Can i push your shit in Gabe?
I
was going to make a thread but;
1. I have that much gear pass through my hands i dont bother writing about it much lately
2. These amps aint got no love round these parts
BUT...
Thanks Gabe.
Righty, my Line 6 Spider has started cutting out at gigs, paid gigs no less and i did'nt want to take the Orange TT due to all the beer flying around and people jumping around on stage knocking shit over. So i went on a hunt for something robust, reliable and loud.
Our singer offered me his HH IC100 2x12 combo but it needs a full service, then i saw the Peavey Deuce VT going locally for around the same price as the HH would have cost me to get in a reliable state.
My Deuce is a VT model, it has four 6L6 power valves and a solid state pre-amp section. Two channels and a built in Phaser (which is quite good). The speakers dont appear to be Black Widows, from reading up they were on the earlier models. Famous users include the Lynard Skynard band[/sloan].
I paid £60 for the Deuce but the Reverb is broke, no big deal for me. First impressions are its built to last (it has since the early 80s), its mental loud and as a blank canvas it has a good sound. I have'nt been able to tweak a decent distortion from it at home volume, as Gabe said its quite fuzzish, not compressed enough for Punk tonez in my opinion.
May be different at rehearsal volume but i'll probably use a pedal anyway.
At what i paid im well happy!
