be sure.@@Chucksguitargeekery
There is no post power amp line out. It is a preamp line out that has been frequency compensated to emulate the sound of the amp/speaker.
I've watched two of your videos featuring this amp and I'm wondering which speaker is in it? Does it have the original speaker and is it the square magnet one or the round magnet variant that looks like an Eminence? Thanks.
It does not have the stock speaker, and with regards to this video, you’re not hearing the speaker at all. I’m running the direct out from this amp to an impulse response. But, I do have a Scorpion in this amp
@@Chucksguitargeekery Ah, thanks for the response. I kind of FF'd through the video so I didn't catch all of that. I thought some of it was speaker then you did IR examples for demonstration of the line out versatility.
@@Chucksguitargeekery I have an Audition 20, a Backstage and a Special 130, and after listening to those 3 and doing research on the various models produced I'm thinking the Studio Pro 40 is the perfect combination of the 3 but I haven't tried one yet. And unfortunately the 40 didn't retain this Balanced line out feature (Unbalanced only), at least not on the examples I've seen so far. What is your favorite Peavey amp of the SS, and Special 130 or smaller variety? Many people love the Bandit (or 65 version) but I think that's as large as the Special 130 so I don't know what the advantage would be to the Bandit.
The old Crate amps were great also
Hell yeah! Peavey kicks ass! I’m using a peavey keyboard amp for my bass amp at our practice space, it’s pretty damn loud. Clean and clear as a bell too.
Nice! In my first band as a teen I used my dad’s old KB300 with a black widow speaker to play bass. That thing cranked, but my back is still hurting 20 years later lol.
@@Chucksguitargeekery another lovely peavey tale - I’ll probably do a video on very soon - got a KB60 amp chassis given to me, it was working however it was nailed to a board… with questionable wiring harness dangling. I built a speaker combo box around it, found a reverb tank from some other scrapped amp, then had a LHS monitor with bad horn and cracked housing so I used the 12” speaker and crossover and bought a new tweeter. I had some peavey logos so I used them on front. It’s covered in a nice deep blue non fuzzy duct cloth fabric and I used grey grill cloth fabric from an old EV studio monitor (salvaged) to make the grill cloth cover. I use it for my E-Drum kit. It’s perfect!
I can hardly believe Peavey is still offering the superb Vypyr VIP3 for only around $300. I don't know how much better the Bandit sounds are next to the Vypyrs but my VIP3 is far better than just a 'compromise' practice amp. Peavey's goal was always "Good but NOT Cheap Equipment at Reasonable Prices" to quote sir Peavey the owner himself. People seem to forget this and may rag on the actually Cutting Edge of Technology Peavey brand that is up there with even Boss.
I have a Vypyr VIP1 20 watt practice amp. It sounds incredible. I especially like the reverb, chorus, univibe, and the "Peavey Classic" model.
I sold my Vypyr VIP1, VIP2 & VIP3 amps. Still have my 1983 Studio Pro 40 amp. nuf ced.
Yeah I love the older and a few from the trans tube like xxl
I love my VIP2. So many features. Can run my Jackson through the lead 6505 channnel, then my ‘62 Stratocaster Reissue through the XXX, with pedals in front of both occasionally
@@justgivenofox9543 Oh, yes, right there is another advantage with "Trans Tube" in that those amps supposedly work exceptionally well with pedals too.
I sometimes play through our drummers peavey mark IV bass head I think it is… sounds amazing. Heavier to move about, but well worth it I recon. If I find one on ebay I may get my own for a backup/2nd bass head 🤘🏼
I’ve played with a bassist that had one of those with an Ampeg 8x10 and it always sounded great to me. Reliable as can be too.
@@Chucksguitargeekery I think it could thrown off a cliff and still sound great!
Moi j'ai commencé avec Un amplificateur peavey bandit 112 avec les deux côtés bleu et en bas une barrette en aluminium avec un baffle de chez scheffield 80 watts il était vraiment très bien cette amplificateur la seule chose que je lui ai reprocher pas de prise de casque audio dessus
Peavey is a good amp if you get a goid one. They used to have spotty quality control. I think they are alot better now.
Hey folks, if your Peavey starts to sound like it’s ready to die. I have replaced those cheap IC filter caps on several amps. Pain ? Yes but unlike tubes, you do this once. I also replace noisy fans on those amps that came with them. Basically they are built well but with cheap components, upgrade once and rock on for another 20+ years. I can’t say that about Fender, Crate or the rest of the made in USA solid state amps. Japanese Fenders are good, hmmm ? Yeah in USA it’s maximum profit and sales gimmicks but Peavey is fairly solid. No it’s not the best out there but if you can’t get a good sound out of one then maybe it’s the player?
