Peavey Review: 108

History:

Purchase: Local Market - £40.00 (clean 2nd Hand)

What I Like About This Peavey 108: It's light. Very light - I'm a bass player, I live on the first floor, my amps live on the 2nd floor, and as I get older I wish I'd taken up the flute! For rehersals, jams and folk-dances this is the box to take; it'll cope (just) with by bass, and miked up (rather than DI - the speaker distorts nicely giving a good growl absent from my bigger boxes at low volumes). It travels by bus to drinking gigs and can cope with being deluged with beer (like any Peavey). At a trad Jazz do recently someone whacked a Mike through it and sang St James Infirmary - they left the lead channel on by accident, the result was this wild, Tom Waits overdriven voice, like an old 78. Not a solo amp for anything with drums, but fine for everyday sketching, writing, busking (where there's mains), and lending to other musos (it's cheap).

What I Do NOT Like About The Peavey 108: It isn't very loud. The speaker projects a long way, so using it as an onstage monitor with DI to the desk is a poor move, as everyone else can hear if you're playing the wrong tune, but all you can hear is noise.

Peavey 108 Quality Rating: Solid, well made, small.

Review Summary: Tough, dependable, flexible, bigger than it really is, light, portable and good looking. I like it.

Rating of this Peavey product: 4

This Peavey 108 Guitar Amplifiers Review Submitted By: Huw

Review Date: 2002-09-25