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Peavey "bad wrap"

#41
In 1978, my first bass amp was a Peavey TNT100. Was my main amp for about 4 years. Later on I bought a Mark III and a 215 Black Widow cabinet and I used that rig for another 8 years. For a couple years I used a Peavey Mega bass head that was really cool and loud. Even had a built in chorus that wasn't too bad. I also bought and still own a small Peavey practice Microbass amp that I still use, I've had that for close to 25 years. I still have and play an 86' Peavey Foundation S that I bought new. I also own and use an early Peavey Classic 50 410 tweed guitar amp that I absoloutely love. Heck I've had that for getting close to 20 years.

I've moved on to different bass gear these days but my Peavey bass stuff never once gave me any trouble. I think the only amp I've ever had to work on was my Classic 50 and that was a bad diode. I would not hesitate to look at Peavey's new bass gear, in fact I'd love to try one of the VB-3's.
 
#42
Unfortunately it took moving production overseas and the maturity of the former owners of USA gear to realize what a bargain these things have always been.

I've had Eden, Hartke, GK, Mesa, Fender, Gibson (and on and on) fail -- never a peavey (unless I did something totally stupid).
 
#43
Shelly said:
I recognize that gray bass :D. That's a serious wall o' Peavey!
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Hi Shelly! Yes, you do recocognise the grey Dyna. I love that bass by the way. (...and my Fury!) The necks feel great to me.

Everything in the picture except pa head was built in the US and I bought used. The outlay for that whole setup (including another pa cabinet, not shown) which allows me to practice with three different bands was $1,845 dollars.
 
#44
drummer5359 said:
Hi Shelly! Yes, you do recocognise the grey Dyna. I love that bass by the way. (...and my Fury!) The necks feel great to me.

Everything in the picture except pa head was built in the US and I bought used. The outlay for that whole setup (including another pa cabinet, not shown) which allows me to practice with three different bands was $1,845 dollars.
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I believe the term for this situation is a WIN.
 
#45
I've never really liked Peavey bass amps, but I have a Peavey Classic 30 that is just a killer little guitar amp. A good friend has a Koa Unity bass from the late '80s-early '90s that is awesome. Plays great and sounds great. I've tried to buy it off him for about 10 years now. No luck yet, but I will own that bass eventually.
 
#50
Another fan of Peavey here. I think I've played through more CS800 equipped PA systems than anything else there is. There are still 2 of those poweramps in this house. I love my T-MAX bass amp, that thing will never be for sale. Someone mentioned steel guitar players...peavey is king in those circles. I just wish I could figure out who's hoarding all the logo's. I've seen more peavey gear without badges than with. I cojld send a S.A.S.E somewhere if somebody knows the hoarder of these logo's, I could use a couple.
 
#52
Stev187 said:
Love that attitude! It's been a while since I played out, but all the Peavey-dissers I knew back in the day were major poseurs. Every bass player who turned his nose up at my MegaBass wanted to borrow it at the end of the night.

--Steve
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+1

Posers and gearsnobs be damned. That girl shaking her butt around on the dancefloor likes your Peavey. That's your audience. That's who your there to please, not some other musician who listens with their eyes.:smug:
 
#53
My first bass was a Patriot. After a while, I moved up to a "real" bass - an MIM Jazz. Kicked myself for selling the Patriot. About a year ago, I ran across a T-20. Flipped it as soon as I got it, regretted it again because, IMO, it was worth more than I got for it on FeeBay. About three months ago I got a beat-up T-40. It`s found it`s permanent home :) I hope the "bad wrap" continues - who`d want this old cheap piece of junk ? :)
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#55
My first amp bought around 1984 or 85 is a Invalid Link Removed. I still have it. It still works fine. It's loud enough for a noisy practice session and the 12" speaker puts out good low end. The plywood walls are very tough, I imagine they might protect the innards from at least a .22LR bullet, maybe more. I might have to clean it with some TV tuner cleaner (do they even make that anymore?) but so far no problems and no complaints.

Back in the day I also had a cabinet with 2 speakers, Scorpions I think they were, 12" or 15" I forget. I had some cheapo used solid state head with it. I was never happy with the sound of it, which was probably the crap head's fault. I sold that rig years ago, but I wish I kept the cabinet.
 
#56
Rockman said:
My biggest problem is how pervasive the TNT15 is with music programs. It's such and incredibly horrible sounding amp for double bass behind a big band and yet every program has one
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I wish that my high school's music program had possessed an amp as good as a Peavey (believe me, a TNT15 would have sounded great compared to what we had), let alone having a double bass.
 
#57
Speaking of high school, i remember my school had a really good peavey bass amp which i cant remember what kind, but im pretty sure it was a 2x12 combo.
No one at my school ever played bass(myself include) everyone wanted to play guitar! And we'd all fight over that peavey because it was the best sounding amp we had for guitars! And it was the loudest!
 
#58
I absolutely love my Peavey T-40, and I'm currently hunting for an older Patriot. The 80's made in America Peaveys are among my favorite instruments.

As for the amplifiers, all their products are pretty solid but they only line that I've been impressed with is the VB series. I love the tube heads and the frankly fantastic VB cabinets. I may try and trade my GK stack for a Peavey VB stack, if the deal arrives.

Overall Peavey is probably the most respectable and least corrupt American company. They don't suffer from glaring QC issues like Fender's Squier Affinity/ Made In Mexico (Which I'll probably be flamed for, but just my take on it). They seem to treat their customers extremely nicely and they've helped me a ton in securing replacement parts and such.
 
#59
bassbombs84 said:
peavy is for noobs
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Hey Bassbombs84, does your ID indicate the year you were born? If so, I was gigging and touring with a Peavey head in my rig that I bought four years before you were born. It was a standard pro amp back then. And I still have it and still use it. It's probably done 1500 odd gigs.

I also have a Peavey TNT. The preamp is a bit bland but put a SansAmp at the front end (or drive it from the preamp of my old Peavey) and it sounds great. The point is it has the features to let you do that sort of thing. And so far seems tough, solid gear.

To be honest I bought the TNT after A/Bing it with a Markbass unit, preferred the Peavey sound.

I agree that some Peavey gear is for noobs but some is awesome.
 

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