Peavy ValveKing Royal 8 Gitaarversterker

Kenmerken

Conditie: Zo goed als nieuw

Soort: Gitaar

Wattage: Minder dan 50 watt

Beschrijving

The Royal 8 offers plenty of playing dynamics and touch sensitivity. The harder you hit the input, the harder the amplifier works. Conversely, this works in a similar vein when running a more distorted tone and utilising a softer touch suiting a blues-rock playing approach particularly well.

It's also noticeable how well the Royal 8 works with the volume control of your guitar: even the lightest of rolls either way transforms your sound from blues clean to classic rock mean.
A humbucker-equipped PRS Singlecut, with all EQ controls at 12 o'clock, brings a bluesy tone with plenty of spike in the top-end, working particularly well with darker sounding humbuckers.
Dialling down the master volume and pushing the input gain really gets the preamp cooking for a much more saturated tone and a rich palette of classic rock sounds that would be close to Angus Young's signature tone and not too far away from a more modern Stereophonics grunt, albeit always coloured by a element of inevitable boxiness from the small cabinet and eight-inch speaker.

Backing off the tone control darkens the signal up, and when plugging in a Fender Road Worn '50s Stratocaster a surprisingly big and open sounding Texas blues rhythm is unleashed: not too squishy in the low-end and with reasonable headroom.
For its size, the Royal 8 will certainly surprise some with its sound distribution; it fills an average size room with ease. What's more, despite its lack of EQ options, it responds well to playing dynamics and the use of your guitar's volume control.

Overall, if you're looking for a simple rehearsal, recording or small, mic'ed gig amp in a tiny package, the Peavey Royal 8 offers enough in terms of pure sound quality and portability, despite the lack of an extension speaker output.
An all-valve five-watt amp such as this is still loud, so the ability to dial down the master volume and crank the gain is one that will suit recording and bedroom players alike.