I have had this amp for over six months now. Build quality is solid and it has been 100% reliable. Many of the complaints I have read about these amps are from people that did not really understand what they were getting.

First, the stock speaker is junk, that much is correct. I put a Vintage 30 in mine and never looked back. Second, this is an open back 1x12 combo. It has a great cleans and enough gain on tap for Blues to hard rock. You are not going to get crushing, brutal gain from an open back 1x12. Period.

Second, the texture control does make a difference in tone, although small. The main thing it does is cut power thus cutting headroom. It drops the wattage from 50 to around 20 watts, so breakup happens earlier - but it is still going to be very loud. That's the price you pay for power tube saturation unless you are using a 3 watt (or less) amp.

if you need an amp with great cleans (the bright switch takes it into Fender territory) and enough preamp gain for blues to hard rock, this is great for that. Throw an OD or distortion in front of it and it really snarls. You are not going to get Lamb of God or Sunn O))) from a 1x12.

If this were stolen I would replace it in a heartbeat. It has out performed the last Fender and Marshall amps I bought.

I dont own this amp but my guitar player does.Ive read all the reviews now i want to give my take.This amp sounds fantastic for country blues and classic rock and even modern rock.The speaker sounds very bluesy and smokey perfect for our type of southern rock.This amp does not have a good tone for metal or other ultra high gain music,but for other styles it sounds beautiful.

I dont own this amp but my guitar player does.Ive read all the reviews now i want to give my take.This amp sounds fantastic for country blues and classic rock and even modern rock.The speaker sounds very bluesy and smokey perfect for our type of southern rock.This amp does not have a good tone for metal or other ultra high gain music,but for other styles it sounds beautiful.

I've been playing mostly acoustic for 45 years. A few years ago I got the Epiphone copy of the ES335. I was using my son's Fender free amp with the package of his first Squire electric. He'd moved on to real guitars and the VK212. The few times I played the 112's big brother I liked it but my son was moving all the knobs. I'm on my second 112. Apparently there are problems with lemons. My first one broke after a month. The second one is a year old now and seems durable and solid. I'm beginning to learn how to sculpt my sound. The diversity of this amp is amazing. One thing I learned this summer looking at the Peavey sight is that if you use the second input it cuts the preamp feed in half. Or some such nonesense. I'm new at amping a guitar directly. Using the second input this amp makes my 35 year old Guild G30 acoustic with a fishman pickup sound exactly like my Guild without an amp only louder. Since I've been playing professionally again that's a good thing. You have to beat the drummer somehow. Santa came early and I've been playing a Gibson SG Standard through the amp for a couple of weeks and really playing with the amp. I'm simply amazed at how every little tweek on the controls can make the sound change. I'll probably swap out the factory tubes for a set of tungsols soon just to have a spare set but it's not because I'm disappointed in the sound. And yes, you have to buy the footswitch separetly. Still, an electric amp that can sound as good as the Fishman $900 acoustic amp and let me play with all the sounds with my electric. Not a bad deal. I took an old friend with me to buy the VK112. He uses a MesaBoogie Dual Rectifier and was skeptical. He brought along his Custom 30 year old Strat and after an hour he told me to buy the Peavy and plays through it at practice if we're at my house where we don't set up the PA. On stage my 50 watt Peavy can shout down his Mesaboogie. I don't because I mostly play rhythm. But I could. I noticed the hesitation when switching channels with my first amp but not since then. I also read on the Peavy site that that was most likely caused by a bad tube. If I experience problems with my 112, Peavey has a five year warranty. I'll ask them to fix it or send me a new one and as this and other websites have shown that they have a "Quality Control" problem, I doubt they will argue. If I ever wear this amp out I'll buy another one.

Garbage stock speaker, Very heavy for its size, weak distortion, only good thing was build quality and clean channel. a/ab blend knob is just a sales gimmick. does very little to the tone. horrible feedback when taken loud (even from 15 feet away. Stock tubes are junk with really bad microphonics. so many better solid state and tube amps for the money!