Peavey Envoy 110

I'm not sure what year it was built in, but I bought it fairly recently. It has a clean and a drive channel, each with a "Vintage/Modern" voice toggle switch. Other than that and reverb, it doesn't have that much to offer. Headphone jack, yeah, but I never use that.

Through my plain, MIM Strat, the amp sounds fine. Clean is great, although I probably haven't been playing long enough to tell a good clean sound from a bad one. But it suffices for my style (Clean rock, blues- not loud stuff)- and praticly no hum on the clean channel- even cranked up. Nothing wrong with the reverb.

The drive/distortion channel, however, hums like mad. I suspect it was thrown on to make the amp more desireable, but little time was put into it. If you reguarly play heavy, you will like to have a seperate pedal of some sort.

I can depend on this almost with my life. Due to my clumsy nature, this amp if often beaten and handled carelessly, and yet it sounds the same as the day I bought it.

This amp powers over a light drummer, but I haven't gigged with this amp.

Yet....

Never had it serviced, but I've experienced Peavey's client service, and it's great.

Plus I have five authorized dealers around so I'm fine.

I've been playing for a mediocre two years, and the only other gear I own, besides my Strat and Peavey, is a broken Pignose and a few acoustics.

If I lost this amp, I would lock myself in the bathroom and cry, but then start saving my money for a better amp.

Love: Clean. Lightweight, and yet powerful.

Hate: Dirty. Too much feedback and hum (on the drive channel).

Same features as described by others. Don't know the history of my model, it was given to me by a man from whom I purchased a 12-string acoustic guitar ...

I play jazz and like a clean sound but this little amp is too dry sounding for my taste, even with big hollow-bodied jazz instruments. I wanted a small amp, I was tired of lugging around my larger tube amplifiers to small supper club venues. My Fender Champ, upgraded to a ten inch speaker and modified for slightly higher power and less distortion just didn't quite have the volume but had an acceptable sound. FINALLY, I hit on the right solution: I added a line output from the cathode of the second stage of the Champ. Now I run the Peavey from the Champ line out and all is well. Two tiny amps, easy to carry, the Champ stays close, to easily monitor my sound and the higher power Peavey is placed depending upon the club layout. Best of both worlds - higher power and a warmer sound - and easy on the back :)

Seems fairly sturdy.

No previous experience with this company.

40 + years of experience. I have lots of guitars and lots of amplifiers, most of them large, unhappily. If this little combo was lost, I wouldn't replace it, I'd probably get an Epiphone Galaxie 25 and leave the Champ at home.

Two channel solid state amp with horrible reverb. This was my first guitar amp, which was ok for practicing at home, but pretty much useless when playing in a full band setting. No FX loop, but for a practice amp it shouldn't matter anyway.

I play a cheap Ibanez GAX-75 with stock pickups, but I've tried playing a few higher end guitars through this amp (whenever I got to jam with other people), and they all sounded like crap. The clean channel produces the most bland, thin tone you can ever imagine, even for a practice amp. The distortion is OK at low levels - it actually sounds decent if you mic it and record it that way(that's the only reason I'm giving this amp a rating of 4). Anything past volume of 5, and this thing starts feedbacking, the tone becomes muddy, etc. The reverb on this amp is horrible, it produces a loud hum if you turn it up past 2.

Didn't have any problems with it.

For the price, this amp is a little bit sub-par. If you can find one for less than 100$, and you need a practice amp(and nothing more), then maybe it would be worth buying. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

this amp is pretty versatile. it has two channels (clean and overdrive) but there are two clean modes (vintage and modern) and three drive modes (vintage, modern and hi gain) it has a headphone socket. I think this amp is a great sounding practise amp for the price but it is really not loud enough for rock gigs without being miced up. however i play in a jazz band and it is perfectly suited for that volume wise. It is versatile for what it is i play anything from jazz to thrash and heavy metal.

