Peavey Ultra Plus - The Best of The Ultra Series? 

It's got some good company

Unbelievable.. your text! I own this Ultra 120, it was my first amp! I also got the cheap cabinet that went with it with the crappy speakers! So, I ended up putting the head with a Marshall 1969 cab & played it all in my band room which was an abandoned bar called the Driftwood Lounge! Peavey Ultra Plus 120, Marshall & Driftwood! Lol

@WittCorp It's funny how coincidences can happen.

Had a similar experience. A local record shop had one of these and had a sign on it saying “as is” and that the crunch channel button doesn’t work. Got them down to $300 out the door. Plugged my ultra foot switch into it and works no problem.

This will certainly come at some point!!

I will never again try to jam w some who runs a tubescreamer or whatever into one of these, bcuz they usually aren't smart enough to back off the gain.

Thanks dude! They're killer amps for their price range! They punch way higher!

Damn dude thanks for the tip I had a carvin v3 whit out foot switch 🤘🤘🤘

It wasn't in Michigan was it? Lol

ya I ran a bbe into a 5150 before doing the choke mode, really helps the treble end to sound less like butt

Agreed. The triumph and ultra 60 also suffer from this same flaw. Makes no sense

Armageddon Blues will always be my favorite recording of theirs!

Active EQ's are nice. I think the Carvin X-100B, while nowhere near this gain level, had active knob AND graphic EQs. On the Peavey, looks like the clean channel is a standard passive EQ.

That's because Derrick is the DAMN MAN

Thank you my man!

Haha, nailed it!

Can't wait til I get my hands on one!

It defaults to Orange on the logo with no footswitch! Was definitely on the Ultra as the Ultra gain and volume knobs along with the ultra switch Is what I used to adjust volume and gain levels. the crunch channel on this amps is both thinner and brighter with less gain by a good margin than the ultra on this amp as well, you'd notice if it wre the crunch channel!

The reason they get compared to the Mark series is because the original Ultra amp, the Triumph, was based off the Marks at the time but with Peavey's spin on it. The evolved into something totally different though! And yes, I get these not being everyone's cup of tea, and that's totally fine!

@@belligerentamateur I will say the tone you managed to get out of it was better than anything I could ever do, I'm not that proud of myself there is always room to chalk it up as inexperience with its eq sweep.

@Jake The Ultra and Ultra + heads are very picky with speakers. Believe it or not also tube selection that is installed in the amp itself. I still own a Ultra 120 teal stripe, with Jan Phillips 5881's and Sylvania 12ax7's that were pulled from a 87' VTM 60 head. And it is still to this day one of the best sounding and the most versatile heads I own. With having 3 channels, and built in reverb. With also owning a Soldano Hotrod 100+, Mako Mak 4 pre amp, Randall RM100, Peavey VTM 120, Krank Rev Jr Pro 20 Watt. The 80's and 90's Peavey head's are the best in my opinion.

@@untoldguitarist can you get it to sound like a mark V and how?

The Tonez are giving me vibes of Take Offense

Hey man, I got mine after the price hike, just keep your eyes open!

@@belligerentamateur tones were great!

5150/6505 has more bass and gain and a slightly more sluggish response to the picking, without a boost it's more obvious but barely anybody plays these without a boost.

MAtt is pretty spot on, more upper mids in the the II/+ as well!

I kept the Rev Green so if I can land a Twin Jet, I will absolutely do that shootout!

Yeah, the right cab really brings the sound to life!

I'd say that's accurate to my experience as well. Very bright in the upper mids, super tight and punchy low end

miss that guitar

Gotta keep it og

No idea, this was filmed a while ago. Sorry!

Wasn't the head lacking, thats for sure....😎🚬

The head can also be pretty dark

How many great amps were ruined with distortion pedals in our youth? To be young and foolish again.

@@belligerentamateur my vox my grandfather passed down to me...

Yeah, most of the early ultra series amps feature this flaw. Seems real goofy

He is own crunch channel...red is the lead channel ...it becomes a beast on lead...

@@kevinvezina6535 Nah, it's on the Ultra channel. The amp defaults to Ultra with no foot switch, even though the light is orange. The Ultra gain, volume, and gain boost switches were what I was using to adjust the amp in this video. It's on Ultra.

@@belligerentamateur Yep this is how I remember mine working. Great amp, shouldn't have sold it. I actually lived on the crunch channel most of the time though. Ultra was super saturated.

The peavey logo is screwed to a flat black.. thing that is then stuck to the front of the amp via double sided tape. You could undo the staples for the grill on the front. But what I just did is back the two little black screws holding the peavey logo out enough that I could grab it with my fingertips pulled up a little and then was able to gently slide it back into place and just tried to press it back down. Would probably benefit from using some better adhesive but undoing that staples for the grill seems like too much work

Gotta figure that out

The deliverance is atop the demo cab as we speak 🙊

The use of caps in this comment made me want to punch myself repeatedly.