My wife brought one home from Goodwill. It sounds great. Is the extension speaker 8 ohms?
There is not an extension speaker on this one. I was using the line-level line out.
I think the Studio Pro is the one with a 600 ohm DI out, most have a speaker out jack.
I used to have one of these amps they work great.
I'm still using Peavey bass amps,600watt tour combo with 2tens at 400 watts,black widows and scorpions 1000 watts that's right!!!✌️♥️😁
Great channel - just discovered it! I've been using an old Peavey VTX Heritage (my favourite loud amp ever with an on-board phaser to die for) for larger gigs/shows for the last ten years. I'd love to be able to use different cab/speaker sims through it but not clear on how to set this up safely. Is there a box out there that does the dummy load/sims in one?
Thanks! Yes, but I think the Ox Box or the Fryette Power Load are the only ones that can handle the power of the VTX. Another option would be to just use the preamp out, but have a dummy cable into the power amp in, which would give you the preamp at least, but not the tube power section.
Wouldn't a power amp line out allow you to drive a cabinet with a bigger speaker?
My son said his effect boxes don`t work on his Studio Pro. Know anything about that issue?...Thanks
Hmm, do you know if he means they just don’t sound good, or he can’t get a sound to come out of the amp?
I've had them growing up and always 💕 the line out I used too get gem's in pawnshop for nothing
I love my old Peavey Amps Thanks !
My first amp in 1986. I would use it to boost another amp then run a Boss overdrive, get metal tones on the cheap.
Had a studio pro in early 80s. Could not get a good tone from it. The saturation knob was totally useless to me. Your sound was infinitely better. Congrats
Honestly, I think the speaker has a lot to do with it. The Oxford speaker that came in this amp really wasn’t that great. Running it through impulse responses like I did in this video makes a huge difference. Even the Scorpion I have in this all now is leagues better than the Oxford speaker.
sheeesh theres that silver stripe Special im looking for. 👍👍👍👍👍
Peavey is the greatest amplifier company ever created
I’ve owned many tube amps over the years that have come and gone, but the Peavey’s still remain 🤷♂️
I haven't given up on Fender.
Old Peavey's are bad ass.
Thanks for the interesting video. My 1995 Peavey transtube silver stripe 112 Bandit has a "pre amp out", and a "power amp in". I fitted it with a good 15 inch speaker from a vintage silver face Fender amp. The original Peavey 12 inch Blue Marvel speaker sounded like such a squeaky little thing to me, after that. Will try the "pre amp out" into my 800 watt pa system instead of "speaker out" next time I set up.
Sounded horrible.
Just kidding, great content, always interesting and informative. 👍
I had a Backstage Plus, and you can get some decent tones, and TONS of crazy tones if you mess with the controls in unconventional ways.
A backstage plus run through a PV 4/10 cabinet is the secret of getting a good tone out of those amps and is one of the best sounds I've ever had.
I'm catching a 70"s van Morrison kind of vibe ? To the backing track and solo accompaniaments
I have a studio pro 110. Put a celestion v10 in it and it jams.
Nice! It’s amazing what a good speaker can do
Killer demo
Was just gifted a Peavey amp last night, have yet to try it
Let me know how it goes!
Peavey had a box think it’s called edi Equalized direct interface it was a post box hooked between speaker and speaker out gave you xlr and 1/4 out I had 3 pacers two princetons I used like this same rig for big or small gig
I actually have one of those too! To me, it barely added any “cab sim” at all, but I bet it could be used with some IRs.
I used to have a Peavey Classic Chorus. It was very loud, but the tone always seemed sterile, compressed and lacking any kind of sparkle.
It still had one original Scorpion speaker, but one had been replaced by a Blue Marvel.
Speakers probably could have played a big factor. I’ve never played though a blue marvel, but I know scorpions can be kinda flat/dull sounding sometimes.
My first thought was that scorpion speakers are PA midrange and the chorus effect will suck the life out of the guitar. I purchased one of these amps to mod and chopped it down into a head. Should sound much better into a 4x12 as a pedal platform. Not sure I will use the lead channel much unless I mod it too.
video starts at 1:54
So you are routing the signal from amp output direct to audio interface? Isn’t too strong? I mean,if you put amp volume to max is it going to overdrive audio interface?
Great video! I just picked up a studio pro 60 and it sounds great. Question: do you connect the amp to the IR pedal using the 1/4' unbalanced output? Mine only has a preamp XLR balanced output.
