Advantages: Great value. Awesome tone. Very LOUD! Disadvantages: Very heavy. Footswitch not included.
The ValveKing 212 is a 100 watt combo with a beautiful valve tone. It's a twin channel all tube amp with two 12" speakers encased in an open backed cabinet but unlike the "Classic" the valves are protected by a guard. I use this amp live for lead guitar in a blues band. Peavey are renowned for their reliability and it has never let me down.
There are two inputs, 1 is for single coil guitars and 2 is for a high output guitar.
The clean channel has volume, bass, middle and treble controls. These don't really seem to effect a huge change in the full warm sound of the amp. However, there is a Bright Switch which boosts the treble very significantly. To my ears it's way over the top and will cause a telecaster to bite your head off. It's a bit like an OTT Fender Twin. However, you may want this boost if you're a country twanger or if want ...
Advantages: Really nice clean tones Disadvantages: Rather muddy and weak overdrive channel
analougue sounding reverb it is too.
External speaker out which is handy for larger gigs.
FX loop which is always nice.
Thats about it, nice and simple.
Durability:
This thing is built like a tank! while i was taking it to a gig in my car it fell over onto a metal bracket in my car boot and luckily missed metal panel with the volume knob on it but hit the wood casing at the top left instead and made a massive dent in the wood! But this thing is built so well that the tubes didn't even break! Very shock absorbant indeed. Also a very very heavey amp for a 212! - I think it must be the Eminence Speakers that are 60W each instead of the stock Peavey speakers that were 50W each
Value:
I think overall this amp is perfect for a guitar player who diggs the clean tone or playing soft rock or blues etc. definately not for the metal head! I ...
Advantages: Great sounding, medium size Disadvantages: N/A
When I was investigating which PA speakers to invest in, Peavey were the ones that everyone I know seemed to recommend. I tried out a few pairs (which I will review on here in time) but these are the ones I bought so I will start with these.
The Pro-12 is from Peavey's 'Messenger Pro' range of speakers and, as speakers go, they are pretty good to look at. They are not massive and, according to the manual, they are 22.6" high, 16.3" wide and 14" deep. I won't argue with that. They are fairly easy to carry as they have well placed and comfortable handles on both sides of the speaker unit. I wouldn't like to carry them very far as they are quite heavy. Its quite easy to get them mounted onto speakers stands which is something that I think is very very important.
The speaker unit is covered in the black carpet material that seems to be ...
