I have a love hate relationship with Peavy. Love the sounds, hate sitting in cuffs at the county courthouse and seeing the Peavy logo on all the speaker cabs there.

She’s back!

I love that you always do something rare that nobody else shows us. Thanks Colleen.

Today's episode brought me very fond memories. I used to own a Peavey Butcher full stack from my performing days. The amp, and cabinets, sounded amazing. The only draw back was it had no FX loop. I wrote Hartley, praising the amp, and mentioned the one desire I wished the amp included. To my surprise, I received a letter that not only contained a personal return response, but he also included instructions to mod the amp for a loop! He was very grateful for my positive feedback. He also topped it with the modification instructions. The service performed today was a pleasure to watch. That series of amps were very well conceived. I also enjoyed your fondness for the Peavey logo, and history as well. This was a great way to start the weekend. Stay safe, and in abundant health, Colleen.

Fuck yeah, I love Peavey amps, this’ll be a fun watch

In our throwaway society, love your dedication to preserving vintage.

Carrying that amp under one arm! Respect 💪

Love that bass on the wall. I have one just like it! Sweet doggie! 🥰🐾🐕

Nice wire bending on the high wattage resistors. I also use ceramic spacers on the legs to stop them bending sideways as things move in transit. Also I have found that sometimes a little extra flux will help with cleaning the solder from removed components.

I have an amp (B-52 AT-100) that had all sovtek tubes from the factory. I'm not sure what was going on, amp was made around 2005 I think. I got it this year and replacing the SOVTEK preamp tubes made a huge difference. I used ruby's and JJ's just cycling until I could find the quietest for V1 and V2. I haven't touched the power tubes. I thought it might help to replace them and rebias because the amp is a bit flubby in the lows and congested in the mids, despite a pretty neat control for scooping the mids (contour). I've been wondering if replacing the power amp tubes would help it a bit, but what I really think it needs is a presence control. I haven't the slightest idea where to start to add that, but I know where I'd put it on the control panel, and that I'd remove the reverb tank, and if possible hardwire that tube back into the preamp. Hearing that you like SOVTEK 5881s as you're favorite 6l6GC replacement is encouraging.

Love your videos. Keep showing us these old monster amps! Great tech and video work.

Nice clean sound and great crunch! And excellent service work as always.

I love seeing the way you work, checking everything and not cutting corners. And always great the way you explain exactly what you're doing, I learn a lot from your video's!

Love this old Peavey stuff! Great video! Thank you!

Been following your channel, impressed with your tech skills. Keep up the good work

Good to see you again!

Love your repair vids! The editing is great too! Gets right to the point!!

Welcome back! I went to Meridian for training on the Peavey Mediamatrix DSP platform in the mid-90s. Everything about the visit was great, the factory tour & seeng just how much they were doing in-house (making their own PCBs, winding the voice coils for the famed Black Widows, CNC-cutting/routing all the lumber for their cabinets, etc). Also, the historical carousel in Meridian featuring hand-carved Dentzel animals is a must-see.

Great seeing your latest offering, Colleen! 😎👍

Thank you for another great video. Watching you brings back some great memories. My Dad made my first guitar amp and fuzz box back in 1968. He worked as an electronic technician, constantly read about electronics, and taught me a bit so I could follow in his footsteps. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic work, really good amp and beautifully done.😎🎸

I like the way you bend the little stand offs in the resister leads. Pretty slick…

Your channel is so cool! Thank you for producing, filming and sharing. Your dog is beautiful.

Awesome!! You get really cool stuff to work on.

Good to see a new video!! 🤘🤘🤘

Holy crap that peavey tattoo is so badass!!! Absolutely great video!

Nicely done 🤘

I need to put on my Fazio Electric t-shirt and watch this! I really enjoy your videos!

I love how much care you put into working with these older amps. And, as far as your personal style, they don't make 'em like you anymore. Great stuff.

this is amazing. you are so cool and skilled

This was a great vid. That amp was a lot of work. The result was awesome though. Also, the tattoo idea and execution was awesome. Literally powered by the amp. Wow.

This model has been Thurston Moore's main gigging amp throughout the majority of his career, going well back into the earlier days of Sonic Youth. He'd use a number of different amps in the studio but this was his main squeeze. I'd say that's a pretty huge endorsement and speaks to the reliability and versatility of this amp for a musician like him to be using it for so long. Not that he's a virtuoso but - especially live - harmonic content, overhead and tonal versatility are the major hallmarks of his sound, imo. The ability of the amp to respond so well to effects and be able to go from fat, round cleans, to wiry, treble boosted buzzing, to overdriven crunch sounds, to "everything on 10" ProCo Rat tones, to soaked in Super Fuzz/Blue Box with pulsing modulation swooshing through without being lost in the sauce has long been on display in his live shows. I feel like Peavy is at the beginning of a renaissance in the guitar and bass gear community. More than a few older models are going to see some price increases once more people get hip to the artists who have been quietly employing them to great effect for a long time.

Agree about the Peavey logo. Got my 80's badge on my wall.

