# Anyone had any experiences with the peavey 6505+?

Category: Jam Session

## Post 1 by charrington (Zone BBS is my Life) on Monday, 21-Sep-2009 0:56:33

Hi all,
I found a seller on CL that is willing to let me buy a peavey 6505+ head for $600. Have any of you guitar people played through it? How is it? Am I getting a good deal?...
Thanks,
Chris

## Post 2 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Monday, 21-Sep-2009 2:02:14

Have ou checked HarmonyCentral.com? I've found reviews for pretty much any kindof guitar and amp imaginable on that site, from consumers not stores, also check prices at MusiciansFriend.com to see what they go for new and Ebay for used gear, that'll give you a good picture.
Never tried the am in question, only owned one cheapo Peavey, and that one was ok, everything I should expect it to be for $100, lol.

## Post 3 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 21-Sep-2009 14:02:19

if you are looking for an amp that can give you nice cleans to all the way up to the heaviest of metal distortion .. it is the amp to own . its my favorite in the peavey line and i would get one if i had that kind of cash at the moment. Check the harmony central reviews too as the above poster suggested. $600 sounds like a good deal, if i am remembering what they usually sell for. Also if you want to save some money the Bugera 6252 i believe is a almost exact clone of that amp, but bugera being made by behringer now you now have that behringer hit or miss with build quality.

## Post 4 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 05-Oct-2009 2:45:08

Hi. didn't look at this board until now. A couple points. that is a good price for that head. However, a 120w tube head is going to be very very loud. If you are gigging in bars and small clubs etc, this will be overkill because to get tube saturation, you'll have to crank her up quite a bit. Now if you use a power soak, that would make things more manageable volume wise. you can push your tubes at less volume. also, before you go ahead and plop down the cash for this head, make sure all the tubes are good and try to get the guy to give you info about the tubes, how old they are, or if they were the stock tubes, brand, and have someone look to be sure all the tubes are good. (a milky color at the bottom of the tube is a bad sign.) if you want a tube amp and you are recording and or playing in small venues, you don't need a 120w tube head. and if your pa system is less than one thousand watts, then forget it. what cabinet will you be using with this if you purchase it?

## Post 5 by charrington (Zone BBS is my Life) on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2009 18:52:34

Hi,
I've already purchased it, and it came with brand new tubes, manual, and foot switch. I am right now using a crate, Yeah yeah, I know, cab with it, that can handle 220 wotts... butt, the head sounds grate!

## Post 6 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2009 0:45:30

okay, you got new tubes with it, very good. some overlook that when buying an amp but it's important to consider before you purchase as you may need to drop over $100 on decent tubes. also good that the manula and footswitch were included.

## Post 7 by charrington (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 09-Oct-2009 21:08:42

Only thing that really sucks is the foot switch didn't come with a cable. But, I'm not complaining...

## Post 8 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 10-Oct-2009 2:22:21

oops, I meant to say manual. lol. thanks beer.

## Post 9 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 10-Oct-2009 2:22:57

I assume it needs a standard TS cable?

## Post 10 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 10-Oct-2009 2:36:43

Actually the Peavey and alot of modern High Gain tube amps actucally are designed to get the bulk of their gain from the power amp so you don't have to krank them ot "push" them or really need a power soak with them. Still i bet he doesn't play that think past 2 or 3 at the most in the house unless he doesn't mind loosing some hearing. lol

## Post 11 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 10-Oct-2009 18:47:08

yeah it doesn't need to be cranked to 11 to get tube saturation and natural compression, but it's a 120 watt tube amp. the volume on one is probably bordering on uncomfortable. lol. power soaks are nice but some are better than others. webers are great as are palmer and mother load. thd, not so good in my experience.

## Post 12 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 11-Oct-2009 2:50:29

yeah usually around 3 is too loud unless you are on a stage .. it also depends on what kind of cab its hooked up to. 1 would probably be fine on 1.

## Post 13 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 14-Oct-2009 14:18:24

Doesn't Peavey also manufacture keyboard amps? I've been researching synthesizers as I've said in numorous other topics, and if I do find a few that a blind person can use fairly easily (I've had the Yamaha MM series and the Moog Little Phatty already recommended to me), I want to be sure I get good aplifiers for them. And I've ehard you shouldn't use a guitar or theremin-specific amp for a keyboard or synthesizer. The two amps I own right at the moment are the Moog TB-15, which is designed for their Etherwave theremin, and a Berringer, which though I've heard mixed things about them I haven't run into problems with. Then again I've never cranked it since I'm in no position where I could just rock the apartment complex anytime I wanted. I think my neighbors would take issue with that if I tried.

## Post 14 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 16-Oct-2009 12:20:03

the peavey keyboard amps are good. so are the roland keyboard amps. For my board, a Yamaha S90ES, I use a little Logitech system, two small satelite speakers and a sub on the floor. It works well and sounds very good for home use. It's not something you'd use on a gig though. So I'd say also investigate 2.1 speaker systems as well as keyboard amps. It really depends on your needs.

## Post 15 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Friday, 16-Oct-2009 16:41:16

The yamaha S90S, that's a synthesizer is it not? I wonder how blind friendly that model would be. I've heard that at least some of the MM series are fairly usable.

## Post 16 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 17-Oct-2009 14:47:25

well, i use it with sonar for midi comp. but, I'd say as a performance keyboard, it's good as well. Everything is tactile, a lot of buttons are single function, you have physical sliders for volume, effects, eq, etc, which I believe are assignable. and, there is no touch screen. the action is pretty good for a weighted synth.

## Post 17 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Saturday, 17-Oct-2009 18:08:33

I just want a synthe or two that I can use to create ambient sort of tunes maybe even with sound effects in the mix, sort of like what Jean-Michel Jarre does in a lot of his music. I wonder if the S90S can create sound effects.

## Post 18 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 30-Oct-2009 14:04:38

if you got your hands on a good behringer unit that hasn't died on you yet then you are safe and probably don't need anything else unless you heard something else that sounds so stunningly good to you it made you want to plank down money for it.

## Post 19 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 04-Nov-2009 1:24:54

Well, the S90es does not have a sampler. however,there are a lot of very good ambient sounds like pads, and patches that are more about texture. I'm doing most stuff with sonar nowadays with various virtual instruments and for me, it's better. but, it may be overkill... and you'd need a decent DAW workstation as well as the software, so you may be better off just purchasing a hardware synth. The S90es, motif ES, motif XS, pc3, and the K2661, are all good choices.

## Post 20 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 09-Nov-2009 13:35:42

Strongly thinking of getting a bugera 6262 either head or 212 combo. maybe next time i am in guitar center i will record some sound clips of the bugera 6262 and the peavey 6505 plus also when you are drop tuning or using baritones or 7 string guitars the head room of 120 watts comes in handy. its kind of why bass amps go into the 300 watts and up range cuz they need the head room for all that low end thump.