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Brian Krashpad

Brian Krashpad

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Yesterday I picked up this Peavey XXX. 1x12", 40W, all tube. This is the upgraded version with digital effects, which will probably make finding a foot pedal more difficult. But for $150 USD, can't complain, as everything seems to work perfectly. Haven't really messed with the effects except to see that they work.

New Amp Day!



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bsman said:
Shame on you - I thought attorneys were precise! :cop:
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Tut tut, "all tube" amp just means both pre-amp and power amp circuits are tube-driven. Those two elements can be combined with digital effects, it's no different than plugging a digital delay pedal into an effects loop in a tube amp. A full tube amp can even also contain modeling-- case in point, my Super Champ XD.

Respectfully move to have your comments stricken from the record. :catfight:
 
Thanks lads.

I have almost zero experience with Peavey tube amps. I briefly had a tiny Valve King 1x8. That's it. Frankly the Classic Series is probably more my speed for what I tend to play-- ranging mainly from Americana/Y'allternative to Old School Punk Rock'N'Roll.

From a little bit of messing with this, it looks like this is probably the onliest of my amps that can bring the broots with the available onboard tones. [With the possible exception of my little Super Champ XD (though getting brutal tones from a li'l 15W 1x10" is kinda an oxymoron), but I've never really gotten into the more "metal" models available on the SC XD.] Since I don't really ever venture into metal tones, that's sorta neither here nor there, but it's kinda neat to be able to call that up just for fun. I might be able to use the "Ultra" channel for that, in live performances with the side weirdo band that does performance art/experimental music, if I can get hold of a footswitch. But otherwise probably just for funsies.

Great fucking deal though. The amp is very clean, practically new looking. Except that the dumb-ass that sold it is moving, and he apparently let it sit out in a room he was repainting-- most of half of the back top of the amp had tiny white specks of white wall paint on it, which were not there in the ad photos. I tried the fingernail scratch-off technique, but no dice. So I painstakingly Sharpied the bitch, using a Kleenex to smudge the result as I went, so that it is almost invisible, unless one knows to look for it. And even then, very subtle. I hafta admit being kinda proud of that result, which is rather a monument to an arguable OCD trait on my part.

But hey, that's me.
 
mongooz said:
HNAD!!!
i've never seen one of those Peaveys before.
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IIRC, those came out when the Mesa Triple Rectifiers were the hot amps. I've seen the XXX before but not the ones with the built in effects, or if they had them I don't remember seeing them.
 
I think the XXX was essentially the same amp as the 3120, both of which were popular with death metal bands for a while there, so they can definitely do the broots. I know Suffocation used to use XXXs
 
Brian Krashpad said:
Tut tut, "all tube" amp just means both pre-amp and power amp circuits are tube-driven. Those two elements can be combined with digital effects, it's no different than plugging a digital delay pedal into an effects loop in a tube amp. A full tube amp can even also contain modeling-- case in point, my Super Champ XD.

Respectfully move to have your comments stricken from the record. :catfight:
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I don't know, I'm pretty liberal on these things, I don't expect a tube rectifier or tube-driven reverb/loop/tremolo, and I don't discount clipping diodes either, but I can't call a Super Champ XD an "all tube amp", it is a hybird — the preamp is solid-state/digital, the power amp is tube; the 12AX7 serves as driver stage and cathodyne PI for the power amp....it has a legitimate function in a nice-sounding amp, but it doesn't make it "all tube."
 
Weird. I vaguely recall Fender ad copy saying something about the Super Champ XD being an all tube amp, when they were selling them. Oh well. That's a side note anyhow.

Peavey still has new old stock footswitches, so I went ahead and bought one brand new. With shipping from MS it was almost as much as the amp! ($108) I figured out how to toggle between crunch and ultra but not much more. I'm not used to all these options. I may hafta break down and read the manual. Ugh.

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