Peavey Joshua Homme Decade Preamp vs Vertex Steel String MkII Clean Drive
The Peavey Joshua Homme Decade Preamp and the Vertex Steel String MkII Clean Drive are both pedals sharing gritty. The Peavey Joshua Homme Decade Preamp leans saturated and transparent. The Vertex Steel String MkII Clean Drive leans bright.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.25% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- gritty
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$149.99via Reverb
The Peavey Decade Preamp Pedal recreates the sought-after tones of the original 1980 Peavey Decade practice amp, a solid-state circuit made famous by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. It delivers rich saturation, punchy EQ, and classic solid-state grit in pedal form, with a three-band EQ, a switchable Saturation mode, and both Pre and Post Gain controls for shaping the drive and output. It can be used to add fuzzy, gritty solid-state character to a clean amp, push the front end of an amplifier, or run into a power amp or speaker emulator. It suits players chasing the distinctive lo-fi, buzzy desert-rock and stoner-rock tones associated with Homme, offering a focused, characterful overdrive and preamp voice rather than a transparent or pristine boost.
The Vertex Steel String Clean Drive MkII recreates the tonality and feel of the iconic Dumble Steel String Singer amplifier in a stompbox, designed alongside a real Steel String Singer unit for accuracy. Below noon on the gain knob it works as a highly versatile clean boost, with a Filter control dialing in D-style midrange shaping; past noon it sweetens the signal with warm, compressed, vine-ripened drive character. The MkII revision shrinks the footprint by a third versus the original and adds a Jazz/Rock toggle for extra bass-cut EQ shaping. It excels on grittier tones and thick D-style compression, though some reviewers find it grows growly or bass-heavy in front of an already-clean amp with bright pickups.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Stoner Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Jazz
- Blues
- saturated
- transparent
- bright
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Silent Recording
- Silent Stage