Peavey Deuce questions

[Randall]

I have not one, but two Peavey Deuce amps in the shop at the same time. The one in question is a later VT series. I repaired a bad solder connection in the mormal preamp section, and replaced the broken automix input jack. It allows the normal and FX channels to either be switched or run in parralel.

Questions are thus: I have never played through one of these before. It's basically a solid state preamp into a four 6L6 output into 2x12s. The normal channel seems pretty dirty to me, is it supposed to be?

And, it has two what I believe to be original 8 ohm speakers wired in parralel, but the main output jack is labelled 8 ohm, and the aux is 4 ohm. What gives? It sounds better to me plugged into the 4 ohm jack What was Peavey up to here?

[glebert]

Try turning the Post on the Normal channel all the way up before you bring the Pre up. That being said I always thought the normal on the Deuce was more of a dirty sound than clean.

If you have a 4 ohm load and it sounds better on the 4 ohm tap, I say use that.

[Enzo]

The main output jack is wired to 8 ohms. But factory plugs that 4 ohm combination into it anyway. Plugging into the extension speaker jack switches all over to 4 ohm tap. That leaves the jacks in parallel, they expecting two 8 ohm cabs to make 4 ohms. But the amp is flexible.

Clean? I always thought they were pretty gritty sounding.

It should be darn loud though.