10 years. Guitar, Bass, Piano, Drums, and Mandolin

Anything but country and hip hop.

As mentioned above, this amp can do anything. While I primarily play Melodic Metal with my band Thanasphere (yeah, I'm plugging a bit), I also play quite a lot of blues, classic rock and classical. This amp serves all purposes. Clean Channel: Ranging from perfect clarity to a light grit, you can get just about any tone you want from it. I generally engage the coil tap on my EMGs and use the middle selector position on my Schecter when playing cleans to really serve the clarity that you can get from the clean channel. It will allow subtlety within chords (adds, etc...--think Kickapoo if you're unfamiliar), but will also respond well to a boomier low end if that's what you're looking for. All in all I'm very confident that this will achieve any clean to you want--it's certainly better than my Fender DeVille. Crunch: Ranging from a light fuzz to doom quality, you can essentially reach aspects of a clean channel and almost render the full overdrive channel useless by simply adjusting your level of gain. I've been able to get some bitchin' Van Halen tones, some subtle blues fizz, and even low boomy Doom metal from this channel. Overdrive: The high gain channel will fulfill your gainy needs, of this I am certain. With bursting amounts of gain, even with the Pre-gain knob at 7/8 nothing is too fizzy and muddy. I've been able to achieve perfect amounts of clarity even by maxing out the Pre-gain and vice versa, I've been able to get nice, gritty, muddy blunder that will attain the "ugly range" if that's what you're into. My only complaint is that I was spoiled with my built-in spring reverb in my old DeVille, and now I mus live without it. Currently I'm being a purist and running my guitar straight into the amp, but I've experimented with my Zoom G9.2tt and they work quite well together for effects (chorus, reverb, and the luxury of a volume pedal primarily).

If you're deciding between the plus and the regular, spring for the plus; it has a separate EQ for the Clean/Crunch and Gain channels that I wouldn't be able to live without. While it's pretty bare as far as flash goes, it's better for it. It comes across very minimal and pure and leaves you open to far more pre-amp effects and tone customization.

I've never felt like I was trying particularly hard to make it sound good. While I've spent the weeks since I got it turning knobs constantly to find my sweet spot, it has sounded phenomenal throughout. I would also mention that this amp being so minimal in the features dept. lends itself very well to it's ease of use.

I feel confident that when the world inevitably burns, only this amp and my Peavey 412MS will be the headstones marking where Earth once existed, living on into the darkness of time.

Given that any other amp I've tried to approached with level of versatility and has surpassed expectations has been in the $2000-$3000 range (with the exception of some tasty vintage amps that you can find used), this really can't be beat. That taken into consideration with the fantastic Play as you Pay plan available through zZounds, I can't think of any reason to complain. If you are a musician--invest in your craft and find the tools to do yourself justice.

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I played my first concert with this amp recently and thought to myself on several occasions "wow I love my tone." I have never had the luxury of thinking that during a show and it makes it worth any price.

I have eight years guitar playing experience and primarily play professionally with my band, Thanasphere.

My band, Thanasphere, is Melodic Metal (think Dethklok lovechild with Lamb of God and Children of Bodom with melodies passed dow

20+ years. Metal, extreme metal. Recording musician.

METAL.

USA Fender Stratocaster Standard/Epi Les Paul/Explorer/Wildkat | Biyang Tri-Reverb | Crybaby Wahwah

Classic Rock, 80's Hair.

4 years guitar.Other insterments alot longer.

Pop punk,alternative,pop rock.post hardcore

Amateur, gigging guitarist, 12 years

Beat for Rock, Metal, or even Blues.

The gain is the best imo. Cleans are decent. Picking dynamics are second to none where a high gain amp is concerned and this amps gain is much more useable than about any other i have used. For the price it can't be touched and even for a grand more it would still be untouched. The only issue i have is the amp cannot be switched to half power but, not a big deal at all for the tone.

I wish it had a half power switch and lazer beams to shoot out at the crowd when a pinch harmonic is hit....

EFFORTLESS.....

Tank,Tank,TANK! This amp is the only other i have used that may as well be bulletproof...

For the price it can't be beat. For twice the price it is still untouched.

The customer service is great, i own one of their no longer manufatured guitars and asked them for the specs and i got them within minutes with a polite message.

I reocrded in a pro studio and used the originaly titled version of this amp and have lusted after it ever since,now i have one and i own the combo, sonicaly other amps can eat Peavey's dust as far as this amps concerned.

Semi-Pro

all types when hired, metal in my own bands

Solo artist

Metal, hard rock, blues

The is the king of Metal Amps. The sound is phenomenal. The cleans channels are really good and it has a crunch channel that you can click on the footswitch. I really enjoy using this thing, especially the lead channel. If you want a real metal amp with soaring leads, get this!

The amp comes with a good footswitch unlike the regular 6505. Its actually durable and has 3 buttons, 1 for clean and lead, 1 for crunch, 1 for effects. The tubes in it are great, I believe there 6L6's. The amp is all round awesome.

