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Topic: Peavey Triumph for steel
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Michael Haselman
Member From: St. Paul Park, Minnesota, USA
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posted 03 May 2005 02:37 PM
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Anybody tried one of these? I've got a 60 watter from when they first came out. All tubes, been gathering dust for a while.------------------
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Dave Mudgett
Member From: Central Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 04 May 2005 08:22 AM
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I had one of these about 10 years ago. There are 3 models, I had the 'Top Box' version, not the Ultra-Gain or PAG model. I think these were really meant as hard-rock/heavy-metal amps. But the one I had was a good, versatile amp - I got mine from a good country guitar player. I wasn't playing pedal steel then, I had no problem getting a good clean Tele spank on the clean channel, by cutting the mids back a bit and using a bit of compression. With an semi-open-back 2x12" cab, it sounded a lot like a Pro Reverb, which I like just fine for guitar/steel double-duty in a small club setting. With some knob tweaking, it also worked fine for distorted slide or lap-steel on the crunch setting. Choice of speakers makes a lot of difference. I used some large-magnet Eminence speakers designed as Twin Reverb replacements. I never tried it, but I'll bet JBLs or Black Widows would help this for steel. Whether there's enough 'clean juice' for most pedal steel players is another story, it isn't anything like a Session/NV 400. But if you don't need that kind of clarity & volume and want a versatile head for both clean and dirty sounds, this might be worth a try. If it's been sitting around for a long time and you're not tube-electronics savvy, I suggest taking it to a tech for a quick check-out. Leaving tube amps sitting around for a long time is harder on them than being used. I generally clean such an amp up, carefully check the filter caps (replacing if they're real old or leaking) and look for other obvious problems on the circuit board, then power up slowly with a variac. But don't get into this yourself unless you know what you're doing. Tube amps pack large voltages that can knock you on your butt or worse if you do the wrong thing. I've seen experienced techs make a mistake and get burned, and so have I. In fact, I generally give mine to someone else to work on these days - I'm not really set up for it. | |
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