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Topic: PV NV400 vs. PV Session400 |
Steven Paris
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Los Angeles
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Posted 18 Dec 2016 5:31 pm |
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Has anyone compared a Peavey Session 400 (discrete transistor preamp) with a "Ken Fox-Intense-Modded" Nashville 400 (OPA2134 IC preamp)??
Edit: to be fair, it should be a Sarno-modded Session 400/LTD versus the Fox-intense-modded NV400.
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 3:13 am
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| I don't think you can really compare a NV400 and a Session 400. They have different EQ designs. The NV400, along with all the other Peavey steel amps have the Parametric EQ. The Session 400 has a conventional EQ. |
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Tom Cooper
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Orlando, Fl
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 4:42 am
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| I have both amps, use them regularly. My Nash has 2134 chip as well. They both get you to the same ballpark. Session is more of older vintage type sound and Nash is more modern sounding. At least that's how I hear it. My Nash 400 stays at church and the Session goes out to gigs as it has Neo speaker and is lighter. Also big difference is cabinet. Bigger cab on Session is really big sounding. It's my main amp. LTD400 is second and Nash is 3rd. Use them all. Great clean power with a growl. Affordable too. Heavy amps. Great sound. |
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Jack Stanton
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Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 10:50 am
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| In my 40 years of playing I've owned a Twin w/ JBL's, 2 Webbs (one spectacular, one not so much,)an Evans FET-500, 4 Nash 400's (1st year silver corner was great, but got stolen, other 3 were very good), a PV Vegas, a Nashville 112, A Carvin MB-15, a Milkman Half & Half (incredibly smooth top end), A FYD, a Quilter Steelaire and none of then come as close to the sound in my head as my 1974 Session 400 with a JBL. I just wish it weren't so big and so heavy, but then it probably wouldn't sound so good. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 11:28 am
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| Where would the Session 500 fit into this discussion? I know that they're brutally heavy and quite cumbersome, but how does the sound compare to the aforementioned two 400s? |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 11:31 am
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| Jack Stoner wrote: |
| I don't think you can really compare a NV400 and a Session 400. They have different EQ designs. The NV400, along with all the other Peavey steel amps have the Parametric EQ. The Session 400 has a conventional EQ. |
Brad Sarno put the 400 through a frequency analyzer: it's not a straightforward tone stack: it even had some boost going on, and the mid had a shift knob
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 11:45 am
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| I had a Session 400LTD (backup amp) and a Session 500. I tried for years to get the EQ and could never find the right EQ. I finally gave up and traded it on a different amp. |
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Steven Paris
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Los Angeles
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 5:03 pm
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| Jack Stoner wrote: |
| I don't think you can really compare a NV400 and a Session 400. They have different EQ designs. The NV400, along with all the other Peavey steel amps have the Parametric EQ. The Session 400 has a conventional EQ. |
Don't both the Session 400 and the Nashville 400 have Bass-Mid-Mid Shift-Treble-Presence controls? The schematic shows the Bass-Treble-Presence circuits to be similar, but the Mid/Shift section is more complicated on the Nashville 400.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 3:25 am
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| The Session 500/Nashville 400/Nashville 1000/Nashville 112 (and maybe the new model) all have the Peavey "Paramid" Mid EQ circuitry (You select a frequency and then either cut or boost that frequency). The Session 400's have a different mid EQ system. |
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Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 3:56 pm
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Jack S, take the head out of the amp and put into a separate box, less weight per unit, you still have the sound you like.
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