I have owned my XXL for a little over 2 years now. I can say after playing for 25 + years and owning almost all the "ultimate" tube amps that this solid state amp is the best thing I have ever played. I play rock of all descriptions and even do a regular stint in a metal band. The XXL will do Metallica and Megadeth all night long. The direct out on the back is excellent for recording. I have run that path direct into a digial recorder and been pleasantly surprised at the accuracy of the result. At first I ran my XXL head through a pair of home made 2-12 bottoms with an EQ in the loop. I have since gone back to a 4-12 Celestion loaded design and no longer need the EQ. I can say that you should experiment with speaker bottoms. They are the final voice of the amp and should not be overlooked.

What more can you ask? An effects loop with switchabel level, 25,50 or 100 watts, 4,8,or 16 ohm output, 2 speaker outputs, tight medium or loose speaker damping, 3 fully independant footswitchable channels, 3 voicings on each channel. Need I go on? Can there be a feature that was missed?

Plug and play. If you need a manual for this amp you also need some Kindergarden classes.

QC rates tops here. No flaws at all. Tolex is so neatly applied I can not find the seams. The chrome knobs are cool. After beating the crap out of this amp for 2 years I can say I trust it more than any amp I have ever owned. My Marshalls have all been sold off. I had so many problems with breakdowns and tube failure at the most inconvenient times, this amp was a godsend. Literally. The maintenace schedule is now 'wipe with a damp rag'. Best feature is the removabel power cable.

For the price, come on! I paid 400 CDN new with warranty. You will never touch that with any amp in the same league as the XXL.

I deal constantly with Peavey. They rule the roost with thier superb customer service. I have had trouble with every major amp maker and lots of smaller ones too. Nobody but NOBODY compares wtih Peavey for service. The times when I needed them(damn few)they have been super attentive and very helpful. Though I have never needed warranty service on my many articles of Peavey gear, repairs have always been speedy and simple.

This is very hard for me to rate. I love it but I would never have known that from the way it looks. Cosmetics do not indicate performance. The XXL is not the prettiest, but not the ugliest. Like Forrest Gump's momma said "Pretty is as Pretty does" The XXL is pretty indeed when plugged into a capable 4-12 bottom.

professional touring musician, amatuer recroding engineer

rock,metal,blues

The best non-tube SS head on the market hands down. I researched my ass off before buying it. The only amp that can give it a run for the money was a Randall RH200 and what kept me from buying it was the fact that Randall has quality control issues on thier SS heads. Very tube like saturation, the ULTRA channel sounds very Mesa dual rectifier like, the rest just sounds very, very close to a marshall JCM. The back has a sag switch that lets you get different tube characteristics out of the power section, I set mine on loose when playing the ultra channel, it's the best damned distortion sound I've ever heard in an SS amp!

3 independent channels, reverb, master volume knob, 3 button FS, Effects send and return, what more do you need?

Weighs a ton, very solid - been gigging it for over a year now and I think it sounds better than when I first got it. NO PROBLEMS what so ever.

Best buy on the planet - only other thing that may sound better is a Peavey XXX - only because it is pure tube.

??? It's been dependable ??? never needed em'

I have it - I own it - I'll never part with it.

Gigging Pro

Hard alternative rock - metal

10+ years guitar

metallllll and everything

This monster sounds SICK. Alright...let's go over the basics. You've got three channels, each with independent EQ, and each with 3 different voicing options. On the lead channel, you can set it to classic, set your EQ right, set your gain kinda low, plug in a strat and BAM, you've got classic rock tones. Switch it to british, hike up the gain a little bit, perfect punk/alt rock tones. Switch it to hi-gain, put the gain all the way up, perfect for lead or metal. Personally, I cut my mids almost all the way down, then crank my hi's and lows, turn my gain all the way up, set my dampening switch to tight, and it's like the perfect metal crunch. I saw Haste the Day live, and they were using Krankenstein heads thru Marshall 1960 cabs, and I came home and set my EQ how I described, and it sounded almost like a Krank amp! I was thrilled. Some people say that this can't get searing metal tones...pshhhhhh.Put it on the Ultra channel, middle setting on the switch: treb = 10, mids = 0, bass = 10, gain = 10. Try THAT. This amp sounds so good, I love it.

VERY good features. Sturdy as all get out. Loud...very loud. It's got the switchable wattage so I can still play at home without ruining my hearing. It's got the power dampening switch, which I'm not too sure what that does, I just think it adds to the bottom end or takes away from it and adds to/takes away from the distortion. It's cool though! The ground lift is a plus. I found that if you're having feedback problems at high volumes, try switchin the ground lift to "+". That solved my problem (and the fact that I have humbuckers). Great, great amp though. I love the 3 settings on each channel. Fabulous.

Super duper. It'll be part of my rig for a while.

This is such a great amp at an unbelievable price...you really need to get this. If you're lookin for an immaculate crunch tone, you REALLY need this. Nothing I've ever used could even come close. I have a Digitech GNX2 and I can't even get the crunch that I want out of IT, but I can get it outta this amp! It's ridiculously great. I paid $350 for mine, used, and now, I'd probably be willing to pay about $1,000 if I didn't know what it initially cost.

SEXXXYYYYY. Look at it, come one. It says XXL. What girl won't like a guy that plays an amp that says "XXL" on it?! And all ladies love chrome...

In a band

metalcore, hardcore, classic rock, post hardcore

This amp has awesome sound! The crunch that comes out of it for playing metal makes you wanna crank it up and play for hours. The amount of different sounds you can get out of this thing is just awesome. The clean channel is ok but it's not the cleanest like a jazz amp or something, but this quite obviously is built for some distortion and it does that extremely well regardless of the price!

Read the item description, it lists all the features!

This amp is so easy to tune to get a great sound out of it. I just started playing it and within a few minutes I had something I really liked. Keep at it and get picky and the sound will only get better!

I haven't had it for long so I can't say if it will last but I know Peavey has a good reputation and no corners were cut making this amp. The fact that I didn't have to worry about tubes was what turned me on to this amp!

Everything this amp was designed to do it does really well, then you see the price and there is just no beating it.

It looks different and sounds great and with a price that good it's hard not to want it.

Active Musician

Rock, Metal, Classic Rock, and anything I feel like!

the sound on this is really great;exspecially for price but sounds as good as heads costing 2 and 3 times as much. This is best sounding solid state head ive ever heard in 15 YEARS of playing and ive probaly played 300 or more SS Heads. this is better than many marshall ss/valve state heads. even beats cheaper tube heads.

has three channels clean,lead,ultra.Each channel has 3 voice settings. not as many features as 1000 dollar or more head. but for less than 600 dollars tax and all this great value for the money.

it has sturdy chrome knobs. overall built pretty good not the best but surtenly nowhere near the worst.

this head is a better value than most at 5-6 hudred$ it has as many features and souds as good as many heads that cost twice as much and better than some sounds way better than a crate blue voodoo tube head i also own.

never dealt with

pretty cool crome greal and crome knobs looks great

Rock, hard rock, metal,country,jazz,

the sound is alwsome and the channel are the best ch2 is like metal and ch1 is like a good hendrix sound clean is just crazy how alwsome it is it sounds like a twin reverb loud loud loud loud crazy loud it will blow your ears off louder then my fender metal head full stack and marshall jcm 2000

every feature you will ever need gain channel are nuts

like a rock never anything wrong with it quality is the best

worth every pennnie best price ever

the best amp ever made

look awlsome never seen a better looking amp