Peavey Classic / Delta Blues Thread

[Tone2TheBone]

Thanks Nelskie! Yeah someone at home sorta bumped my amp with their leg and some of the EL84s were left angled which scared the hell out of me I thought they were bent! They weren't. I need the guard.

[Nelskie]

Seems like the Peavey Classic thread was lacking some techical information. I'd come across these two links some time ago, and they cover both basic and advanced modifications the amp. Myself, I haven't felt a need to go any further with the amp's tone, other than switching out the tubes, and dropping in a new Celestion Vintage 30. However, there may be other Fretters out there looking to modify theirs, who find some of this stuff interesting.

http://www.blueshawk.info/peavey_classic_30.htm (links at bottom of page)
http://www.blueguitar.org/ (* see comments below)

*NOTE - To get to the Peavey amp mods, click FTP Site Map on the upper left side of the page. Then, go to blue guitar / amps / Peavey, and it'll list all of the articles in .PDF and .ZIP format)

One of the mods that there is a "Tweed Bassman" mod, which is supposed to give the C30 a looser, raunchier feel (*the author's words, not mine.) Definitely sounds interesting.

The real question is this: now that these mods have been posted, how long will it be before DVM opens up his Delta? Inquiring minds want to know.

[ZoSo65]

Just ordered some new tubes from Eurotubes, went with the Rock / High Gain Option,, for now
Tube Tamer and Tube Guard on there way too

[sunvalleylaw]

My Classic 30 is being packed and shipped as of tomorrow. Should be here end of the week. I attached a couple pics in the other C-30 thread. Excitement is an understatement.

[tot_Ou_tard]

My Classic 30 is being packed and shipped as of tomorrow. Should be here end of the week. I attached a couple pics in the other C-30 thread. Excitement is an understatement.

*I'm* excited & I'm not getting a new amp.

Enjoy, Sunvalley!

[duhvoodooman***]

My Classic 30 is being packed and shipped as of tomorrow.

'Bout freakin' time you finally got an amp!!

[sunvalleylaw]

'Bout freakin' time you finally got an amp!!

Yep, I'm paying for it from what I earn off o' the Cubs building your pedal!!

[sunvalleylaw]

Anyone seen or used one of these for their Peavey? Looks kind of cool. I stumbled on to it from a post by Spud re: this guy's strats he builds. I had also read someone's review of another attenuator recently.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VOLUMEBOX-FOR-PE...QQcmdZViewItem

[oldguy]

Anyone seen or used one of these for their Peavey? Looks kind of cool. I stumbled on to it from a post by Spud re: this guy's strats he builds. I had also read someone's review of another attenuator recently.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VOLUMEBOX-FOR-PE...QQcmdZViewItem

Steve, the one I have is actually like this one.



http://cgi.ebay.com/Omnisonic-Tube-A...QQcmdZViewItem

See how much cooler it is, with the numbers going to 11 and the semi-chicken head knob?
And I bought it and used it on my Traynor YCV Anniversary model for a long time, before I got the Hotplate.
Not what most think of as an attenuator, but it does allow for some nice preamp tube distortion at lower volumes, so in that sense, yes, it "attenuates", it won't give you that nice POWER amp distortion, tho.
What it will allow you to do is crank yer amp, get those preamp tubes cookin', and lower the volume w/ the little "volume box" knob. For the money it's not a bad deal, and will give you a little more flexibility over the gain side of the amp alone.
And if you are trying (and I'm just guessing here) to get some kind of "Crazy Horse" long singing overdriven sound, it will only get you in the ballpark, but that was good enough (for me) when I bought mine.

[stingx]

I have the Carl's Volume Box. The novelty wore off after two days. Get an attenuator. This doesn't even come close.

[sunvalleylaw]

....................Thanks guys!

[oldguy]

I have the Carl's Volume Box. The novelty wore off after two days. Get an attenuator. This doesn't even come close.

Sting's right about it not coming close, Steve. There is no comparing a Hotplate, w/ power tube distortion, to these little boxes.
I guess my point is if you want a little more flexible preamp disortion (and as I said, I was using it through a Traynor 40watter, different animal, for sure), it costs, what, $20?
If you want great sounding power amp distortion, Stingx is on the money, buy a "real" attenuator. But be prepared to pony up the $$$ for the sound, which is night and day different (and better).
Somewhere in the middle, $-wise, are some great OD units.
Just ask DVM, he might even build you one!

[duhvoodooman***]

If you want something that falls between this little trinket and a major league attenuator like a THD Hot Plate ($200+), you might want to give one of THESE a try. For use with a low wattage amp (< 30W), I found it to work quite well and it doesn't kill tone like some are reported to do. Very simple resistive load attenuator that lets you crank up the power tubes and get to saturation without rupturing an eardrum, and quite reasonably priced. A used Weber Mini-Mass is another good alternative. That's what I was looking for on eBay when I found the TubeJuice.

[sunvalleylaw]

Thanks DVM. . . . . . .