Peavey Transtube

Tom Wicks · Post by **Tom Wicks** » 23 Mar 2004 9:52 am

A fellow I just met claims he just purchased
a Peavey Transtube, 80 watts for his steel, is there such an animal or was he just pulling my chain ? Tom

Chuck Halcomb · Post by **Chuck Halcomb** » 23 Mar 2004 8:09 pm

I have a Peavy Studio Pro 112 which I think is rated at about 80 watts. It is a transtube amp., so I don't think he was pulling your leg.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 27 Mar 2004 3:40 am

I have a Transfex Pro 212s wich is 80w x2 for stereo. Which is a Transtube amp with 2 Sheffields in it.
A very, very versatile amp, with midi pedal control, for most any sound I want on stage..

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 27 Mar 2004 12:23 pm

I have a 100 watt TransTube Supreme head that I sometimes play through a 15" speaker. These are guitar amps, not steel amps - too much highs and mids, not enough lows. The clean channel is passable at up to moderate volumes with the bass all the way up, the treble on 1 or less, and the mids around 3 or 4. But it just doesn't have enough oomph for a loud club. The other channel has several controls that can be set to give various levels of tube sounding distortion with quite a bit of volume. I have used it for electric blues on steel, where I kept it on the distortion channel all night. The main virtue of these amps is their low cost, light weight and versatility: low and high gain inputs, clean and distortion channels, 4, 8 and 16 ohm speaker jacks. Too bad it doesn't have 200 or more watts. Then it would be good for steel through the clean channel and 6-string through the other channel.