Peavey Backstage Plus

The Amp is a single channel amp with realy good reverb. There is a pre in pwr out input a foot swithch input (but i don't have the footswitch) and a headphone jack. It also has two pull knobs one for pre or bright the other for high or thick. You can get some pretty good sounds from different combonations of the bright or thick.

Sounds like crap if you use single pickups, but if you have humbuckers its great. I haven't experenced any problems with noise and have even used it live on stage. Clean is a little distorted at high volumes but still sounds good.

The amp is great and very reliable. I found it trown away out side a house on trash day and took it home. I don't know why the person threw it away; it still works and I haven't had to have any service done to it at all.

Good amp for begginers or anyone else who likes the sound it gives. If it were stolen i would try to buy another. Great amp for the price I paid NOTHING!

some of the features this amp has are nice, like the foot pedal, but it is lacking in many of the much needed areas.

this amp sounds like the cheap amp it is. You get what you pay for in this amp. The distortion is ok, but doesn't give you the good hard sound like metallica or nirvanna. It is hard to get a loud clean sound out if it.

Darn thing just keeps working so I have no excuse to buy a new one.

not a clue!

This amp is not all that great, espeically for strat players. Most of the good distortion is the low quallity speaker distorting. It might be okay for a dorm room amp, but if you ever want to play a gig, good luck!

Its about 10 years old, I bought it used in pretty good condition. Its all transistor. It has built in reverb and footswitch support (but didn't come with a pedal). Can get some really crunchy distortion out of it.

On my Fender Strat Plus, it sounds really crappy. The sound is very small and thin. It sounds real nice on my Les Paul Studio, but it on my Les Paul you can't really hear my effects on it.
Warning: Wah-wah pedal sounds terrible out of this thing!

Like a rock.

Never dealt with them.

It's great for beginners, but doesn't get great sound, so don't expect to get mind boggling tones out of it. If you have a strat or a strat clone, this amp probably isn't a good choice.

For features, it has: 35 watts, solid state, 3-band EQ, Volume Pre & Post, spring reverb, Bright and Thick pull knobs, and distortion. Input for a footswitch and preamp as well. It only has 1 channel, which sucks, you have manually change to distortion, but i don't use the amp distortion anways. I used this amp for everything, but the 35 watts just wasn't loud enough. I made a custom cable, because there is no jack for extension cabinet, and hooked it up to my 4x12. It sounded a lot better, but after awhile, i bought a Marshall head.

Since this is the only combo amp I have, I am forced to use it at jam sessions and gigs where I cannot bring my halfstack. It has an amazing clean channel and the reverb is great too. I play a lot of blues and rock and this amp can do it. Sounds great for doing leads. I don't use the distorion, I have a pedal for that. When the pedal is on, it sounds great through this amp.

They don't make these anymore, it's not one of those new Transtube models. My cousin gave it to my because he bought a bigger amp. He's in a professional rock band and has used it for recording and gigs, so it has seen its fare share of action. He never had a problem with it, and in the 6 months I've had it, neither have I.

I don't think I'd buy this amp again, only because of the 35 watts. If it came as a 100 watt head, I'd buy it in a second. I love the clean reverb sound this amp puts out and how it sounds with my distortion pedal. The clean channel is probably better that the Marshall. I wish it had a jack for an extension cabinet.

Pre Gain (pull Bright), Saturation, Post Gain, Low, Mid, High (pull Thick), Reverb, Pre amp out/power amp in, and headphone out. The Saturation and reverb is Foot switchable. The controll of the tone is fair.

I bought this amp used and it sounded good at first. I was really in to nirvana, hole, sound garde, Etc. But then I got into Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, and the blues and classic rock (Led Zepplin) and the amp's tone started to suck. I then went FENDER!

Man I can't say enough about Peavey's relibility! This amp has fallen off a truck 3 times, fallen off of a desk (due to short cables and walking too far!) 2 times, and been dropped while carrying it too many times to mention! Since this the reverb is shot and I bent the input jack. The reverb was'nt much in the first place so there was no big loss there, and the jack was easy to bend back!

I have never dealt with Peavey.

If you are a beginner buy a PEAVEY amp! It will last you! Mine is around 25 years old and still kicking! It is very light, which is a plus for anyone. Would I buy it again? No, because my style of music has changed, but it was well worth the money spent.

This amp has most tonal variations available to it through a generous helping from those Marshall tubes. Warm-electric blanket tone can and will be achieved by means of a certain/special DIP switch located in the rear/reverse bottom of the head. Since I loved to play with Metallica, this amp is great for playing their Hits and other rarities like the Coors Lite Beer Song and my personal favorite... Dentist Time. This amp has both channels available to it as well. A clean and ultra-clean channel make it cleaner than Church. I never seem to use the distorted channel though. It sounds too much like Metallica, which scares me. It has 3 inputs and one 8 inch speaker.

This amp is a little noisey,b ut arn't all amps? If you turn every thing up (including tone knobs) you can really get it noisy which is good playing louder songs. The distortions in it always managed to escape from Buttsville.

It's very reliable. I've had it ever since Metallica came out/.

A good amp... sounds too much like Metallica and the Beach Boys.

One channel with pre and post gains and "saturation". It also has reverb and pull options on two pots to add thick or bright. There are two jacks on the front panel. One is a headphone jack and the other is a pre out or pwr in. The back panel has a footswith jack ( Maybe to disable reverb?) One 8" speaker. 35 watts 8ohms. Solid state amp.

This amp does a good job of going from very clean to a powerful distortion, especially with the saturation and pre gain cranked up. It has a good generic sound to it, although I wish it were a tube amp! I've used this amp live and it does a decent job. I've also recorded with it with satisfactory results. It is very quiet except when I use the headphones and increasing amounts of reverb which is very annoying. The reverb itself is very good. I may be a bit down on this amp because my other amp is a vintage Fender Princeton reverb! I wish I could combine the sound of the Fender with the features of this amp.

One problem I have been having is the input jack. Sometimes the cord needs to lifted up to because the connection is loose. I opened it up today to bend one of the clips to make the connection tighter, so far so good. I also disabled the footswitch because sometimes the reverb would not kick in. That seems to have done the trick too.

Have not dealt with them.

I've seen this amp advertised from $80 to $150 recently. If you can get it for less than $100 go for it. Just keep in mind that this is a great practice amp and little more.