Those "New" Peavey Preamp Pedals..

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SgtThump said:
I never thought we'd see the day where people want Peavey pedals based on their old shitty amps. LOL

Same thing with the MXR Rockman pedal. Like who would use that tone?
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I would'nt exactly say sh**ty.
People love the Rockmaster Preamp, myself included.
The Supreme 160 has been a go-to for many metal and death metal bands.
The VTM amps are legends in their own right. People go Apesh*t for those things. They sound awesome.

The Rockman sound??...
Hmmm, let's see......Joe Satriani recorded most of Surfing with the Alien with one.
Def Leppard recorded all of their amazing album Hysteria with one.
ZZ Tops Album Afterburner was pretty much all Rockman.
Ohhhhh, Almost forgot about Boston. The tone on their Amazing albums.... Rockman stuff..
Sh*t, Even the band Carcass mixed some Rockman sound in with the 5150's they were using to record their album Heartwork..
Did I miss any??
 
japetus said:
It's Bandit though. Supreme 160's and Bandits were 2 different animals
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As a FB friend of James Brown I can sincerely say that the Teal Stripe Bandit/Supreme 160/Renown 1-12 and 2-12/ Classic Chorus 212 all share the same preamp.
Ohhhh.. almost forgot. The VERY rare and awesome Revolution head.
 
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I was excited about those pedals for about 2 minutes until I saw they were all solidstate. It would have been so cool to have tube pedals of classic peavey circuits like a rockmaster and vtm. With switch mode power supplies what they are these days, they wouldn’t have had to put transformers in them to get high voltage.

I tried to do the solidstate preamp pedal thing on-and-off for a couple years but it just doesn’t do it for me.
 
The Polish Hammer said:
I would'nt exactly say sh**ty.
People love the Rockmaster Preamp, myself included.
The Supreme 160 has been a go-to for many metal and death metal bands.
The VTM amps are legends in their own right. People go Apesh*t for those things. They sound awesome.

The Rockman sound??...
Hmmm, let's see......Joe Satriani recorded most of Surfing with the Alien with one.
Def Leppard recorded all of their amazing album Hysteria with one.
ZZ Tops Album Afterburner was pretty much all Rockman.
Ohhhhh, Almost forgot about Boston. The tone on their Amazing albums.... Rockman stuff..
Sh*t, Even the band Carcass mixed some Rockman sound in with the 5150's they were using to record their album Heartwork..
Did I miss any??
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I had a Rockmaster preamp and the Peavey 6L6 power amp many years ago. One gig and it was gone. Not my thing. To me it was shitty.

The Rockman was super cool back in the early/mid '80s. But you only get that one tone. That worked for some bands at the time, but I can't imagine anyone using that tone today.

Sorry man. Didn't mean to shit all over your opinions.
 
SgtThump said:
I had a Rockmaster preamp and the Peavey 6L6 power amp many years ago. One gig and it was gone. Not my thing. To me it was shitty.

The Rockman was super cool back in the early/mid '80s. But you only get that one tone. That worked for some bands at the time, but I can't imagine anyone using that tone today.

Sorry man. Didn't mean to shit all over your opinions.
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It's all good...
That's why they make chocolate and strawberry ice cream. Everybody likes something different. *Shrug*
 
Devin said:
I still say my VTM60 can comfortably hang with just about any other amp out there


It looks like fucking shit but sounds amazing and seems to be indestructible :dunno:
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i love my VTM60’s (I have two). I bought the VTM preamp pedal mostly out of curiosity. Through a tube power amp it does sound like a VTM although a bit more stiff/sterile. Only really something you’d hear in person. My actual VTM just seems to have more of a bounce/woody thing. Maybe because all the components are 40ish years old.
They did something weird with the gain 2 dipswitch though. It just sounds wrong. Almost like a weird transistor fart tone to it. Nothing like the gain 2 dipswitch on the real amp. Not a big deal. I usually run the gain at a nice crunch and boost if I need more.
 
It was back in January so my memory is lacking but really liked those three when I tried the pedals at the Peavey booth at NAMM.

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japetus said:
The Supreme 160 is the most badass amp...don't you have one
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i do, cool amp for sure, and you can probably still find them for not much more than what youre gonna pay for the pedal lol
 
I have the Renown 1-12, which is the Supreme 160 in combo form with digital reverbs/delays.
Sadly when I got it the housing and speaker were pretty torn up. But the amplifier section/chassis is like brand new. Not a mark or speck of dirt on it...No idea how that happened.
So now I'm on the search to have a headshell built for it.
160 watts of power is insane. I'd love to put it in a rack case and use it as a power amp for my rack stuff
 
RaceU4her said:
i do, cool amp for sure, and you can probably still find them for not much more than what youre gonna pay for the pedal lol
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Lol
I don't know... Just found one on Craigslist and they want 800 bucks for it.. Yikes!
Prices are bonkers.
 
The Polish Hammer said:
Lol
I don't know... Just found one on Craigslist and they want 800 bucks for it.. Yikes!
Prices are bonkers.
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yeah thats too much, in the last year three have sold for $400 and two for $650 on reverb, i was gonna say $500 tops if local.
 
Christ....
Guitar center has a 3120 listed for like 2300 dollars... Like, what??? Lol
Used 5150's for 1700... What the hell is wrong with people?

Back in 92' when I bought mine the supreme 160's were like 320 bucks new!
 
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