This is a solid state amp. Ignore the transtube thing it does not sound very valve like. But for the money it has a good general tone. the clean sound does not break up much at all it stays very clean and im not a jazz coneisour (sorry its hard to spell) but it did the job and at higher volumes can cut through a jazz rhythm section. flick over to distortion and you have really got to use humbuckers and the modern voicing and you get fairly convincing rock and metal tones for the price. However if you are really after a great rock sound and have a bit more money to spend get the marshall avt20 as the valve really makes the difference. I give it an eight or nine when factoring in the price.

ive never really had any problems reliability wise. I have used it for gigs but it really does need micing up and at higher volumes it has a tendancy to feedback. It has taken quite a few knocks and still works fine.

for the price and for its purpose (as a practise amp that can beat a drummer when pushed) it is good and i have no regrets about buying it. i play a japanese fender stratocaster and an epiphone zakk wylde les paul custom with it and it provides gud all round usable tones for the money and is very versatile. However i recommend you try one out yourself as with all things.

2003 Amp. I play rock, pop, some country & it does great. I leave it on Ch. 2, "modern," clean & use my Boss pedals & an MXR EQ pedal (without the MXR EQ I think the tone is a little thin). I wish it had an external spker out in case I needed to run a satellite spkr to the other side of stage, but oh well. I play lots of bar & festival gigs & mic it with an SM57. The guys in the band prefer it to my Fender Pro Reverb or my '72 Marshall Super Lead (I think it's because my stage volume is quieter). I wish it wasn't 6 Ohms. That's weird.

I use a '79 Les Paul Custom most of the time. The distortion is fine for a 13 year old suburban white kid (I've been playing almost 40 years now). I keep it on clean & use my Boss pedals. This amp does quite well in a cover band situation as long the band's got a nice PA system; very versatile. I don't use the amp for recording, so noise isn't an issue.

I've always found Peavey to be quite reliable. I've been using it for almost a year on stage without a backup. It looks a liitle too cute up there on stage, but my back appreciates it, although I sometimes miss my stacks.

I tried to order a cover for it & it took over 2 months. There was a mix-up between the dealer & the factory. Once they figured it out, it took a couple days.

Been playing 40 years -- if stolen I think I'd get the next amp up for an ext spkr out -- I like how lightweight it is & that it can cover all of our gigs (we have a decent PA system) -- tried the Fender Deluxe 90 & gave it back cuz it had this obnoxious high freq in the tone -- I'd recommend the MXR 6-band EQ pedal to give the amp some more low end -- try it out, I think you'd be surprised!

40 Watts, 1x10 "Blue Marvel" speaker. 2 channels. Vintage/Modern on the clean channel. and Vintage/Modern/Hi-gain on the lead channel. No FX loop which I really wanted but didn't want to spend another 2 months saving up for something better. Reverb is a nice touch but a little too thin for professional use...besides, it adds unwanted noise. Especially on the lead channel...I give it an 8.

Sounds pretty good for what it is. It won't compete with any tube amp because it is a solid state amp. But will smoke any solid state amp in it's price range. Beats Marshall in terms of affordability/performance. Although Marshall does tend to sound much more meatier in terms of distortion. You can pretty much make any sound you want with this guitar, but don't be suprised to sound like Kirk Hammett, cuz you won't. But for the $240 I paid for this beauty, it does what I want it to do. Nothing I don't want it to do. Like I said before, the reverb is alebit useless. Sounds too thin and makes too much noise. I am using a Washburn Tabu 100 guitar with Alnico pickups. The guitar sounds great on this amp. I've used my little brother's Sam's club guitar on this amp and even that sounds pretty good with this amp. But I run my Washburn through a BOSS GE-7 7-band equalizer to a Hughes & Kettner Warp Factor to an Ibanez Smash Box, right to the input jack. Sometimes I use chorus and a wah pedal but I don't have enough outlet jacks to use those. Whereas the guitar's distortion is pretty good, I'd still opt for my Warp Factor....review on that one soon. With the EQ, you can get really close to Metallica/Pantera distortion. Really beefs up the tone a lot. This amp can handle pretty much anything you throw at it....oh yeah, mic's up really well too...

