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Check out these awesome pickups from Dimarzio. The best noiseless single coils I've heard. Fender 08 US Standard Stratocaster through Peavey Classic 50 4x10 with various overdrives.

Quick little jam on my lovely Dr Z. Just the camera mic on this one, couldn't be bothered setting anything else up. Wanted to mainly demonstrate the nice cleans the amp can do. There's plenty of vids around showing off the break up, but none that really do justice to the beautiful clean tones this amp is capable of.

Ok, I know this song is becoming something of a You Tube cliche, and I know I don't know how to play it properly. But this is the kind of tone I was going for when I bought this amp. The one thing my PV Classic 50 doesn't really pull off is those sparkly Fender cleans, so I added the DRRI to the family. Also using the Area '58's and '61 (bridge) pickups, Dimazrio noiseless model. Pretty authentic sounding huh! Guitar straight into amp. No mods on amp. Volume is at around 5 or 6, but I have the guitar volume backed off just a fraction throughout most of the video to clean it up. The pickups are nice and Fendery like this, they fatten up a bit as you can hear when I wind it up. Sorry about all the mic/computer distortion.

One of the most famous amps of all time up against one of the most under-rated amps of all time. The plan was to show the similarities between these two amps, but the video ended up highlighting the differences. Sound recoding is pretty bad. I put a Rhode mic a few feet in front of the amps to try and capture 'what the ear hears', and to not have the sounds skewed by using two different mics. Didn't come out quite as well as I'd hoped and I didn't have any time to try something different. My levels are obviously a bit high, sounds OK until I hit the big chords, and there's a lot of clipping when I crank the amps. The Peavey actually sounds amazing cranked like this, the video makes it sound really harsh. Stock speakers and tubes, apart from some JJ's power tubes in the Peavey and I think a Sovtek PI. The Peavey is running on two power tubes instead of the usual four to get that earlier break up on the clean channel. With it's full compliment of tubes the amp has seemingly infinite headroom. I run it like this to get a little grit. Not a great sounding demo, but you get the idea. I especially think this doesn't do the Peavey justice. It sounds great in person. Guitar is an '08 American Standard Strat with Dimarzio Area 58's neck and middle, and Area 61 bridge. Cheers!