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Peavey "bad wrap"

#81
BbbyBld said:
I'm tempted to make that my new signature!

Happy to serve the noobs!;)
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Well, I'am not a n00b, and I know you're in the amp dept, but I'll tell you-I have 2 Peavey Millenium BXP 4 basses that I use extensively. One with flats, one with rounds. With the exception of Hipshot Ultralite tuners, and Classic Fender jazz bass knobs, I don't have to do a thing to them to get a great sound. A couple of pros have heard them, and really liked them!

As for amps-my 2002 Microbass amp is still going strong, no complaints here.
 
#84
i owned a peavey cab that blew out when i was using it at way below the power it was supposed to handle. i guess these things happen. my real complaint was the months (a little over 6, to be exact) it took to get my cab back.
 
#85
bassbombs84 said:
This thread reeks of nooob. I should know, my first bass was a T-40. Weighed about as much as me. Not a problem now, but for a 10yr old its a diffrent story
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Dude, I've been playing bass for almost 20 years. I've got a very professional Ampeg rig for shows, but I still love the full and rounded tone my bass gets thru my trusty old Peavey KB60 when recording at home.

I also own a few other Peavey guitar amps and my old band used a Peavey PA for shows. It's all been solid, and sound-wise it stood up very well.

You're dissing a company's entire line based on your experiences with a single axe? And you can't even say why it was so bad other than the fact that it was heavy?
 
#89
Peavey always seemed cheap. That usually meant that owners tended to treat the stuff a little more roughly. Also some of their cabinet covers tended to absorb cigarette smoke easily and it lingered in the cabinet for years.

Peavey stuff was always extremely heavy. So, yes, a lot of it got dropped and rolled around. Some very small combos weighed upwards of 90lbs and were incredibly difficult to carry around.

For years, I had a 1x15 with (I think) a CV woofer in it and no matter what I did I could not get the ciggy smoke out of it. In fact, I even went so far as to extract the speaker - I seem to recall WITHOUT the speaker, it weighed about 120lbs.

Being in Toronto, I always found Traynor/Yorkville to be a better deal until I switched to much lighter rigs after I could no longer carry anything as heavy as either brand.
 
#90
Going on almost three years now with my Peavey Tour 450 amp I honestly cannot remember ever having to or doing anything to it repair wise. It just works and delievers every time. (Knock-on-wood of course. :hiding:) Very solid and that is why I praise Peavey based on that. I have seen guys buy brand new or high end expensive amps of other brands only to have them break or crap out in less than a year.
 
#91
Don't have it anymore but I played clubs with a Centurion and either a 115 or 215 Peavey cab. Made a lot of money with that thing. Never let me down. I think the fact that it is not overpriced makes it fair game to be called cheap. As far as sound is concerned, it was very transparent. I played a Jazz bass through it and it sounded...like a jazz bass.

OBTW, I paid $100 for the head used. $150 for the 215, $100 for the 115. Bang for buck ratio was off the charts.
 
#92
Maybe it's just an image thing. Peavey has gained an image as a country/southern rock equipment vendor and it's tough to overcome being pidgeonholed. Everyone "knows" that to rock out you have to have Marshall or Ampeg stuff, right? Whatever. Peavey makes some pretty good stuff, it's tough, it's affordable, and I kind of like the logo on the speaker grill myself.
 
#93
Spectrum said:
Maybe it's just an image thing. Peavey has gained an image as a country/southern rock equipment vendor and it's tough to overcome being pidgeonholed.
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I thought it was mostly the northern-country rock guys who had Peavey - like the guys playing around Idaho/Illinois/Wisconsin. A lot of the northern country-rock pioneers played Peavey and they actually had really good tone!

Didn't Mason Proffit play Peavey - they had some pretty good sounding stuff!
 
#95
I just remembered something... If you do a search for movie theatre technology a lot of the DTS and dolby digital theatres were outfitted with Peavey power amps... There's a website called Film-Tech (google it to find it) and you'll find lots of projector room shots that show Peavey audio amplifiers.

To me, that says something good about the quality.
 
#96
BurningSkies said:
Here's my 'noob' rig:

Some day I hope to have a 'real' bass rig, but until then, I guess this will do. :bawl:
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WOW!!! I haven't seen a Kern preamp in YEARS!!!!

I only new one person who had one at a gig and it was SOOOO pure sounding...but I never saw one again, til today

Just curious, why do you stack those "noob" cabs so that the vents are on top and bottom?
 
#97
bjabass said:
Don't have it anymore but I played clubs with a Centurion and either a 115 or 215 Peavey cab.
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I still have my Centurion head and 215 BW equipped cabinet...still works too. Weighs as much as my SVT-CL /810.

But yes...I do believe that Peavey gets a "bad wrap" as do Carvin. Both are nothing but quality, too. What a shame.
 
#98
CTC564 said:
WOW!!! I haven't seen a Kern preamp in YEARS!!!!

I only new one person who had one at a gig and it was SOOOO pure sounding...but I never saw one again, til today

Just curious, why do you stack those "noob" cabs so that the vents are on top and bottom?
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I do it because otherwise that little 6" mid is right in my ear and it's a SCREAMIN' loud speaker with all the content above 700hz. Since the mid has great dispersion, I can still hear it easily in the 'middle' position and then I'm not attenuating the mids on my preamp. In a small room or a tight stage, that means what I'm hearing is closer to what's being heard out in the room, and therefore much more representative of what everyone is hearing and what's going to the board.

The Kern is a very very nice piece of gear. Mine came from TB'er Chadds who sold it when he got a Jules Monique. It still has the NOS/JAN Sylvania tubes he put in it. I also may be experimenting with a Maxxbass unit with the rig in the near future.
 
#99
BbbyBld said:
I'm tempted to make that my new signature!

Happy to serve the noobs!;)
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I've played for several years and through several amps. A couple years ago I bought a used Pro 500 for a back up.

Yeah, it's heavy and has too many knobs, but its tough to find anything I really don't like about it - tones, versatility, volume.

The other amps, at least the ones I can afford, now all get A/B'd against the Pro 500. Yes, it's hard to carry, but also hard to beat.

That experience gave me the courage to buy a 16yo Foundation 4 string for next to nothing, shipped. I'm becoming a fan... now, am I man enough to try a Peavey cab?? You think I can find one that is lighter than the Pro 500?

When you're comparing amps, put on your BIG EARS and pay attention to them exclusively. Close your eyes to labels, they only matter to those who don't.
 

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