Peavey Rockmaster Preamp
Anthony James Milley
Hi
I was wondering if anybody out there had any comments about the Peavey
Rockmaster Tube guitar preamp. Any comments are welcome but I am mostly
concerned about its sound and what styles it is good for. Thanks.
Tony
Gary Watts
: I was wondering if anybody out there had any comments about the Peavey
: Rockmaster Tube guitar preamp. Any comments are welcome but I am mostly
: concerned about its sound and what styles it is good for. Thanks.
Having tried many of the preamps out there, it has one of the best clean tones
surprisingly. It has lots of gain but is pretty compressed on the
dirty channels. The active eq for the master seciton is VERY
touchy. Very small changes have drastic changes in tone. I also found
that using an auxillary eq (such as a Rockman eq) in the loop for the
dirty channels is useful to dial out this one particuliar midrange frequency
that you can't get ahold of with the built in active eq.
This thing has more loops and thus jacks on the back than you've ever see.
Looks like a 1/4" patchbay! I (and others) have had problems with the
jacks needing cleaning if they haven't been used for a while.
Prices on these are silly low. $100 is about normal.
Gary
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used a while back, and about a week later it started having this problem
where no signal would come out; I had to turn all the gain controls all the
way up and it would suddenly cut in. I brought it back to the shop, and they
were going to trade it for a different one; but that one had the exact same
problem! (this time it showed up as I tried it out in the shop)
so this is a pretty small sample size, but of the two I've tried, they both
failed in the same way...
In article <7fkqt9$khk$3...@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
v64...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Anthony James Milley) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anybody out there had any comments about the Peavey
> Rockmaster Tube guitar preamp. Any comments are welcome but I am mostly
> concerned about its sound and what styles it is good for. Thanks.
>
> Tony
>
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Gary Watts
: It has a great sound, but I'm not sure about how reliable it is. I bought one
: used a while back, and about a week later it started having this problem
: where no signal would come out; I had to turn all the gain controls all the
: way up and it would suddenly cut in. I brought it back to the shop, and they
: were going to trade it for a different one; but that one had the exact same
: problem! (this time it showed up as I tried it out in the shop)
This is the problem I mentioned. It's the jacks for the effects loops. They
have a normally closed position. The contact gets bad after a while and
not signal will pass thru. Cleaning takes care of the problem. These jacks
are in series with the output so if they don't work, no sound.
Gary
Lin Sprague
> This is the problem I mentioned. It's the jacks for the effects loops. They
> have a normally closed position. The contact gets bad after a while and
> not signal will pass thru. Cleaning takes care of the problem. These jacks
> are in series with the output so if they don't work, no sound.
I've got Gary's old Rock Master, so I can verify his claim. On mine,
there's one jack that keeps going bad - I've cleaned it out 3 times
now, and that gets it going again for a while, but after a few weeks it
fails again. I should probably search out a mew jack, but it didn't
look like a common one, and it looked like it would be a PITA to
remove. For now I just keep a can of contact cleaner spray handy.
--
...Lin Sprague...