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I think I've narrowed down my amp choices to the Peavey ValveKing 112. I know a couple of you have one, any thoughts or comments? Positives and negatives, if you will. I really want an all-tube amp, and this one is in my price range.
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I don't have one but I have used one. They are very nice... AFAIK I've never heard any complaints about them.
BTW. There are two people in the site who we know have them, one is a current user, the other I've never seen before, but still, you should PM them both, they're in the amp list thread.
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I've really come to love this amp - for the money. I still plan to upgrade someday when I have the money, but I find it hard to complain for the most part. The only complaint I have is that there is a slight delay when using a footswitch to change channels rendering it usesless in my opinion. However, I've grown happy with my pedal distortion for now.
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How is the clean sound, especially at higher volumes?
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It's pretty good. I usually run the amp around 3-5 and don't experience much breakup at all. Is it Fender clean? Probably not, but I'm not really looking for that sound so....
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I have a Valveking. It's a nice tube amp for the money. The distortion channel is really good as most would say. I'm happy with the clean channel but some will say it's nothing special. I want to upgrade to a 5150 eventually.
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When I played the VK, I felt it was a really solid amp. The best feature it has, IMO, is the responsiveness and range of each of the knobs. Very handy. The only thing that I don't quite like about it is the lack of a pre/post volume setup on the clean channel, meaning you can't dial in any preamp grit into the clean channel, for the most part, which is rather strange for a Peavey amp. Not sure if it'd really bother you personally, though.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. When I played the VK, I felt it was a really solid amp. The best feature it has, IMO, is the responsiveness and range of each of the knobs. Very handy. The only thing that I don't quite like about it is the lack of a pre/post volume setup on the clean channel, meaning you can't dial in any preamp grit into the clean channel, for the most part, which is rather strange for a Peavey amp. Not sure if it'd really bother you personally, though.
My rockmaster is the same way, no grit from the preamp on the clean channel, unless the 12ax7 in V1 is about to go and producing a weird distorted tremolo effect...
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However, it should be noted that the Rockmaster has one more channel than the VK, 3 channels with completely different gain structures. I like having the overlapability when working with a two channel amp.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. However, it should be noted that the Rockmaster has one more channel than the VK, 3 channels with completely different gain structures. I like having the overlapability when working with a two channel amp.
yeah, but the valveking I played had a very similar feeling clean channel to mine. Its very much the same peavey clean. Its super clean, but not real sparkly like a fender. In my opinion, with a touch of delay and reverb it can sound unreal, but it had a very blank pallet feel to me.
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Or palette, as the case may be. Yes, I do feel it would be a clean channel to take pedals well.