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Topic: Peavey Session 400 and Reknown Amp
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Robert Herr
Member From: Quarryville, PA, USA
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posted 27 May 2006 07:20 AM
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I answered an ad that selling a 1980 Peavey Session 400 and a Peavey Reknown Amp( not the Reknown 400).The guys father was a steel player.Ayone using the Reknown for steel and if so what settings are you using. I bought the Reknown for $175 so I will be using this amp for steel.The Session looked great but when you turned the volume all the way up it would not get loud, it was clean just no volume.I noticed the speaker was a scorpion not the JBL could the wrong ohm speaker cut back on volume? |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 27 May 2006 07:53 AM
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One of my bands used a rehearsal space that provided Reknown amps. I wanted to use their amps so I wouldn't have to bring my NV400 or Twin Reverb that I was using at the time. But the Reknown was by far the worst steel amp I ever tried. It is basically a cheesy sounding solid state amp designed to give crappy solid state distortion even at low volume. I even downloaded the manual to try to figure out how to get the Reknown to play clean. You are supposed to be able to blend the clean and distortion channel together to get any desired amount of distortion. But you can never cut the distortion channel completely out, and the "clean" channel is very low volume by itself. I even tried to play through two Reknowns, but still couldn't get enough clean volume for steel (it was a rockabilly/alt country band that played loud even in practice). It's possible it might be clean enough for you at very low volume levels, but then you are carrying around a big heavy amp and using a small fraction of its volume range. I'd rather have a 30 lb., 15 watt Princeton - more clean volume and better sounding distortion. ------------------
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