Peavey Valveking 112 Combo

'07 VK112 switchable 2-channel with treble, distortion, and volume boost buttons (available foot switcher) tube amp. 3 X 12AX7; 2 X 6l6.
Chinese.
Two inputs, one attenuated.
1 X 12" combo amp. Decent sized speaker magnet.
Both channels have their own treb; mid; and bass tone controls (passive).
Class AB - class A capability.
Fairly light to carry. Looks like real plywood used in cabinet.

Bright sounding.
Good power.
Clean sound has a Fender quality to it (2 X 6L6, go figure).
Speaker handles the output well enough.
Gain channel has a couple buttons for more, and still more.
Clean channel has a bright and vol boost button.
Back panel has a tight/loose damping button and a pot to sweep from class AB/class A (rolls off one of the output tubes gradually).
The controls do what they say they will.
Good range of tone and distortion control. Pretty versatile.
I think the reverb sounds decent though I don't use it much on jobs.

Looks well built.
I have used it outdoors (un-mic'd) at its limits with no problems. Keeps up with another player's 100w tube amp (Seymour Duncan Convertable with 2 X 12 cabinet).
I usually keep a spare amp in my car, plus a repair kit with tubes, fuses, solder, connectors, tape, etc.
No extraneous noises, buzz, hum.
Well behaved but can rock out.

5 year extended warranty (if you send in the marketing survey).

I've had other Peaveys. Never had a problem, even when they're ancient.

Playing guitar almost 50 years. All styles.
I suddenly needed a cheap, loud amp, so despite being Chinese I tried this and like it a lot.
It does what a tube combo 1 X 12 amp should do, without nuisance features.
I like that it's light enough to carry for its power.
The gain and distortion are better schemes than Fender's current tube amp line up, and the controls aren't as notchy.

I'd replace it with the same if something happened to it, even though I'd rather buy American made stuff usually. It's cheap for what it delivers ($400 out the door).

My version of the Peavey ValveKing 112 was made in 2007. I play blues, country, classic rock, sometimes METAL ;-), and this amp can handle all of my playing nuances and styles without a hiccup. Two channels with a volume boost that acts as a sort of a third channel, optional footswitch, two instrument inputs (high and low gain), and an effects loop. The output jack defeats the 12 inch speaker (bummer) but this amp really takes off when jacked into a 4x12 cab.

The little ValveKing 112 is loaded with useful tools and deceptively small- much smaller than pictures online and similar 1x12 tube offerings would have you believe. I don't use the footswitch much. I've played out live without being miked, and also used it in a studio setting, and had nothing but a smile to add as a review, so the trend continues here. The amp has excellent power, the ability to go from 50 to 30 watts with the turn of a knob, and fantastic tube tone. Loaded. 9/10.

I was addicted to the lightweight nature and crunch of Pignose G40V tube amps for years, but was looking for something with a little more versatility, a little more style, and perhaps a little reverb. So, I went into my local music store looking for the little Peavey Royal 8 recording amp to buy (and hopefully crank), saw how small the 1x12 ValveKing was, plugged it in, and took it home the same day.

The clean tone with full power is fantastic, and the reverb is spirited, indeed. You can go halfway volume-wise, add a quarter of reverb, and enter single coil heaven that doesn't deafen those around you like playing a Twin at three on the volume knob tends to do. Humbuckers sound great, also.

The gain channel, especially with the boost engaged, is absolutely unreal. Shred Zeppelin, eye-popping unreal. Some of the distortion fades as the volume increases, but that's the way a lot of tube amps saturate as the power amp tubes get involved. Mind you, this amp crunches like a wrecking yard with only three preamp tubes, as well. Easy on the wallet when it comes to replace or upgrade the tubes.

Slick, wicked, little amp with mucho cajones. 8/10.

Made in China (from a USA design) at a cost, but all of the work, jacks, and components are high grade construction. A rock; Peavey-style. 9/10.

5 year warranty when registered (I did mine online), and magnet dealers are everywhere. 9/10.

