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Cab recommendations for Peavey Mk4
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Lots of great innovations in cabinet design happened in the last 30 years. Enjoy the search.
Here’s my current Peavey Mark IV setup: mid ‘80s 1x15 on your left, late ‘70s 2x12 on your right. Everything works great and sounds good; I prefer the 1x15 to the 2x12 but they both sound like ‘80s bar bands and I love it.
My favorite cab ever was an absolutely thrashed Peavey 118D with a Black Widow, which I would still be using had it not been burgled 
so I understand the love for BWs, but don’t count out the Scorpions; I had one of the dang near cubical rat fur 115BX the size of a cubicle from the ‘90s which didn’t have the top end of the older ones but certainly packed a punch for rock and metal. Our own esteemed @agedhorse has praised the Scorpion speakers for bass guitar. I want to get a pair of 215D cabs to run with this head; I would happily go with either Black Widows or Scorpions.
so I understand the love for BWs, but don’t count out the Scorpions; I had one of the dang near cubical rat fur 115BX the size of a cubicle from the ‘90s which didn’t have the top end of the older ones but certainly packed a punch for rock and metal. Our own esteemed @agedhorse has praised the Scorpion speakers for bass guitar. I want to get a pair of 215D cabs to run with this head; I would happily go with either Black Widows or Scorpions.
I’ve played and owned some newer rigs that have really wowed me—Mesa’s Subway line lives up to the hype in my limited experience—but this era of Peavey has a particular sound that hit me in my formative years, and there’s a lot of it out there still going strong into a fourth or even fifth decade.
A buddy has a bunch of amp & cab pairings and found a Peavey like yours to replace one he sold ions ago for nostalgia.
Due diligence paid off -he found a period correct Peavey cab on GC used site. He’s in Georgia but ironically was going to see a friend in NC just a few miles from the GC.
The cab had the BW badge but closer inspection had a new looking Eminence. Great snag for $150. The rig sounds great .
Due diligence paid off -he found a period correct Peavey cab on GC used site. He’s in Georgia but ironically was going to see a friend in NC just a few miles from the GC.
The cab had the BW badge but closer inspection had a new looking Eminence. Great snag for $150. The rig sounds great .
I had the same setup. Spilled a beer in the head one night and never had to stop playing.
I had that amp for most of my playing career & wish I had held onto it. I had a 215 (non black widow) and it held it's own against many a Marshall stack. I never needed more volume than I could get out of that rig and I played with some seriously loud bands.
I was a Peavey dealer until I left retail in 1988. I used a Mk IV ( the two channel one with the graphic EQ, 210 WRMS @ 4 ohm power amp) with my Guild/Hartke 410s, a Music Mad 212RH, and a TL606 (home-built cabinet made from plans supplied by Electro-Voice). The only Peavey cabinet I ever liked was the 1516 with a 15 and a pair of 8s. I could easily move it myself and it didn't have that funny midrange weirdness the 1810 & 1820 had.
