Peavey Audition 110

This amp was purchased in 1998, and is part of Peavey's transtube series. It has three equalizers (mid, bass, high) and a footswitchable lead channel (footswitch sold seperate). The volume on the clean channel is independant from that on the lead channel, which to me is a nice feature a lot of small amps don't have. It has reverb (I think it's actual springs, but I'm not sure), one main input, cd/tape input, earphone jack, and an extension speaker jack. It is 25 watts RMS at 8 ohms which runs through a 10" peavey Blue Marvel speaker. It only has a two prong plug, so watch out! Funny enough, the CD input makes it great for auditions which coincides with its name, but it is mainly meant to be used as a practice amp.

It is important to note that this amp is not meant as a performance amp, but is meant to be a practice amp. In this application, the amp sounds good. Most of the noise I hear comes from the fact that it has no ground. You serve as the ground through your guitar (unless your guitar's ground wire is disconected). When you let go of the strings, you no longer serve as the ground and it's noise city. If you have a noise gate however, this is irrelevent. The clean channel sounds great, and doesn't start to break up until after about 8 or so, depending on how hard you play. The lead channel is ideal for a rock/dirty blues type of sound or that good'ol Neil Young type of raunch. Metal heads and punks should look elsewere. To get more gain would require a distortion pedal. The "transtube" difference is not so noticeable here as compared to the bigger transtube amps, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than the other cheap amps Peavey made before this. The reverb sucks when compared to the acoutronics that I have in my stage amp, but it's reverb nonetheless, and very necessary in my opinion. The Blue Marvel speaker isn't near as good as Peavey's Sheffield line, but this is reflected in the price. Still, it does the job and there is a jack for a better speaker if it bugs you that much. The 25 watts is just enough to keep up with a lazy drummer, and is more than you will ever need for practicing in your room (and loud enough to piss your parents off!). The headphone jack is great when you want to play at 3:00am, but the lead channel sounds simply horrible without a speaker. The CD input is a nice addition. The guitar cuts in a lot louder than the music being played, so the music serves as a background to your guitar, allowing you to hear it very distinctly.

I have had this thing all over the place by bus and car. I have walked with it through the rain. I have left it in the car at +30C and -30c for hours at a time. I remember walking in -25C with a 2000 windchill factor for half an hour until the metal was white with frost. Ten minutes later it was singing. I have dropped it about twice now, and whenever I take it on the bus with me (which is quite often), it is always subject to quite a bashing. Reliablity is this amps strongest point. Once I had a problem with the reverb feedbacking, but it rectified itself before I had a chance to bring it in.

The amp originally came with a 3 year warranty, but now Peavey is selling them with 5 years. I guess they're confident with what they built. I have never had occasion to use customer support, and judging by Peavey's reputation, I just might not ever have to.

I've had this amp for almost three years now and I must say it has fit in quite nicely. It's just the right size that I can carry it with my guitar hand in hand. My stage amp weighs about 100 pounds, so when I'm on the move, I'm glad I have this one handy. I just grab it and go. I even like the open back which gives me somwhere to stuff all my pedals patch cords. The CD input and the earphone jack clearly make this ideal for bedroom practicing. Features like footswitcheable channels, 10" speaker, and a loud 25 watts make it seem like you could use it to perform, but it just can't compare to the other amps that were made for that purpose. However, if you look at it in a different light, it's a suped up practice amp that can take a serious beating and fit on a crowded city bus when needed. I think we could all use something like that.

2 channels ( clean and dirty ), 3 band EQ, reverb, cd/tape input, headphone jack, footswitch input, external speaker output ( on the back ). It's a solid state, 10 inch, 25 watt amp.

This thing has an awesome clean channel. Absolutely no feedback!! The lead ( distortion ) channel on the other hand? Well... it sucks. I use it is a clean channel buy turning the pre gain way down and man, it sounds really nice. For distortion, I hooked up an effects box that has killer overdrive ( my dad made it way back when ), and that makes the clean channel sound like the best overdrive channel any man would ever want. I set the reble and bass to about seven and the mid to about 3.5 ( this is all for both channels ). I play a mexican made strat and, even with single coils, I get no feedback on the "clean" channel. The distortion channel though is another story. If I can, I'll get a new speaker for it. This one isn't punchy enough.

It has a massive amount ao reliability. Great

Never needed help.

I've been playing for three years, but this was my first amp . Before that, I hooked up my effects box to a little RadioShack test amp. Compared to that thing, this is seventh heaven. I'd deffinetly buy it again. I got a real steal.

