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01-08-2011, 02:37 PM
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A buddy of mine is going to sell me a Peavey TNT 100 for a good price. What are your thoughts on this is amp, is it good for practicing and small gigs?
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01-08-2011, 03:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cary, Il | | | What is a good price? I had one of these 30 years ago and it served me well even though I abused the HELL out of it. Not real loud, but rugged as hell. Not sure about gigging with it, but it would be an excellent practice amp. I have seen people trying to sell these for $200 even though I don't think it cost more than $225 in 1979 brand new... |
01-08-2011, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | No experience with the newer model, but I played tons of shows with a TNT130 from about 1986 until sometime in the 1990s. It's not a clean or pretty amp but distorts well for rock and can get reasonably loud for the wattage (and 15" speaker). There were tons of shows where someone had a fancy tube head and wound up using my "crappier" amp because of some blown tube or other problem.
Also, totally reliable. I abused the hell out of it. Then I loaned it to a friend who abused it even more. Then I got it back and it still worked fine.
Mine was like 75# though, and eventually I conceded to my back and moved on to other amps. |
01-08-2011, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by mdogs  What is a good price? I had one of these 30 years ago and it served me well even though I abused the HELL out of it. Not real loud, but rugged as hell. Not sure about gigging with it, but it would be an excellent practice amp. I have seen people trying to sell these for $200 even though I don't think it cost more than $225 in 1979 brand new... | Like 125. It seems pretty well kept. It is cheaper than most 15watt amps. It seems good for a small gig.
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01-09-2011, 04:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cary, Il | | | Not bad at 125, it is pretty amazing how the Peavey stuff holds its value relatively well. For all the bashing, they build some damn good equipment!!! |
01-09-2011, 04:20 PM
| | | | I dragged one all over the southeast back in the late '70's playing CCM and it never let me down. I had to replace, I believe, two capacitors but this was always during the rehearsal stages and it never gave a problem during gigs. I also used it up until about four years ago when I sold it, intent on gettting out of playing. Right, you see where I'm at. A very reliable amp for the most part and very stout, mine was dropped several times by roadies but always came through. |
01-10-2011, 04:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Indianapolis | | | +1 on the old TNT. Used one back in the early 80's and, like most Peavey gear, it was a solid workhorse. Got as loud as I ever needed, though it wasn't necessarily the prettiest loud. I would never hesitate to buy used Peavey if I needed something. |
03-26-2011, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin, Texas, USA | | | I recently acquired my second one! I had sold the first one I had, that my father-in-law gave me years ago, just to keep from moving it from Houston to Austin. But I recently saw one on Austin Craigslist for $150. I worked a trade out with the guy and brought it home. Ths one is one of the first ones built, without the preamp output on it. And the speaker is also different from the one I had before. In this one, the speaker has a treated-cloth suspension and lighter cone, and seems far quicker than the other one. I typically don't like 15" (alone) for bass because of their slow transient response...but this one's really quite fast-responding...for a 15".
I figure this is a '78 model, thus it's about 33 years old. Yet it still sounds (to my ears) pretty darned good.
No, these aren't the latest/greatest, and don't have the 'hi-fi' tone that bass amps tend to nowadays. I have one of those, too. But for many 'old school' genres, such as classic rock and blues, this ol' thang gives me that lovely thick midbassy tone that I want in those styles. Works beautifully with my Epiphone EB-0, and also gives me a very punchy 'Jaco-tone' with my fretless P/J.
These amps generally run about $150 on the used market for one in good condition, so for $125, you're getting a decent deal, I think.
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03-26-2011, 03:56 PM
|  | Player Characters fear me... Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Middletown CT, USA | | old TNT = great little amp. Even better if it has the black widow speaker. Those are easy to "recone" as the entire "speaker" portion can be bought and screwed onto the magnet. AFAIK they still make those, but I could be wrong.
Pretty much almost all of the older late 70s to mid 80s Bass amps from them are great rugged meat and potatoes - no frills but sounds "good enough" amps. Most of their keyboard amps and PA gear from the same time were built out of the same modular components. I've used the keyboard amp version of the TNT that a buddy has many times. Kind of an odd duck as it has a tweeter, but it sounds darned close to the TNT. The TKO amp wasn't as great - not one I'd buy if i could find a TNT. I regret selling my Mark IV head and 2x15 cab. I'm sure they are still out there to this day playing many gigs.
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03-26-2011, 04:22 PM
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