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Topic: Peavey Classic 30 ? |
Terry Sneed
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Posted 9 Mar 2008 4:33 pm |
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Anybody have any ideas on a replacement speaker and tubes to get a little better tone from this amp? It has the Blue Marvel speaker, and 12ax7 tubes (I think that's what the tubes are). I've tried a lot of different settings, just can't find something I really like. Thought maybe a speaker change, and tube job might help.
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 10 Mar 2008 8:47 am
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Terry,Are you using the amp for steel or guitar?And if you are using it for steel are going for a classic country sound?Stu 
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 10 Mar 2008 5:26 pm amp
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Sorry, Stu, I'm using it for my Tele only.
Terry |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Mar 2008 9:01 pm
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Well JUst my 2, but the Blue Marvel speakers are hard to beat.
I put a 30w weber bluedog in my Blz Jr, and a 50w BD in my HRdlx 1/12. I really like them.
I've had good luck with Eurotubes, and their newest JJ/Tesla EL84s. In spite of all the semi-information and superstition, they seem to be very good tubes. No more of a crapshoot than any of the others... Maybe if you get ones that are more than a year in stock, because they have had "their issues".
I just retubed my Classic 50 212 with 4 EL84s, and a "high headroom" set: 2 ECC83s and an ECC81 in the 'preamp section'. 67$.
I REALLY like them.
The CL50 212 has a couple Blue Marvels in it, but I don't see any reason to change them out.
If I ever do it'll probably be with Webers. Either BlueDogs, or SilverBells I think they call them.
Last nite at a gig, I FINALLY got out in front to hear somebody else play my tele through my 15watt Blues Jr with the Weber BlueDog 30w speaker in it. ( And a JJ/Tesla "high headroom" retube from ET.
Clear as a Bell. Plenty of volume.
JMHO.
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 10 Mar 2008 10:19 pm
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| Personally I didn't care for the Blue Marvel in mine when I had it, so I got a Weber Michigan. Another thing is the first preamp tube I changed to a 12AU7, cuts the gain a bit and made it a little sweeter. YMMV. |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 11 Mar 2008 6:34 pm amp
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I appreciate the help guys. I may just try a tube job first to see if that helps. I'm kinda wishing I'd gotten the Blues Jr now instead of the classic 30.
Terry |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 11 Mar 2008 6:57 pm
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Terry,I used to have one of the first ones I mainly used for a blues gig with my Strat.While it was working it was great I really cranked up high,I wished they had put a standby switch on it...I went thru tubes a lot.Finally it would short out while the lights stayed on and I sent it back to Peavey.It worked for a while but then started acting up again,I finally gave it to a friend...but when it was working right it was great.
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Mar 2008 7:50 pm
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Well Terry the Blues Jr is half the wattage, and I only use it when I can mike it completely or when it's really quiet.
EJL |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 12 Mar 2008 5:10 pm amp
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Stu, I hadn't had any trouble out of my classic 30, but hadn't had it but about 4 months.
Eric, yea I know the Blues Jr is only 15 watts, but I played through one at our local music store, and it seemed to have a little warmer tone than my classic. I had never played through a classic 30 when I bought this one off ebay,but I had heard only good things about em. I reckon the extra watts is the main reason I bought it instead of the Blues Jr.
I went from a Fender Deville 2 x 12s, to a Hot Rod Deluxe, to a classic 30. Am I goin backards or what? 
Terry |
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Larry Weaver
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2008 6:39 pm
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| I'm with Keith on changing out the first preamp tube. When I had mine a ways back, I was using 5751s to cut the gain a bit and that worked like a charm for me. Experiment with different tubes in that first preamp stage. If I remember correctly, the 5751 is somewhere around 70% of the gain of a 12ax7. And again, YMMV. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2008 6:24 am
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Stu said,"I wished they had put a standby switch on it...I went thru tubes"
The only amp I have without a standby switch is my Princeton Reverb. My tech changed the rectifier tube to a 5Y4, which warms up slowly. What is the rectifier tube in that amp? |
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Andy Zynda
From:
Wisconsin
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Posted 13 Mar 2008 6:36 am Classic 30
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Classic 30's are solid state rectified.
Great little amp, and that Blue Marvel is actually made by Eminence. A very good speaker. Not a Weber or JBL, but still a very good speaker
I like that idea of a lower gain 1st preamp tube.
I'll try it on mine and see how it goes.
I have only one concern about the C30:
The reverb circuit. Even with the amp at zero volume, when you turn up the verb, you get hum.
It's a solid state circuit driven by a TL072 IC.
I think the hum is coming from the location of the reverb tank or wires.
Anyone else ever addressed this issue?? |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2008 6:46 am
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| SS rectifier. Not spongey I guess. I know my tech moves the wires inside the chassis of some Fenders to get the hum out of the reverb circuit. But I suppose this amp is all circuit board, right? |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Mar 2008 6:47 am
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I took the reverb tank OUT of my Classic 50. I never even heard it.
They've come out of ALL of my amps.
All they are is RF antennas.
Good ones at that..
EJL |
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John Jeffries
From:
New Brunswick, Canada
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Posted 14 Apr 2008 6:53 pm
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I have a Peavey Classic 30 in which I installed a Celestion "Vintage 30" speaker! I use it for lead guitar and I also use it for steel as well. For the steel (Jackson Blackjack) I run it with bass on 9, mids on 5, treble on 4, and reverb on 2, but I also use a delay pedal set up with just a bit of slapback. Seems to work pretty darn good for me! I also have an old Sho-Bud "Christmas Tree" amp with a 15" JBL and a 60 watt Roland Cube amp. Depending on the gig/venue I can use any one of these amps - most of the time, I mike the amp through the mains.
I really like the Celestion speaker in the Peavey...seems to give me a good clean sound with decent tone. |
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