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Topic: Peavy Renown Amp
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Joseph Solomon
Member From: Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 31 August 2006 05:06 PM
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I am thinking about buying a Peavy Renown Amp. Comments Please! |
KENNY KRUPNICK
Member From: Grove City,Ohio
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posted 31 August 2006 05:47 PM
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Joe, If you play steel guitar, then get the one with the 15" Black Widow speaker. 
Peavey also offered this one w/2 12" scorpion speakers. |
Don Burrows
Member From: Ashtabula, Oh. USA
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posted 01 September 2006 05:38 AM
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Joe, Wayne Hetzler asked me to contact you.
He has a Peavy Renown Amp with the 15" speakers. He is on his way to St Louis now and will contact you as soon as he gets home.------------------
Don Burrows
Builder of BSG Steel Guitars
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Jennings Ward
Member From: Edgewater, Florida, USA
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posted 01 September 2006 10:59 AM
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I HAVE ONE AND LOVE IT....NOT AS POWERFUL AS 400 OR 1000, BASICALLY THE SAME AMP. GREAT TONE
FOR STEEL OR GUITAR...SAME FOR KEYBOARD OR FIDDLE....BASS???????? NOT TO LOUD..
JW ------------------
EMMONS D10 10-10 profex 2 deltafex ne1000 pv1000, pv 31 bd eq, + D'ANGELICO
N. 400 |
Larry Robbins
Member From: Fort Edward, New York, USA
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posted 01 September 2006 11:07 AM
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I had the model with the 2/ 12" Scorpions.
Nice amp for lead guitar. Never tried it for steel. |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 03 September 2006 09:10 PM
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Worst amp I ever tried for steel. I used to use a practice space that had several Reknowns (a couple of different models). I wanted to use them so I wouldn't have to bring an amp, but I could never get enough clean headroom. I even downloaded the instruction manuals to read up on how the controls work. The distortion channel can never be cut out completely. Beyond very low volume I could never get rid of the cheesy solid-state distortion.------------------
Student of the Steel: Zum uni, Fender tube amps, squareneck and roundneck resos, tenor sax, keyboards |
Bill Bassett
Member From: Rimrock, Arizona, USA
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posted 04 September 2006 08:46 AM
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Funny you should bring this up. I just picked up a Renown 400 (solo series) with the 2 12 inch speakers last Friday for $200.00. I used it for steel on the weekend and was pretty pleased. I have an old 15 inch Black Widow sitting in a box and I was thinking that if I could do a clean retro fit, I'd instal it and see what happens. I'll let you know. BD[This message was edited by Bill Bassett on 04 September 2006 at 08:47 AM.] |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 04 September 2006 07:42 PM
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BTW, I didn't mean to dis Peavey. They have made some good solid-state steel amps, and some good tube guitar amps. But the Reknown is neither. |
Fred Shannon
Member From: Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas
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posted 05 September 2006 09:46 AM
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Just proves that tone is purely subjective. I modified a Renown from 2-12's to a 15 in BW and I use it here in the studio every day. Good tone from it and I have never experienced the distortion that David relates to. That certainly doesn't mean or imply that Dave is wrong, just that I don't hear it. They're good amps IMO, and my opinion only. We also have used this amp with lead guitar sessions too. I'm not really impressed with it in that mode, but steel wise it's certainly acceptable here. Phred------------------
"From Truth, Justice is Born"--Quanah Parker-1904 |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 05 September 2006 11:00 AM
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Fred, you're using it in a studio, probably at moderate volumes. I didn't try that. I was rehearsing with a very loud rockabilly band; and, in the upper volume range where I needed to be, I couldn't get rid of the distortion. My feeling for steel is that I want an amp that plays clean all the way to the top, like the Peavey Nashville series steel amps, or silver-face Fender tube amps. If only the bottom part of the volume range is usable for steel, then I am carrying around a lot of weight for volume that is unusable. For a practice amp at home, or in a studio, where you only need the low volume, and you don't need it to be portable, maybe it would be tolerable. But I can't imagine it would ever be considered a desirable steel amp. It wasn't made for that. It was designed to give a lot of loud solid state distortion for lead guitar. I'm just trying to tell it like it is from my experience. But like you say, that doesn't mean someone with a different opinion is wrong. If someone finds a Reknown works for them, then it does; and maybe what I say is not relevant to their situation. |
Fred Shannon
Member From: Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas
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posted 05 September 2006 11:57 AM
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Dave, you're absolutely right in your utilization presentations. We never jack it above 4 or 5 on volume control and sometimes not even that much. I can see where it might do even more than distort on high volume settings. but for studio work it really does the job for us. It did not, however, sound that good--regardless of any and all setting trials--with the 2-12's. You can bet on that.
eidted to add: BTW the 2-12 were Scorpions...
Phred ------------------
"From Truth, Justice is Born"--Quanah Parker-1904 [This message was edited by Fred Shannon on 05 September 2006 at 11:58 AM.]
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Mike Brown
Member From: Meridian, Mississippi USA
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posted 06 September 2006 08:10 AM
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Lloyd Green once told me that the Renown 115 amp was the best sounding amp that he had ever played through. |
Curt Langston
Member From: ***In the shadows of Tulsa at Bixby, USA***
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posted 06 September 2006 11:45 AM
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I wonder how that could be. Last I knew, the Renown did not have a MID shift on it. I feel that a separate MID and FREQ.SHIFT is critical for steel. |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 06 September 2006 01:27 PM
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Okay, Mike B. is pushing his products. He has reason to be proud of many of them. Over the years I have used several great Peavey amps, and still do. I never tried a Renown 115. The Renown 212s I tried would rank at the bottom of my list of Peavey amps, especially for steel, but also for regular guitar (I like tubes). I can't speak for Lloyd, or when he made that statement. As far as I know, his main amp these days is a Fender tube amp, same for me. A mid shift is helpful, but I wouldn't say it is critical. Fender tube amps have never had that, and many of us think they are the best steel amps ever made. Not trying to start a mud slinging fight or anything. But I think steelers who post here for information on out-of-production equipment want and deserve very frank and honest opinions from people with first-hand experience, with no pulled punches. Like I said, Peavey has some great amps. But I have had experience with the Renown, and for me it wasn't one of Peavey's best. |
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