@@belligerentamateur People raised by the internet are worth punching theirselves in the face repeatedly being triggered by capital letters. If you're 🤔 thinking of being In the METAL Player Tribe , 🆘 👉 It aint meant for little girls 🥀. Toughen up, 💪, The Old School 80s Thrash Guitar Playing Maniacs that raised me starting at age 12, would guzzle Whiskey, throw lit cigarettes at you if they happen to be smoking one when you hic-upped on a riff, before you left they made sure to eat your lunch with their guitar playing everytime, making you watch closely to show you how its done till they were done playing, pushing you to go home and practice instead of crying to your mommy, teach you even if you never held guitar before and laughed if you asked... well how much ya charge for lessons Dude, would teach you HOW to teach yourself getting better at guitar, wasn't impressed by high dollar equipment with a lame guitar playing owner, cause they had it too but did it justice, one of them took classes on music reading with Classical Guitar and eventually could look at anything he never played before piece of classical music stacked up thick with notes and play it correctly 👈 All just to be even badder ass at Metal guitar and understanding a guitars capabilities, His name is Nick Wheeler and I promise you this...You don't want none ... he won't even look down at his guitar one time playing, while he's looking at your face 🤘 showing you how Badass you ain't ... 😎🚬 P.S. if a string comes out of tune even just a little bit after just 10 minutes of playing with out 1 single hard bend up or fast shaking tremolo bend , and presumingly you did a fresh tune and strum before video, Or not , if it's already in ... with Just aggressive picking with straight power chords not pulling up or down on any string that's not string stretch. On Non lock neck guitars especially if you are aggressive fast picking , harsh hard picking or extreme string bending 🔁 which is Metal guitar playing... when you put a string on the guitar, and thread it through the hole of tuner peg, eyeball enough string for 4 or 5 wraps, wrap string around the top half of peg 2 times above the string hole, then bend string where it's sticking out of peg hole straight up 90 degrees , then continue with wraps going down below the string hole having at least 2 wraps below and able to start winding the tuner with one hand while holding the peg and string in place with other hand. Once tight, tune it up standard, clip off excess string with a nubb left pointing up still, pull the string upwards at middle of guitar a couple of stiff times, tune it standard again, till it holds good, then tune string up a quarter of a turn over standard do a 1/4 bend at 12th fret a couple of times, tune it back Down a notch below standard then back up to standard 👉always end any kind of tuning going up and stopping 👌to hold the pressure. Stopping on downward turn will hold half as long. And finally tighten little screw on top of tuner nobb making it stiff to turn. Do that method with all the strings and that sum bich will hold better than a lock with bridge tuners. after a pre-jamm session freshning guitar up tune barely having to turn a string but a bit here and there when guitar has been sitting up for a while. It'll take 20 seconds or less and hold for long time playing and when a string does start to come out while playing it'll be so slight nobody can 'really tell it and you can finish playing cause it can wait for later. 😎🚬 I have a white explorer too and I can hold the back against my side place picking hand against the body above neck pickup with string ringing out and with fret hand push against back of neck around 1st fret adding more bow dropping the note ringing out super low . Let off and it's snaps right back with strings in perfect tune evertime. And that shit is fun to do and sounds cool mainly with top E string 👉and looks Cool while you're doing it holding guitar straight up and down. Make sure truss rod is just snug tight and that's All.

My buddies who are in a band always me if they can use my rig, peavey 3120 with pedals and mesa os 4x12. They either ask can they use it for a gig, how’d I get such a tight tone or if I’m willing to sell it. I have a 6534+ that’s crushes the 3120 but its still a nasty amp. Now I’m looking for a ultra plus to add to my peavey collection

Good question I don't recall

No it is not

No not selectable without the footswitch but it's still "live" so you can dial it off and on if you want ...also if on, it's on for all channels,, I had no footswitch for mine so Iade one.

It defaults to Orange on the logo with no footswitch! Was definitely on the Ultra as the Ultra gain and volume knobs along with the ultra switch Is what I used to adjust volume and gain levels. the crunch channel on this amps is both thinner and brighter with less gain by a good margin than the ultra on this amp as well, you'd notice if it wre the crunch channel!

My man, thank you!

High, always!

You know it man

@@belligerentamateur My man.

Yeah, I totally agree with this. No reason for the prices to be that high, there is no shortage of these amps!

I paid 250 for a xxx 2 years ago. Ridiculous prices now.

I paid $250 for a XXX that came with an old peavey 5150 4x12. The guy thought it was broken because of a microphonic power tube. I had it retubed and traded it for a baritone guitar and kept the cab for a couple of years

Consider it done

I was just about to comment this... Kyle I really hope you do this in the future at some time! That would be great. Cause the internet doesn't really have a definitive answer as to whether these amps even differ at all tonally.

Did it ever happen

NNNNOOOOOOOO. Patience, my man. Patience!

I sold mine a while ago, but I thought the lights were all whacked without the footswitch. E.g they just got stuck where the footswitch was last selected?

Lol thanks for the copy pasta!

I sure am.

Glad somebody caught it LOL