Peavey ValveKing 112 Combo Amp  

I have been using a friends 1-12 valve king for several weeks now and I am so impressed with it that I now have one on order with musicians friend. Very good sounding amp! You can get about any sound that you want from this amp. And for an ALL tube amp, 5 tubes in all, you can't beat the price. There's nothing that I can say bad about this amp. I highly recommend it!

   I just recieved my new ValveKing 112 amp today and I have to say, IT ROCKS!!! Great tone & sustain! A very full sound range with the Texture variable Class A/AB blend control.

I love playing different styles of music and trust me this amp can handle every one of them.

I cranked the volume on both channels to approximately 4 and it really sounded great.

I purchased mine from GC's website and got it approximately $30 cheaper than MF because of the holiday sale they have going on (it may have already expired, I'm not sure).

This is my first all-tube amp and it's a great one to have as a first. I am very pleased so far.

First thing I noticed it's dead quiet when no signal is put through it and when the standby is turned on or off there are not pops or transient noises. Indicates good electrical engineering. Despite the fact it is made in China the build seems very solid and clean, albeit I haven't checked out the guts of the amp for wiring connections etc. What I like most about it is the bass response - articulate and not mushy. I'm not much into high gain crunch playing so I can't speak for that channel, but the clean channel does what it should - and for nasty sounds I just run it though a Future '70 or a VOX Satchurator - or both pedals at once that gives huge sustain! I've also got a Boggie Stilleto and a Deluxe Reverb, and like them all. Peavey not as chimey at the high end as the Fender, but I think the bass is better. (I play all amps through a MXR Carbon Copy with all settings around 9-10; think the pedal adds something to all amps - just my opinion.) I've only had it a few weeks so I can't speak to long-term reliability, but so far there is nothing suspicious going on. Seems to me one gets a lot of bang for the buck here as it's as good as amps costing 50-100% more.

...I did not like it at first. It has an inherent brittleness to the top end and the distortion is kind of fizzy. After two upgrades, I have created a monster little amp. I play in a classic/alternative rock cover band and I needed big amp performance with little amp portability and I got it. I replaced the crappy VK speaker with an 8ohm Eminence Red Coat Governor (USA made) and retubed it with Tung-Sol pre-amp and power tubes. The difference was both immediate and astounding. The high end fizz was gone and was replaced by warm and buttery tone! Notes were jumping out at me like never before and I had to readjust my EQ settings. It responds to my picking so much better now and I have more clean headroom. The clean channel sparkles like an old Fender now with less breakup at higher volumes. I set my rythym gain on the dirty channel to 2o'clock and it will clean up when I roll off the volume on my USA Fender "Fat Strat". I use an Ibanez Turbo Tube Screamer to boost my solos on the dirty channel. This amp is loud and can gig with a full band if you mic it up. My next buy will be a 1x12 ext. cab for a cool little stack. My only other gripe about this amp and Peavey in general is the crappy design of their footswitches and lack thereof when you purchase their amps. Footswitch should be included. I gave it a 6 on features because of that.

It's built well like all Peavey stuff is. I have had no problems with it other than my original dislike of the tone.

Great 1st tube amp for the money. It's loud and does the job. Upgrades will make it truly gig worthy.

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this thing is incredible sounding and extremely loud. when i crank out some no more tears riffs on this thing i feel my stomach pounding. its like a guitar amp and a subwoofer all in one. it emits tons of bass on high volumes. i use a fullbore metal distortion over the clean chanel and it is intense. it can handle added brutality from diferent distortin pedals like some amps cant. this is one of those amps you gotta get.