Peavey TransTube(r) practise amp

I work at a school a couple of days each week, and on thursdays, the school has a chapel service. A couple of kids from my church like to rock out for a song each week, and I've normally been lugging my laney to and from school, church, home.

A few weeks ago, the school bought a few amps, a peavey bass amp, and a little peavey rage transtube thing.

I remember peavey rage's from when I was in school, and they always sounded crap. I grew up with a general dis-like of anything that said 'peavey'. But just for laughs, I thought I'd plug into this little amp (Peavey Rage 258) and give it a go.

on the dirty channel, it's got two gain knobs - pre-gain and post-gain. Pre-gain seems to be over drive and post-gain seems to be volume. There's a switch next to that with three settings: 'Stack', 'Modern' and 'Vintage. So I set it to vintage and strummed a C#m7.

whoa. not bad!

Ok, so it had enough volume to hear over the drummer (he likes to play very loud), when distorted, there was a nice clarity to the sound, I could hear each note of the chord, and it sounded ... tubey!

But it was WAY TOO TREBLY, even on my archtop, neck humbucker with the bass knob on 10 and the treble knob on 2 with a scooped mid. Not sure if putting in a new, bigger speaker would do the trick.

But seriously, this wasn't bad! Much better than the little rage amps from the mid 90's!

Peavey.com :: TransTube Series

The newer Peavey tube amps are actually quite a good value for the money:

http://www.electric-guitar-review.co...tudio-class-a/

Probably as much as a workhorse as the SCXD. As I've mentioned before, you could upgrade from amp to amp.... or just start at the top (Badcat). I actually have a hankering to sell my Mesa Boogie and a few other assorted pieces of (rarely-used) gear and just get a Badcat already.

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haha, you love the badcats!

I think they start at about $2000 here, for the Mini 2, and $3,300 for the cheapest head.

Adaptable, matty's right -- you have some serious GAS for a Badcat. I think you pull the trigger and get one!

Wouldn't 'Amp Aquisition Syndrome' be AAS?

I'm in the process of putting in a pool, and I just sneaked a Taylor acoustic in under the wife radar (looks nearly identical to my old one!)....There is no way in hell I could get a new amp even if I sold ALL my gear.

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Nice work on the Taylor.