This amp is the newer Audition 110 so like 1998 I think..I play heavy as f*ck death metal, hardcore, and punk rock. The amp has an okay clean channel, and a pathetic "lead" (yeah right!) channel with weak as hell distortion. I don't wish it had an other features, because it's still a Peavey, and as such, is useless crap! It has some reverb that I never used, and a headphone jack. Oh, and a cd input that sounded like hell! It's solid state, 25 watts, and it has a Blue Marvel 10" driver. I really wonder what the hell they were thinking when they made this thing! It's underpowered, overpriced, and really poorly built!

I was using a flying v at the time, and this couldn't hack it even at low volumes! The only thing I could get it to do was decent clean sounds, but even those were runnin' out of power since this is only 25 watts. The distortion is useless.....go buy a real pedal like the Boss Metal Zone.

Absolutely not! The thing was weak from the start, and the cabinet was so cheesy that it rattled and buzzed even with the slightest distortion. I kept it in flawless shape, and never abused it, but it always sounded like total crap, period.

No, because it would be a waste of time and an embarassment to call anyone and announce that I owned such a weak amp.

I've played for about 5 years, and nearly everything I've come across sounded better than this thing did! I finally wised up and realized that low power amps (with the exception of old tube amps) sound like shit, and that buying the "cheap" amp or guitar or whatever else, shows how serious you are about your music! You need to get a decent amount of power and you need to get a amp with at least a 12" driver. Get out of the rut of cheesy equipment and save up! If you didn't waste your money on this, you coulda went and got a Mesa Boogie or a Marshall! Or on a budget, go with Crate's bigger combos!

This thing is pretty cool, 1 input for guitar, hphone and 8 ohm speaker output. 10 inch Blue marvel, and an input just dying to be overloaded.

I play everything and anything. The distortion on this thing is great for rock/blues... but once you start gettin onto some punk or alt and you want to blow this thing up. The clean channel is awesomley versatile but I don't care. My guitar is a 1980 Ibanez Blazer and the single coils suck with this amp. The Peavy Audition 110 is amplifier purgatory

I blew it up when I routed my guitar through a stereo amplifer...oops!

Hey! this is what peavey is known for... freindly easy to talk to customer support. I don't give a sh*t.

Save up and buy a real amp... this one is plain old vanilla.

Mine's a '96 I believe, It has 25 watts RMS, one 10 inch blue marvel speaker, two channels clean and gain, headphone and CD/tape input, solid state, nothing special.

I play this amp with a peavey strat copy, need I say more?
oh wait, the distortion is f*ckin' weak!

I would'nt trust this amp on stage...after owning it for 8 months it started making this annoying f*cking buzz. so irritating I had to kick it to get it to work right.

The company fixed the amp for 30 dollars, but it still sounds like shit. What do you expect from a company that makes guitars for half the price of a prostitute?

I have played guitar damn near non-stop for ten years-I think I know what I'm fucking doing, If this amp were kiped I'd laugh at how badly the guy who stole it was cheated! I recomend this amp to anyone who likes loud buzzing noises and cutouts on stage.

It has one input for the guitar and one for cd/tape, 3 band eq, a good reverb, 2 channels, controls of pre and post gain in distortion mode, outputs for phone, ext. speaker and remote switch. Made in Usa, in 1998, i think.

I'm using a Fender American Standard Stratocaster, with three single-coil pickups by fishman and a DOD Tec4. I play every kind of Rock, mainly Oasis, Led Zeppelin, Offspring, Raimundos, Paralams do Sucesso, Aerosmith, Green Day, Silverchair, etc. The combination of the Tec4 with the Audition 110 is really great, but the distortion of the Peavey is not so good.

It's very resistent

I'm from Brazil and I've never heard about a Peavey costumer support here.

I play the guitar for two years and I recomend this amp if you use a distortion pedal, because the dirty channel won't satisfy you.

Two channel 1x10 (I made mine into a 1x12) 25 watt single eq combo

I run a Gibson les paul studio through this as a practice amp. I play New rock, classic rock, southern rock It serves its purpose nicely. I do have one problem, With the 10 inch speaker if you turn it up past about 6 the speaker distorts badly. Both amps I tried did this. I had an extra carvin 100 watt british series 12" speaker so I altered the speakerboard to fit it in this 110 combo. And whoa! what a difference. It made this thing sound awsome. Had alot more bottom end, and volume,and the clean channel sounds surprisingly good. Peaople seem to shy away from low watt amps and buy some monterous high wattage 300lb amp, break their back carrying it around and then go to a show and turn it up to 1. I just dont get it. This thing is and at practice with everybody else blaring, I have it turned up to about 5. Thats about the point where this thing starts opening up. I rate this amp a 4 with the 10" speaker, and a 9 with the 12" speaker

I give it a 5 with the 10 watt speaker they put in it. A 10 with the replacement.

