Peavey ValveKing 112 Combo

2005 model I believe. Play mostly Punk,Metal,some rock and blues suits my needs just fine, its got a sweet tone to it, not your commercial sound like a Marshall(although similar), which is what I was looking for. 2 channels - clean channel has a footswitchable bright switch, overdrive has footswitable volume boost or gain boost or both. Effects loop located on front of amp, no headphone jack. Has 2 inputs 1 for high gain and another for low gain. Has a knob on the back that changes the amp from a class A to a class A/B or somewhere inbetween. I wish it had a master volume and a parallel speaker output(if you hook it up to another cab it disables the internal 12" speaker), I use this amp in band practise with a drummer, bassist with half stack and another guitarist with a Marshall AVT275 - it handles itself pretty well alongside the Marshall(its not as loud as the AVT obviously) and can definately keep up with a drumset. I used to use an AVT275 but kept hating to lug it around to gigs to only turn the volume up a quarter way, I needed an amp that could cut it in band practice as well as a medium gig(larger ones are just mic'ed up anyway) and something that doesn't break your back

I currently play a Gibson SG Standard with stock pickups and a Custom Fender Strat with a single EMG-HZ alnico pickup(no use for active system just yet). The amp does feedback at high volumes a little, but I use a noise gate to solve that...no problems. The sound of this amp is similar to something you may have heard but just can't place your finger on... Its not a Marshall sound, not a Mesa sound, Not a Vox sound but a different tone on its own, cause really if you want a Marshall sound-buy a Marshall. The 3 band EQ per channel is very nice, you can dial some good tone out of it. The Texture dial on the back is great and varies the tone ever so slightly but with a notible difference. The clean channel can be described as a dark-clean sound, not sparkling but settles right for rock music. Distortion is great, it can't do the whole mid-cut nu-metal crap, but does a solid rock tone, if you're looking for other sounds put a pedal in front...its not a brutal distortion but more a smooth flowing sound(depending on your texture knob)
Its an open back cabinet so doesn't have a huge bottem end but its still manageable, this will be killer if plugged out into a closed back 2x12 cab. but of course sound is purely subjective.

I would use it in a gig without a backup, hasn't broken yet(but I just got it) so only time will tell.

Its not a USA make but a Chinese make, but that doesn't bother me at all.

The reverb tank was loose when I got it but I just tightened the screws and all is well.

never dealt with them

I've been playing for 9 years, had almost every brand of guitar amp out there. If you're looking for value for money, you can't go wrong with the Valveking.

If it was lost/stolen I would probably get the 2x12 version or the head version.

I compared this to a Marshall DSL401 and a Fender Hot Rod deluxe, and the dsl was nice but it was a sound thats been heard before and you can't justify the price of Marshall amps nowadays. The fender HRD has a nice clean channel but the overdrive isn't the greatest(subjective of course)...

I will be hooking this up to a 2x12 1922 Marshall cab as this will just broaden the sound and give more of a punch.

I'd highly recommend this amp to someone who is looking for there first tube amp or even a higher end solid state. This blows solid states out the water, but don't expect it to be entertaining stadiums...

Brand-New 06 112 VK. Feature its LACKING that needs to be mentioned. The Ext. Speaker jack when in use, MUTES the internal speaker! Also the ext jack alone doesn't seem to put out adequate power? Amlifier is Single-Coil friendly but reacts negatively to GOOD Humbuckers. Gibson BB-Pro's, Dimarzio, Seymour Duncan. Texture control works OK to the left Class-A but the A/B to the far right tends to sound full of static.

The amp is a disappointment. After owning a Classic 30 I was expecting a much better tone from this VK. My Fault! OD leaves much to be desired and the clean is mediocre at best. Reverb is eh! iF YOUR LOOKING FOR BEDROOM LEVEL Volume, then this will work OK. But for something to play out with this amp leave's much to be desired! I'm sure it could be tweaked and upgraded with better tubes/speaker's but even that is only going to to do so-much. With SC's as I said it is not a bad amp. But Humbuckers ..... forget it!

Remains to be seen! Good warrenty from Peavey though.

N/A, But I will give them the benifit of the doubt. Comes with a 2-year extended warrenty also. So its 5 all together.

