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Post subject: my mace is almost ready
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:04 am
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i got a call from the local music shop yesterday to tell me that my old peavey mace amp will be ready sometime during the week 8) that didn't take long :lol: i almost bought a duece vt yesterday to replace it , but no need for that now :D the guy who phoned me said he was having trouble hearing after putting it through it's paces , he said that it was serious loud :lol: here's a wee pic , i almost forgot what it looked like myself :lol:
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can't wait to get my mits on it again , i was getting a great rory gallagher sound from it before it blew the mains transformer ( whilst blasting out bullfrog blues ) :lol: , i've been told it's going to be bomb proof now (someone had put a bigger fuse inside the amp (i didn't know) and also modded a couple of things as well in the past , it's all been rectified now 8) , cheers
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:00 am
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nothing beats a good old LOUD amp

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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:54 am
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Good for you Alan, have fun playing through that bad boy when you get it back home!

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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:31 am
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8) :D Looks good Alan. Nothing beats the older amps that have been played for years. Once had a Peavey tranny amp a "Special" 120 Watts. A great amp but it got traded towards a disastrous Vox Climax combo. That turned into a fiasco as it was always blowing fuses :evil: What a nightmare that amp was! must go down as the worst i ever had and i see it didn't last long in Vox's catalog :lol:

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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:49 am
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i'm really getting excited about getting it back :lol: i'm thinking of tarting the old girl up , new tolex and speaker cloth , it looks well road worn just now mind you , thats major mojo :mrgreen: what i do need to get is an old peavey 4 switch pedal , not often they appear over on this side of the pond , how about stateside , ? are they reasonably easy to pick up ? cheers
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:48 am
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That's like double my Envoy 110. Looks killer. Peavey was pumping out some great little amps. I know from owning one. What year is that? The guy at the shop I bought my little Envoy from said he thinks it's an 86-88, though he isn't sure.

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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:56 pm
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hi buxom , this is a 70's monster tube amp (160 watt) as used by lynerd skynerd back in the day to play stadiums without miking up the guitars into a pa system :lol: it also weighs about the same as a baby elephant :D , it puts out a cracking sound though , cheers
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:08 pm
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Those amps were aptly named--they pummeled you over the head like some Medieval weapon of some sort, except with volume rather than a spiked ball of iron!

Congrats on getting your baby back...now, do you have the number to your chiropractor? :lol:

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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:06 pm
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I have a classic VT and that is loud enough! The Mace must be unabelievably loud! If you turned it up I would probably hear it down here on the south coast. 8)
I have seen replacement footswitches on ebay.com, but have not tried one of these as I still have the original.


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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:51 am
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hi guys , SA you hit the nail on the head mate , very aptly named amps , and one of the first things i done to it was put a set of castors on it :lol: and southcoast , yes i saw those , i would really like a peavey one to go with the amp but at the moment i'm watching a marshall 5 switch pedal that i can rewire to work the mace 8)
i dropped into the shop today after work and it's been switched on most of the day (they just want to make sure alls ok) and the guy i spoke to on the phone plugged in a nice gibby 335 into the normal channel and was admiring the sound , i told him to wait a second and plugged it into the automix input and adjusted a few of the controls , his face was a picture , he didn't know that you could have the 2 channels on at the same time , he was even more impressed with the sound then 8) i should have the bad boy home by the weekend , looking forward to it

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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:34 pm
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Hi Alan,youcertainly have a gem of an amp there,the Mace and Deuce were killer amps . I had the honor of owning the first Deuce that came into the province.When I bought the Deuce in 1976 I tried a Fender Twin and an Acoustic bt the Deuceblew both of them out of the water.It was the model with the tremolo-the phaser model came out a couple of years afterI used it gigging for years and I was the only one in the band who didn't need to be mic-ed.I kick myself daily for selling it when I got my Marshall-don't ever be as reckless as I was and hang on to the beauty that you have there.Enjoy it fully

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:39 am
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wello i got the bad boy home tonight , going to get washed up and let rip for a while , and don't worry guitslinger , this amp is here to stay 8) , i've had my jcm800 for a long time but theres just something about the sound from the mace i love , oh and it's a combo :lol: , cheers
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They are one of the most deadly combos ever made bar none and certainly at the top of the Peavey line-just incredible amps with guts galore.

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:13 pm
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wello i got the bad boy home tonight , going to get washed up and let rip for a while , and don't worry guitslinger , this amp is here to stay 8) , i've had my jcm800 for a long time but theres just something about the sound from the mace i love , oh and it's a combo :lol: , cheers
Alan

Oh! the neighbours :lol: How many watts is that again :lol: When did you get that Alan?

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