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Go Peavey!

Michael, that's quite a coincidence. I really love the old Peavey iron for building guitar amps. In fact, I have an amp project on the back burner right now using the OPT from a Peavey Classic 30. It was a six-month search to find the transformer because I wanted to use a pair of EL34s at this power level. The Peavey used four 6BQ5s in PPP, so it's a good match at 3.8K ohms plate-to-plate. This isn't hi-fi response, but the prototype amp does 40W over the range of a six-string. That's a testament to the how well the Peavey iron was built back in the day. Below are some of my notes from the power amp prototype. I'll add preamp and tone control circuitry when I restart the project, hopefully later this year.














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