gald

I picked up the 212 combo a few weeks ago and am loving it so far.

I'll agree with alot of the comments about the clean not being great, it isn't, but the only thing I really use the clean channel for is a few ska riffs here and there so it works fine for me. If you're going to be playing blues or jazz it's probably not the amp for you.

I think the 100w 212 may be a slight bit of overkill though. Turned it up to 4 in the basement the other day and one chord shook the light fixture above me so badly the glass globe fell off and smashed. Guess I'll just stick to playing it at practice.

My only complaint as of yet is that it weighs about 100,000lbs. Going to toss some casters on it this weekend to ease my back pain though heh.

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EVH92

I have a valve king, and I love it . I changed the power tubes to SED 6L6GC's, and it sound a lot warmer now. I like to have my settings like this:
T:8
M:6
B:5
Gain:3 w/ gain boost

great plexi-esque tone.

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Lynchworm

So have you put the Vintage 30 in yet. Or anybody really? Has anyone done any tube changes/speaker changes and had good results? I just bought the Valve king and was planning on swapping tubes to jj's and considering the V30 as well. Here is a question, what peavey speaker is worse? The Valve King or the Blue Marvel? This should actually be a poll question.

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Hand Built(by me) guitar w/Duncans
Ibanez RG321MH
Bugera V22
Peavey Vyper 30 Watt
Xotic BB Preamp
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Digitech Hardwire Chromatic Tuner
Fender T-Bucket Acoustic
Digitech Bad Monkey

Sid McCall

So I just dropped in my new eminence redcoat speaker, and the amp is a million times better. I can't wait until it's fully broken in!

and the front:

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amadeus_who

the metal plate the VK wings are on, can you take that off??? i took that off on my head version and put back jsut the peavey logo - looks so much better... ill post up some pics tonight

just wondered if you could on the combo

people dont strait away see it as a vk, not that im ashamed... but ppl hear the nake vavle king and instanly go GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY... this lets them go that sounds sweet then you drop the VK name and they go "really?"

ps - yeah i stole the idea from the 5150 removal thingo thread some guy i cant remember did

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Sid McCall

I'm not positive. I took it off once a long time ago then put it back, but I'm pretty sure it looks dumb underneath, because that's where the speaker cover is attached.

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amadeus_who

bummer man, ill post up mine later... looks killer

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Sid McCall

please do, I'm curious how it looks.

oh, forgot to mention. I ripped out my reverb tank and all associated wires. you can see (barely) on my control panel where I blacked out 'master' and 'reverb' around that knob. I only use my holy grail in the fx loop, it sounds much better that way, and I have direct control with my feet over the reverb level.

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Apogee Duet 2 - Ableton Suite

amadeus_who

two shots of the wing removal thingo i did




i think it looks better - comments/questions?

peace

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Lynchworm

I'm not sure this will work because I havent received it yet (this wednesday) and not sure if the wings are just painted on or actual pieces on the metal but I was thinking of just spray painting the metal plate all black. I like the peavey logo, just not the wings.

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Fender Strat w/Duncans
Hand Built(by me) guitar w/Duncans
Ibanez RG321MH
Bugera V22
Peavey Vyper 30 Watt
Xotic BB Preamp
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Digitech Hardwire Chromatic Tuner
Fender T-Bucket Acoustic
Digitech Bad Monkey

amadeus_who

yeah i heard it might not work on the combo, it def works on the head (See above)

it looks alot better without the wings, but im unsure if painting over them is the best option. might turn out bad

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TacoPaco9317

I'm going to trade in my VK112 tomorrow for a nice set of Mogami cables. Anyone know how much in-store credit Guitar Center would give me?

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Schecter C-1 Classic
Peavey 5150 2x12 Combo
MXR 10 Band EQ

Lynchworm

Well I would spraypaint the metal plate and envision it looking like this after I replace the plastic knobs with chrome because the Valveking looks so bland.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...logy?sku=481332

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Fender Strat w/Duncans
Hand Built(by me) guitar w/Duncans
Ibanez RG321MH
Bugera V22
Peavey Vyper 30 Watt
Xotic BB Preamp
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Digitech Hardwire Chromatic Tuner
Fender T-Bucket Acoustic
Digitech Bad Monkey

amadeus_who

that actually looks pretty good, im jsut not a fan of painting myself... prolyl coz id do a bad job :P

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Lynchworm

I know what you are sayin though. You only get one chance although with paint that isn't necessarily true. We'll have to see when i actually get the amp in my hands if I actually want to paint that metal strip or not but i definately want to replace the plastic knobs with chrome knobs and change the color of the red jewell light to blue. I forgot, I might want to swap the speaker as well. For some reason I do like the way the plastic knobs look on the head (yours looks killer without the wings.)

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Fender Strat w/Duncans
Hand Built(by me) guitar w/Duncans
Ibanez RG321MH
Bugera V22
Peavey Vyper 30 Watt
Xotic BB Preamp
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Digitech Hardwire Chromatic Tuner
Fender T-Bucket Acoustic
Digitech Bad Monkey

Def

you can leave them dangling but i wouldt as they'd be quite exposed

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82Camaro355

What would everyone recommend for the best tubes?

sg622

wow...ive really took the VK's distortion channel for granted. with a tube screamer for extra gain, this thing can really chug. i just compared it with my distortion pedal and it the lead channel on the VK is really thick and does the job for stuff like killswitch and as i lay dying.
but my only problem with the lead is that it can be a bit noisy and a bit muddy at times though.

i want new tubes to make my distortion channel sound better. anyone have any suggestion?
also im planning on getting a speaker from the speakerwarehouse.com or whatever that is since its only 40 bucks

Lynchworm

I went with some JJ Power tubes and they cleared it up big time. My new speaker gets here in a day or two so I will let you know how it sounds. (before break in of course)

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My Gear:

Fender Strat w/Duncans
Hand Built(by me) guitar w/Duncans
Ibanez RG321MH
Bugera V22
Peavey Vyper 30 Watt
Xotic BB Preamp
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Digitech Hardwire Chromatic Tuner
Fender T-Bucket Acoustic
Digitech Bad Monkey