Schematics for this great little amp can be found here.
Peavey support are very good at supplying schematics if you ask them nicely. I 'm sure you will have to pay but at least you can still get your hands on them.
Unfortunately, the guy that drew these must have been on crack as he makes what is a pretty simple circuit almost impossible to understand! I did partially redraw the schematic so I could figure out what was going on but I no longer have the original Protel CAD files so I will try and post a scan of my only printout at some point.
Woz
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Introduction
The Peavey "Bravo" is a great little 25W (2xEL84, 3 x 12AX7) tube amp manufactured in the early 90's. I still remember buying mine from a shop in London's Tin Pan Alley and then lugging it across town on the underground to Isleworth. I can't remember what I paid for it then, but I think it was around £300.
Although many people have praised it for great "tone" I have never really thought it was that good. The clean is clean, but the "Ultra" channel, as Peavey call it, always sounded too fizzy and lacking in any balls. No real crunch... and I like crunch!
The Peavey amplifier forum used to have lots of info on mods to this amp but that seems to have all disappeared. If you do a search for "Peavey Bravo" you end up with lots of irrelevant info because one poster has Peavey Bravo" in his tag line and the search engine picks up everyone of his posts.
Lots of mods for the Peavey "Classic 30" are documented here so I will use the C30 mods as a basis for the Bravo.
Hopefully, this blog will document my quest for some decent sounds from this amp. If you have any suggestions/ideas please let me know.
Woz
Although many people have praised it for great "tone" I have never really thought it was that good. The clean is clean, but the "Ultra" channel, as Peavey call it, always sounded too fizzy and lacking in any balls. No real crunch... and I like crunch!
The Peavey amplifier forum used to have lots of info on mods to this amp but that seems to have all disappeared. If you do a search for "Peavey Bravo" you end up with lots of irrelevant info because one poster has Peavey Bravo" in his tag line and the search engine picks up everyone of his posts.
Lots of mods for the Peavey "Classic 30" are documented here so I will use the C30 mods as a basis for the Bravo.
Hopefully, this blog will document my quest for some decent sounds from this amp. If you have any suggestions/ideas please let me know.
Woz
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