Peavey 0981426

This amp has many features to play around with. However when you buy an amp, you don't buy it because of how many features it has, you buy it for more important reasons such as sound and reliability. Frankly any amp looks good when it has many knobs and buttons to fool around with. There are alot of amps out there like that, just to make it look good, but really doesn't alter the sound. For the peavey honestly there are some features that aren't really neccesary that tend to make it difficult to experiment with sound because there are "TOO MANY KNOBS AND BUTTONS" which I think is in a way to market the amp to buyers. For the amount of features it's good, but with that in mind they could of put an effect on the amp like chorus or something rather than some pointless knobs.

Well this right here is the category that I feel is the most important. The clean channel is ok, but you can never compare it to a "FENDER" amps clean channel, theres no amp that can match a fenders clean channel. Peavey talks about there transtube emulation well compared to a real tube amp it's really no big deal about what they've accomplished. If you want real tube sound, go buy a real tube amp, definately a fender if you want the best clean channel ever. The distortion is pretty good, you can get pretty heavy distortion but the for really light it doesn't really cut it. It tends to always be to trebelish/tinny or just to heavy. Some of the effects help the sound but it's not greatly noticed. The one thing I hate is that with many amps when you put the gain on and with an amp as loud as the peavey, if you have the volume low on your amp, and the gain at max you can't get the heavy distortion you would want if you were just in a house and you wanted to play quiet. The distortion becomes really light. But when you crank it it sound alot better the sound tends to really come out of the amp then. Which kind of sucks if your just playing really quiet. Peavey kind of focused there marketing on the tube emulation well like I said you want tube sound go buy a tube amp, if you want tube sound in a solid state go buy the new fender amps, they blow peavey away., and thats no bullcrap either.

never had a problem yet but eventually something will happen, as any amp will, parts and technology don't last forever eventually you'll have to get something repaired, but that's life. The only reason I gave it a high rating was because it's true no amp will last a lifetime without some kind of problem whether it's small or big, unles you buy an amp thats a piece of crap from a company who doesn't speacialize in that area.

don't know haven't tried, hopefully they'll be of assistance when I need them. I give that a 5 because it's a 50/50 thing.

If your looking to play metal and that stuff go buy the amp peavey seems to be building amps for that style of music but if you want a tube amp go and buy a real tube amp. And if you want a solid state amp that sounds like a tube amp with a great clean and dirty channel then I recommend to try and buy the new "FENDER DYNA TOUCH CIRCUITRY AMPLIFIERS" they are by far the closest solid state amps today that sound anything like a tube amp. They make the peavey bandit 112 sound like crap, peavey talks about there bandit sounding like a tube well just listen and try the new fender amps, you'll be very impressed considering it's a solid state amp, the bandit is nothing compared to the new fenders. So if your looking for a solid state amp sounding like a tube "GO AND BUY THE NEW DYNA TOUCH CIRCUITRY AMPS FROM FENDER,THEY ARE AMAZING".