Been playing since the late 60's. I really wanted to like this amp. But it is lacking in the TONE dept. The head 100w or the 212 100w might be much better? I'm sure it will have at least more clean headroom. But the 112 is NOT a Pro-gigging amp. Better off with a Peavey Classic 30 ANYDAY. Much better amp IMHO! Peavey needs to take this one BACK to the drawing board! It was all here in the reviews! I just chose to ingnore it thinking I knew better. Fotunate I bought it new and was able to return it. Bought a Fender Blues Deluxe RI on the return. WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Should have did this to begin with instead of trying to save a few bucks!

Alot of features. I've read some people talk about "getting what you pay for" and "good for the money..." these people are crazy. For $399 this is the ONLY thing you should buy.
This is a real, 50W tube combo with 2 channels. Plus, it DOES NOT need biasing when you change the tubes - this will save the average player hundreds of dollars in guitar tech fees over the life of the amp (especially in new york city). Just pop them in yourself.
And a knob that switches from class A to A/B? Come on. For $399 you would need to be a complete novice to ask for or buy anything else.

This amp is very loud and sounds very warm and thick. The clean channel is beautiful and if you use a distortion pedal and a tube screamer you don't even need the distortion channel. I mainly use a 70's strat with a JB Jr. in the bridge, a tube screamer, a DS-1 and a Boss ME-50. I've heard about the footswitch delay problem, but I don't really bother with switching channels. One good tube channel on a Soldano or VHT or Bogner or whatever would cost as much as 5 or 6 of these amps and, to tell you the truth, they don't sound 5 or 6 times better. They don't even sound twice as good. This is a real, quality 50W tube combo and it sounds like it.

I use this amp for live shows in rooms from 15 to 300 people. What's the difference - you're putting an SM57 in front of it anyway. This amp has never let me down and never had any problem. It's more reliable and solid than ANY Marshall or Fender within 3 times it's price range, and I've had them all. In a "do or die" situation, I'd always rather have a Peavey behind me because, although they may not be the finest amplifiers in the world, THEY ALWAYS WORK.

When I replaced the tubes for the first time (they never went out on me, just felt like it was time) I emailed Peavey customer service about biasing and within a day I had a response that these amps require no biasing. I was very pleased with the response time and the answer! I guess they get a 10.

I can't believe this amp exists. Been playing for 15 years and don't like to carry around a van full of crap to play a show. This is a high quality, great sounding, loud tube amp for $400. There is nothing close to this on the market and if Marshall or Fender decides to compete, their product will, most likely be total crap compared to this thing. Even their $600 amps sound like junk and hardly work. If someone stole it I would laugh and buy 2 more. Buy this amp now.

I bought this amp in December of '05 because I wanted a smaller combo to be able to jam along with instead of lugging my 5150II halfstack around everywhere.
I play a range of styles from blues, to rock, to heavy. Overall, I am quite satisfied with how it sounds for the price I paid.
I am not going to go over the features, since they have been listed time and time again, but like I said, it gives plenty of options for the price I paid for it.
There is easily enough power from this thing to use at any event. If you are that concerned about how loud it is, buy a cabinet of some kind.

My main guitar is an Agile 2800DLX (les paul copy) with an EMG 85 in the bridge, but I also use a stock Fender Mexican Strat.
As I said, I play a variety of styles, using all brands of distortion as well as cleans, and this amp on it's own I have to admit is somewhat lacking. When I first plugged it in, I noticed that it seems to get along with my strat much more than my Agile. And so I was somewhat disapointed. Over the past few months however, I have had a chance to listen to a few other guitars being played through this amp. One of which was a Peavey Rotor EXP, and I must say, this guitar and amp combo sounded absolutely amazing when it comes to playing metal riffs.
I also decided to plug the amp into my cabinet that I use with my 5150II and I must say WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!! After plugging into the cabinet the ValveKing sounded like an entirely different beast! Absolutely amazing. After hearing this, I have decided that I am going to have to buy a replacement speaker sometime if I ever plan to use the amp on it's own because it's definitely not the amp that sounds like crap, it's just the speaker that comes in it.

Lately though, I have been just puttering away with the amp off and on, and I do enjoy it even on its own. Perhaps the speaker has not really had a chance to be broken in and the sound will get better with time, I guess we will have to see.

I will post an update once I do get a new speaker for it though. If anyone has any suggestions from their own experience, please feel free to send me an email.