There's a loose board somewhere and it rattles at higher volumes. Tried fixing it but I can't get the damn screw off, oh well. Everything else just masks the rattling noise anyways. But hasn't broken down nor the insides become loose.

if anything ever goes wrong with it...i know i can fix it myself. if anything gets too extreme for me to fix, then i'll just get a marshall. i've been playing long enough to deserve myself a Marshall amp. Never had to talk to customer support

I've been playing 6 years and i've played on a variety of amps. I recommend it to anyone on a budget looking for a great amp, beginner and experienced alike. I plan on mic'ing this amp to a PA. Gigging with it won't be a problem, just mic the amp and it will do what you want to. If this were lost or stolen, I would probably buy this again if I didn't have the cash to buy something better. But if you're a broke college student like me, or even in a high school garage band, this would be a good amp for you if you're broke.

Purchased in December 2003,it was made in 2003 or 2002. I bought the new Envoy II 110 (The one with the red decals and new logo) and I would recommend this one over the older model, because it has the modern/vintage switch for both channels and two Inputs (high and low gain) rather then one.

-This is a TransTube amp
-Two channels: clean and lead,eq bands for both channels as well as a "voice" selection for each channel.
-The Voice selections are the modern/vitage features i spoke of earlier. The vitage sound is ok and certainly different from the modern sound which is much fuller and my prefernce. The lead channel also features vitage/modern and "high gain" which is exactly that. High gain has little mid and sounds like the vitage sound. The modern distortion on the lead channel is my favorite, very full, chruchy or smooth a much better tone then my RAGE 158.
-Reverb. The reverb isn't bad, I enjoy it especially on the clean channel. It adds A LOT more life to the clean and a little "sparkle" to lead. Depending on how much you crank it.
-40 watts, 6 ohms
-10 inch Blue marvel speaker. This is amp is fairly loud and can compete with a drum set EASILY. I played a practice with some friends of mine and this amp had plenty of volume.
-Footswitch input. I plan on buying a foot switch soon, cause the amp doesn't come with one with is really fucking annoying.

I play all kinds of music, mostly heavier stuff. The clean channel is sorta weak, but hey it is the "Clean" channel and this isn't a tube amp. Just toss in some reverb to give it that acoustic kind of sound. The lead channel is great, Doesn't fuzz up and little feed back on the low input (for my CORT mirage), great tone for punk music, good for rock and metal.

Most of it is up there ^
The amp buzzes when my TV is on, but they do share the same outlet so... This amp has a lot of variety between the EQ bands for each channel,voice selections and reverb also helps.

I can't say much for this amp, since I've only had it for 2 days. But if its anything like my Rage 158, this rig is tuff as a rock.

Nodda.

I 've been playing for 4 years, I upgraded from my RAGE 158 to this rig because i needed more volume, so I could jam with a drum set and vocals. YES, you can use this amp for a band practice. NO, you cannot gig with this amp unless you mic'ed the amp.

I like this amp its great for someone who wants a better sound but just doesn't have the money for something "Professional". I searched around for a new amp for quite some time and I choose this one, its working great for me. I'm not going to give any ratings cause numbers can't represent a true opinion and I don't have supreme knowledge of amps so my rating would be biased! E-mail me if you have ANY questions about this amp.

