Peavey Valve King 212 Guitar Combo Amplifier (100 Watts, 2x12 in.)

All tube. Two independent channels. Reverb.

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Overall User Ratings

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

"I paid $679 for a 50 watt tube amp and only $579 for a 100 watt with simular features. You cant beat it for the price"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 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:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from swbell.net

Submitted: 3/27/2006

Style of Music: All forms of rock

Musical Experience: Active Musician and Guitar teacher

Location: Houston Texas

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Feature:
no accessories were included I ordered the footswitch, however you dont need it to change channels. but it does make it easy.

Quality:
For the money this amps construction is good, but remember your not buying 1200 dollar amp. The good thing about it construction is that it doesnt weigh a ton (69 lbs)for a one hundred watt amp, this is great

Value:
This amp is truly the best bang for the buck!!

Desirability:
The logo on this amp is awsome. Very appealing look

Sound:
This amp rocks, the tone is to die for. It has 3 new adjustments,1 for switching between A and B class and 2 damping controls. With a little tweeking you got any sound thats out there. Now theres no need to spend over a thousand for a good tube amp, this ones a winner. The cleans are equal to that of a fender and the distortion is better than my marshall stack Wow!

Ease of Use:
It took 2 minutes for me to discover how to use all the controls. The manual is short sweet and straight to the point. I does help to know a little about tube amps to understand the A/B switching.

Support:
I have owned many peavey amps over the years , the best thing is if you need anything just call. I called and got a footswitch and had it in 3 days

Overall:
I've own or have owned most brand tube amps the features on this one are simple and very effictive and are great. I would like to see the addition of a reverb switch input jack If this amp ever gets stolen I would have to replace it at once

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"A professional amp for a serious musician who takes pride in quality tones"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 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:: 9 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 1/28/2008

Style of Music: Punk, Classic Rock, Expirimental

Musical Experience: Active musician of 10 years

Location: Missouri

Feature:
Two distortion channels (regular and high-gain also loudness boost) A crisp clean channel with a bright setting and an A/B class tube converters (never seen one of those before) not to mention spring reverb and high and low end dampening settings

Quality:
This is a top of the line amp. Its price is low for its quality and in my opinion it is as high a quality that anyone would ever need in an amp. Two great sounding, very pretty speakers and a handful of very impressive tubes.

Value:
This is a steal for the price. It will be the last amp you ever need

Desirability:
This is a sexy amp. I eyeballed it for months before I was able to get it and through all of my researching I didnt find anything that looked so close to my ideal combo amp

Sound:
The Peavey Valve King 212 has some of the greatest sound potential that I have ever seen, without the use of effects. The tone is so flexible that many owners believe it to not have such a great sound. Each option is so precise and sensitive that it can be hard to create the distortion that you are looking for, but it is in the amps capabilities. It only takes a good knowledge of what needs to be adjusted. Ive owned this amp for a year and I play it everyday.

Ease of Use:
It is a large amp that could be considered fragile (tubes) It has alot of knobs and the tones are very sensitive so it might take a little bit of practice to achieve optimal tone editing.

Support:
Mine shorted out due to bad electricity in my house and I just brought it in and got it fixed for free in a few weeks. Not bad at all. Though it was a slight challenge finding a place to go to so I would not have to ship it in.

Overall:
I will never get tired of this amp. I will only get better at using its features. Warm rich tones from here on out.

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"great little all tube amp"

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

Submitted: 3/7/2007

Style of Music: rock/country

Musical Experience: hoobyist

Location: ruckersville virginia

Feature:
excellent quality.. good tone..needs more versatile speaker

Quality:
well made

Value:
excellent

Sound:
great amp for the money....could use a better more versatile speaker (celestion 75 watt maybe?) the A/AB class switching doesnt seem to make any difference.

Ease of Use:
very easy

Support:
no

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Peavey Valve King 212 Customer Review

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 8 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

User: a customer from purdue.edu

Submitted: 6/29/2008

Style of Music: Rock

Musical Experience: Hobbyist

Location: Indiana

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Feature:
The sound is so versatile though the reverb is a little lacking but this can be fixed with a new tank.

Quality:
My reverb tank only had one screw in it but besides that its built like a tank

Value:
The amp is incredibly flexible and sounds awesome I highly recommend it

Desirability:
I own it and its awesome

Sound:
The sound is incredibly flexible you can do everything from country to metal

Ease of Use:
The amount of knobs takes a bit of getting used to

Support:
I have not used it

Overall:
I use this amp to practice on in my bedroom (and no its not too loud it sounds great at low volumes too). It is the best amp I have ever used I highly recommend it

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Peavey Valve King 212 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:: 9 out of 10

Submitted: 4/16/2006

Sound:
I bought this amp several months ago for my southern rock band, mostly just because my lead guitar player has the Peavey XXX and we wanted our sounds to be similar but not identical. When I test drove it, the quality of the sound coming from those tubes was very full and rich, and versatile. I was looking forward to going to town with the crunch channel, and for awhile I did, until I also bought a Boss GT-8 guitar processor (I cannot recommend this product enough) Ever since I bought it, i havn't touched the crunch channel, because the clean channel of the Peavey is absolutely perfect in its warmth and fullness for any and ALL of the amazing tones the Boss puts out. Usually you'd play a digital effects setup through a solid state amp like a crate, but the texture through the clean channel with just enough texture from the tubes sounds amazing. Don't waste money on a $1500 amp, this has the pro sound you want!

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