I love my two Roadmasters. Thanks for something insightful.

Watching you install the caps and resistors with the markings up is a great indication of attention to detail. This will help anyone in the future who services the amp. It's a great way to pay forward the love for the amps.

Love your vids, excellent quality repairs and some history as well. Sweet....oh and the amps too.... ;)

We all love our vintage amps but sometimes a modern classic needs and deserves a little TLC, thanks for the video!!!

Wow! Wish you were in my town. I have quite a few amps of this era. Some Peavy & a few others that sure could use your touch. First time watching. Excellent video! Thanks, I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Amazing video and beautiful tribute to Peavey! I have 6 Peavey amps from the 70s/80s in a range of sizes. They're all terrific.

Hi Colleen great to see you back, love Hank he’s such a loving dog

Im so psyched for this video!

Love your videos thank you for sharing, Always interesting.

You are an Excellent teacher, literally learned more from you after watching (2) videos, as opposed to hours of other videos alongside trying to research on my own accord, Thank You Endlessly! - All the Best!

That's dedication! Beast of an amp too.

Hah, i just noticed your Peavey tattoo because it's matching right next to the amp logo at the beginning! Badass!

As a kid I had a peavey bandit, best practice amp I ever had 😊

I used to hate PCBs after learning on mostly Fender and Traynor amps. But now every time I crack open a Mississippi Marshall and see that big blue resistor, it kinda just feels like home. Great work!

You have me hooked. Love the no nonsense approach to the repair and rebuild videos. BTW, My dog (Miss Pup Pup) sits through a repair to just see your new Pup. Thanks for the great videos.

Rocking the riff from Rock the Nation? HELL YES! Nice fix, Colleen. We love you out here on the east coast!

Awesome. I LOVE PEAVEY also. .Great job restoring this ..wonderful work ..

Great video! I scored a broken Roadmaster few years ago. Had the same burn under that resistor. Super helpful video! Peavey rules.

Nice job! I'm impressed you can lift that amp. I can no longer lift mine. You play well. I enjoy seeing amps get repaired.

Wow..pretty impressive..big job! You do really great work.. I had a Peavey Encore 65 combo amp that eventually needed power tube sockets re-soldered...at 65 watts it was a beast! I use much smaller/low powered amps today.

I just picked up a Peavey Back Stage Plus yesterday (a different kind a solid-state mini-beast) - it was my very first guitar amp in *86. I had forgot how sensitive the reverb is to feedbacking. Nice vid!

You are a true surgeon with that Dremel, I would have caught traction with it and dug ruts across everything important, LOL. Great show. :)

My practice amp that I use at home is a Peavy. I have had it for years. I have recently done much the same as you have just done but didn't have a damaged board though. I love watching your videos they are so cool 😎

Very enjoyable watch. PC board damage nicely dealt with.

THANKS FOR SHARING and>>> The PEAVEY TATTOO ROCKS!!! PS: > I received my yellow scorpion Lamp cover it now lives on my 4-10 Hot rod deville amp! Thanks so much for That!!!

Great to see pcb reapir vids!!

Nice! I once owned one plus a Rockmaster. Loudest dang amps with headroom for daze. Cool channel👍

Love your channel and anything tube related. I would suggest changing all electrolytics including the small signal electrolytics anywhere in an old unit especially tubed due to the heat.

Repair videos.... interview videos... bring 'em on, Colleen. Love 'em all.

You are a rockin' chick! Gotta love the Peavey tat. I played many gigs back in the 70s and 80s using different Peavey solid-state and tube amplifiers. Thanks so much for this! It was fun to watch you do the repair.

Thanks Colleen!

My first "real" amp circa '85 was a Peavey Butcher. Man, I wish I still had that. These videos always relax me. The vibe is just chill and I really enjoy watching you work. Thanks!

Thanks for the great video.. I don’t work on anything but I have a great tech in California. I’m currently in England and I hate taking my stuff back and forth.. I just don’t know any place over here and I have had the same amp tech for a long time. All the best with your future endeavors

you know you said you were a band kid once and i didn't believe it till i saw the foot tap in this video. one of us! one of us!

Love the little history lesson!

There was a rack mount Peavey preamp product called the "Rock Master' .. in the early 1990s I worked in a bit Toronto music store, and one of the guitar staff was always playing through it.. another staffer decided to rename it 'Sludge Master' as it offered everything but assertive tone. Peavey sure had it's ups and downs in the 80s! 'Sludge Master'... pretty funny! This amp looks like a BEAST though. 6 poser tubes! whoah... and I love how efficiently the front panel is used.

Cool! Thurston Moore used one of those for years. I had a Deuce years ago, didn't appreciate it then but vow to someday get another one, crazy solid state pre, tube power; technically I should hate it but it sounded AWESOME

Those old Peavey amps are beasts. Can't hardly destroy one.

