Peavey 2x12 w/ black widows.

Peavey made a lot of speakers over the years but I don't recall any bass guitar speakers in 12" in an older cab. I would guess they are guitar speakers.

 

Back in the old days (late 70's early 80's, and yes, being old does have some advantages), as I recall, the Peavey bottoms looked the same from guitar to bass. At one point in time I remember our lead guitar player was playing through a Peavey Standard head and a 2 -15 Peavey cab (yes, 15's), our rhythm guitar player was using a Peavey Musician head and a 2-12 Peavey cab and I was using a Peavey Bass head with a 2-15 peavey bass bottom. All the Peavey bottoms had the same look, black tolex, black grill cloth and the silver metal strips along the side. I think I have a picture somewhere that I'll try to scan that shows this whole set up...along with our drummer's full set of Ludwig Blue VistaLight drums (he sure wishes he had those now...).

 

I don't recall that Peavey ever made a 2-12 for bass so it is probably a guitar cabinet. You could contact Peavey and they could tell you. You could also remove the speakers to determine what they are.

Simply replacing the speakers with bass 12s will probably give disappointing results.

 

hey if it sounds good what does it matter

 

I don't remember Peavey making a 2 -12 bass cab either.

They had 2-15's, 1-15 and they finally came up with some cabs that had 18's in them. In fact, I had a little Peavey folded horn bottom with one 18" Black Widow that kicked major butt. It was only about 3 feet high and had the tilt back caster wheels. I know people complain about 18's being muddy, but I never had a cleaner sound than when I used that bottom (again, remember, this is in the 70's-80's)

When they introduced the Black Widow speakers, they did have the silver dot on the cones, similar to the JBL's at that time.

I agree with Big Evil Robot....if it sounds good, then it shouldn't matter if it's a guitar or bass cab. Sounds like a pretty good deal at 50 bucks....

 

gotta love peavey for crap like that, I think hands down they are the best in the business. Who else could give you a PDF of a manual that is over 30 years old and still have people around to help you with the problems on stuff thats is of that "vintage"

 

If they are older BWs, you may want to take the speakers out to examine the vents on the back of the magnets. On older models, the foam screen inside deteriorates and falls inside where the voice coil is. It breaks up and sometimes clogs up the gap in the magnet and melts, ruining the speaker basket. It's pretty easy to clean up if you remove the magnet.

 

Mmm... 1978 Peavey Mark III 400 Series Bass head, mid 80's 215 cab, late 80's 118 sub (also Peavey). I can move a bit of air.

 

WOW.

You're such a lucky guy.. I'm using the Mark IV (your bigger brother) right now and I'm looking into an speaker cabinet. But 2x 15" is too big (but sounds ace) , because we need to put everything in one or two cars - including the drumkit.

That 212 is just perfect.. consider yourself lucky with that