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LOUD..going...going....GONE

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#241
I can only add this. I own an SVT6Pro from LOUD (Vietnam). It sounds amazing. Period. I hate that Ampeg is no longer SLM, but I'm not going to hang down my head (no pun intended) in shame because I snuck up on a good deal on a foreign made product. I hope deep down that somebody buys them out and brings the name home just as many of you do though.
 
#242
your profile says you are 53 .... peavey incorped in 1965 .... so you were 10 when you worked that show ???? they had national disrtibution in 68 ... not long after that lynard skynard toured with all peavey gear ..... so what year are you talking about ???

on another note , ive always hated that logo !!!!



B-string said:
I personally never had good luck with Peavey, but that's just me. I do remember when they first hit the market. I was working and performing in a "Battle of the Bands", three groups showed up with brand new Peavey stuff. All three bands scrambled for equipment to finish their sets when it blew up. A tough beginning that they learned from (to their credit).
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#244
I played an Acoustic 370 through an old Peavey 2x15 and it was incredible sounding.

Also the Peavey 5150/6505 has always been a fantastic high gain head for heavy metal. And an all tube head like that for around a grand...no complaints.

Oh yeah and the t40. hah
 
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T-Forty said:
I played an Acoustic 370 through an old Peavey 2x15 and it was incredible sounding.

Also the Peavey 5150/6505 has always been a fantastic high gain head for heavy metal. And an all tube head like that for around a grand...no complaints.

Oh yeah and the t40. hah
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But those old bass heads... They were at every club as backline gear back in the day, and every one had scratching pots on it's EQ... ick, ick ick.

I know Peavey's are much more well thought of now, but back in the '70s, they were pretty much just cheap.
 
#246
BigOldHarry said:
But those old bass heads... They were at every club as backline gear back in the day, and every one had scratching pots on it's EQ... ick, ick ick.

I know Peavey's are much more well thought of now, but back in the '70s, they were pretty much just cheap.
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+1 SO TRUE.

From my experience with them, the early Peavey heads used to be good for about a year of daily use and then the dreaded scratchy pots kicked in. They were almost impossible to use (or sell) once that started happening. Someone once told me it was the op amps they used that caused it. They used to cut out too when you adjusted the pots. Usually at exactly where you wanted to set the pots.

They did listen to customers and made changes as needed. Their stuff is great today but the tone just doesn't do for me anymore. The last Peavey I owned was a Firebass 700. Tons of power but I could never get a sound I was truly happy with out of it.
 
#247
IHeartAmpeg said:
As a person that is most interested in their older products, I noticed a huge change in the switch from SLM to LOUD. LOUD's website is really only about supporting the sales of their new stuff. A note to the next prospective owner of the Ampeg brand: We are a passionate cult. Give us the low end power and thunder we've always known:bassist:, and customer service for new and old products, and you own us.
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We're also a very large cult, and we're not one to take lightly. That's what burns me up about the whole LOUD thing. They take us very lightly.
 
#250
According to some on-line research, LOUD claims that they are in trouble because their Chinese vendor stopped making products for them. I have worked in China more than 20 years, and there is only ONE reason that a vendor would stop making product - $$$.

Either they are not getting paid or they are afraid of not getting paid on terms. This probably started when the stock began to fall and became a vicious circle.
 
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bassrockstar said:
your profile says you are 53 .... peavey incorped in 1965 .... so you were 10 when you worked that show ???? they had national disrtibution in 68 ... not long after that lynard skynard toured with all peavey gear ..... so what year are you talking about ???

on another note , ive always hated that logo !!!!
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Never cared to check when they started, it was spring of 1971. Maybe they were just new to So.Cal. at that time? If so that is really depressing that they were around that long and their equipment was so unreliable!
Thanks for the facts, my opinion of Peavey just slipped a few more notches :hmm: :eyebrow: :)
 
#252
BTW, the bands best known for Peavey in the 70's, Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, pretty much rebuilt all that stuff to be Marshalls, Fenders, and Ampegs. They were definitely not your grandpa's Peaveys.
 
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B-string said:
I personally never had good luck with Peavey, but that's just me. I do remember when they first hit the market. I was working and performing in a "Battle of the Bands", three groups showed up with brand new Peavey stuff. All three bands scrambled for equipment to finish their sets when it blew up. A tough beginning that they learned from (to their credit).
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Very dissimilar to my personal experiences. I gigged Peavey, exclusively, for a 13 year stretch between 1981 and 1994. 100 percent reliability. By today's standards, the sound left something to be desired, but for the period, it was not out of the ordinary. I have had more reliability issues with "upscale" products than I ever had with my Peavey gear. Am I going back to Peavey? Probably not...but it has nothing to do with reliability-just that my needs are no longer met by their offerings.

Kim
 
#254
1981, though, was the beginning of Peavey starting to take themselves more seriously and trying to put out gear that musicians respected while still keeping costs down.
 
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IHeartAmpeg said:
I'm not going to worry about why, but I can remember being able to call directly at SLM and speak to the same person about a specific model (in my case, the SVT400T) and I could get support like I'd never dreamed. Replacement manuals, emails, phone calls, you name it.
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And if the service folks didn't have the answer, you might just have been switched over to the engineer responsible for the product...... I've spoken with quite a few folks that way myself....
 
#256
It's just sad what AMPEG has become. When you think back to the 60's and 70's how amazing they were. Even if you read that book "the story behind the sound" (or whatever it's called), you can see how much pride AMPEG had in it's product. Now it's just pathetic. All they care about is $$$. While $$$ is obviously important, pride and quality are kind of important too. At least companies like MARSHALL and VOX and ORANGE still take pride in their higher end products and still manufacture them in ENGLAND. AMPEG has sent EVERYTHING to be out sourced for cheap labor. I just don't get it. Who the heck wants to spend $2000 on an amp that was made in Vietnam???
 
#258
Georges Abitbol said:
Thanks Tom. Have you (or some people of BGM staff) any reliable news about Loud you could talk about, to let us know what will happen to Ampeg?
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Yes and no. We have been working on an interview/story for some time, and it will hopefully coincide with some Ampeg gear reviews. As most are aware, this is a story that is still developing. But things should be fairly settled down by then.

What I can say is that in our recent discussions with the folks at Ampeg (and we've been corresponding with them for over a year), there is a renewed sense of optimism and energy. This may be old news, but I know that much (if not all) of the Vietnam production has been moved to China, and at least as far as the SVT-VR goes, it seems that production quality and reliability is up.

Certainly, there are still a lot of question marks out there with regard to Ampeg, and I cannot predict how things will pan out. But, we'll share what we can when we can. :cool:

Tom.
 
#259
There was a press release yesterday stating that Loud's Asian 'supply chain' is now up and running for their prosound products especially Mackie. It also stated that they actually own one of these China factories while the others are contracted. No mention of Ampeg though in this release...
 
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