Peavey Audition 110

I use this amp for home recording. It has a nice rhythm sound for my style, which uses lots of hand muffing and full chords. Medium-high to low distortion. It's a simple amp and it's all I really need for a decent recording sound. I don't even use the amp's reverb, as I add it in the post edits. So for home recording, I guess I can say it has more features than I need, and plenty of power. It's not a gig amp, and I'm sure Peavey would agree.

The PA110 goes very well with my Strat (bridge humbuckers and stock Fenders the middle and neck). It's somewhat noisy with the pre-gain at 50%, but aren't they all? The sound variety is limited, but like most guitarists, we find our base sound and do some minor tweaking from there. It's not the greatest for high-octane leads, but the rhythm sounds I'm getting are fantastic. A stomp box would probably bring it up to snuff for leads.

Not much problem with reliability. I wouldn't gig with it because it's not a gig amp. It's fine as a cheap gig back-up though, as long as you can mic it.

No idea on customer support.

This amp is taking a lot of dogging, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as the reviews.

It's a decent practice amp; and as a home studio amp? It's a gem.

What baffles me is that some would pay $100 for amp modeling software but curl their nose up at this amp. You could buy a used Audition 110 for the same price, and this amp blows a $100 modeler COMPLETELY OUT OF THE WATER for recording sound.

How do I know? Because I paid $100 for a software modeler; before I ever thought of pulling my PA110 out of the mothballs and giving it a shot.

Someone gave it to me a while back. I played around with it for a little bit and I thought it was a piece of junk. That was until I put a mic in front of it, cranked it up and layed down a track. A touch of chorus and reverb in the post edit, and voila - all the problems i had getting a good recording sound were solved. No more screwing around with inconsistency. Just throw down a mic, crank'er up and GO.

The software modeler is now reserved for late night (read: quiet) sessions, and I put down my final tracks with the Peavey Audition 110. I may buy a small tube amp one of these days, but I'll be keeping this little sweetheart around.

If it were lost or stolen? I could (and would) buy another one cheap since most everyone else seems to think it's a dog! :-P

If you have access to one, put a mic in front of this puppy, crank it up and lay down a track. But don't tell anyone about our little secret; else the price of these babies on the used amp market will go up ;-)

Most people expect too much from this amp. It is not powerful, it doesn't have many features, but as a practice amp, it pleanty loud, and has all you might need for a beginer. Distortion, clean, reverb, and a little EQing. It still holds up OK even after you step out of the bed room and into the garage to play with a young high shcool band, and it even holds up when your playing a halloween party in the dining room. It doesn't sound great when you turn it up loud enough to keep up with a heavey handed drummer, but once again, it's just a practice amp. One of the first few amps I have ever owned.

This amp was the largest of 3 practice amps I had chained together, and if you use an external effects chain (as I did) you can actually get a pretty decent tone out of it, even cranked up, just don't look for a whole lot of bass.

It's noisy, not very loud and so forth, as stated above, but it will do the job untill you are ready to start playing real shows.

I would not play a gig with this amp, at least not at a club or anything like that. Basment shows, it may work, but you will not like the sound. I never had any problems with mine though.

If it were lost or stolen, I would not necessarily seek out this amp in particular, but probably some sort of peavey.

made in the 90's i guess... i play alternative and peavey's are more metal amps than anything. comes w clean, distortion, reverb, low, mid & high... your basic POS practice amp features. i wish it had a good distortion tone and maybe some freekin EQ but that's too much to ask of peavey i guess.

clean channel sounds half-ass. distortion sounds like a walmart toy amp. this amp only sounds decent with reverb kranked all the way up. always hums and pisses me off cuz it cuts out the tone sometimes. not just mine, but other ones of this same model do it too cuz peavey doesnt seem to care much about quality tone which is why not too many rock stars use them unless they're paid to advertise them on stage and i have a strange gut feeling they're never plugged in, but that actually, the band is using a GOOD (non-peavey) amp, hidden backstage. ok for practice alone in a small room i guess. gets loud but sounds worse and worse past 6 on vol... turns to static and bad noise... basically, i hate it.

it is a tank. that's one good thing about it. well built i guess.

never had to call for help.

i recently replaced it with a VOX AD30VT... you people should get a VOX... no joke...

don't know when it was made, but for practice, it rules. clean channel could be less shrill, and i'd appreciate an eq on it, but hey.....

the rating is price biased.

the distortion is shit above 5 or so on the pre gain. but it is convincingly warm enough below that (whatever the post setting is) with my strat (mex, but i've hot rodded it beyond noting here, but know this, i know my shit, big time). through headphones, it's really shrill, way too much highs, makes the clean channel obsolete. by dialing off the highs in the overdrive channel to around 3 or 4, it sounds good enough to play and really dig in (headphones mind you, without, dial in to taste, this amp is great to just jam out to alone, practicing). reverb is also kinda crappy past 5 or so. i've been really happy though with this amp. it was given to me free by a friend and i've been suprised by the sounds coming out of it. i would have paid some money for it, since you don't have to worry about tube maintanence. i've used may good tube amps and know the potential for sound (better matchless, better mesa-boogies, fenders, ampeg). that sponginess, that soak, that liveliness. this isn't quite that, but it is worlds away from regular solid state sounds.

i'm giving it an eight but i'm almost ready to give it a nine, it is that good (for solid state and at the cheap price. hell, after some time with this amp, some tweaking, maybe a bottle rocket, it's a ten?).

i've never had a peavey shit the bed on me. except for one time that was my fault-a really hot active electronic bass in to a high gain input to a peavey amp (blew the speaker coil). my fault. yes, higher output by lower dial readings, but much more stress on the pre and power amp sections. i learned my lesson.

this amp served my friend well for years, and has done well for me too.

never had to deal with them.

i've been playing bass over a decade, and guitar since i started to build them (what's the use having them if you can't play them?). tone itself has always been a major goal, and this little amp is fine for practicing. it does take some time to dial in a good tone, but they are in there. every nuance in guitar output, playing style, effects chain are presented here. more than most amps, especially solid state, this amp needs personal assesment to sound good, but it can.