I've been playing for the better part of a decade, and use heavily customized Ibanez GRG170DX's straight into my Peavey. Blues are my thing, even though my setup looks metal. I'm happier than I have ever been with my simple rig that consists of 2 guitars in flight cases, a simple tuner, extra picks and strings, and my ValveKing 1x12.

I run my ValveKing mostly in Class A simulation: Clean Low at 4, Mid at 5, Treble at 6 with the Treble Boost engaged. Gain channel Gain is run at 6, Treble at 6, Mid at 0, and Low at 6 (666, eh). Reverb is around 4.

This amp is a no-brainer. It's like buying an AC30CC, a Hot Rod Deluxe, and a cranked B-52... all in a little, silver, boxy package with wings. And, on top of that, it's got the reliable Peavey name with a 5-year warranty. The best amp under $1000 I've played in years. Solid tube tone, classic looks, and everything you need to practice and gig without breaking your bank or lower back. Buy one. Or perhaps two. 10/10 overall.

See all the others!

Awesome sound for the money. Clean channel is Fender-like. Distortion is perfect for my playing, probably will need a stomp box if you are a metal player. I use a LesPaul Standard with Duncan Alnico Pro II's installed and sounds killer, dare I say Slash-like! My Ibanez RG4EX1 with DiMarzio Evolution and Breed pickups sounds pretty good too, but not as good as the Gibson. That's what you would expect though, Ibanez can't hold a candle to a Les Paul! I installed an Eminence Texas Heat speaker, made a world of difference, original speaker breaks up a bit at higher volume.

Never a problem with this and previous Peavey products.

Never used, but I bet they're pretty good!

I love this amp, I would like to get the 4x12 half stack some day when I play out again. I use an MXR M-108 10-band EQ thru the effects loop, a Electro Harmonix chorus and Boss Flanger at the input. I recommend the EQ and speaker change, it turned this little amp into a fire spitting monster! I think Peavey is an emerging power in guitar amps, you don't have to spend thousands, unless you really want to.

All tube - 2 channel. I can't see anything of great importance missing. If I was using it in a different way - ie: without my Zoom G9 for rock gigs or without my Fender RI Reverb Tank for surf, then I would probably moan about not being able to set different reverb levels for the clean and distorted channels. Also I wish the external speaker socket didn't cut off the internal.

All i can say about the distortion channel is that it sounds fine to me when playing it at home because I didn't buy this to use for rock gigs (I use a Peavey Delta Blues with a 2x12 Celestion G12H cab for that) so all I am writing about is the clean channel. People have very different ideas about what makes a good distortion anyway - as any Harmony-Cental user product review for amps will show you.

I bought this to use for Surf Guitar. Although I was looking at the 100w one this went on e-bay very cheap so I bought it. I was looking for a loud 'Fendery' clean sound with plenty of headroom so that the reverb from my outboard 'tank' would be reproduced faithfully. I have owned pretty much every type of 'standard' amp (ie not boutique) in my 30-odd years of playing pro and semi pro - Fenders, Marshalls, Vox, Peavey and more and I can tell you these are damn good. Comments in some other reviews here that the speaker or the reverb are 'crap' are both untrue and unhelpful - what they mean is that they don't like them, whereas I quite like both. The speaker has a very warm character which I can quite believe gets muddy with high output humbuckers - but I think it sounds great with standard single coils. The reverb is bright and splashy and quite usable at the lower settings - it isn't a Fender spring but it isn't rubbish. Tone controls and bright switch work well. It's very much an amp with it's own character I think which can't be a bad thing. It doesn't sound at all like a Marshall, It doesn't sound like the Peavey 'Classic' range and it sounds a little bit like a Fender. The closest in tone (but not that close) I think I can compare it to is a Fender with JBLS (although it's 10 years since I owned one) which is just fine for me. It doesn't have the top-end sparkle or brute muscle of those but I felt the response was similar. Warm round and smooth - but by no means dull or without zing - at least with a single coil guitar. There's a slight boxiness to the sound in comparison to a 2x12 - because it IS a small box. As Scotty said - 'ye cannae change the laws of Physics'.

