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Peavey Valve King 112 Guitar Combo Amplifier (50 Watts, 1x12 in.)

All tube. Two independent channels. Reverb.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          9 out of 10
 
 

"A great amp for the price"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 6/8/2007
Style of Music: Heavy Rock - not quite metal.
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: MN

 

 
Feature:
This would be a "10" if it came with the footswitch and the reverb wasn't so awful (anything over '2' gets really splashy). You're probably already aware of the included features. The class a/ab knob doesn't really change the sound a lot - it's very subtle - but is more noticable at higher volumes. I'm pleased with the speaker, bit I hear a lot of people are swapping in a vintage 30. I may try this at some point. It's nice that an effects loop is included - try throwing an EQ in there to really get a great sound.

Quality:
I had to tighten a few screws when I got it to eliminate some rattles. As noted elsewhere, the reverb tank is held in by only 2 screws although there is space for 4.

Value:
Again, FOR THE PRICE, you can do no better.

Desirability:
It is a relatively classy looking amp. The knobs feel and look a bit cheap. If you can get past the Peavey Stigma®, it's a cool little amp.

Sound:
Great sound for the price and loud to boot. You know you are playing too loud when the drummer tells you to turn it down a bit! With the gain around 2 you can back off and sound clean, but then pick harder to dig in a little dirt. If you crank the gain to 10 and engage the boost, you lose most of your definition. The boost has a 'buzzy' quality to it. I find the best sound for me is with the gain at about 6 and the boost off.

Ease of Use:
Very easy to use!

Support:
Haven't had to deal with them.

Overall:
I really, really like this amp. That being said, if I could afford more I would probably have went with something else. You will read this everywhere and I will say it yet again: FOR THE PRICE, this thing is great!

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"The best amp in the world"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 4/18/2006
Style of Music: Rock, Blues, Freeform Jazz, Classical, Metal, Punk, Country, Classic Rock, Alternative.
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Bangkok, Taihland

 

 
Feature:
It didn't in clude the foot switch... :(

Quality:
Very well crafted.

Value:
Great value.

Desirability:
This is the "sexiest" amp I have ever seen.

Sound:
One word to describe this amp: AWSOME. It is sooooooo great.

Ease of Use:
It is extreamly easy to use and get a variety of tones from it/

Support:
I have had no problems.

Overall:
I will always be satisfyed witht his product and it never ceases to amaze me.

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"Don't waste money on solid-state or modeling amps in this price range, just get this!"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          5 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          5 out of 10
Submitted: 7/7/2008
Style of Music: Mostly 70's and 80's hard rock stuff, but a little blues and a little metal as well
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: Nebraska

 

 
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Feature:
Not much by way of features. My old amp had over a dozen built-in digital effects, but honestly I don't really miss them. This amp has an effects loop and a spring reverb and that's about it. It can use a foot pedal to control channel selection and the gain and volume boosts, but it didn't come with one.

Quality:
So far so good. It's heavy and the switches and dials feel quite solid. I already have a severely microphonic power tube (replacements are in the mail), but that's not Peavey's fault, it's the tube manufacturer's fault. I'm sure it was a tube defect since my amp never moves or gets handled or anything. I wanted an exact make/model tube match to maintain my sound and avoid a re-bias and these were a little hard to find (Ruby 6L6GCM-STR power tubes, had to buy a matched quad since I couldn't find a pair :( )

Value:
Awesome. This amp has that wonderful 70's/80's hard rock tone with plenty of gigging volume at a ridiculously affordable price. It sounds great, it's built tough, it has a wide variety of tonal ability, and it doesn't break the bank.

Desirability:
Well, it looks like a black box. Doesn't look great, but I never cared about amps' looks, I go by sound! If I lost it I would definitely replace it.

Sound:
The sound is phenomenal, especially given the price of this amp. I replaced my old Crate solid-state half-stack with one of these a little over a month ago and the sound still amazes me. My Crate's clean channel was extremely clean to the point of sounding bland and sterile. This amp's clean is just a little dirty. It doesn't sound distorted, but it sounds slightly compressed, warm, and bluesy. A tremendous improvement. The lead/distortion channel is nearly exactly what I was looking for. It can go from a smooth bluesy compressed sound all the way up to some screaming rock/metal distortion, without sounding excessively buzzy, thin, cheap, or nasty like my old Crate did. If I throw a Boss Super Overdrive in front with low drive but maxed level (clean boost), it pushes the distortion right up into the thrash metal/Metallica area. The only reason I rated sound a 9 instead of 10 is that I liked the sound of the 5150/6505's good Van Halen/brown-sound distortion better. But this amp is quite a bit cheaper, and nearly as good. The low distortion area is awesome compared to my old amp. Being a solid-state amp, my old Crate's distortion was basically either on/off. If you fiddled with the drive you could get some low-distortion tones out of it, but they sounded nasty. This Peavey has it down just right, smooth, creamy, bluesy, and natural sounding.

Ease of Use:
On/off switch, standby switch, two channels worth of tone and volume controls. It doesn't get any easier. Also, in my opinion this amp sounds good on nearly any setting, so I don't have too much trouble getting a sound I like out of it.

Support:
Blah. Never dealt directly with Peavey, but I did purchase this amp from a local Peavey dealer. He didn't have any foot pedals in stock and I wanted one. He told me he'd look them up and call me in a couple days so I could order one. He never called me back. I'll just get one elsewhere sometime.

