With only four 6L6 output tubes this monster was 'conservatively rated at 120 watts RMS', enough for nearly EVERY gig these days! This amp was pretty much the same amp as the Mace. By the way, manuals to all the vintage Peavey models are still available on the Peavey site, that's cool! With the standard spring reverb and tremolo of the day, this big Bertha was available as a head or a 2x12 combo, these amps certainly did not have a fantastic distortion, but if you want a clean pedal platform with headroom FOREVER, this amp will get ya there! if you buy one of the early models with Eminence speakers, be prepared to replace them, a Mace could easily shred the Emis, later they put the newly developed Peavey 'Black Widdow' speakers in them, and they generally took the onslaught okay. This insane power monster sported six 6L6 tubes for what the manual states is '160 very conservatively rates watts RMS'. Yep, all those fantastic Grand Ol Opry live recordings were 100% Peavey! Let's dive in to the amps of the Peavey aluminum trim glory years. These amps also OWNED the Nashville country scene throughout the 70's and 80's, in fact they were the ONLY amp allowed on the stage of the Grand Ol Opry for over two decades. And yep, Skynyrd really did play through em on tour and in the studio. Now the thousand-pound gorilla's of the Peavey amp world, the tube amps of Lynyrd Skynyrd's golden era these amps, with their aluminum side-trim made their first appearance in 1969, and were omnipresent throughout the 70's. Here's a good photo of one, check out the discussion on the Les Paul Forum:

The Peavey 'Vintage' was a totally cool tweed-twin type amp, and the earliest all-tube versions actually sound flat-out fantastic. I doubt you'll find one of THOSE at a pawn shop for fifty bucks, but I'm getting ready to talk about the early Peavey amps that you just might! why didn't I know this? Wow! Or, how about that totally cool blond first ever Peavey amp from 1961: I know I did! Like the fact that Hartley Peavey and Co were already making Class-D amps in 1984. I just bet there will be a few times you say 'wow, really?'. The first blog I'd like to call your attention to is the official Peavey history, found HERE. Throughout this blog, I'll be directing you to quite a few OTHER blogs, as much has already been written on Peavey amps. that would be a mistake these amps have some serious mojo that's all their own. Stick with me gang, these amps have been dissed for decades, so you may have decided they are crap without even HEARING one. cool, right? I'm talking about the early Peavey tube amps and tube/ss hybrid amps. Howdy tone friends! I promised another 'sleeper amp' blog, but I'll do ya one better and turn y'all on to an entire line of stupidly inexpensive sleepers. The Early Peavey Sleaper Amps - Tons of Tone For The Dollar

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