So far, no issues, it seems to be solidly built. It was still intact after shipping, so I guess I can't complain yet.

As for gigging, I would certainly use it if I couldn't bring my halfstack for some reason. After all, that's why I bought it in the first place.

Never had to deal with them yet.

I've been playing guitar for 5 and half years now, and I have become relatively atune to what I consider to be good tone. I beleive that good tone is entirely possible through this amp, even moreso with a different speaker. Some people beleive that in order to play heavy metal they need to have the gain constantly on 10, and if you are one of those players, then this amp probably won't give you the sounds you are after, so save up and get a 6505 or a XXX. As for me, I can slam out a convincing metal riff even without the gain boost engaged, although it is nice to have in case I am feeling a little more raunchy.

This has already been covered quite throughly. I really wish it had seperate resonance switches for the gain and the gain boost channels. For that matter, a seperate eq, volume, and gain controll for the boost function would be nice, but that would make it a 3 channel amp. It would also be nice to have the bright switch as a footswitchable function. Oh well... The real issue with the features is the cut out when switching from the clean to either gain settig, or from low gain to high gain. The amp cuts out for about 0.2 seconds, which doesn't sound like much, but it's really annoying if you want a smooth transistion. I simply avoid this by not sustaining anything while switching, but it sitll sucks. I contacted Peavey about this and they said that it was normal for the amp and it could be fixed by removing one of the capacitors, but then it would pop every time you switched channels vis footswitch. Overall, the amp has an impressive feature list for the price, but anyone who rates this amp high in this category is simply lying.

I have played this amp exclusively with my moded Epiphone Les Paul, which has PRS McCarty pickups, Tonepros locking bridge and tailpiece, push-pull tone pots for coil tapping the humbuckers to their outside coils only, and a few other mods as well. This amp is seems to fit a range of rock styles pretty well. With the gain at about the ten o'clock posistion and no gain boost, it yields a decent classic rock tone, but nothing outstanding. If you crank the gain controll with no gain boost engaged it has some standard hard rock tones. Engage the gain boost and the amp compresses quite a bit. This gives you more sustain, but if you don't have the resonance set to the "loose" posistion you end up with a rather thin, seething tones reminicient of 1980's metal lead tones. However, with the the resonance set to loose, the amp becomes much more bottom heavy and it yields more of a modern high-gain tone, but it still compresses quite a bit. That's all cool, but if you want to use the gain channel without the gain boost on and you leave the resonance switch set to the loose posistion, you get really flabby, unfocused low end. NOT cool if you want to use it for a classic rock or blues tone. Overall, the gain channel is about average. Not fantastic on any setting. It will give you anywhere from blues to moderately heavy modern rock tones, but not really a great amp for the modern metal player. I have found the overdrive to be a bit "buzz-saw" like, and not in a good way. I am considering switching to some lower gain preamp tubes, like 5751's, to adress that issue. Sweeter, and smoother gain tones come with the character knob set full to the class "A" side, but the bolder tones come out with the knob set to class"AB." The clean channel, however, is fantastic. It has a real smooth tone and is nice and warm with the neck humbucker and the bright switch off. It sounds really glassy and sweet with the bright switch engaged and the bridge humbucker. Also, with a digital delay, the bridge humucker coil tapped, and the bright switch engaged, you can get some great U2 sounds. I've heard the others say that the clean channel distorts when you really crank it, but I've never needed to go past half way on the volume so I can't really adress that issue. I almost forgot to mention, the eq's on both channels are really great. They give a really wide range of controll that is always smooth and mostly musical. Overall, if you're looking for a real tone machiene, seek elsewhere, but it far surpasses any solid state amp you're gonna come across in the tone category. In relation to my dream tone, this amp gets a 6.

This remains to be seen. The cabinet seems to be made of good materials, but it isn't the most solid consttuction. It probably couldn't take the beatings of a tour unless it was babied inside of a flight case. As others have mentioned, the reverb tank only has 2 screws. However, the inputs, potentiometers, and switches all feel pretty good.

When I did contact the company about the switching issue they were fast, curteous, and forthright about the problems inherient in the amp's design. The amp comes with a 3 year warranty (if I remember correctly).

