NAD - Peavey Classic 60 / 60 Valve Amplifier

[VTypeV4]

Picked this up for a song from a friend. I'm not entirely what I'll use it for but it's healthy and in good order so I'm sure I can find a use for it. The only thing I've done to it is change the driver valves for a pair of JJ ECC83s.

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Part of me is tempted to try and trade it for a Macrotech 600 or 1200 which would actually be more useful to me but we'll see.

[cheddatom]

I would love this! Hooked up to my pedalboard into a decent stack it'd be immense

[VTypeV4]

Ha, sounds like a winner! It'd probably sound awesome through my little SWR boxes too...

I'm tempted to use it to drive my little studio monitors but being a valve amp, I'm concerned it may fib a little (or a lot!). Peavey claim very low distortion figures below rated power however, so do Leak with my little ST20 and I can hear the amp 'helping' there too..

[Ed_S]

Mine's just the single 60, but still hangs with a loud metal band when you put it through an efficient cab. Good score!

[VTypeV4]

Nice vintage Peavey setup there, Ed! Best of both worlds with a modern cab too..

[Pentode]

I've got the 120 watt mono version - very well built and loads of grunt

[VTypeV4]

I thiink it's one of those things that'll come in handy for both bass and playback..

[Ed_S]

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Nice vintage Peavey setup there, Ed! Best of both worlds with a modern cab too..
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Cheers!

I recently re-valved it all with Svetlana Winged-C 6L6GCs and [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Electro-Harmonix 12AX7EHs as both the Classic Series 60 and the TB Raxx still had their original Peavey valves installed and I figured that the time was well overdue to spend a bit of money on them. Read up on production valves and decided on the cleanest sounding ones, then went with all 'premium selected' and a 'balanced' one for the power amp phase inverter - not sure if it makes any difference but it was about a tenner more across the entire order so thought what the hell, I'll allow myself to be pulled in by the advertising! Sounds really good, anyway - plenty of bounce and more clean headroom than before, with just a bit of subtle grit when pushed.[/color][/font]

[VTypeV4]

You can't quite tell from the pix but mine has Svetlana 6L6GCs (not sure if they're the same as yours?) and was apparently done a few years back by the previous owner. I trust him as I've known him for years. He also said he thought one of the driver valves was on it's way out as he thought one channel sounded different but to be honest, they both sound just fine to me. For good measure, I've changed the first stage valve for a Sovtek and the driver valves for a pair of JJ ECC83.

As for EHX valves, there's a quad of KT88s in my Trace V4 and they're excellent. I think they're re-branded Sovtek but I had some in the Ashton BV300 and they never missed a beat in that either. I'll certainly use them again.

Glad your Peavey is still going strong, may it live long!