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I love the distortion on my Peavey, but I cannot dial in a clean sound on my rhythym channel for the life of me. What do I need? A Noise Reduction pedal?

There's this crackle I just can't get rid of on the clean. Everyone complains about the feature on this amp.

I love the distortion on my Peavey, but I cannot dial in a clean sound on my rhythym channel for the life of me. What do I need? A Noise Reduction pedal?

There's this crackle I just can't get rid of on the clean. Everyone complains about the feature on this amp.

Embrace the flaws and make a dirty sounding album.

I love the distortion on my Peavey, but I cannot dial in a clean sound on my rhythym channel for the life of me. What do I need? A Noise Reduction pedal?

There's this crackle I just can't get rid of on the clean. Everyone complains about the feature on this amp.

Embrace the flaws and make a dirty sounding album.

Your'e terrific! Funny as hell though.

You might try rolling all your tone controls off and use the gain and master to build your tone. For clean open the master and start rolling in the gain. Crackle to me sounds like high treble or presence, also try rolling the guitar volume control down some it can warm it up some.

Im not familiar with your amp so I cant say what to try exactly.

Thanks my man. I tinkered with this thing forever, but finally got it to work by mainly turning down the SG volume.

If you ever read reviews about the Peavey 6505+ you'll notice a huge amount of complaints on the clean issue. At least I know there's nothing literally wrong with the head itself.

I use Gibson 1960 Classic Reissues and they have some super hot pickups. Most people Ive talked to go to a different pickup with a more mellow taper, but I havent.

I listened to your demos and you go for a very crunchy sound, so rolling off the volume and even rolling off the tone control will tak a lot of bite out of your guitar.

When I play live I ussually keep my bridge pickup volume around 2-5 and my tone control around 7, I do leave the neck pickup pretty much wide open and the tone around 8. I use the neck pickup for a lot of my leads. When I was real young I used to just dime all the controls on everything amp included. I had an old club musician come in and explain it in terms I understood. He said let your equipment breath. You can get a huge tone variation just at your guitar if you will take the time to play with it.

I use Mesa Amps, and I hardly ever set my gains past noon anymore, and I still get a very biting tone, maybe not as crunchy as what I heard in yours. Another are is the mids, on the Mesa's I wind up around 8-10 oclock. I hardly ever get the controls on my amp past noon anymore and it works for me.

Good Luck on your tone quest, its one of the most frustrating things in the world to me. I can have my stuff all set like I like it and the next day it sounds like mud.

No one buys that amp for the clean sound. The "Clean Channel" is for running your pedals thru imho if you want a specific sound. Its just too much pre-amp for a decent clean sound (6-12ax7 tubes for 2 channels).

You might be able to "evolve" a cleaner sound by putting a pair of 12au7's in the clean side of things... and put a soapbar single coil in the rhythm pickup position on your guitar.

But folks who prize a clean sound will have to A/B into another amp for a clean channel, or just by an amp with a decent clean channel.

One reason I bought my Valveking instead of the 6505 was the circuit for the clean channel is pulled from a Fender Blackface Twin schematic while the dirty channel circuit is a Marshall Plexi clone.

It's a good thing I don't use clean too much. It does kind of have an eerie crackle that grew on me recently, it's clean enough for me. I'm going to see what a Chorus would sound like on that channel(rhytym) The distortion on that head is killer though. I love not having to use a distortion pedal.

Sometimes I wish I would have saved up for a Diamond. I love those!

You might get some advice on that amp on the Peavey forums.

http://forums.peavey.com/viewforum.php? ... 6a97086257



Regards,


Bob

Being that I play mostly in clean mode, I'd have dumped the amp for a better alternative. One thing I really love about my marshall valvestate head is how wonderful the clean channel is, although I guess I have the opposite problem with that head, the OD channel is noisy.. lol.

You might get some advice on that amp on the Peavey forums.

http://forums.peavey.com/viewforum.php? ... 6a97086257



Regards,


Bob

Gold! Thanks man, the forum has tons of advice on this head.

Being that I play mostly in clean mode, I'd have dumped the amp for a better alternative. One thing I really love about my marshall valvestate head is how wonderful the clean channel is, although I guess I have the opposite problem with that head, the OD channel is noisy.. lol.

Wanna trade J/K?

I think with the help of the Peavey forum I can get it cleaner...but I'll still have to get a pedal or get different tubes possibly. Kinda sucks but I love the distortion too much to get rid of it. At 7 it's awesome. The tone I have it set at sounds similiar to the Kill Em All sound.

You might get some advice on that amp on the Peavey forums.

http://forums.peavey.com/viewforum.php? ... 6a97086257



Regards,


Bob

Gold! Thanks man, the forum has tons of advice on this head.

Glad I could help. I'm known as "Cabbitt" over there. Nice bunch of folks.

You should be able to tame the Clean channel a good bit without affecting the dirty channel.

That's a breath of fresh air! I really didn't want to do much to the amp.

I've never owned a tube head before, so I'm still trying to get the gist of it. I've noticed that when my tubes start to warm up the tone changes. And before they're fully warmed up, there's this wavering sound that starts in for a while.

When I first turn it on, it gives off a lot of treble. Then the bottom end starts punching in, so it's like the two tones are at war until I've played this thing for a bit. Is this common with tube amps?