I had something similar with a 1998 Chevy truck... I wanted a sunroof installed, but Chevy wouldn't do it. I decided to give up on it because I didn't want to pay and it's kind of an older truck...fadetoz wrote:Well Peavey gave me schematics but would not help on the placement of the effects loop. I may have to give up on this one since I'm not going to pay a tech to do this mod since it's not a expensive amp.
It's an easy mod on most trucks made after 1957...GennyFan wrote:I had something similar with a 1998 Chevy truck... I wanted a sunroof installed, but Chevy wouldn't do it. I decided to give up on it because I didn't want to pay and it's kind of an older truck...fadetoz wrote:Well Peavey gave me schematics but would not help on the placement of the effects loop. I may have to give up on this one since I'm not going to pay a tech to do this mod since it's not a expensive amp.
The Jensen Mod-50-10 is a great speaker for this use, although the stock Blue Marvel isn't bad, either. My Envoy, a Red Line, has a great sounding 'verb, no idea what other Envoy models used, though.TimmyV wrote:I know it's been a few months since this posted but I also have a red stripe envoy that I have been modding. I swapped the crappy reverb tank out for a accutronics 4eb2c1b 17" pan . Believe it or not it fits you just have to squeeze it past the telex in the back and it fits perfect. It made a huge difference in the quality of this amp. I'm ordering a jensen mod 10-50 speaker for it . I've heard that it is big improvement over the blue marvel. IMHO this amp is the perfect rehearsal amp. It's small,light and is load enough to keep up with a drummer. Which to your conclusion the only missing from this amp is an fx loop . I'm going to tackle this problem because that's what I do. I've opened up the chassis on it and on the rear pcb board next to the foot switch jack are two places for two more jacks complete with solder blobs on the opposite side of the board.while looking at pics of the back panel of a studio pro 112 from the same series of amps as the envoy those two jacks are fx loop send and returns. So my theory peavey used the same layout on the Envoy and studio pro. So I'm going to spend about 5 bucks and order a couple of pcb switched jacks off EBay . Solder them in and see what happens. When I get around to doing this I will post the results
Yes, indeed, that's one of the Redline series.TimmyV wrote:This is the version I have. I think it's the same as yours.just waiting on the jacks to arrive.
. But that is where all the fun is. Keeping my fingers crossed! The more I think about it, I grow more intrigued about the possibility of installing an FX loop in mine, too, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about how well your experiment works out.TimmyV wrote:Made I'm Mississippi. Imade sure it was USA made before I bought it. Not that the Chinese ones aren't any good. Just like the fact that its made in America. I'm definitely a modder. The first thing I do when I get a new guitar or amp is take it all apart and see how I can improve it. I can't help myself. As I mentioned before I put a full 17" accutronics reverb tank in it. I can get very wet drippy fender type reverb with it. I've also wired the speaker wires up to a 1/4" jack that is mounted in the whole where they come out of the chassis. This way I can just unplug the speaker and use it as a head for a speaker cab. It's an easy mod.and it makes the amp more versatile . I've been thinking about recovering it too but it looks brand new . So I probably won't but some of those pics you have look pretty nice. I also have a red stripe bandit that I modded with an accutronics 4eb3cib long decay reverb tank out of a fender hot rod deviile. I also made a custom baffle for it . Instead of a 12" Sheffield it now sports 3 jensen mod 8-20s. That amp is amazing now! I tried to fit 4 of them in there there's just not enough room. Had to play around with some resistors to get the ohms right. I'm pretty confident this fx loop deal is going to work. I'd say Peavey just left the jacks out so a person would have to upgrade to the studio pro to get an fx loop. Or it just might blow up.
Indeed....plus, since starting to use Transtubes, I've never arrived at a gig with a suddenly "wonky" tube to deal with!TimmyV wrote:I agree about the whole transtube thing.ive owned many tube amps. Fender deluxe,5150,peavey classics and others. I've never been more pleased with an amp than when I first got my envoy and bandit. They just sound and respond so nice. They break up just a little different than a tube amp but at the same time very similar. The eq on these amps is wher the versatility comes into play.
