We Lost Our Identity | Inside Peavey’s Return to Roots

SillyOctpuss said:
I wish I'd kept amps from when I was younger instead of selling them when I didn't have to. Back then I didn't get the point of multiple amps so used to sell them when I bought a new one. I'd kill for some of those amps back now.
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The idea of owning multiple amps never even occurred to me back then!

I had my guitar amp, and when I wanted a different one I sold it to buy the next one
 
JiveTurkey said:
I really need to get an XXX at some point. I've only played on once in real life and was very surprised at how much I immediately liked it despite it being a "complex" amp. I'm not snowflaked out at the mudflap girls; I just think it looks trashy af and undercuts the awesomeness of the amp visually :hmm :rofl
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I think the only thing complex or different about the amp is it's an active EQ and that is part of why it's so awesome.
 
metropolis_4 said:
Back in the ‘90s we used to say “Watch out for the guys who show up with a Tele and an old Peavey”.

Those were always the guys who could PLAY!
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The Peavey Classic 30 and 50 are probably some of the few actually good looking amps they made, and they just ape the Fender Tweed styling. The Classic 30 is simultaneously the worst internal design ever made on a tube amp, but somehow it's not more failure prone than many others.

Maybe Peavey actually needs to lean into being the ugliest amp on the market? Become the "Fuck your aesthetic beauty, it's all about the tone!" amps.
 
JiveTurkey said:
I really need to get an XXX at some point. I've only played on once in real life and was very surprised at how much I immediately liked it despite it being a "complex" amp. I'm not snowflaked out at the mudflap girls; I just think it looks trashy af and undercuts the awesomeness of the amp visually :hmm :rofl
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The Triple XXX is one of the few tube amps I genuinely dislike. When it came out, I found it to be super compressed even on the clean channel. If there ever was a "feels like a solid-state amp" moniker you could attach to a tube amp, the XXX deserved it.

The overdrive channels are basically the opposite of what I was looking in a tube amp from what I remember. "We've got Dual Rectifier at home" vibes.
 
I love a very gainy amp as much as anyone but the Triple XXX is one of the only times alive thought an amp has too much gain. There’s no real point in running the gain any higher than around 1. I think they’re awesome sounding amps but they’re a bit of a one trick pony because it’s just instant extreme gain.

Also the active EQ behaviour is wack and even though the controls do a lot, the sweet spot is quite small.

Still, they sound great. JSX is arguably a slightly better version of it.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
I love a very gainy amp as much as anyone but the Triple XXX is one of the only times alive thought an amp has too much gain. There’s no real point in running the gain any higher than around 1. I think they’re awesome sounding amps but they’re a bit of a one trick pony because it’s just instant extreme gain.

Also the active EQ behaviour is wack and even though the controls do a lot, the sweet spot is quite small.

Still, they sound great. JSX is arguably a slightly better version of it.
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EVH 5153 Red.

I have not played a JSX except a model of it in the Vyper Tube.
 
metropolis_4 said:
Is it schtick though? I mean, nobody slams Fender, Marshall, Vox, Mesa, Soldano, etc. for releasing amps featuring their brand’s classic styling.

Agree on the Bandit line and OG 5150!
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The classic Fender logo and black panel amp design are classic -- if you knew nothing about guitar amp history and walked into a guitar shop and saw a DRRI, you'd have no idea that whether that's some throwback to the past, or just the design they came up with for an amp released today.

If you see a Blue/Teal 80s-style Peavey...it's only "classic" in a "if you know you know" kind of way. Because if you don't know, you're scratching your head.

I'm with @AutomationBias overall, though -- who in their right mind is paying $200 for an overdrive pedal whose bragging right is "I not only, sound like, I also look like that shitty Peavey Bandit that you paid the same amount of money for but also had a 60 watt power amp, 12" speaker, and spring reverb tank and was the best thing the pawn shop had in your price range".
 
I did like like the Vypyr combo I had. That thing sounded pretty damn good and the modeling of most of the amps was pretty damn good. The 6505 and 6534+ voicings were excellent.

Also bring back the 6534+.
 
SillyOctpuss said:
I wish I'd kept amps from when I was younger instead of selling them when I didn't have to. Back then I didn't get the point of multiple amps so used to sell them when I bought a new one. I'd kill for some of those amps back now.
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Mannnnnn, I was just looking back on pictures of my gear. When I was 20, I owned 6+ amps, several of which would be in the $3k range used today :rofl What am I doing with my life now? I need to up my game.
 
I used to bag on them in the past but I've come around. My VTM-60 and Bravo 112 are some of my favorite amps. They need to do some serious rebranding with their aesthetics. Some new amps based on old designs would be cool, rather than straight up reissues. No one wants those ugly, heavy old things.
 
JiveTurkey said:
I'm kind of glad I didn't have money for all the gear I wanted back when I had zero responsibility. It would have been ugly :rofl
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I’ll take “reasons I bought a Dual Rectifier instead of a car” for 1000, Alex.

Alex Trebek GIF by Jeopardy!
 
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