Bringing me back to my earlier point, few people would describe a Twin Reverb as 'crap' because it's no good for death metal - It's just unsuitable and that may be the case here. In summary; warm, round and smooth are the adjectives I would use to describe the clean tone. The distortion you will have to decide for yourself - but as someone said earlier, you can always use a pedal. If you crank it right up (and it stays clean a long way round the dial) the clean channel will start to break up in a very pleasing way for blues/country.

I have had an excellent experience with pretty much all the Peavey stuff I've owned (and that's a lot). I must have done several thousand gigs by now using Peaveys without a 'backup'... The only blip I ever had with Peavey reliability was years ago with the old 'Scorpion' speakers which used to blow regularly in both a Peavey Special I once had and a Stereo Chorus 2x12. I swapped them out for Celestions (The G12H is my favourite) in the end as I didn't like the sound of the Scorpions much either. The reliability of both the Sheffield and the Blue Marvels has been superb. Too early to say for the Valve King.

Peavey's after sales is brilliant - certainly in the UK at least. The have bent over backwards to be helpful in the past.

I've been playing for 35 years both pro and semi-pro . I own lots of other stuff because I have chronic G. A. S. :) 17 guitars and 7 amps - 3 of which are Peavey.

I think this range is stunning for the price. If you want a great clean sound or a cleanish blues sound you should try this for sure.... I'm just not qualified to comment on the distortion sound on this particular amp beyond home use where it sounds pretty good to me. I'll get round to trying it for a rock gig sometime - but I'm really happy with my current setup for that.

I like this so much I'm probably going to buy the 100w 2x12 as well!

It has all it needs for a tube amp. As stated by others.

I play RnR, RnB, Country, ect. I changed the speaker to an Eminence 8 ohm Swamp Thing and the preamp tubes to NOS 12AT7's. "Holy Crapload of Distortion peddels, Batman". This thing puts out like a 58 year old whore in a dateing contest.It makes any style of music sound like anything you want it to. Loud, clean, wonderful break-up right where it should be. This thing is gonna go a Gigging with me from now till it dies. Then I will get another......20 points here.

Hopefully it will be durible and reliable. Look OK.

Have yet the need after several months of ownership.

Been plaing for 35 years through all kinds of amps. An awful lot of good ones and a good lot of awful bad ones. But for around $400 plus $150 in upgrades, this one cannot be beat. I hope it's durable because it's got everything else. 30 points awarded here.

You can dial in the tone you seek with just the turn of a knob. Volume boost, Gain Boost, Class A, Class A/B, Bright, Reverb, and the list goes on. You can get almost any sound you want out of it with a little tweaking.

This amp can go from great clean to decent distorted. I'm not much of a fan of on amp overdrive, more of a pedal kind of person myself, but this amp's lead channel isn't bad by any means. Sure beats the hell out of my old hot rod deluxe. Where this amp really shines though is if you have a good overdrive or distortion pedal because you can crank up the volume to get that nice tube grit and then distort the hell out of it with a nice pedal. I currently use a Russian Big Muff distortion pedal and lets just say things get ugly when I hit the stomp box. One feature I love though is the fact that every guitar you play on this amplifier has it's own sound. I didn't pay for an Gibson SG for it to sound like my mini hollow body Jay Turser, and that's pretty much where I was at with my old Hot Rod Deluxe. I had replaced the speaker, the tubes, everything and that beast just sounded the same with every single guitar I plugged in. I took it down to Guitar Center and took a look at all their combo amps they had in stock. I played with B-52, Vox, Crate, Fender, Mesa, and out of all of those the only one that came even remotely close was the Mesa Stiletto (comon it's a friggen Mesa what do you expect?). So I traded in my old Hot Rod for the Valveking 112 combo, still toying with replacing the speaker or maybe getting a 1/2 cab for it but it has plenty of balls and it's the best small tube amp I've seen outside of $1500 boutique amps.

