Was the Peavey VMP 2 a vintage piece?

I used to own a peavey vmp 2 preamp, and I got rid of it because it had no meters. But it sounded so Good! Has anyone else had this kind of preamp before?

 

These are actually very good. Who needs meters?

 

I did need meters, because they helped me find a good gain average such that the clipping won't occur. But, like usual, I probably made a mistake getting rid of it.

 

Agree that meter can help but really if it doesnt SOUND distorted it probably isnt.

 

The VMP-2 was probably one of the very few products Hartley Peavey ever put on the market that was really a good-sounding piece. However, I never saw one that didn't have at least one of the front panel toggle switches broken off, and I doubt that the meters were of decent enough quality to be trusted much. Like Dave said, if you can't hear it clipping, who cares, right ?