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Peavey "bad wrap"

#121
bassbombs84 said:
No troll. I promise. The truth hurts sometimes. Its just that the kids that start on Peavey move on to Fender or Ibanez or Warwick or MusicMan or whatever their hero plays. That is all. :)
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Huh. I guess I went backwards. But then my amp, based around a Peavey IPR-3000 sounds better than my Mesa 400+ ever sounded.
 
#123
I agree that Peavey stuff is very well made and can take a beating but it just sounds kind of lifeless. I 've had plenty of Peavey gear including basses, amps, PA, speaker cabs effects etc..., and it always worked well but just didn't have the warmth and depth. I think I agree with the earlier poster that it maybe doesn't have a signiture sound. Toyota Camry's are awesome reliable but if you have a choice most would drive BMW eventhough you are going to have trouble with it at some point. I've also owned both.
 
#126
Hey bassbombs, been playing bass since probably before you were born, 1976. I've owned Fender, Kramer, ESP, LTD, Warwick and have played just about every other brand. Guess what? I'm hardly a noob and I play a Peavey MKIV stack and my back up bass is a Peavey Fury V. I recently sold my Strat because it didn't get played because of my 82 T25 and 84 Predator. I really think you need to grow up.
 
#128
frankie5string said:
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!
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LOL, not laughing at you but at seeing Idaho juxtaposed with Wisconsin since there's 3 other states in between them. Please don't be offended . I used to live in Wisconsin and I never heard Idaho mentioned like it was a neighboring state. It just struck me as funny. :D
 
#129
bassbombs84 said:
No troll. I promise. The truth hurts sometimes. Its just that the kids that start on Peavey move on to Fender or Ibanez or Warwick or MusicMan or whatever their hero plays. That is all. :)
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Hi, I accept you're not trolling. But I think your view is limited. There's a lot more to being a musician than noobs and stadium rockers. To my knowledge Peavey has never been a big stadium brand, but lots of working musicians use them. Plenty of Peavey amps doing bass, keyboards and PA for pros, just not in big rooms.

To me it's a noob mistake to assume that what works well in a stadium will work well in a small bar.
 
#130
They're well established for country, hard rock and gospel (and pro architectural & worship)

The reality is that this is the result of big box stores not carrying the entire line it's becoming tougher to test the premium products of all manufacturers

Using some of the nutty opinions above some could say a wal, bogart, ken smith or fodera suck as we don't see them on bruno mars' stage

I won't judge Eden to suck just because I own an entry level lemon
 
#131
MNAirHead said:
I won't judge Eden to suck just because I own an entry level lemon
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Lol...I love this last statement, because there's a guy near me who owns one of those Peavey fridges. For his 60th birthday his wife got him a really nice tiny Eden 1x12 combo. He took it to a basement jam and plugged it in and something happened - whatever it was it went up in smoke before he even got to play his first note... mmmm lemons. Eden is sending him a replacement (it took out the woofer too) - looked like some sort of DC to the speaker cone...

;-)
 
#132
Peavey wraps? strange.


ok.

Well I have a 215 and it's lovely. There's something about it that I just dig.


I also have a 6505 for guitar, not the combo one tho. It's well, a pretty standard rock/metal tube amp.
 
#133
bassbombs84 said:
Never said PV sucked. Just that there products are geared toward nOObs. Noob as in a newbie to the instrument. My T40 was sweet, but weighed more than my 10 year old frame could handle. But still dosent change the fact that by and large, Peavey is for noobs and that is why they get a bad wrap. sorry to hurt all you PV fanboys feelings;)
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I would say a noob is someone who owns an instrument and doesn't understand its potential. The T-40 is universally recognized by most of the bass community as the the most versatile bass ever produced. For those that understand how to use the T-40 it can get tones similar to Ric's, P's, Gibsons and many others. I am not aware of another bass that can do that. You really picked the wrong Peavey to be the posterchild for your point.
I have a Bubinga Warwick Corvette. I guess by your thinking is is a terrible instrument since it is heavier than the T-40.

I have several mid level basses, Warwick Corvette, Warwick $$, Stingray, but MY favorite bass to play is an old Foundation that I bought for $80. Why??? Because I judge an instrument with my hands and ears, not my eyes or my friends opinion. I suspect that is a trait you will find common with Peavey supporters.
 
#134
Downlowd said:
The T-40 is universally recognized by most of the bass community as the the most versatile bass ever produced.
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Never played one, not sure if I've ever seen one, and never seen that claim before. Therefore, even if it is the most versatile bass ever produced I don't know it can claim that universal reputation.

Besides, nothing beats a P!!! Except a Rick... :)
 
#138
Downlowd said:
I have several mid level basses, Warwick Corvette, Warwick $$, Stingray, but MY favorite bass to play is an old Foundation that I bought for $80. Why??? Because I judge an instrument with my hands and ears, not my eyes or my friends opinion. I suspect that is a trait you will find common with Peavey supporters.
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+1

For the last 20 years, my equipment collection has included at least one piece of Peavey gear. I currently own basses that range from dirt cheap to expensive custom, but if I could deal with the weight, I would buy a T40 in a heartbeat.

My current Peavey collection consists of 4 pieces: PA head, 2 speakers, and my cat Hartley, who is pictured in my avatar.
 
#139
bassbombs84 said:
Not because of lack of quality, or versatility, but the fact that we all (well most of us) want to look as cool and professional as possible on stage.
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And there is the disconnect. I think most "Peavey" people are more concerned with value, playability and sound than coolness.

The fact is, I, like most people, would have been better off spending my money on lessons rather than expensive basses.
 
#140
Peavey is a clever man who single-handedly brought music manufacturing into the modern era. Along the way he introduced a lot of equipment that would appeal to beginners due to the relatively low prices. The only significant difference between his way of doing things (offering a full range under a single brand name) and the way the others market is that Gibson, Fender and so on build less expensive instruments using other names they own. This is not so much a stroke of genius as a historical accident after Gibson bought Epiphone and subsequently moved production overseas; Fender followed their strategy with the Squier line and both have been successful. Hartley wants his name on everything, which is no different from Leo Fender or Orville Gibson -- but they are long gone and Peavey is still going strong.

A lot of local music stores (not GC) survive on Peavey gear, because they can sell a $350 guitar or bass to the beginners and expensive sound systems to churches and theaters and move tons of product in between those extremes.

A friend has a couple of Peavey Classic guitar amps that he loves to death (he has owned one of them for the 30 years I have been playing with him) and the Delta Blues amp with a 15" has a cult following among blues guys, none of whom are noobs.

Personally, I play Fender Precisions and a Gibson ES-335, and I'm no fan-boy (or noob, for that matter: I'll be 70 next Spring). I appreciate Peavey for what they are and for the fact that you can get their gear at a reasonable price. I did weekly coffeehouse gigs in the late '80s (I organized them, only rarely played) and my best friend was an old, battered powered mixing board with the dreaded "P" logo on it. It looked rough but it always worked. At the moment I have a couple of their monitor speakers that got weekly duty at our dance hall gigs. Never a problem, never a complaint. Some like to sneer at Peavey (and we've read their posts here) but don't expect to hear me joining in.
 

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