This amplifier is cheap, and a tone monster, but also it depends greatly on guitar. Where as with a Mesa or Vox you could plug a stick with rubberbands in and it would shred like no other, this amp rely's greatly upon the guitar's voice to give you good tone so if you have a shitty guitar this amp isn't going to give you great tone. But if you blow a few bills on a decent guitar and get this amp you will not be disappointed.

This is a great tube amp. It has 2 channels, clean and overdrive. The clean channel features a bright switch (not footswitchable tough) which really boosts the treble. The distortion channel features a volume boost and a gain boost.
The amp is pretty basic, the only effect built in is a nice reverb.
There are however two features which are pretty unusual, cabinet response and class. If you turn you amp around you find a switch to set you cab response from thight to loose and a turing knob to dial any tone between class A and A/B (nothing spectacular though but it's a nice feature)

The sound out of this thing rocks!
I play a 1984 Fender American Strat directly in my Peavey Valveking 112
The clean tone is super, i always use it with the bright switch engaged. This way it has a nice twang to it (especially with my TBX built into my guitar)
The distortion is just enough for rock tones. I'll be honest, you can't get super distorted tones out of it but that's not what it was built for.
The reverb is also pretty nice.

This thing is built pretty tough. The tubes are well protected. I've had but one little 'accident' and that is that my second guitar input is jammed (so no big deal)
I've had it for about a year now and i haven't had to replace any tubes so i gues that's ok.

I haven't had to deal with them but i know that peavey is pretty helpfull. But the reason I gave it a 10 was because you get 5 years warranty which i think is pretty long

I've only been playing for about 3 years but i find this thing pretty ok. I can get some real nice tones out of it and i haven't had much problems with it.
Overall an ok amp though I recomand you buy the 212! It's just 50???+ and it has way more tonal possibilities!

this is a relatively new amp, I've had it for a few weeks, purchased in early 2007 but the serial number starts in 06 so I'm assuming it's a 2006 model. The amp has a number of features, all have been reviewed earlier. I'm not much into channel switching, boosts and all that stuff. When I bought this amp I was looking for a decent, inexpensive back up amp which had a good clean channel and reverb. That's what I got. I use this amp primarily at band practice but lately I've been using it at small club gigs. This amp has all the features I would need plus some so I give it a decent rating.

I can get a good fender type clean tone using this amp with the texture control on A/B, as the texture knob is turned it gives the amp more of a vox typer response. Now note this is very subtle and shows up mostly on the clean channel. Some have reviewed this feature and said it made no difference, then they classified their styles as Metal - well duh, read the manua and experiment a little on the clean channel with the gain not maxed out. Anyhow, I find the amp offers a few good sounds. I don't use the overdrive channel, I prefer a good stomp box so I'm not going to make any comments on the tone, I personally don't like preamp overdriven tones from any amp. I use several guitars with single coils and humbucking pickups, this amp will take either/or without a problem but be prepared to tweak the controls some if your swapping guitars - or set up the two different channels (one for singles, one for humbuckers). This amp suits most rock and blues styles just fine, it's what I play and it works great. Unlike some other reviewers I find this amp to be very quiet, even at high volume settings - but then when you've got the gain cranked all the way and the extra gain button pushed in would it surprise anyone if the amp wasn't noisy??? Get a noise gate..... I give this amp a 7, not because it sound bad, it sounds fine for an inexpensive tube amp but it pales in comparison to my other amps.

I use it as a back up now, it appears to be built well. I've been using it pretty regularly for a couple of months without any issues. Nothing is perfect... but the quality of this amp is better than where it's priced.

No dealings so I can't answer.

I've been playing for a long time, over the past 10 years I've gigged regularly, had a variety of different guitars and amps, nothing cheap. This amp is the least expensive purchase I've made in quite awhile, when I went looking for a backup/practice amp I was expecting to get a Deluxe Reverb Reissue, but at half the price this amp sounded as good.