2002 model, 2 channels, 5 sub channels. pretty much your average peavey practice amp, 40w into 6 ohms. high and low gain inputs. very loud for a 40watt, capable of competing with a tama kit.

i use a 2002 fender usa strat with a duncan JB Jr in bridge. fairly inconsistent sound on distortion, though it always sounds pretty good on my settings. i only use the modern gain setting as the high gain doesnt have enough sustain for lead breaks, and vintage is just another word for low gain. no real crisp overdrive on this amp, but for 200quid and 40watts, i didnt expect it.

very very very dependable amp, had it for well over a year and not a problem with it. i have mic'd it for gigs in the past, on low volums tho as not to drown out vocals.

cant say ive dealt with them.

what i dont understand is how it is possible to give a product which i own a bad review. i always play gear extensively before purchasing anything, so i have a good idea of what it is like. this amp does everything i want it to do. im 16 and have played for 5 years.i have had a marshall 30watt, and a cheapass practice amp, as well as several guitars and numerous effects. this amp is well worth the cash i payed for it.

This amp is a 2002 model, I'm pretty sure. I bought it new at the end of the year, so I should hope it is. This amp is very versatile, to be sure. It suits me perfectly, and there's really not much else that
I'd ask for. The 3 different distortion/overdrive channels are great. You can get a polethera of various sounds by messing with the EQ and distortion level. Quite satisfying. I play a variety of styles of music (just like everyone else. who are we kidding), with a focus on the harder end of the spectrum. Incubus is a favorite. 2 main channels, reverb, footswitch-capable. I use the amp for practice at home, and with the band. Loud enough for practice with a drummer.

I use this here amplifier with a DeArmond S-65 and a Fender standard Strat-o-caster. Sounds great with both. I'd have to say the reverb is a low point. It's kind of noisy. It does, however, sound alright when used in conjuction with my strat through my Boss Blues driver. Tasty. I have problems with feedback at high volumes when using distortion, but taking care of that is simply a matter of not standing too close to the amp. the clean channel has plenty of character. Nice sparkle.

It is very dependable, and I trust It will last quite a long time.

Great amp. I've been playing for a little over 4 years, so i think that qualifies me to make that judgement. I plan on using this one for awhile, and have no plans to purchase anything to replace it.

40 Watts into 6 Ohms
10 inch super-duty Blue Marvel? speaker
Two footswitchable channels clean and lead
3-band EQ per channel
Headphone jack
Modern/vintage voicing switch on clean channel
Footswitchable reverb with level control
High gain/modern/vintage voicing switch on lead channel
High and low gain inputs


this amp is the amp i use in my music class at school, because cant be fucked lugging my own amp to school. its got enough juice in it to keep up with the rest of the band in the classroom. the high gain/modern/vintage feature on the lead channel is nice, i switch between it a lot, depending on what i'm playing. the reverb serves me well also.

with this amp i either use my charvel legend (telecaster style, 2 single coils) or the school's Ibanez AX (i think its the lower end one, but i'm not really sure)

for use at school, for music exams, performance periods, fucking about at lunchtime etc, its pretty good. its suits my style, at least, which is just general rock with my band, but any impromptue shreds or metal riffs i want to do with it come out fine as well.

the high gain setting feeds back a bit when you get the pre gain cranked and the post gain on about 4 or above

the amp can handle a variety of sounds, i dont think i ever use the vintage setting for clean though. the 'modern' clean setting i like, becasue it doesnt have that horrible tinny, clangy sound that i get sometimes. i normally have lots of bass on the clean channel

the lead channel is pretty good, i use all 3 settings on it extensively. the 'high gain' setting tends to feed back a bit when you crank the distortion on it, but once you start playing its fine. the 'modern' setting is pretty standard, but good for rythms. the 'vintage' setting sounds pretty good with the pre-gain up heaps, giving you some nice chunky blues-ey sounds.

i only use this amp once of twice a week, and never for more than 40 mins or so, but its served me well for that timeframe

i've heard good things about peavey's customer support, but tis not even my amp so i have no idea

overall, i think this amp serves the guitar playing community of my school pretty well, so its good for that. otherwise, its good as a practise amp, or for rehearsals. its too small to gig with though.


i give it a 10 for a practise amp, or an amp for a school to own, but for anyhting else it just doesnt compare