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As some of you might know, Ive got this beastly amp...a 120 watt Peavey Deuce. Its a SS pre and 4 6L6 power tubes. This thing is stinking LOUD!!
But anywho
On the back there is a pre-amp in and pre-amp out. Would it be possible (in theory) to get a tube pre-amp and run it Guitar->Tube Pre->Peavey?
If so, would standard tube mic pre's do the job, or would I need a guitar pre? (I dont know much about this type of stuff, except for the recording world).
Could I also run a tube pre in a loop fashion...Guitar->Peavey->(Pre out) Tube Preamp->(Pre in) Amp?
Anybody ever tried anything like this?
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I think I read somewhere that you can use the Pwr-amp-In for that kind of thing. Im not sure about that, so dont go and do it and then say "andrew told me to do it" when your amp explodes.
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Originally Posted by RipVanWinkle As some of you might know, Ive got this beastly amp...a 120 watt Peavey Deuce. Its a SS pre and 4 6L6 power tubes. This thing is stinking LOUD!!
But anywho
On the back there is a pre-amp in and pre-amp out. Would it be possible (in theory) to get a tube pre-amp and run it Guitar->Tube Pre->Peavey?
If so, would standard tube mic pre's do the job, or would I need a guitar pre? (I dont know much about this type of stuff, except for the recording world).
Could I also run a tube pre in a loop fashion...Guitar->Peavey->(Pre out) Tube Preamp->(Pre in) Amp?
Anybody ever tried anything like this? ok...i would recommend running it like this
Guitar-->tube pre-->Peavey pre-in (amp)
running the guitar-->pre-out-->preamp-->pre-in-->power amp is going to double pre-amp your signal...it could work well, but it's going to leave the SS portion in your signal AND double pre-amp your signal (which could result in a very hot signal going into the power amp...not necessarily bad btw)
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Originally Posted by RipVanWinkle As some of you might know, Ive got this beastly amp...a 120 watt Peavey Deuce. Its a SS pre and 4 6L6 power tubes. This thing is stinking LOUD!!
But anywho
On the back there is a pre-amp in and pre-amp out. Would it be possible (in theory) to get a tube pre-amp and run it Guitar->Tube Pre->Peavey?
If so, would standard tube mic pre's do the job, or would I need a guitar pre? (I dont know much about this type of stuff, except for the recording world).
Could I also run a tube pre in a loop fashion...Guitar->Peavey->(Pre out) Tube Preamp->(Pre in) Amp?
Anybody ever tried anything like this?
1 Yes
2 A guitar preamp should be set up to pretty much do what the preamp section of a guitar amp does. Mic pre? I wouldn't mess with it unless you have one laying around already.
3 yes, although I'm not sure if would work out that well. If its a full blown guitar preamp, there's no sense in running it thru 2 preamps and processing it twice.
That amp would be a nice platform for using a modeler if you were so inclined ... Using the amp model, but with the speaker/cab model off, and running its output into the power amp in jack. It might take some tweaking eq-wise and signal level-wise, but my guess is a decent modeler would sound better than the Peavey ss preamp of the amp.
120 watts with 2 12" speakers is indeed loud
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Originally Posted by Major Tom 2 A guitar preamp should be set up to pretty much do what the preamp section of a guitar amp does. Mic pre? I wouldn't mess with it unless you have one laying around already.
120 watts with 2 12" speakers is indeed loud
Yes, I do have one laying around...and I REALLY need to get an attenuator!
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By Gutiar-> Tube Pre -> Peavey... I meant Guitar -> Tube Pre -> Amp (from Preamp in)