Peavey invective MH

Amp was delivered about a week after ordering and I was left with big sense of disappointment since my first chord through the amp revealed that one of the tubes is dead. Had to contact Thomann. They handled it great and sent me a replacement tube free of charge. In the meantime I bought another tube by myself, swapped the dead one and finally had a go with the amp. But that first initial experience was very anticlimactic. It's nothing against Thomann or even Peavey. When you buy a tube amp, you're buying them knowing that they are fragile. Shit happens.

The amp itself sounds great tho. It's much louder than I expected (even on 1W mode) and funnily enough I'm enjoying the clean channel more than the dirty channel. Haha. Even though that one sounds great, I just wasn't expecting to like the clean channel that much. If you crank up the highs and presence knobs it gets nice and glassy and spanky. I'm getting great bluesy tones with my BD2 through the clean channel and my reverbs and delays sound awesome through the loop. Thumbs up.

The dirty channel is VERY tight. Don't have much to say here. Haha. It's a 5150/6505 based high gain amp and it does exactly what it promises. And does it well.

Overall it's a very versatile amp and I strongly recommend it. Good stuff Peavey and thanx Thoman for great communication and service.

So this is one of the few el84 based amplifiers that I've come to actually like. Amp was very easy to get good metal and lead tones from in a matter of minutes. Super lightweight and very uncompressed sounding for the wattage, tube type, and size, very 5150 style. Only down side is that the clean channel is just enough where its not amazing but it definitely is clean.. The lead channel just works and is very simple and lets be real that's the reason anyone would buy this amp. The built in gate works well enough but typical of noise gates don't expect extremely dynamic playing with it on. Boost does what a tube screamer with less mid addition would do. From what I can hear the tight switch removes a bit of gain in place of added compression and high end, ideal for thumping or mid gain djent tones. would recommend to others looking for a truly modern metal amp and at the price point it cant really be beat if you like the peavey sound.

Great and diverse range of modern metal/evh5150/djent style tones, but not versatile enough for me besides that, because it has too much fizzle and gain even at minimum settings. Couldn’t get a good
Lead sound either. A lot of features and convenient stuff. Boost is great at emphasising mid range but adds no gain, noise gate is perfect, tight mode is kinda crunch’ish, but at higher gain settings gives you a very, surprise, tight sound

Hab ihn mir bestellt, und viel spaß damit gehabt. EInen monat lang habe ich ihn so ziemlich täglich gespielt. Ging dann aber leider zurück, da mein Geschmack nicht mehr so metal lastig ist, wie ich dachte.

Mit dem Gate+build in boost (keine gain erhöhung, aber passt den charakter an ähnlich zum TS808 und Konsorten) ist er auch extrem flexibel, und auch der Fußschalter ist steuerbar. Er liefert also features, die ich noch nicht bei einem so kleinen Verstärker gesehen hab. Bis 12 Uhr aufm volume ist auch die Endstufe noch nicht mit drin, danach kann man aber sehr schnell hören, wie sie arbeitet, statt das volumen zu erhöhen. Damit kann man den modernen Charakter auch etwas zähmen und anwärmen, wenn man will. Letztlich kann er aber nichts schimmerndes, weswegen ich ihn zurück geschickt habe. Bei mir wirds wohl was digitales, mit meinen ansprüchen an flexiblität.