Piece of cake getting any tone from this. I can adjust my settings to get a ZZ top sound all the way down to an As I lay Dying tone. The amp is very adjustable and has no horizons and limits.

This thing is built like a frickin tank. I purchased this one Blemished and there wasnt any scratches, or dings, or anything wrong with it. I was beyond impressed with how built this thing was.I think ill have it till I die.

This amp is pricey but worth it. You get what you pay for, if you buy a 400 Bugera head, Its gonna break, if you buy a Peavey that been around forever, its going to last and give you some signature tones.

Havent talked to peavey but I give them a 10 for building an awesome amp that it wont break so I dont need to call the.

Its one sexy amp. It screams "SHRED ME"

Active musician

Metal, NeoClassical, Blues, Hard Rock, Jazz, Fusion

Guitarist

Progressive Metal, Djent, Metalcore, Hardcore, Hard Rock, Post Hardcore

playing for 8 years. in a band, but i still jam at home and with friends

Punk rock, classic rock(Elo, top petty, bad company), thrash metal.

Guitar bass and drums since 1990. Farenheit451, Caged, charisma society, Stallpoint, solo projects

jazz, metal, blues, bluegrass, progressive

This amp is awesome. If you play metal or rock you should definately check out this amp. It has way more gain and volume than anyone should ever need. You CAN get clean sounds out of this amp. Very versatile amp.

This thing is packed with feature to sculpt the sound you want. It also has a ground lift, which is a big plus when gigging. The only thing missing is a headphone jack.

Very easy to use and dial in the sound your looking for.

This thing is built like a tank. I would trust it without a backup any day.

Definately worth the price compared to other high gain tube amps.

Gigging Musician

Metal

I have been playing music for 20 years. I am in a metal band and am the rhythm guitarist.

Metal

Playing for 30 years now. Played in clubs for years but now just home recordings and teaching

From Megadeath to Mozart

Active musician

Rock, Metal, Blues

Hobbyist

Metal

Guitar, 30 plus years, play public events on weekends.

country, rock, blues

18 years of gigging and recording

Modern rock, metal

Sound is amazing! Just remember that speaker selection plays a huge part in this. I can get every thing from AC/DC sounding overdrive to blues from the crunch channel. The lead channel is where I stay most of the time because of the high gain metal tone I love. I can get the high gain without going past about 51/2 to 6 on the gain, so there is plenty more gain than you will ever need. I use the Ibanez tube screamer when I go into a solo just to tighten up the sound and make the pinch harmonics scream. This amps clean and crunch channel are tied in together which is the only thing i dont like. But a really good clean sound can be achieved by lowering the pre gain down to about 2 or 3 and dialing up the post gain a little higher to get the volume up where you need it.

The best feature on this amp is the resonance control. Some people refer to this as the "add balls knob" because that is what it does!!

easy to use. plug it up and play with the controls for a few mins. You can find the tone you want very quickly and easily.

Built like a tank! Very sturdy and well made.

There are cheaper amps out there, but this thing is great and made in the USA. Thats worth the extra money to me!

I don't think I will ever need to call them.

The sound is the WOW factor! If It got stolen today, I would order another today!

home recording

Metal

You forgot to mention the most awesome band in the world uses these! THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simply amazing!

Brutality at its finest!

What else can i say? The best for the price!

I have a peavey head from the early 80s and it still sounds as good as new!

Excellent price!

Excellent customer service!

Sexy

Active musician

Melodic death metal

HEAVY AS F***!! Cleans could be better, but lets face it, if you are looking at this amp, cleans are the last thing on your mind. The gain on this is incredible. Tone is amazing.

Peavey has always made quality products. Why do you think so many artists use their product?

Try to find this kind of tone for under 1000 dollars... Peavey is the only one.

havent dealt with them, but im sure they are great.

Looks and sounds like money

active musician

rock, hardcore, metal

This head Rocks!! The tone is extremely versatile and plenty loud. I currently use it for an Iron Maiden tribute band, but can also get a 70's thru 90's rock tone.

Came with a pedal to switch from clean to crunch to sreaming lead tone. Also has an effects on/off. I like the that this head has seperate EQ for the two channels. I do wish the resonance and reverb were a little better, but they still sound sweet.

Totally basic to use.

Haven't had to contact support.

active musician and recording engineer

Rock, Hard Rock, Metal

This thing is a monster. It has the best distortion I've ever played in my life. The only thing I don't like is that you can't get it to be completely clean.

Comes with cab cables, and a footswitch. Awesome. The only thing that I don't like is the fact that the clean and crunch are on the same channel. It would have been better if they had two separate set of knobs for that.

Extremely easy.

Its beautiful, the most beautiful I've ever seen.

You've got Marshall's that have worse sound than this and that are like 2000 dollars. Best value ever for this amp right here.

Never used it.

It look great.

Active Musician

All kinds of metal, some rock, mostly metal.