I have been playing for the past seven years and have had the chance to play some nice amps, guitars, and the like. At this point, I am a college sutdent and I can't afford the gear that I would really like, but perhaps with a degree that will change someday. If this amp were stollen I would probably replace it with something in the 500-600 dollar range instead because this amp has some shortcomings that make it quite a bit inferrior to the amps in this range. If you want a amp that sounds better than solid state at the solid state price and can live with the channel switching issues, this is a good deal for you, but if you've got the cash for something a bit higher end, I'd spend it.

oh my lets talk about flexability,i can nail a KWS strat tone,,think KINGS HIGHWAY,and i get a pretty good PLEXI TONE,,think WARREN DEMARTINI,BUT A LITTLE MORE TRANSPARENT,,,,,,.THE REVERB IS NOT BAD,,TEXTURE KNOB IS WHAT REALLY GIVES THIS AMP THE MAGIC,,,AS FAR AS THE CH SWITCHING,WELL ITS THE WORST I EVER HAD,

I PLAY A STRAT & A IBANEZ SA160 WITH TEX SP IN THE NECK & DIMARZIO AIR ZONE BRIDGE,CLEAN BREAKS UP AFTER 6 WITH SINGLES,,DISTORTION ON THIS AMP,SINGS<IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN>SINGLE NOTE LEADS AND CORDS ARE VERY MUSICAL,NOT MODERM HIGH GAIN BUT MIDRANGY,LIKE A SOLDANO..I HAD A HR 50.I HAD A BUNCH OF AMPSTHIS AMP IMOP,IS A CROSS BETWEEN A 5150&XXX,,THE CLEAN IS NOT AS NICE AS THOES OTHER 2,BUT OK,DOESENT SUCK,,THE DISTORTION IS MY FAV,TURN DOWN YOUR VOLUME AND IT CLEANS UP,,THATS WHERE YOU GET THE KWS TONE,LEAVE IT UP AND YOUR GETTING PRETTY CLOSE TO THE WARREN TONE

KNOW IDEA,ITS ONLY 2 MONTHS OLD,BUT ?

IF YOU EVER DELT W/THEM,YOU KNOW 10S

OK HERES THE DEAL,,SOLDANO HR50,MARSHALL DSL 50 2204 30W ARTIST,PEAVEY 5150 XXX VALVEKING VMT60,LANEY AOR & CLASSIC,JACKSON JG2,MESA SINGLE REC,I CAN GO ON ALL GREAT AMPS,ITS JUST UP TO YOU,I LIKE A AMP THAT UNDERSTANDS MY MOODS,,THIS 1 AMP COVERS MORE OF MY MOODS THAN ANY OTHER,,IM CONSIDERING GETTING THE HEAD FOR MORE HEADROOM ON THE CLEAN CH,I TRYED ONE OUT AT THE MUSIC STORE,NOT REALDIFF FROM THE COMBO,JUST MORE VOLUME

Ok, features have been covered extensive already. Read the other reviews if you're not sure what this amp has. This amp has all the modern features that have become standard. Only things that are missing are a master volume, a presence control, a half-power switch and a headphone jack but no amp has to have everything. It's definitely loud enough.

primarily, I use guitars with humbuckers and I play rock music. I do need a really good clean channel though and this is where the amp does a good job. The clean channel has enough headroom and doesn't get gritty unless you push it. The EQ here also works very well so you can tweak many sounds.

The distortion channel is just awful. I think it has a horrible quality. It is very raspy and doesn't have any warmth to it, especially at higher gain settings. Reminded me of a tiny solid-state amp. The EQ still works fine and the gain and volume boost switches do provide extra tonal options, but the basic tone of this channel is horrible. Overall, the amp sounds very boxey as well, probably due to the speaker. As other reviewers have mentioned, there is also the volume dropout when switching channels. I did enjoy having the resonance switch on the back.

given the unusable nature of the distortion channel, I tried using distortion pedals with the clean channel, but that didn't work well. I wouldn't say the clean channel takes pedals well.

I bought it online and when it first arrived, the spring reverb wasn't working right; the tank was really loose and one of the springs broke off. Also, out of the 4 screws to hold down the reverb tank, I only had 2. I exchanged the amp and got one with working reverb, but still only 2 screws. Is this some cost-cutting measure for Peavey? makes no sense to me.

Construction seems sturdy enough though. Weakest link would be the reverb tank I feel.

I emailed Peavey about the reverb tank and they responded quickly and politely, detailing how I could get it fixed. Good enough for me.

