Peavey artist amp

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Paul Wade
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Peavey artist amp

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Is a peavey artist a good amp for steel
With a 15" speaker. I found one near me for
A student of mine..

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Jerry Overstreet
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Re: Peavey artist amp

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I would say just OK, particularly if one is only playing E9....and if it's not the VT model.

I owned a couple of them a few years back. I found it hard to get a pleasing middle out of them...seemed to be something missing for pedal steel. It was great for guitar.

4 6L6 tubes behind a solid state pre for 120W of power. Heavy.

Problems with old Peaveys, someone is always robbing out the BWs and replacing them with a lesser driver.

If this one has the original Spider Web BW in good working condition, you can probably make it work OK for your student.