Josh Homme Signature Peavey Amp

[MirrorProfiles]

All those "budget" offerings from the 60s---Kay, Silvertone, Teisco--saw their own resurrection, so why not Peavey?

I think like many of the products at NAMM, it’s big companies seeing smaller companies (or the used market) eating their lunch.

Recto’s, modded Marshalls, pawn shop peaveys, Peavey 1992/5150, Rockman and so much more out there. It’s kind of a shame there isn’t much genuine innovation but I guess we’re kind of at a crossroads before AI makes everything obsolete, and don’t really have the economic climate to be taking massive risks on gear.

 

[Elric]

I think like many of the products at NAMM, it’s big companies seeing smaller companies (or the used market) eating their lunch.

Recto’s, modded Marshalls, pawn shop peaveys, Peavey 1992/5150, Rockman and so much more out there. It’s kind of a shame there isn’t much genuine innovation but I guess we’re kind of at a crossroads before AI makes everything obsolete, and don’t really have the economic climate to be taking massive risks on gear.

What is there to innovate? Is there some kind of situation where the current gear on the market is hampering someone from accomplishing their musical vision? Don't get me wrong, I think there are some frontiers still... F.ex. "FRFR" systems, etc.

But the 'guitar gear' space isn't the 'bearskins and knives' early tech stage that spawned Marshall, Fender, PV, et al. We are way past that, so we are talking about a product space that is very mature in terms of the technology that is available; there's not much that could be done to completely revolutionize guitar gear at this point, especially in terms of basic things like amplifiers, etc.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

What is there to innovate? Is there some kind of situation where the current gear on the market is hampering someone from accomplishing their musical vision? Don't get me wrong, I think there are some frontiers still... F.ex. ""FRFR"" systems, etc.

But the 'guitar gear' space isn't the 'bearskins and knives' early tech stage that spawned Marshall, Fender, PV, et al. We are way past that, so we are talking about a product space that is very mature in terms of the technology that is available; there's not much that could be done to completely revolutionize guitar gear at this point, especially in terms of basic things like amplifiers, etc.

I’m not even sure really. I saw SSL released some interface that looks like a Focusrite from 2009 but with SSL knobs. There are reverb plugins that are just simple IR captures of a couple of sounds slapped under a GUI. SPL releasing the Machine Head plugin because they got wind of Serban using it. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago I’d have hoped we’d progressed a bit further by now, but I can’t really tell you how.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Good lord

 

[dbagchee]

Making the Mark IIC+ launch video tones sound like

 

[dbagchee]

Jeez is that guitar even in tune?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Jeez is that guitar even in tune?

When he started playing; i kept waiting for that big "kick in" when things start to rock. It never came

 

[0XI0]

Jeez is that guitar even in tune?

no one knows

 

[paisleywookiee]

Suddenly, that MXR Rockman pedal has gotten some fucking sweet ass tones!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Alternately, "why Kay, Silvertone, Teisco..."

Especially with those, the reissues are all like "Do you love the idea of these shoddily made instruments and how different they sound to a Squier or Epiphone because they were built real funky but don't want to pay $1k for a shoddily built instrument that has also been poorly cared for for 60 years? What if we make something that looks like those old guitars but build them exactly the same way that Squier and Epiphone build their guitars so they sound...like a Squier/Epiphone"

Suddenly, that MXR Rockman pedal has gotten some fucking sweet ass tones!

Nope. Still sounds like “I thought this was the HEAVY METAL half hour?!?!”

 

[norminal]

 

[RaceU4her]

anything josh homme is involved in i avoid, seeing this and the new peavey pedals though has made me want to bust out my old supreme 160 i havent played in years though

 

[TSJMajesty]

Another Peavey-was-my-1st-amp guy.

 

[DISTORT6]

Looking forward to the Gorilla Amps with the TUBESTACK switch next NAMM.

 

[la szum]

Alternately, "why Kay, Silvertone, Teisco..."

Because Kurt Cobain, Dan Auerbach, and Jack White.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

In the 80s, if a kid said "mom can we get an amp?" and she replied "we have an amp at home", chances are this was the amp at home.

I guess this is 80s products for people who didn't live the 80s. We were not happy about this amp back then lol

I could see they reissuing the VTM, Ultra, Butcher.. hell even the transtube Bandit... but this was what you ended up with because your parents bought your 1st rig at the local Salvation Army store.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I’m thinking I’m the only one here that had to google who is Josh Homme.

I’m thinking they had a song on one of the Guitar Hero games.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

I’m thinking I’m the only one hear that had to google who is Josh Homme.

I’m thinking they had a song on one of the Guitar Hero games.

Queens of Stone Age has some good songs.

Homme was at his best in Kyuss though, and that was no little Peavey tone.

Laney AORs, Ampeg V4s and JCM900s turned to 11 into an Ampeg 8x10 bass cab. Pretty much the opposite of this amp lol

 

[dronerstone]

Queens of Stone Age has some good songs.

Homme was at his best in Kyuss though, and that was no little Peavey tone.

Laney AORs, Ampeg V4s and JCM900s turned to 11 into an Ampeg 8x10 bass cab. Pretty much the opposite of this amp lol

Kyuss and early QOTSA toanz all had a huge portion of Tube Works RT-2100 (tube pre + MosValve power stage). First QOTSA record is mainly this and a Model T, later on he used the old V-series Ampegs, and starting with "Songs For The Deaf" there's a lot of Peavey Standard 260.

EDIT: Lots and lots of pushed mid freq. bands, stacked into each other. Apparently enough low mids to roll the bass back a bit, without losing "oomph", while tightening things up and adding growl.

Especially in the early QOTSA days, he relied heavily on 13/56 strings with a wound G tuned to C Standard. I tried that once, and it was awful and stiff (I use 12/54, no wound G).
And of course his beloved collection of Ovation GP guitars, pretty much a legit LP style axe with a smooth/flush neck heel, wraparound bridge, and a pair of DiMarzio DP104 (first gen.).

 

[GuitarBilly74]

Kyuss and early QOTSA toanz all had a huge portion of Tube Works RT-2100 (tube pre + MosValve power stage). First QOTSA record is mainly this and a Model T, later on he used the old Ampegs, and starting with "Songs For The Deaf" there's a lot of Peavey Standard 260.

Forgot about the Tube Works. He used that quite a bit too.