I'm quite disappointed with this amp. The clean channel is ok, but the distortion channel is hopeless. I'm not the type that's overly picky about tone cos I believe you can always tweak things to work, but the basic tone of the distortion channel is just awful.

I returned the amp after a few weeks of trying to get it to sound right to me. Perhaps changing the tubes or the speaker would improve the tone, but I didn't want to buy an amp and have to modify it. I had high hopes for this amp and think that Peavey makes decent products, but I don't think this amp is right for anyone unless they intend to modify it.

3 12AX7A Preamp
2 Channels
4 6L6's
Texture Modeler
and standard eq reverb
50 watts All tube




pretty good tubes for chinese made amp (using russian tubes)

I play all styles of modern rock. I'm dissapointed
I've owened many peaveys, and am no novice to lower mid price range tube amps and tube hybrids.

I tried this amp for about 2 hours at Guitar center for about one week straight, with almost every commonly used guitar (Lespauls, Strats, Schecters Blackjacks, Ibanez prestige, Ibanez RG570, ESP, Peavey Wolfgangs ect. jackson DXMG) Have not been able to get a good sound of it. The bass is lacking, and is very bad for open string palmutes. The clean lacks the warm glassy sound of tube amps, or the full body. The distortion is extremeley higain, and fuzzy sound however, lacks the warmth of tube amps. I wasn't expecting a peavey 5150, but i was expecting this amp to match higher end solidstate peaveys, crates and randalls. Personally I've had more luck getting a warm tube sound, with articulate distortion from peaveys Transtube line. Any one looking into this amps should save another 150$, and look into the 550$ range you'll have more options there and will be able to find a few decent sounding amps such as Crate V30's and Peav



I've regularily used at some point in th past Peavey Triumph 60, Peavey Ultra 40, Marshall 8240 Valve State, Crate Vintage CLub 5212, Rockotron Eganator TOL 100, Peavey Duece II, Peavey Revolution Head, Pignose.

I don't know, havent purchased it
looks pretty solid tolex is slightly weaker
than older peaveys from 1988 or so

I've been playing 4 years. Like i said i've had plenty of experience wiht midrange tube amps, i'm not a tube snob or anything. The amp seems like a good deal on paper, and certainly unusable. It does provide the volume and cut tube amps have, however the distortion channel lacks articulation for the gain and the amp lacks bass, the amp maybe okay
if one were to run pedals on the clean, but the clean isn't warm or fullbodied as most other amps. Users in the 400$ braket would be better
to consider high end solidstate amps, including peavey's own for better tone, or save another 150$. Those who really want tube but only have 400$ should seriously look on ebay for Crate Vintage clubs (blues, and 70s rock players), or Peavey Ultra these amps typically sell used around the same price as the peavey and have a world better tone.

Let me start with how I came upon the Peavey ValveKing.
I currently own a Peavey Classic 20, a Fender 1965 Twin Reissue and a Fender 112 SE (Transistors)... I play Blues, Classic Rock and Country Music so my guitars range from an America Fender Strat and Tele to ES335 and Les Paul Copies (Ibanez and Agile) amongst the mix is a Peavey T60 and Fender 72 Tele Thinline Reissue both with humbuckers. I am partial to that Fender Tube tone and the depth of a 12" speaker. My Fender Twin has the tone, that real clean, deep tone that the amp is famous for. It has only 2 drawbacks. It can not get a dirty tube sound at any volume and it is way to heavy to cart around. The Peavey Classic 20 can get the dirty tones for great lead lines but has very little headroom for clean sounds and the 10" speaker to my ear is a little thin. Installing JJ tubes in it recently made a world of difference. Now the Fender SE at 160 watts is very clean and the distortion channel is ok for hard rock but not for blues. And on 1 it is too damned loud. So I went out looking for an amp that could cover the best of all worlds so to speak. I tried them all. Tubes, Transistors, Crate, Fender, Marshal, Vox, Behringer, Line6. Nothing sounded right. The only one that caught my attention was a Mesa Boogie and they start at over 1k... I had no intention of spending a lot of money and will sell the 112SE to offset some cost so I very carefully considered a Fender Blues Jr. But the BJ although better in clean tone than the Classic 20 just still did not have the headroom I was looking for and not much range in dirty tone. Then I came upon the ValveKing and I'll be damned if it doesn't do it all. This is NOT an amp modeler but the real thing. The amp has two channels with a gain boost almost as if you had 3 channels. With one draw back which I'll cover under Sounds below.

