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Peavey 1516 1810 1820 ?

#21
scottice said:
RIG OF DOOM!!!!!
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Like I said earlier, I've sold off the 3620 (becuase it was just too big to keep gigging with).

I still have all the rest in the picture, and have since added a Carvin RL118, an Avatar B212, and a Carvin B1500 Amp :bassist:


My gig rig is the RL118, B212, and the B1500

The Pre-Power Amp setup, and the Crate 1810 are at my practice location, and the Carvin 115 and Peavey 4X10 are in the garage as a "backup".
 
#23
Since I aquired a Peavey MAX Multi-Access Amp from OP1964, and have always wanted to try one of these monsters out, since watching Tommy Shannon with Stevie Ray at the EL Macambo, I needed a suitable cab to go with this head. On the tape, Tommy was running into what looks like two custom built 215 cabs. Anyway, after having nothing to do, with the wife out of town, I was camping out on Craigslist, which seems to be the only way to get a deal on there, is to literally beat somebody else to the first punch on an e-mail to a seller to have any hope of getting a deal on something, I all of a sudden saw a Peavey 1810 for 85 bucks. I jumped on it, and wonders never end, I got it. Just got done scrubbing the bird poop off it, and fired it up. Sounds good. The amp head should here be by Friday. Will be fun to fire the old rig up, with the old 1810 as it's companion, should make a good sounding blues rig for me, for smaller jobs. It's only 800 watts, you know. And thats at 80 lbs for 800 watts. It won't be traveling too much! Anybody else got things to say about these great old cabs? Seems as though they have quite high SPL. Also would like to hears about anybodys experience with this particular old amp head, as far as specs and production. Peavey does a great job with manuals, but this one is off the radar.
 
#24
joegeezer said:
Seems as though they have quite high SPL.
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Not by today's standards with higher power rated drivers, and some people with 1000+ watts in the rig. But the Peaveys place a lot of it where it counts if you value old school tone and coming in under the rest of the band and floating them like a cheap cork in a typhoon, instead of just taking the "cut-through" icepicks approach.

Got to be a happy medium somewhere, eh? ; }
 
#25
I love everything but the weight!

I have 2 1820 cabinets with my Classic 400 but only ride enough to transport one at a time. I was planning to upgrade the crossover and swap the 10" speakers for Webers... but it sounds plenty good on it's own, so it wasn't a pressing issue.

I have just signed with Bag End on an Artist Endorser deal so I'll most likely be getting rid of them some time down the road... but not because they sound bad, I'll be moving to a 1x18" and a 2x12" cab for easier mobility (although with a hand truck it is all the same anyway).

For now, it's the best my rig has sounded.... ex boutique and all :bassist:
 
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greenboy said:
Not by today's standards with higher power rated drivers, and some people with 1000+ watts in the rig. But the Peaveys place a lot of it where it counts if you value old school tone and coming in under the rest of the band and floating them like a cheap cork in a typhoon, instead of just taking the "cut-through" icepicks approach.

Got to be a happy medium somewhere, eh? ; }
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This says a lot about what bass is supposed to sound like.
 
#29
Thanks... but I still need to buy the things :p

I used Bag Ends throughout the 90s and had zero complaints... actually plenty of praise. Sounded great and always worked... never wanted for anything else. TB kinda swayed me from them when I was coming back into the game.
 
#30
Here he is. Got the amp head today.DHL didn't bust this one up, as did FedX my B1500 Carvin also today. Also this head is pretty hard to break. It's a Peavey afterall. Made when they made them to last. Just fired it up, I can tell there will be lots of available tones out of it. I named the stack Mr Mojo. Should be running long after all my others have died. Anybody else out there playing through or played through one of these MAX heads??
 
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joegeezer said:
Here he is. Got the amp head today.DHL didn't bust this one up, as did FedX my B1500 Carvin also today. Also this head is pretty hard to break. It's a Peavey afterall. Made when they made them to last. Just fired it up, I can tell there will be lots of available tones out of it. I named the stack Mr Mojo. Should be running long after all my others have died. Anybody else out there playing through or played through one of these MAX heads??
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Wow! A Max! I repaired a few of those in my tech days.

It's a CS800 with a preamp bolted to the top! It must have been the most powerful bass head of its time--400Wx2.
 
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#35
I'll tell you what sounded good! I loaded a 1516 with a JBL E140 and biamped with my GK800RB. Actually the crossover was inop in the cab when I got it, so I found out how well the GK biamp feature works. This was a sweet, powerful bass amp but I had the old "Peavey=cheap" stigma and traded it for something else.

The cab was well made and seemed to be well designed. I'd bet a modern neo 15" and high quality 8's would make it a killer cab today!
 
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#36
I used the Max rig in the 80's.It's great to see pics again.Where have they all gone? My rig was sick,the Max head,2 1-18 bottoms with an 1810 cab on top of each.I had one stack on each side of the drum riser.I kept my trusty SVT on top of one of the stacks as a back up. Once you played with the crossover you could get a decent sound albiet heavy on the lows.They should have put 12's with the 18,but thats my opinion.The head from what I remember actually sounded very good.Congrats on the score!!!!
 
#37
Wow! 4x18 and 4x10, all driven by the MAX. Nice rig. The closest I ever got to that was 2 old SVT cabs and a cab of the same size with two JBL E140s in it. I'd lay the JBL cab down, then stack the SVTs on their sides atop that, 2x15, 16x10...... Nice rig there too....
 
#38
I get tickled sometimes thinking about all the gear we used to tote around back then.Hell, most of the clubs we played were HUGE! Whatever happened to those places? Most of the rooms I play now couldn't even handle our drum riser! AHH! To be young and dumb one more time!!! The only amp I still have from those days is th SVT. It's still kicking *ss!!!!!
 
#39
Yep! I am down to a Carvin BRX212. Small footprint, still plenty loud for what I am doing. I am trying to talk the band into going direct. The drummer has an electronic kit, so that is half the battle. I figure with a modeler, we can get a decent GTR thing happening, so why have any amps on stage....
 
#40
We're thinking about the same thing.I rehearse with my Bass Pod run thru the p.a.and it sounds killer.My guitarist is open to the LiveXT idea.Imagine actually being able to hear monitors and not killing your audience with a screaming Marshall.What a concept!!! I recently saw The Little River Band and the guitar players were using Pod Pro's. The sound was awesome and their tone would've made any guitarist proud.
 

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