Like I said earlier, I'm looking for a good clean tone, if I get that and the amp handles pedals well then I'm set. This amp did that out of the box. After having the amp for a couple of weeks I put in a Weber Classic British speaker, it improved the overall tone of the amp tremendously, some folks have an issue changing tubes or speakers - but sometimes to get a better tone that's what you need to do. I've done it with $2,000 amps so popping in a new speaker on this budget amp is probably a must do. I haven't fiddled with the tubes, right now they sound fine.

One thing I like about this amp that I didn't like about others is that the volume control can actually be turned up past half way without maxing out. On my amp a good club volume is at about half way up, it doens't really start to break up much until almost maxed out. My other amps have a major volume spike after getting to 3 or so on the volume knob. Peavey got that right.

I compared this to a DRRI and some crate amps that were in the same price range, the Peavey sounded better than anything in the $400 class and as good as the DRRI at twice the price. Some may argue but hey, those who don't believe me can go check them out.

Although I don't channel switch I do believe the amp should come stock with a footswitch, I think it's a little cheap on Peaveys part to not supply one - To reach a customer satisfaction level equal to their competition this should be a given, as such I'm dinging them some for that.

Overall, it's a good sounding rock or blues amp at a great price - if that's what your looking for then try one out.

This is a 50w all tube combo, It has an A/AB class adjuster and comes preloaded with 3-12ax7 and 2-6L6GC's. It has two channels and a master reverb. A footswitch is optional. My model is a 2005 model and has a very nice responsive but loud sound.

The clean channel on this amp is CLEAN! I have had it to about 6 and it does not get muddy or distorted, I have playeed once live with this and it has a great high volume tone as well as a low volume tone. The Gain channel is very versitile also it has a wide range from Blues bite to a not too heavy Metal distortion. The class control really changes the sound alot it gets from smooth and less violent to very aggressive. A very good sounding amp I would give it an 8

I have had no problems and I got it for christmas in 05

Never Dealt with them

I have been playing for 4 years and play many styles including Rock, Jazz, Metal, Blues and others, the amp is very good sounding for everything, I also have a decent Multi-effects pedal run through it beacuse the reverb lacks a bit.

Earlier reviews have already described this amp in detail. I've had mine for about 3 weeks, now, and still haven't found anything disappointing, except the lack of an included footswitch and a cover. I tried it out in the store, first, and then took it home. Both places I was pleasantly surprised by the sounds I could get. Since I bought it, I have used it for a few live gigs. This is one of the few amps I've had that sounds great, right out of the box, at home, and at a gig. Let me add that I already knew what sounds and features I was looking for, so I zeroed right in when I saw this combo.

Most of the reasons I bought this amp were the nice clean channel, and the lead channel. This amp sounds great on the clean channel with a pick turned around so you're hitting the strings with a rounded corner. Sounds even better being played by fingers, alone. I didn't really care, initially for the reverb, but it has grown on me, especially after trying out a few outboard reverb pedals. The disortion channel sounds good for my use. Again, I knew what sound I was looking for, and this does it for me.

So far, no issues with repairs. I would, and have used it for gigs, already. I baby this amp and I do plan on keeping it on a real good maintenance program.

I did the survey, so I have the 5 year warranty in effect. No problems, yet, so no contact with Peavey. I did inquire about the specs on the speaker, and got a courteous reply back almost immediately. Having owned a couple of other Peavey amps in the last 25 years, I will say that I never had a breakdown.

I've been playing 42 years. I've settled into this amp, and I'm using a Gretsch 6118-120(Double Anniversary 120th Year Anniversary) through it, with a Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man delay pedal.

I would replace its loss immediately with the same amp.

Love the sounds I can get from it. Can't find a thing to hate.

I've tried out many amps and combos over the years, and this is one of a few that immediately impressed me.

I would like it to come with an included footswitch(I just ordered mine). But I realize that this was probably a cost issue, and also some customers may want a choice, if they don't need the footswitch.