Overall:
I'm very satisfied with this amplifier. I don't plan to ever replace it, unless I decide to get the 212 version (no stack for me, too big and bulky...combos are actually plenty loud). Eventually I want to get a Peavey 5150/6505 but only as a supplement so I can more easily get some strong metal tones. This amp is perfect for bluesy hard rock, which is what I mainly play.

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"bad little combo"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from netscape.com
Submitted: 10/25/2006
Style of Music: everything and anything
Musical Experience: semi pro musician,
Location: Quincy IL USA

 

 
Feature:
pretty basic features but not bad for the price

Quality:
great tube quality for a solid state price. best durability out there it is well built like most peavey gear it will probaly last forever except changing tubes.

Value:
cheapest all tube 112 on the market and sounds better than most mid level tube amps and as good as some of the top shelf pro stuff

Desirability:
it donsnt have a bunch of chrome its just sweet and to the point.

Sound:
sounds pretty good/really god for the price. sounds best for blues,country,classic and southern rock. not really a hard metal or jazz amp but with an external distortion pedal and or overdrive it it can acheive some pretty decent metal tones. It;s all tube {good all tube quality} for the price of upper end solid state Thats just amasinh

Ease of Use:
very easy to use even for a novice

Support:
dont know

Overall:
best bang for the buck ever.will suit myneeds for a long time

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Peavey Valve King 112 Customer Review

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from netscape.net
Submitted: 10/26/2006
Style of Music: Metal, Prog, Rock
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Maine

 

 
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Feature:
Has verb. EQ and boat loads of gain. What more do you need?

Quality:
Seems tight. Id gig with it.

Value:
You simply cannot beat this one.

Desirability:
Its a classic set up noting thats going to go out of style in a few years.

Sound:
I paid much money for a El Diablo and the VK112 blows it away in EVERY possible way...so for the 300-500 range I seriously doubt you can pick up a new tube amp that even comes close...

Ease of Use:
It took me literally 2 minutes to dial in a killer tone...actually less than that...about the time it takes for the tubes to warm up...thats how long it takes to tweak a great sound.

Support:
I emailed peavey once for a cable on my JSX head. They are QUICK!

Overall:
You simply cannot beat this one.

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"MOST TONE FOR $$$$$$$$$$$"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 5/25/2006

 

 
Feature:
Nice and simple, everything does what it is supposed to.

Quality:
I have had peavey amps that have outlasted all my others no matter how bad I have treated them.

Value:
The most tone for the money.

Desirability:
I wish we could do away with name brands for a while. Then maybe everyone would look at a product for what it is. If you are biased against Peavey you probably won't like this amp, but if you heard it and didn't know what it was you would love it.

Sound:
Most sound for money period.

Ease of Use:
You can't go wrong with just the basic knobs

Support:
Never had to use them.

Overall:
I think this is probably the last amp I will buy

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"If ya need an amp to gig or jam for the money BUY IT"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 4/29/2008
Style of Music: Christian rock and classic rock
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama

 

 
Feature:
Sell am amp without the foot switch. come on Peavy orther than that a great value

Value:
A great value. evcellent bang for the buck

Sound:
It took me awhile to warm up to amp as I have and am a Fender person. It gets a great sound on distortion or clean without haveing to buy a bunch of foot switches.

Ease of Use:
like I said earlier took me a little to figure out but I am a newbie

Support:
Havent had a need to use them so I can not rate

Overall:
would have got a ten but no footswitch

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"Got me hooked"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aim.com
Submitted: 12/6/2007
Style of Music: Anything
Musical Experience: Active musician
Location: Staten Island, NY, USA

 

 
Feature:
The options are awesome. I haven't had an amp with Class A/AB distortion in a long time, and this amp has all that and then some. The equalizer and treble/bass boost are a godsend, and even though I rarely use the reverb, (I have a Boss FDR-1 for that) it sounds decent.

Quality:
When I first got it, I had the company replace the tubes because they were broken on arrival, but after that, it hasn't given me too much of a problem. You might want to tighten everything up on the control panel, though, before you start messing with it. The washers and nuts/bolts tend to come loose if you mess around with them too much, and they're a pain to get back in position if you let them fall in.

Value:
For the price, it kicks Marshall out of existence in my book. It's a little pricey for a 112, but you'll understand why when you hear it. I had a Fender FM212R and this thing blew it out of the water.

Desirability:
I know the ValveKing isn't even Peavey's best amp. That said, it's phenomenal. The sound has allowed me to get some numbers.

Sound:
I love the sound this thing makes. The equalizer is great, but even better is the boosts. Peavey has the absolute most wicked distortion I've ever heard. I use the treble boost for leads and the bass boost for rhythm, and it really screams. And even though it's a high-gain amp, it takes quite a bit to get it to feedback, which is good in my case.

Ease of Use:
Obviously, you're not gonna give it to a four-year-old and see if he can mess with the EQ and turn on the tubes the right way, but for guitar veterans it really is easy to use and very maneuverable. I get sounds from BB King to Cannibal Corpse after messing with the equalizer and boosters.

Support:
Peavey is great with support. They replaced an entire amp for free with no hassle when I told them my Rage 258 blew, and they also replaced the tubes on this particular amp when they were dead on arrival.

Overall:
The only time I would sell this thing is either to get the 212 version or the stack with the head. If anything happened to it, I'd either buy it again or upgrade to the stack.

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