I have never had a problem with them fixing other stuff.

The 9 rating is with the new spaeker. 6 with the original.

See other submissions for exact features, I don't remember all. One pecular thing, though, mine was only 20 watts, and it was made in 1996. Other people I know have earlier ones, and theirs are 25W.

As I remember, the sound was not bad. It had a pretty good clean channel, and distortion was top notch. It is very versatile. Channels were great at any volume. In fact, I can't remember why I gave this thing up!!!

Very reliable, but prone to heavy dust inside because of open back panel. I would never use any type of musical device without a backup, though.

Never dealt in person, but e-mail response about wattage was very helpful.

Great amp, worth it's weight in gold! If stolen, if I did not buy it again, I would probably start saving for a Marshall. I like it better than my current amp, a Fender Frontman 15R, but it is a fairly good amp in it's own right.

This is a 25 watt, solid state amp. It has a 10 inch speaker, 2 channels, clean and lead(drive). It is a transtube, which basically means it is a a tube emulator. It has reverb, a 3 band EQ, and pre and post gain. It has an output, an external speaker jack, an earphone jack, a footswitch jack, and a cd input jack to play along with cds. For a practice amp, it has about as many features as you could expect. This amp doesn't go as loud as some, but it still has decent volume.

The clean channel sounds great. I have an epiphone with humbuckers, and this amp makes my guitar sound rich and full. The distortion leaves plenty to be desired, it feeds back at high gain levels and doesn't sound that great, but I don't care that much because the only distortion I use is my BOSS DS-1. If you use a distortion pedal, I highly recommend this amp because for the price the clean channel sounds amazing. As for the lead channel, it's gonna be tough to find good overdrive on a non tube practice amp. Another thing, there is a huge amount of reverb on this, I can't ever imagine using the reverb on 10, because that would just be too much.

This amp is pretty light in weight, and I've only had it for a few weeks, but it seems pretty sturdy. I would probably use this without a backup since I don't intend to bash it around much, and solid states generally don't fail. One of the main reasons I bought this amp, however, is that at high volume, the casing didn't rattle. A lot of the other amps at this price range had that problem, primarily the Vox Pathfinder and the Marshall Park 30RCD. The Vox sounded amazing and I bought it, but it rattled so much that I had to return it, so I was listening very closely for rattle in this one, and I didn't hear it in the store, and I haven't heard any rattle at home yet.

Never dealt with them, has a two year warranty that you can extend to five years by sending in a card.

I have been playing for a year, and I also play drums, which is part of the reason I bought a bigger amp. If it were stolen or lost, chances are, I would buy it again. The one thing that is really amazing is the amount of reverb you can get out of it. The reverb on 5 sounds like the Fender Frontman on 10, and the reverb on 3 sounds like the Marshall Park on 10. I generally keep the reverb around 4, but if you are a reverb fanatic, you'll love this. For the price I payed its great. If you intend to use the onboard overdrive I wouldn't recommend this, but if you use a pedal, it's grreat.

25 solid state watts. Basic setup. 3 band eq , reverb, headphone jack, speaker out, footswith jack.

I'm using an Epi spec II w/ humbuckers. This amp does not really have any great sounds, and is pretty noisy. The clean channel is very thin and clean, even with humbuckers, and doesnt break up at all until about 9. The tone controls dont really affect the sound much. It is not loud, and prob wont cut it along with drums. The dist channel is pretty pathetic. You have to keep the highs all the way up and the tone on you guitar all the way up, and thats still not really enough treble. On low gain settings it sounds ok, but nothing great. Higher gain settings are pretty harsh and boxy. Open chords melt into one distorted blob of sound. This channel is louder than the clean channel, but still not too loud. Might just make it if its dimed while playing along with drums, and then it squeals like crazy. The reverb is ok. I've heard other 25 watt solid states that are prob 50% louder than this one.

No problems

Never needed customer support.

I own a 100 watt tube head and to compare the peavy to that would be a joke. I definitely would not recommend this amp. Go with another brand small amp like Fender or Crate. Peaveys suck.