Comments on: Peavey’s ValveKing 212 Combo Takes Guitar World’s Gold Award

By: Mike V.

Mike V. — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:41:37 +0000

I’m a huge fan of the US made Delta Blues Peavey.
Maybe because I have one.. :)
Different than this guy, though. Pretty basic and also EL84 tubes.
The natural overdrive on my DB 210 on the clean channel with humbuckers is awesome.

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:06:17 +0000

i used to have the one speaker version of of the ValveKing. I didn’t particularly love it, especially since it didn’t respond well to Strats. It did like humbuckers a lot, and sounded good with those. It had a darkish tone and didn’t want to be flexible enough for me, even with the class a/a-b controller. I ended up trading it in, but probably would’ve kept it if I had a humbucker guitar at the time. It didn’t have the resonance control that the 212 has, so, maybe the 212 is better. But, it’s certainly a good tube starter amp I think, both the 1 and 2 speaker version.

By: Dan_Tone

Dan_Tone — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:31:31 +0000

I’m pretty sure Dan Agosto over at Gearwire.com uses one of these… I know they did a video review of it.

Guitar teacher at my local shop loves this amp.

I ended up going with the Peavey Classic 30, great amp, love it!