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Yup, the topbox powered mixers were under my Mixer engineering group. That was a thousands per month SKU back in the day. There were multiple generations of the iconic XR600, I think I was over the xr600"E" generation redesign.The spring reverbs were a huge design PIA to keep hum low while sharing a relatively small package with a couple hundred watt power amp. Later the digital EFX spring replacement greatly simplified that engineering task.The 5150 guitar amp designed for/with Eddie Van Halen was well respected, but the cheaper "classic" series tube amps did not suck, but I am not a tube guy. The former Peavey engineer (James Brown) who worked on the 5150 design is now at Fender over the EVH series there.I rather liked the tube mic pre (VMP), and tube compressor (VCL) designed for Peavey's AMR studio line. Jack Sondermeyer (RIP) knew his way and around the plates. A junior engineer did the grunt work cranking out the designs, but Jack as analog engineering director, kept him straight. My only contribution to those SKUs was feature set and general design approach (I also suggested making the gain control on the VMP go up to 11). 8)JR
Yup, the topbox powered mixers were under my Mixer engineering group. That was a thousands per month SKU back in the day. There were multiple generations of the iconic XR600, I think I was over the xr600"E" generation redesign.
The spring reverbs were a huge design PIA to keep hum low while sharing a relatively small package with a couple hundred watt power amp. Later the digital EFX spring replacement greatly simplified that engineering task.
The 5150 guitar amp designed for/with Eddie Van Halen was well respected, but the cheaper "classic" series tube amps did not suck, but I am not a tube guy. The former Peavey engineer (James Brown) who worked on the 5150 design is now at Fender over the EVH series there.
I rather liked the tube mic pre (VMP), and tube compressor (VCL) designed for Peavey's AMR studio line. Jack Sondermeyer (RIP) knew his way and around the plates. A junior engineer did the grunt work cranking out the designs, but Jack as analog engineering director, kept him straight. My only contribution to those SKUs was feature set and general design approach (I also suggested making the gain control on the VMP go up to 11). 8)
JR