This amp basically has everything you need, as far as a practice amp goes. Good clean and dirty channels, master tone controls, and reverb. It's nothing special, but it fits the bill nicely as a practice amp.

I'm writing this review as an addendum to a review I wrote approximately 5 years ago (look up the page and find a review by "Rob M," that's me. How young and foolish I was back then.). This is what I have to say now. For a long time I never appreciated the dirty sound this amp put out on its lead channel. Then about 2 years ago, something funny happened. My multi-effects pedal busted, so I was forced to start using this amp's lead channel whenever I wanted to kick it up a notch. In essence, the sound grew on me in a big way. It's a little midrange-happy, but other than that, it's a nice warm smooth sound, with enough balls to get me by. As well, I've come to appreciate the sound of the clean channel a little more. I can use the same tone settings for my lead channel with my clean, and it will sound great (if not just a tiny bit shrill).

My only real complaint about the amp is that it constantly puts out a fairly annoying hum that only seems to dissapear when I take it into the shop and the technician would play and, magically, the hum would dissapear. I would take it home again, and it would be back. I know that the hum is not caused by irregularities in my house's power, as it has produced the same hum thousands of miles away.

Other than that however, I love the tone of this amp, it suits me perfectly as far as practice amps go.

I've travelled thousands of miles with this amp, and nothing has ever really gone wrong with it (except the aforementioned hum, but that's always been there). I haven't really kicked it around, but through 5 years of continuous use, I've yet to have an incident.

I've never had to deal with Peavey's customer support, so I cannot form a real opinion.

As previously stated, it's a practice amp, so I don't really expect it to do anything extreme, and I don't fool around with it too much or blast the speakers. That said, I've been using it as a practice amp for a long time now, and it's proven very reliable, and, so long as you can ignore the annoying hum, it also sounds very good.

Nothing special, but if you're just looking for a decent practice amp, this should fit the bill nicely.

I own this amp from when I started playing in mid 90's, and it never deluded me. I still use it as a practice amp, and believe me as a practice amp it's great. I don't like the sound of when you put the phones in, but that's not a normal thing I did often so, that's ok with me.

I play a gibson les paul voodoo and all the loud and bass tones of a les paul neck pick up are reproduced fine as my vht poweramp and cabinet does. The clean is good, and the distortion is not so loud, but hey, do you expect it to sound like a monster? it's a 25w amp. Anyway, I play through a BOSS ME50 multieffect pedalboard and I can reach distortion levels that really can kick your ass, this amp never hum or loose quality at high levels, I can reproduce all kind of distortions, from death metal to classic rock to crossover nu metal kind of sound to blues sound. Of course, even fully effected clean sounds (dealy chorus flanger,ecc...) are played fine. great great little amp.

Of course this can't stand a drum, you can't play gigs with this little but good amp, but for playing at home this amp do his work and more.
It's made of heavy material, and in 6 years it never broke once. never, always working. I will never sell this little baby, it will be always in my room, even if I use rack mounted amps and big cabinets. for practice this is the best.

Never dealt with'em.

remember that this amp is for practice, 25w, not for gigs or reharsals. can't stand a drum, but for play in your room, write songs or just play your guitar all day long this amp is awesome.

effects (stompboxes and pedalboards) works REALLY WELL with this amp, believe me, I really really tried a lot of amps with effectboards, and they just don't sound as thing little cute baby.

This amp is not that great, I'm now "riding" with a Fender Deluxe 90 DSP and it is so much better thant this crappy amp. The reverb is OK but the distortion sucks. I've been playing for 10 years and it was my first amp. I should've wait a year and bought a better amp.

It doesn't sound great. When you play loud, the sound isn't good at all. Somtimes, when it's loud, the amp is like skipping some notes or muting oters.

It doesn't sound really loud for a 25w amp. It broked down a few times but not several dammages.

I've been playing for 10 years and it was my first amp. DON'T BUY IT !!!

read below.

I've got a Jackson neck-thru w/EMG-81's ,but my review is with the Squire Strat that my dad purchased along with this amp(8 years ago,when I first started playing guitar). This amp can get just about any sound, except for that cutting "MEGADETH" tone. GOOD BLUES TONES!!! The reverb is not that great.

Mine has worked for 8 years.

I wish it had better reverb and a heavier overdrive. It wouldnt be fair to compare it to today's little, cheap combo amps. ________________***PEDALS SUCK DONT USE THEM!!***____________________

What year i don't know , it cost me about 150.00
i have use it for playing with my band at friend houses, clubs,etc.
the only time you feel like you need something else is when playing outside buildings, of course it is only 25w, but indoors it is great, and using a pedal effect it will sound great,
so for this price you won't get any better.

i am using a fender stratocaster, and with a pedal it works great.

it is a bull.!

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i have being playing it for 2 years, in the future i need a bigger one but without selling this one i love it.
If someone has experienced a ground noice, change de power cord for one with 3 cables so you can connect the ground to the chassis, and that's it problem solved, PC monitor cables work great.

Bought used, no idea when it was built.

I play mostly ballsey heavy blues, all the way over to annoying punk rock and death metal. The built in distortion is so-so but the clean channel with my RP100 sounds really nice.

2 channels clean and dirty no effects loop, headphone jack

MIM strat with a SD little '59 in the bridge

Hard as nails

no idea

This a great valued practice amp.