r/PeaveyCvlt

Got the kids together for a family photo. The Classic 50/50, T.G. Raxx Tube Rack Preamp, Rockmaster Tube Rack Preamp, 212 MS Vertical Enclosure and guitar(s) couldn't make it. We'll try to get everyone in for the next one.

I had been looking for one of these as a living room/couch/travel amp, mostly because my first amp ever was a 1989 Peavey Rage that I had gotten from my uncle when I was 12 back in the early 2000s. My father ended up selling it years later after I had stopped playing.

Honestly, not bad for the $30 I paid for it. It's in great condition, I guess the guy had bought it for his daughter and she never used it, so it was just sitting in his garage for a decade. It takes pedals really well on the clean channel and is pretty loud.

Everyone needs a Peavey 🤘🏻

I’ve got this Peavey 115 bass cab that I’m trying to sell, but I don’t know the specifics with this cab so I can list it with accurate info. Unfortunately the tag on the back is demolished, so any insight would be helpful!

Got this Supreme 160 for 140€ earlier this week. It's heavy and loud af! All these amps were built like tanks! It's missing the footswitch, any ideas about what can I use?

I connected it to my Mesa 4x12 (not in the picture, I also own a XXX) and this Engl of a friend and 💣

I remember At The Gates and His Hero is Gone used them, who else had them? What are the differences between all the versions, other than the aesthetics? I think mine is from the first years, right?

Cheers everybody!

I recently bought a Peavey Classic VT Series from the late 70's early 80's for cheap and the last month I have been working on getting it running again. It came with no tubes, so I bought some new tubes and after installing them there was a very loud hum sound and very little guitar sound even at full volume. I changed all the electrolytic capacitors on the power supply and it did not help. I eventually was able to trace the issue down to the 15V power that powers the preamp. The schematic is in the picture and I replaced all of the components on the preamp board (IR11/12, IC15/17, ICR10/11) for this power supply. After replacing these parts it took away the hum and volume went back to normal, so it seems that was the issue. However, after playing around with it for about an hour all of those replaced parts were pretty hot, especially IR11/12 (these are 5W 100 Ohm 5% Power Wire wound Ceramic Horizontal Cement Resistors). Not scalding hot where I could not touch them, but hot enough that I would not want to hold my hand on it for an extended amount of time. The voltages seem to be within range for the parts prior to this on the power amp side, and the voltages coming out and on the op amp are slightly over 15V at about 15.8V, so it seems everything is working as it should. The tubes are also extremely hot (especially as compared to my Peavey Heritage VTX, that is only a few years younger. It does have 4-6L6 tubes, as compared to 2 on this one). I've read that these amps do run pretty hot, but this seemed a little more than normal, but maybe that's just the way they are. Does anyone have any experience with these amps and is that normal? Does anyone know if there is a temperature range that is too hot?

I also get a lot of hiss once the gain hits about 4-5, especially on the bright channel. I have a few capacitors I plan to change on those circuits that may help, but is this normal for these amps? Could the two issues be related?

Hello, friends! I have a quick question about my modded Peavey head.

It's a classic vt50, made into a guitar head. I use it to power an 8ohm 200w 2x12" cabinet and it sounds great.

I read and talked to some people that you can connect two cabs to the head if they're both 8ohm. The peavey has two speaker outputs: Main 8ohm and Aux 4ohm.

In theory this should work because from what I understood if you connect two 8ohm cabinets, one in the Main 8ohm and one in the Aux 4ohm, the internal wiring of the jacks should be in parallel, resulting a total load of 4ohms.

I am not a specialist in any way and I haven't tried it yet because i have repaired this peavey two times now and im mortally terrified of something happening to it again. I wrote to peavey's customer service but i haven't got a reply.

So my question to you, peavey enjoyers is :

Is it actually safe and okay to plug two 8ohm cabinets to the head?