This video has sound samples from each of these amplifiers. YouTube audio does not do these amps justice. I intentionally kept the overall volume lower to allow for dynamics to happen. I was careful to make sure that I did not overdrive the input of the mixer board. You might hear some modulated distortion in a few clips but that is NOT coming from the amplifier or the mixer. When I edited the video clips together and uploaded to YouTube it sounds like the audio got compressed to a lower quality. When I listen to the audio on the original video clips I do not hear any distortion. Everything is clear as a bell.
The audio was captured from each of the amplifiers XLR DI outputs routed post EQ going into a channel strip on my PV6USB mixer. The mixer then is fed directly into the camera audio bus. I go through each clean channel and overdrive channel comparing the two amplifiers sound. Pardon my bass playing, it is most certainly not my best effort but will put forth a better example in the future.
****The only time you hear clipping distortion is at 19:34 with the VB-3 when I adjust the graphic EQ to be heavily boosting the various frequencies. This is a known issue that can be corrected but I still have the original tubes inside. As long as you don't have extreme graphic EQ settings the amplifier will not clip.
I hope this gives everyone an idea of how awesome these amplifiers are. I am still looking for the Peavey Michael Anthony VB-MA, the successor to the VB-3. It has some refinements and additional features that I really want to have for my collection. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to find.
The audio was captured from each of the amplifiers XLR DI outputs routed post EQ going into a channel strip on my PV6USB mixer. The mixer then is fed directly into the camera audio bus. I go through each clean channel and overdrive channel comparing the two amplifiers sound. Pardon my bass playing, it is most certainly not my best effort but will put forth a better example in the future.
****The only time you hear clipping distortion is at 19:34 with the VB-3 when I adjust the graphic EQ to be heavily boosting the various frequencies. This is a known issue that can be corrected but I still have the original tubes inside. As long as you don't have extreme graphic EQ settings the amplifier will not clip.
I hope this gives everyone an idea of how awesome these amplifiers are. I am still looking for the Peavey Michael Anthony VB-MA, the successor to the VB-3. It has some refinements and additional features that I really want to have for my collection. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to find.
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