ToneHunt

Make and model

Peavey Decade

Description

Arlington Audio - Neural Amp Modeler + IR pack ------------------------------------------ Peavey Decade Back in the 80's, Peavey put out a line of amplifiers that were budget friendly and small. Great for the budding guitarist to mess around with to get started, though in the minds of most it wasn't really intended to last much longer than that. Fast forward about 40 odd years to the Apple produced series "Watch the Sound", a sheepish looking Josh Homme wanders off to retrieve a small amp from his collection. He reveals it as being the origin of his signature sound. The Peavey Decade! I personally believe this is a load of bullhonky but if you plug a bass into the saturated channel, you pretty much get the bass tone for "No One Knows" so I'm sure he's used it here and there. Maybe even learned on it? Who knows. Anyway, hooking it up to my load box with electrical tape (sah pro), I was kinda shocked at how amazing this thing sounded with a decent impulse response backing it up! I love the tone the speaker it came with gives, its filthy. But I also like how it stands up as a decent preamp in its own right. Being that this is a combo amp and it's known for a particular sound, I felt it important to capture the speaker in a set of IRs. You'll note that the tone changes DRASTICALLY between each IR with the Ribbon mic giving a very close "Songs For The Deaf" bass tone approximation. Amp Settings: Normal Channel: Saturation Channel: Treble: 7.5 - Mids: 6.2 - Bass: 5 Technical details: Captures: 34 @ 1000 Epochs per capture. Amp: Peavey Decade Channels: Normal / Saturation Peak: ~3.5db (average) Load Box: Suhr Reactive Load Interface: RME Fireface UFXII Preamp: Golden Age Pre73 MKIII Reamp Box: Radial Pro RMP (Level modified) Referenced with Event Opal monitors, Sonarworks, Jens Bogren impulse responses (not included) and the included Peavey Decade Impulse Responses. Power Amp: Electro Harmonix .44 Magnum Cab: Peavey Decade Combo Enclosure Speaker: Peavey Decade Speaker Position: Middle of the dust cap on the grill Microphones: Shure SM57, Shure SM7B, sE VR1 Ribbon, Sontronics STC-20 Preamp: Golden Age Pre73 MKIII Normalised to .3db Generated using Voxengo Deconvolver Stuff people have requested: -10dBFS sine tone at 400Hz from DAW -> AC RMS reading of **2.15v** at the 1/4" plug after reamp box. 10^(-10/20) = 0.3162 **2.15**/0.3162 = 6.799 20log(6.799/0.775) = **18.86 dBu** If your interface has 12dBu instrument inputs: 18.86-12 = 6.86, you have to LOWER the input in NAM Plugin to -6.86 dB for the capture to sound correct. While I offer my libraries for free, donations would be appreciated and will go towards expanding this library 🥹 https://paypal.me/arlingtonaudio 🥹