NAD!!

Scored this baby today! Don’t know much about it but couldn’t pass it up.

 

Thanks. It’s sat in the prior owners bass room and played at low volumes since he purchased it new in 2014! He has a brand new Reeves in its place! He wiped Armorall on the top, that’s the discoloration you see. But there is barely any dust inside. Gonna stretch her legs later this week.

 

It’ll sit on top of my SVTII for a comparison. I’ll follow up later in the week.

 

Initial impressions side by side with my SVTII are pretty impressive. The Peavey overdrive channel keeps the low eq pretty well. The clean channel seems pretty hot in a good way. Cranking the clean gain gave my P bass a really nice bite when I dug in. I need to spend more time with it to round it out a bit to suit my taste, but I like that it needs a little taming than the other way so far. I like my SVTII better, but I can't get the SVTII to break up much at all. The closest I can get is to engage the graphic eq & crank the eq level. Back at it tonight!

 

Good looking out, thank you. I actually just packed up the SVTII so I can concentrate on the VB-2.

 

Thanks. Ha! Tempting but....

 

Reading through some of the VB-2 threads here on TB, I set the master around 8 and the gain at 2, opposite of the way I had it. WOW, this amp came to life and delivered amazing & strong tone on a velvet pillow! So much tubey goodness in this amp. Final verdict; @ almost $1000 less than what I paid for my SVTII, the VB-2 is on par in tone & performance and exceeds in value.