Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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The Ultimate Death Metal Practice Amp? – Peavey Rage 158 (Amp Vault)


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24 thoughts on “The Ultimate Death Metal Practice Amp? – Peavey Rage 158 (Amp Vault)

  • All the Hardcore and Thrash guys lived for this thing, and then Shoegazers.
    Death? Why not?

    edit: The headphone jack doubles as a Line Out, it's just not buffered.

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  • I modded mine with some different value pots, a cab-out a Celestion Ten Thirty and a built in boost. Its… surprising… to anyone thats plugged into it.

    And yes, I use the CD jack as loop. You can't control the volume, except with the input device, but it bypasses the tone stack and gives you immaculate clean base signal.

    A tip for any amp, but especially these solid state practice amps, is that they all have a unique 'sweet spot'. You find it by zeroing out all the controls and one by one in isolation, slowly turn it from min to max until you find the ~25% of the range that changes the most/fastest. Then work within that range to find a tone and style that works with it.

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  • I have a red stripe efx 258. 10 more watts than the rage plus i have it housed in a 1×12 cab with eminence legend speaker.
    My version is the best death metal amp..the eminence legend 12 inch made all the difference honestly.
    I run helix preamps in front and it sounds amazing.

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  • I'm betting the harsh highs have to do mostly with the blue marvel speaker

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  • You could use a stereo cable from the headphone out for direct tones into a daw. Seems to work for my setup.

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  • what makes me wonder is that when I put my 158 on Lead with my distortion pedal, then turn the pedal on I get a massive screech like feedback and I have no clue why. I've been trying to replicate the tone from Avenged Sevenfold with it but I have no luck either

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  • I have a peavey rage 15 hooked up to a 10” speaker. It’s pretty good, I want to upgrade the speaker though. The cd input trick is awesome with the right preamp

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  • Stayed for all the ads, coz I think it's important for you to make some $! Who else has told you this?! I know it has nothing to do with your "content" which I enjoy as well! Just saying….????????

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  • Mine was Roland Microcube. Little box sounded good enough but I`ve sold it after getting into VSTs and IRs. Hell, I wish I haven`t.

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  • First amp, Marshall Lead 12 practice combo amp. I think I still have it but its buried in my dads garage. I think the HM2 would actually pair nice with that amp. Or any HM2 clone.

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  • I have one of those. I use it as power amp for my preamps pedal's. But also I use the lead channel as well. Very nice review Dome.

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  • The Rage on its own seemed a bit lacking in "oomph" and I would surmise that is because the post gain was so low. I don't know your living situation but I assume cranking up an amp (even a little one) is probably not feasible.

    However, once the HM2 was engaged it was a perfectly usable tone, so not a huge issue with the low volume.

    Never owned a rage myself. My first amp was a Ampeg SS70 1×12 combo, which was way more amp than I needed as a starting musician but I am glad I had one once I got to playing shows, wish I never lent it to a friend. Have no idea where in the world it is now. πŸ™

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