Peavey Amplifier Wins Major Award from Guitar Player Readers
(Peavey | Posted 2004-11-16)
SAN MATEO, Calif.—Guitar Player readers crowned the Peavey Triple XXX guitar amplifier Best Amp Head in the magazine's Readers' Choice Awards. The opinion poll, published in its November 2004 issue, queried readers on their favorite guitars, amplifiers and accessories of all time.
"On the eve of our 40th anniversary, this Readers' Choice Award is a fitting tribute to Hartley Peavey's ongoing dedication to innovation," says Bill Xavier, senior manager of North American sales at Peavey and former product development manager for the Triple XXX. "Hartley founded this company to give working musicians unsurpassed tone, features and reliability, and the Triple XXX Series is the modern refinement of that vision."
Professional and amateur guitar players have embraced the Peavey Triple XXX Series with equal fervor since its 2001 debut. These distinctive guitar amps have since become one of the company's best-selling amp series in its 40-year history—no small achievement for such a new product, especially in a company with such a rich history of innovation.
"The Triple XXX is my all-time favorite amp," comments Space, guitarist for Sony Records band Memento. "It gives me a profound harmonic response, which is important because I do so much, from basic rhythms to percussive stuff that any other amp would hide. I get this lush, pristine, punchy sound out of all the channels."
The full list of pro artist endorsers represents a cross-section of contemporary rock and metal, from 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, 12 Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Duran Duran to Every Time I Die, God Forbid, Amen, Ministry, 40 Below Summer, Shadow's Fall, Soulfly and Trivium, among many others.
The stylish Triple XXX amps are the ultimate all-tube, high gain amplifiers, with thick Crunch, searing Ultra and sparkling Clean tones and responsive active EQ on the Crunch and Ultra channels. Triple XXX amps come with a custom three-setting damping switch, which alters speaker resonance to create tight, medium and loose tones—from a precise, exacting sound to a huge, full sound. For extra sound control, Triple XXX amps can use both 6L6GC and EL34 power amp tubes.
"As a 100-percent reader-nominated, reader-voted event, the GP Readers' Choice Awards was absolutely all about the voice of the magazine's readers," says Guitar Player editor-in-chief Michael Molenda, "who, I might add, just have to be the most savvy, most gear-obsessed guitarists on the planet."
The poll also recognized Peavey in categories for Best Speaker Cabinet and Best Combo Amp for the 5150® and Triple XXX 212, respectively.
