Thrift Store Guitar Amp Cleaning and Maintenance: 1983 Peavey Backstage 20W
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I love old Peavey solid state amps from the 1980s... loud, built like tanks, and quite versatile. This 1983 Backstage (or is it Back Stage?) sounds great and has an actual spring reverb. It's gross, though. It needs a full cleaning including the inside, outside, and electronics. I'll get it working again and quickly check out the functions.
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I had one of these for 20+ years.
I played it to absolute death, and loved every note that came out of it.
It is a really great little amp.
Thank you ❗️for the video it is a life saver with clear instructions & detailed demo. I am confident to restore my Peveey back stage to its original state after your final test. I loved it 👍
Glad it helped
I gigged with the exact same backstage for a while in the 80's. Fabulous amps.
Not overly heavy, plenty loud, and all the basic features most of us need… a great combo.
indeed!@@hacksguitarhobby
I also gigged with one in the 80's. Awesome little beast
Had the back stage plus
35 watt ' played it through a 4/10 PV cab for 3 years
3 to 4 nights a week on stage. One of the best sounds I've had.
I’d like to get my hands on a plus.
@@hacksguitarhobbyI picked up an '88 backstage 110 for cheap, they're sixty watts at 8 ohms, I put a 16 ohm celestion creamback in it and it sounds amazing compared to the stock speaker even though it's only making a little over half power because of the impedance mismatch...and I removed the peavey nameplate and cut out the speaker opening the whole way because the nameplate mounting area was blocking part of it, and believe it or not that helped the amp project the sound better
I bought a Backstage Plus (30w) from a charity shop for very little. It always had an intermittent input jack. Finally got around to dismantling the chassis and found the cracked solder joint on one of the jack pins. Amp sounds better than ever now. The repaired joint has got rid of extraneous background noise. The sound is much cleaner overall.
They are fantastic amps. You can dial in a good valve breakup setting. It's also a great pedal platform on the clean setting and the 30w is loud enough to play smaller gigs. Bigger gigs just mic it up.
Micing smaller amps is the trend now, and I think people are starting to realize how great small amps are. Big time back saver!
Cool Video fella’ I love my PEAVEY🤘
Same!
Good job... learned some things too! 📻🔘🎸
Glad to hear it!
Good for 40?
Don here from Hamilton NZ, nice job, apply lotsa logic, I liked your comment 'care with the particle board' 😊😊
Thanks, appreciate you watching!
Got a backstage plus. For me sounds best with sat kept low and mine has a pull thick that provides some great tone.
Really versatile little amp for the time.
I just picked one of these up for free because it's not working, it'll power on & give a little sound, but it cuts out when you give it more volume. I haven't put it on the bench yet, maybe this weekend. Hopefully it just needs a good clean-up with the pots, or hopefully there's a visual tell with what's going on. Thanks for popping this one open!
Best of luck on the project!
Old PV are the shit. I used to own them in the 80s and 90s. And I recently started trying to acquire some.
Agreed! Most models can be found for low prices, but some are starting to take off. Thanks Josh Homme. :)
I've been playing one since 1993. It's still going. It's a tough little amp. Cigarette burns and spilt beer have not deterred it. I have bigger better amps now, but it's still handy to take over to a friend's house or go to a different room. Good to see others enjoy it. 😀
Their best quality is reliability and portability.
I was planning on buying this used amp. I will clean this like you did and hopefully it works great. Thank you for the video. Btw I’m just moving from acoustic to electric and this is my first amp, from the mini donner amp which is really a joke 😅
It’s a great amp. Hope it works out!
Love Peavey products
Great stuff
Hey... I have a Peavy Audition 20 from back in the day!
Very nice. Values seem to be on the rise!
When you removed the chassis, to keep it from falling turn the amp over on its side.
Good tip, thanks.
Just picked up a 1975 Deuce ll for $30 at a pawn shop; 120 watts 2x12, not really working, red plating one tube. Pulled the chassis, saw one broken piece on the pc board; amp tech has now; we’ll see if it’s worth fixing 🙏
Always worth a try!
"So far? Nothing has jumped up and BIT me..."
(Hee-Hee...)!
I was lucky! :)
Peavey's are buildt to last a long time....I sold two 1985 Bandit 65s, had gotten better equipment, they were my first amps....I got the second one because there was always someone who forgot their amp : /
They certainly are. I remember back then a lot of guys had multiple rigs just to keep from having to lug them around. :)
why is the beer covered?
Wasn’t sure about the branding. I think all the guitar and tool branding is topical, so ok to display, but the vid isn’t about the beer. Plus, I couldn’t believe I left it in the shot and wanted to practice adding the black box in the vid. :)