Peavey Classic 50-410

This amp plays every type of tone I need. I can play blues tones with the overdrive and then turn down the mid range and have a flame thrower. It has a two channels, clean and distortion. Both very nice after the amp is left on for a while. I use this amp for clubs and practice with plenty of power. It is my only amp and is all I need. Plenty of power.

My style of music is so diverse. From hardcore to jazz to funk. The classic 50 has the options. It suits all of them perfectly. I did find it noisy on clean from the internal fan. The distortion is fine once it is loud. Any type of sound you want you can get from this. The distortion can again go from jazz, blues to a thick distortion that is great for metal. I used a les paul, paul reed smith, fender strat, and a yamaha strat copy. The les paul and paul reed smith both sounded good on distortion but a little too trebly for my taste on clean. The strat and the yamaha were great on the distortion with the humbucker but on clean switch over to the single coil. The sound is too twangy with a humbucker on clean. Makes any guitar sound great. Overall a solid sound.

This amp is a work horse. It is my gig, practice, and home amp. I have had it for two years and has had no problems. I even hooked up a randall 4X12 and powered that too and it had no problems. It is my only amp and the classic 50 has never failed me.

I would buy it again in a heart beat. I love the versatile distortion and how I can get any sound out of it. I hate how it weighs so much. I chose this amp because of the type and that it could be played for a practice and then later that day be loud enough for a gig. I love this amp. When people offer you guitars, money and trades at shows and practices...You know it is a great amp.

Clean channel and overdrive channel; master volume; reverb; effects loop; internal channel switching. The placement of the efx loop jacks is real annoying and hard to get at,(in back and underneath the chassis.) The footswitch and cord for it are very cheesy and not very durable looking, though I haven't had any problems with it.

I play both harp and guitar (Tele w/ Seymour Duncan stacked humbucker, A lot of slide work) The clean channel is a little lacking in tone, using a Green Bullet with it, with the volume cranked all the way and the master turned down I get a pretty decent harp sound, not so using an Astatic mic which sounds better thru the overdrive channel. For guitar I use the overdrive channel exclusively, prefering to use guitar volume control to vary the gain. The tone of the overdrive channel is great. By playing with the various knobs you can get a real variety of sounds. I find the presence control the most useful, probably one of the most responsive presence controls I have ever used on any amp. The reverb is OK but nowhere as rich and lush as the old Fenders I have had. I have replaced the tubes, and currently am using a matched quartet of Groove Tubes on the power side and Sovteks on the pre-amp. It originally had Chinese tubes in it YEEECCCHHH!!! The new tubes are an improvement. Overall a great sounding amp considering the price.

Peavey lost it in this category. Mind you I gig 2 to 3 times a week plus rehearsals, but I do take care of this amp ( change tubes, etc.) Lately amp has been in shop more than on stage. Has been suffering with a reoccuring loss of volume problem that has been difficult to diagnose and repair. It has been to two different techs already. They both said that repairs were difficult due to the printed circuit board construction. It had to have a volume pot replaced, and due to the design of the amp only another Peavey pot would work therefore I may have the trouble again. A friend of mine has a Delta Blues and has had problems with his. I would not consider it a reliable gigging amp. Good for jamming and playing at home, not for the road.

Amp tech said it was difficult to repair, parts sometimes not available. My problems occured after warranty ran out.

Great sounding amp for the money but not very reliable. Probably would not buy another one.

These are flexible amps with enough power for a small gig, they have a very clean class A tone good for jazz And can be switch into a crunchy rock like tone, or the gain can set back to about six for dirty melodic parts. These two channel amps have everything I just about need. These are excellent practice amps loud enough mix with the drums unmiked. A good tube amp

I use an ESP strat trough this amp set on the neck pickup for that fat jazz tone. The overdrive is gives enough bite for heavy metal with the midrange set to zero. It's loud and clean all the way up to 12. Though blues can be played through this amp, to me it sounds more like a blues musician through a European amp.Some noise is noticable upon warm-up from the fan but if you play at a morderate to loud level it's really not noticable.This is a good amp if your a musician on a budget looking for a beatles, Yardbirds kind of sound

These are reliable amps built solid in the US. The tubes are well protected within the chassis.Though one thing you may want to keep an eye on is the speakers. I have blown a speaker already in the few months that I had it but It was purchased used and assuming from the serial No. that it's about three or four years old it is.

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If it got Stolen (of course i'd be ticked) I would buy another one. I love it's glassy tone(of course somebody had a peek in a Vox AC-30) Though I hate peavey's choice of OEM speakers they could of used Celestion 10's.

For my playing style (blues/rock) it has enough features. I would like a direct output, headphone jack and separate equalization for each channel (it has two channels). I use the amp in my home basically and I think there is enough power to gig, at least in clubs.

I really like the versatility of this amp. You can go from warm clean to blues or rock with the tip of your foot. It's very quiet. You can overdrive easily the power stage but it's not a distorted sound. In the "dirt" channel you can go from almost clean to high-gain. I am using this amp with a Strat Plus Deluxe, an Epiphone Les Paul Standard and an Epiphone Riviera and the tone is very good with all three.

It has one year and hasn't give me any problem.

In Spain the problem is that, in this moment, there isn't a distributor. I don't know what will happen in case of troubles.

I love the sound, the versatility and the look. I have compared to a Fender Blues Deville 4x10 and found very similar except in the distortion department where the Peavey is more versatile. Probably the Fender is more "bluesy" and the Peavey more "rocker". I hate the weight!

amp is an all tube model, i like the responce / dynamics that gives. 2 channels, plenty of active feeling eq. led on footswitch would be nice in the dark. i use the amp in small rooms, theaters and have plenty of volume.

i use it for rock which includes clean and distortion, i set the pre - post gain together about straight up. i feel the fan is way too noisy. miking the amp will pickup the fan if not careful.

no trouble, 2 yrs old and used 4 times a week

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it's heavy but i put on wheels and like it alot, i would buy another. this has been a very good amp for me

Very versatile amp. Can accomodate jazz, blues, blues-rock, hard rock, and, if you have high output pickups, metal. The amp is equipped with 2 channels: Normal and Lead I wish it had a parallel effects loop instead of the customary serial loop This amp has more than enough power when jamming with a band. The amp is of an all-tube mono design.

I prefer the amp for its dirty sounds though the Normal channel offers very warm clean tones. I am more of the Fender persuasion for clean sounds. I feel the Normal channel lacks a bit of "bite." The amp did not produce a significant amount of noise. The only audible noise came from my single coil pickups. As I said earlier, the distortion channel offers very warm and assorted dirty tones. The tone controls are very responsive for both channels

The amp is pretty much brand new, so I can't really say

I have decided to combine this amp with a classic Fender to have the best of both worlds: warm overdrive from the Peavey and sparkly clean sounds from the Fender. I am very content with the versatility of this amp and recommend it to anyone who plays a wide variety of styles.

Two channels (clean and overdrive, the latter with pre- and post- gain controls); it would be nice to have an LED on the footswitch, though. The effects loop has never suited my taste -- you seem to lose a lot of signal. 50 watts fills a small club nicely. The only problem is that you don't get "natural" break up until you're really cranking and the lead channel just doesn't sound very natural in its overdrive.

The clean channel is very clean until the amp gets cranked high and has been on for a while. The it has a great bluesy type of distortion that you'd love to be able torecreate at a lower volume.

Three years without a problem

Next time out, I'd go for the Classic 30 -- if I need more clean volume I'd rather mike the amp.