I love the sound of this amp with all of my guitars from single coil to humbuckers but enjoy it best with my Les Paul Copy. It is great for any song I play from Blues to Classic Rock to Country.
The amp is fairly quiet until you get it cranked way up but not as noisy as my Fender Stage 112. At those volumes you'd be going deaf and really should be miking the cabinet at a lower volume anyways.
(Get your drummer to learn feel and touch)
The clean channel stays fairly clean at high volumes but breaks up as any good tube amp should. 65 Twin excepted. You can utilize the A rated A/B rated knob on the back and get clean tones while picking lightly with varying degrees of breakup hitting harder, depending on where you set the knob. This is a great feature and accounts for the many different styles of music you can cover. The distortion channel can go from Blues to Heavy Distortion. Most of the tone comparisons I covered above. Sorry about that. Here's the draw back with the gain boost. Yes as other reviewers have said there is a slight pause when switching from the distorted channel to the boost. I don't see that as much a problem (gives you time to set up for your lead from rhythm.) as the fact that the increase in gain is too much. Way over the top instead of just enough boost to come up from the mix. As the pause is not there going back down it is my belief that this was put here to save your speaker from the huge spike in volume. I tried using a fender single switch and it is no problem going from clean to the second channel or back. The gain boost is just an added feature I don't need and is not a reason for not buying this amp. I use a Bad Monkey distortion pedal for an increase in boost anyway. And the line in and out on the front is very convienent for my Digitech RP50. The Fender amp's are on the front also. I don't really understand why anyone would want them on the back.

Too new to know about reliability but I've owned several PV guitar, bass, keyboard and pa amplifiers and know for a fact PV to be a reliable product.
In fact I still own a PV keyboard amp that is 21 years old. The American made PV transistor amps have a tendancy to get a little dirty in the solder joints and need a tweak on the head now and then.
My bet is this Chinese made ValveKing will hold up better in the long run. Sure you have to replace tubes now and then but don't let that concern you. My Twin was purchased in 1991 and still has the original tubes in it and my Classic 20 purchased in 1994 just had a tube change only to try and get more headroom in the front end.
Here I am rating PV a 10 (not this particular amp) due to the longevity of the PV amps I have owned.

I've never had to use customer support for repairs of any PV product.
But have on occassion talked to techs over the phone for stupid questions. They have always been very kind and willing to help.
Never rude on any occassion.

I've been playing guitar for over 40 years with the use of many different guitars and amps. (Started out as a drummer so guitar took second place for awhile) I've utilized tons of effects and pedals lightening the load down to a Digitech Bad Monkey overdrive pedal and a Digitech RP50. Basically I prefer a raw amp with reverb and tone have much appreciation for that bathroom digital sound. Although the RP50 is in line for when it is appropriate and for the built in tuner. I do use a Line6 POD in my recording studio for guitar and the line out of my Roland Cube 100 Bass amp for Bass and Keyboards. It is just easier that way rather than trying to isolate sounds to mike amps. Basically and truthfully the Peavey ValveKing 112 is an excellent value and has the best tone you can find for the money. Sure tone is subjective but I'd recommend this amp to anyone.

I may have gotten a lemon, but I'm not impressed at all with the tone.
I also know that that is relative, but it was missing that organic, warm
responsive tone. I was very disapointed when I got it home. Let me also say, it was very inexpensive and as I just said I may have gotten a lemon, but I am already having to send it back to get fixed. Anyway, not for me, but everyone's got an opinion.

I had problems with it from day one. As many reveiws have said, there is a very bad delay when switching chanels. And for me the switch box for the amp did not fix the problem. The construction is very poor. By the second day of gigging, the top was making a horrible noise. The only way to stop it was to put lots of pressure on the top of the amp. And now all the 6l6's are shot, and I've only had it two weeks. Let me stress that I may have gotten a lemon, but I will be getting my money back (hopefully) and just spending the money to get something I feel confident in.

Personally, I don't think this is the amp for a working musician. I'm not saying that it wouldn't work for other applications, but not something I can depend on. For the money, you can still get a decent amp
that will last. Hopefully I've not been to negative, but this has been my experience with this amp.