Thanks! I used the 1/4’ unbalanced output with an instrument cable. You could probably get one of those whirlwind IMP adapters to go from the XLR output to the 1/4’ pedal input.
@@Chucksguitargeekery oh I see! I'm gonna try one of those adapters. I guess it should be female xlr to unbalanced TS 1/4, right? There is a female xlr to balance trs 1/4 too
Maybe a stupid question, but did the amp have to have an XLR out to be used this way or can it be a 1/4" out and, if it can, what kind of out an i looking for. Thanks and great video!
No, that’s a good question. This amp actually has both a balanced XLR and an unbalanced 1/4”. I used the unbalanced 1/4” to the Mooer Radar in this video.
But, there are XLR to 1/4” impedance matching adapters (like the Whirlwind IMP) that allow you to connect balanced XLR to unbalanced 1/4”.
Sorry, I keep thinking of more points after each comment lol. It gets tricky because I think most amps starting in the late 90’s switched from Line-outs to Headphone-outs, which is a different beast. Headphone outs usually have some sort of cab-sim and is a much more powerful output. That’s why I emphasized this is usually a feature in older amps to have a post-power amp line out.
No, I appreciate all your help. I really like the idea of the balanced and the unbalanced lineouts. But that seems like a rarity and maybe even a feature that is only on that particular amp. Obviously that gives it more versatility having both but, it sounds like what you are saying is that, for this video you just used the unbalanced line out - the quarter inch line out? If something like that would work, then maybe I would pick up another older amp that has that. But I also noticed that you are particular app has a effects Loop. So, it seems to me that that amp has a lot of really good features
And just like you, I am thinking of more points after I post a reply. You mentioned that there are adapters to go from unbalanced to balanced, correct? If that is so then perhaps the amp would not need to have both, but would work with the unbalanced line out only, that could be converted to a balanced XLR via an adapter?
Love 💘 Peavey Amps
This was my first amp. It was cool, but not amazing. I was much happier with the JCM 800 that I got next.
That’s understandable. Going from a solid state peavey to a JCM800 is like going from a Pinto to a Ferrari lol.
@@Chucksguitargeekery At least some of the difference was probably the speaker in the Peavey. I'm mildly tempted to grab an old Peavey combo and put a Celestion in it.
My first amp was a Studio Pro 40. It never sounded this good but, it did not have the power and out. Always sounded thin and brittle. It served the purpose until I could afford a Fender Princeton Chorus.
That's wild. I actually traded my Studio Pro 60 for a Princeton Chorus at a musician's trade show around '90. The Fender wasn't a huge upgrade, but that built in chorus was amazing. I did gig with that amp for a few years.
That Power Amp out is a really cool feature. Question if anyone knows, do all the Studio Pros have this feature? Do any of the Bandits have this? Thanks in advance if anyone knows the answer
From what I can tell, it was only in these ones from the 80’s. The Bandits don’t have it either. I also have a Mesa Boogie studio .22+ from the 80’s that has this same kind of output. That Boogie amp was actually going to be the subject of this video, but when I went to film it, the amp’s fuse blew. So I did it with this Peavey instead 🤷♂️
Donde se consigue el cordon para conectarlo a la electricidad tengo un amplificador pero perdi el cordon
Sounding good my man!!
We appear to be like kindred souls. Play similar gear. wow. Trip out. Maybe we can cross paths and jam!!! I play drums and bass too.
My girlfriend backup singer and I jammed like 350 jam nights and stuff (before Covid) in L.A. We should jam , man. Cheers!
Is it possible to plug this direct into a mixer or PA for live use, from the 'Preamp Out' or 'Line Out' on the back? Or do you need a DI box or speaker simulation? How did you record this - direct or mic'd up?
Its all solid state, so you don’t have to worry about load. You only have to worry about that with tube amps..
I had one just like years ago and I wish I would have kept it
I feel like these old Peavey’s are always for sale in marketplace/Craigslist. Just gotta keep your eyes open.
No, those old Peaveys sounded fantastic and were built to withstand nuclear blasts.
Nice !!!!
Next pedal on my board will be Moorer Radar... ot just does so so much ...
Question: Can you use that Radar like in the affects loop or would you put it I the from... or is it just for recording...please explain...or if you have a video point it out ...
But I want to use it with my Bulgaria V22 tube amp in a garage band situation thanks ...✌🌎👍
"All that's gonna be left is Keith Richards, Cockroaches, Twinkies & Peaveys...". 😝😝😝
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