Peavey: Hold My Beer

[dronerstone]

That VTM pre looks tempting.

It's been said before, but these are much more interesting that the Marshalls (with illuminated footswitch rings, yuck).

 

[greatmutah]

Not gonna lie, I want the Rockmaster pedal.

VTM would be cool too to get my Soundgarden on.

 

[bikescene]

Peavey’s had some attempts at packaging the Transtube stuff in pedals: the Dirty Dog and the Max 100.

I’ve got fond memories of playing through a Bandit. These pedals look like they could be fun.

I like how the Decade has different knobs than the rest and they even went for two colors.

 

[0XI0]

where tf is the piranha??

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Those things better weigh 30lbs each

 

[Alonious_Monk]

I could've sworn this was a wind up at first, but now I've mulled it over, this is absolute brilliance!

 

[EOengineer]

I honestly can’t tell if we’re going overboard selling nostalgia at this point. Sort of how shitty plot writers been stapling the multiverse to the side of their overflowing bin of massive plot holes for the last decade.

Nonetheless these look to be well done. Hope they sound cool.

 

[Baba]

On a serious note though, what are these going to be running through? I guess IR's in a DAW?

Like, seriously, if you're in the know, and getting nostalgic for any of these, why wouldn't you just pick up an old one?

I don't think anyone who has a good pedal platform amp, and already has good pedals, is going to want to run these things through it.

And, I have a Rockmaster preamp, and I love it, I just don't know if I want/need that tone through a clean amp, I'd rather just use it with a power amp

 

[Baba]

Like I said:

NAMM 2025: The Boomer Edition

 

[mbenigni]

2025: "We were right the first time."

I think these pedals are cool, and offer an opportunity to go back to the drawing board and experiment with new or forgotten approaches to timbre. The million dollar question is: couldn't/ shouldn't we have been doing that all along, with all of the shit that's been laying around in pawn shops, our own closets, etc.?

Regardless, there's going to be serious nostalgia value, and there will be young people discovering some of these sounds for the first time. For better or worse.

 

[mbenigni]

The Peavey aesthetic in a pedal actually looks cool.

Agree. I'd much rather have a couple of these than lug around some furry 50lb combo amp with pointy letters on the front and a blown Black Widow in the back.

 

[mbenigni]

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Everything is Funnier with Cats™.

And Michelle Obama™.

 

[dronerstone]

The Peavey aesthetic in a pedal actually looks cool.

Going by looks alone, they blow Marshall's new toys out of the water, and we all know guitarists eat with their eyes.

Tone-wise, can't wait to listen to good clips, especially the VTM is very interesting and might be awesome to run into a power amp, if output levels and headroom allow.

I remember hearing a VTM 60 some years ago, that amp had some serious "flesh-y" thump going on. Could be a wonderful doom/stoner/psych platform for fuzz and boost.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

These are much more interesting than the shit Marshall shat out. The Marshall pedals look and sound underwhelming as hell. These, if price is decent and they sound awesome, could be worth checking out if they are indeed preamps as the site lists them as.

EDIT: The ones I am most interested in is the VTM and Rock Master, though part of me kind of wishes it were the amp head and not the preamp. That said, I think the VTM was the next evolution or two from the Rock Master 120w head.

Since I'm sure I'll be asked why: My first amp half stack was a 212 Laney cab with Celestions of some sort (don't remember), Peavey Rock Master 120w head, Art 442 Dual 15 band EQ, and a Rocktron pedal or two for gain. I didn't quite understand how the three volume/gain knobs worked back then until I was about a year away from getting rid of the amp.

 

[KingsXJJ]

I can’t wait to see if the Bandit pedal sounds like I remember it.


Probably not!

 

[norminal]

Everything is Funnier with Cats™.

And Michael Obama™.

FTFY

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Video with VERY short clips of the VTM, Bandit, and Rockmaster. They sound great, and are apparently being run into a second "channel" of a Peavey Musician (supposedly a new amp?), which is line level and appears to just have one knob.

 

[la szum]

Peavey is winning NAMM.

Someone there knows WTF they are doing.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I may end up getting 1 or 2. The Bandit sounded good in the demo as well. Granted, the circuit likely has a large range on the EQ controls (based on some videos of the amps and the Marauder), so you can also likely make it sound like a dog mess too.

 

[Devin]

Wonder if they got the idea from Pepers; he put these out at least a couple years ago lol