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Every guitar player can sport a boutique amp. The popular Valve Junior is rocking the amp world with a low-watt (5W) Class-A tone with Single-Ended drive in a super-cool retro cab. Flip that switch, turn that knob and enter vintage bliss.
5 Watts
Single Ended Class A Power
8 in. Eminence Speaker
Black/Wicker Look Grill w/Piping
Dimensions (WxDxH): 8.5 x 14.25 x 14.75 in.
Weight: 25 lbs.
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NOT a metal amp!!!!!
Don't be a dummy like I was! I didn't know that a class A amp was a blues type of amp. I was looking for a good tube amp that I wouldn't need a pedal for to play metal with in my apartment. I was seriously disappointed. This amp sounds good, but I had to buy a Boss Metal Zone pedal to get a good sound. This is Peavey's or the amps fault, but my own for not knowing my stuff before I bought it. So…if you're looking for a good metal practice amp; throw down an extra $200 and buy the Valveking 112….now THAT'S a metal amp.
Jason DePaul from Fresno, Ca (May 16, 2008)
Great Little Amp
This is a class A amp. Which means it doesn't sound too good by itself, unless you just want mild distortion or clean tones for blues or country. So, don't expect a "stack" or heavy distortion sound if you buy it. Now, with that being said, you throw a decent "overdrive" pedal in front of it and this little baby can crank out some tones that rival amps costing five times as much. (Almost every famous player runs a pedal with their amp. Keep that in mind) For somebody wanting the wonderful "tube" sound, you can't get much better than this for the price. Peavey did their homework. Plus, the amp is built like an army tank (typical Peavey). It might be made in China, but it is well made in China.
Jayson from Kansas City, MO (Dec 6, 2008)
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The Bogner Alchemist 212 Guitar Combo Amplifier embodies a modern approach to vintage designs. From Reinhold Bogner’s sophisticated arrangement of simple circuits, currents, metal and wood, rich tones emerge. Articulate, sparkling cleans, touch-sensitive leads and a bright and colorful crunch are coaxed from its power section and poured from premium Celestion speakers.
2×12 open-back combo
6L6 class-AB power section and five-12AX7 preamp; selectable power section
Channel 1 (gold): Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Volume, Crunch mode, variable Bright, Deep switch
Channel 2 (mercury): Gain, Treble, Mid, Bass, Volume, variable Bright, Mid Shift
Shared: in parallel, Reverb Type, Reverb Level, Delay Type, Delay Level, Delay Repeats (Feedback), Tap Tempo
12 in. Celestion G12M Greenback, 12 in. Celestion G12H Anniversary speaker
Four-button footswitch included. Functions: Channel Select, Boost, Delay, Reverb
Beginning clean and fast, featuring an open top-end and tight bottom-end, Channel 1 opens gradually to present simmering blues tones. Advancing toward saturation, Crunch mode turns up the heat adding pick response and increased tonal complexity. Channel 2, achieving critical mass, invokes the famous white-hot Bogner gain: creamy, modern and screaming with sustain. Conjure the legendary Brown sound by switching the selectable power section from 40 watts to 20.
Give your sound life and depth with Reverb and Delay in variable styles and levels. On their own journey, the effects remain separate from the original signal, occupying their own circuit. The result is a rich, living and breathing, fully realized resonance composed entirely of nature, philosophy and maybe a little magic.
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This is the best-sounding amp that I have ever played through. I use it with a Strat (w/Kinman Woodstocks), Anderson Hollow Drop-top, and Ibanez 335 clone. The amp is extremely quiet and responds really well to all of the guitars. It doesn't do 5150 high gain, but that's a bonus for me, not a drawback.
Made in 2008. It's not an extremely versatile beast, but does all of the right stuff for me. The controls are well designed, so it's hard to get a bad sound with it.
The reverb is nice-sounding and I agree with Bogner's default set-up of a true bypass on the reverb. It's a simple mod (one resistor) to change it back to the "permanently loaded" configuration that most other reverb amps offer if you can't live with the volume drop between reverb off and on. The amp sounds so nice that I leave the 'verb off unless I'm playing in an extremely dead space.
It's new. No problems.
I've been playing for over 30 years and this amp makes me smile EVERY time I play through it. The dynamics are out of this world – you can go from a whisper to a scream just by changing your attack. This has forced me to pay closer attention to my own technique to get a consistent level without compression.
I'd replace it if it got stolen or destroyed.
Shiva in NZ (09/17/2008)
I use this guitar with a Carvin TL60 with Duncans (jazz&Custom Custom)for fusion, rock, and clubdates, a Warmoth hollow strat with a Carvin neck and EMG sa-sa-85 for blues, and either a Heritage Golden Eagle or Ibanez Pat Metheny PM20 for Jazz. This amp is not just good at everything to but to date I would say it has the best clean and best overdriven tone I have ever heard.
Everything you could ever want and nothing you will never use.
On the first gig it got a microphonic ax7a tube but I always carry spares and fixed it on the break. On the whole I would say it built like a brick shithouse and will probably outlast me (as I don't know how many times I will be able to lift it.
I have been playing for 27 years and am a full time musician. In my life I have owned Fender HotRods, Super Champs, Bassman, Twins, Marshalls, Matchless, Boogies, Rolands, Polytones, and Evans amplification. For the last 4 years I have used the Fender Hotrod Deville 4×10 as I found it far superior to my Mesa Mark IV and my Matchless Chieftain (which are both thankfully gone). I had played Riveras, Electroplex, Dr.Z, and even Dumbles and really thought my Hot Rod was at least respectable and with a little processing just as good. All of this changed when I plugged into a Bogner Shiva 1×12 with 6L6 tubes 5 months ago and knew what "the tone" is all about. I slowly sold alot of my stuff to get my hands on one. When I was getting close Music Arts Enterprises in Ft. Lauderdale FL had just recieved a shipment of 7 Bogners so I could try them all out. The Estacy was just like a perfect Boogie but to my ears not that special unless you think Steve Via has a good tone. The Metropolis sounded like a Dr. Z which is not a tone I relish but a straight blues player might like it. I played through 4 Shivas and did not like the EL34 equipped ones as they sounded like great Marshalls but for $2300 it would be cheaper to buy a Vintage Marshall. When I plugged into the 2X12 6L6 shiva I felt the kind of excitement that you feel after blissful sex. The tone is so three diminsional and just perfect. Clean it sounds like the idealized Twin (personally I have never heard many Twins I like but I have heard stories) with so much body and depth without being boomy. Overdriven it really lets your personallity come through. I love Scott Henderson and play alot like him and suddenly I was sounding alot like him with perhaps a better tone while my good friend is a huge Scofield diciple and he sounded alot like Scofield through it. The point is it really sounds like what your hands tell it to. It is a dead ringer for a Dumble overdriven and I know that is saying alot. Before I bought this amp I would have thought that spending $2300 on an amp was asinine but after this purchase I dont think I could play anything else. My only gripe is that it weighs just over 90lbs and that is a lot to put in and out of the trunk.
Charles Carey (07/27/2000)
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