All the best Colleen! Hope you and yours are safe and happy! Hank’s big sweetie! ♥️🌏🌍🌎🇨🇦🌞

I love your dog. Please have him on regularly. Anyway, I was watching yesterday and thought "I'll never be able to justify two grand or so for a good SVT but check out this thing!". Looked on Reverb (all local pickup) and the fourth one was here in Indy for $600. It's amazing. Much lighter than I expected. Thanks for the hot gear tip. Building a 2x15" cab for it soon. There's no substitute for cubic inches.

This was awesome! I want to be her friend. So glad this popped up in my recommended videos.

"I'm gonna live like a freelance fiend..." thats awesome, sounds like that amp packs some serious punch!

Outstanding work!

Always underrated yet back in that era, they were ultra reliable and fantastic. I’ve had so many Peavey amps over the years. A great American company that sadly never really got the credit they deserve. The guitars from that era as well. Affordable US made strat/Predator at a fraction of the cost of Fenders at the time and even now. Can’t recommend those USA made predators enough for those considering a Strat. Sad how the company has changed once they went overseas for everything. I saw that tattoo right from the get go. Props on that and your worn out nail polish! Cheers!

Every player my age(52) has had at least two Peavey amps in their lives. The 70's/80's stuff were built like tanks. Great video with so much great info. Bravo!

Are those Wrangler jeans? Oh my. Love that you are back.

New subscriber to your channel! Love the work you did on the Roadmaster! Will be checking out more of your videos!

Kudos on the surgery! I also have that very same amp head in my mancave and it's a beast! Also: mid 70's Peavey Mace amp head and a Mace combo with 2x12 BW speakers, mid 70's Peavey Artist with 1x15 BW, 80's Peavey Session 500 with 1x15 BW speaker, 2 - mid 80's Peavey Mark IV Bass amp heads just to name a few and all are workhorses.

I am glad to see you removing the burned areas of the board. I used to have to do that a lot on TV sets. Multiple traces to replace by hard wiring. Your repair techniques are almost identical to what I do. On your PS diodes- Did you know the full current rating of the diode requires the full lead length? Per engineering dept. at ECG, the :full lead is used to act as part of the heat sinking for the diode."

My first amp was a Peavey Decade. I got it in 81, and soon after my dear old neighbor sold me an Ampex 692, that her husband bought many years before. I pre amped the ampex with the Decade, and got a sound that was close to the Randy Rhodes tone, maybe a bit like Alex Lifeson from their early heavy work. I have used Peavey amps as PA power amps, then the next day as a clean tone guitar amp to record with. They are amazing with their versatility.

Well long time no see. Good to see you well.

Wow, I did not expect you to hook up a tattoo machine to the amp haha, badass 😁😎🤘

my first bass amp was a Peavey Bass....2-15 cabinet.Bought in 1976 from Pied Piper in Huntington WV. I later had the upgraded version with high end out and a 1 -18 cabinet. I also owned an old 6 channel powered mixing board....biggest knobs ever. Everyone in town used Peavey...good equipment at a fair price. Very dependable as well

Ok that was awesome!!!❤

That OT is massive!

Hey great to see you back Colleen, and I have to say that your house decor looks ultra cool too #valveampasmr

I) remember, I saw 2 heads like that IN the "second hand cellar" back in 1995 - impressive amps, that would have been excellent to power up the racks of that time!

This was a really great restore video and your smooth, clear voice while describing your work is wonderful!! Thanks a lot from Gene in Tennessee.

That was an excellent repair. I didn’t realize that it was possible to fix PCB amp electronics the way you did.….this kind of knowledge might help save amps that would otherwise be discarded.

The 80s must have been wild. I was born in 82, but I didn't listen to much metal in my first couple of years. So much beauty in this video, thank you Colleen

Talk about a timeless logo. Sweet.

Nice to see Christine visiting the original Peavey workshop.

Wow wasn’t expecting the Peavey tat . Very cool video and cool old amps. The Peavey logo is one of a kind, I hated it when I was a kid but I guess it’s nostalgic to me now. I was a Metal Head and before the 5150 thought Peaveys were country amps. I think I’m the only person my age that’s never had a Bandit and I’ve been wanting one lately. I’d also like to have a Classic 30 one day too. I also heard recently that the Peavey Vandenburg Guitar is about to be reissued and they launched some new amps and cabs, so I wonder if they are going to make a push to get back into the market like they were in the 80s and 90s ? I think the gear market is better when Peavey is a bigger player in it or at least it used to be they kept the competition somewhat honest I think offering great alternatives at decent affordable prices.

Ive also always love the original peavey emblem great amp

I'm the very proud owner of a 1975 Peavey Classic 212 with tremolo! Such a great amp, still! Pretty heavy but has served me well for a number of years. I'd love to track down a working pedal for it one day.

I am a big Peavey fan. I have two dozen Peavey USA guitars, starting with my first new guitar, a 1979 Peavey T-60 that I bought from Hewitt Music in Dearborn, MI. I also have two Peavey amps, a Prowler and a Special 150--great amps! I previously have owned a Peavey Classic amp, a Classic 30, and a Windsor Studio. For me Peavey, USA stood for two things: gear built like tanks and a great price value. Sadly, those days are gone, but there are still many used USA guitars and amps available.

Rock the Nation. Love it!