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Peavey Bass Amps

PEAVEY BASS AMPS

  • Worth getting, well made, durable & reliable

    Votes: 306 80.7%

  • Forget it, go with another brand

    Votes: 73 19.3%
  • Total voters
    379
#42
Some years ago when I was first starting, a fellow bass player was running a combo 115 and I fell in love with the sound he was getting, so I eventually bought my own. The one I got was from a pawn shop and although it looks like it has been through hell, the amp still cranks, and produces all the sounds I could ask for. These things are built like tanks and sound great.
 
#43
I tend to wonder if some of the snobery and predjudice toward Peavey is because of the price. I used a 1980 Combo 150 for 20 years of solid thurs-sunday gigging. Never had a problem with it. It never saw the shop. Had a great tone. Now I use a new Firebass head and am in love with it.

Alot of you have compared the Peavey with a Tube Ampeg. When you look at the price difference here, you could buy 3 Peavey's for the price of one Ampeg.

As far as the Ampeg sounding better, I say, IT BETTER for that price difference.

Me, I can get the sounds that I want out of the Peavey. I'm not trying to sound like any one else, I just want to sound like me.

I thank alot of people for the predjudice toward Peavey. If there wasn't any, then they would get an EGO and jack their prices up like alot of other companies do (ampeg:D ).

I say......GO PEAVEY and to Peavey I say Keep up the good work.
 
#45
Originally posted by ebozzz


Wanna trade me that Classic 400? :D ;)
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:D No-Way ebozzz I have been looking for one of them for two years, I just played through it last night at rehearsal, OooooWeeee that thing rocks.
I just got the foot pedal for channel switching so I had fun going in between Clean and Crunch channels.:D

You can win this one off evilbay for around the same price I paid for mine. Apparently Classic 400's are highly sought after.
Check this one out it looks awesome
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=920978473&rd=1
 
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#46
Originally posted by Funkster
You can win this one off evilbay for around the same price I paid for mine. Apparently Classic 400's are highly sought after.
Check this one out it looks awesome
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=920978473&rd=1
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Yeah, there's actually two of them on eBay but unfortunately I'm not prepared to move on either of them right now. :( That's why I was trying to get yours! ;)
 
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#47
I owned a Peavey TNT 150 combo, built in chorus, built in compressor..THis was a pretty old model.Like everyone else, this this thing was dropped etc and didn't miss a beat..The tone was utilitarian, but I coupled it with a 500 watt Tapco power amp and Peavey 18x2x10 cab and the thing was hugely loud with a lot of clarity..I guess it's all in the tone huh? I didn't find it particularly limiting. That's why I have hands, right!!!???
 
#48
Originally posted by secretdonkey

But the shallow and superficial bottom line for me is that darn Peavey stigma. I don't know if it's the case outside of the southern U.S., but Peavey has always been the brand that everyone starts out with and there's a widely held prejudice that anyone still using it simply hasn't 'graduated' yet... Even now, if I walk into a gig and see the Peavey logo on any of the P.A. gear, I make an instant negative judgement that turns out to be justified more often than not. Same story for rock players (country and jazz musicians qualify for exemption from 'Peavey Prejudgement' for some reason).
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Which is why I de-logoed my gear.

Now, whenever I play, people come up to me and say, "Dude, great sounding rig, What is it"?

And when I tell them, the smart ones nod and smile, maybe act slightly surprised.

The boneheads just stand there with their mouths hanging open.

It's fun to watch. :)
 
#49
I've used a 410TX cab for a few years now and I'd say it's a great cab for the money. The only negative to it is that the mids seem almost "chopped," as if the low-pass crossover frequency is set too low. I solved this by performing a little surgery to it and bypassing the crossover. It sounds 100% better and about 50% louder than it did before. For the money, I couldn't be happier.

BTW, I'm using a Fender BXR300R head, which is easily the weakest part of my rig. But that's another story... :p
 
#51
I’ve had Peavey gear on and off for the past 20 years. Good, not great and definitely reliable.
But the new gear from Peavey is very good. Not even in the same class as their old stuff.

I now run a Peavey MAX preamp through a Peavey CS-800X power amp that goes into a
Peavey 412 TVX cabinet. 1200 earth-shaking watts that is very clean. Tonality-wise it has too much mids and the MAX pre-amp can’t pull as much out as I’d like…but then again, I’m not much into the gear anymore. Could be that I’ve got a nice setup now, so I don’t think about it.

About the only thing I’d change would be to replace the CS-800X (which is not the old boat anchor of the past, but still heavy) with Peavey’s DPC1400, a one rack space 1400 watt digital power amp. But that would only be to lighten my load…not because I’m unhappy with my sound.

Overall Peavey has always been a great value. With there new line of bass gear, not only are the prices affordable, but the gear could easily be priced much higher and still sell well.
 
#52
Originally posted by jcadmus


Really? I'm using a BXR300 combo (belongs to a friend) a lot and I love it!

Ah well, goes to show you -- one man's trash is another man's treasure...
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My biggest problem with it is that it seems to clip very easily. At about "5" on the volume setting, the clipping light is on every time I play a note. I should probably get a 8ohm 1x15 to match up with the 8ohm 4x10 so I wouldn't have to crank it so much. A decent preamp would probably help too. It's really too bad that I'm a poor college student.
 
#53
Another nice thing about Peavey gear is that while their new stuff is relatively inexpensive, their used gear can be purchased VERY cheap!

I paid only about $400 for the MAX pre-amp and the CS800X, used.

I bought the 412TVX new though. Look around for used Peavey gear. There's alot of it out there...and I'm sure it's mostly due to that "snob" factor. Well, that and GAS! :)
 
#54
I just bought a used Combo 210TX for $250. It is the same head as the old Combo 300 but has a rear ported 210 with a Foster horn. I wanted an amp to leave at a venue where the load in is very difficult and this is the amp. Oh yeah, it also sounds much better than the 60 watt 112 that is presently the "house bass amp" at that venue.

I use some expensive amplification that does sound better than the Peavey. Best bang for the buck? No question. Thanks for the great gear at fair prices, Peavey!

Chuck
 
#59
I don't mind saying that i've been using Peavey gear for the past 20 yrs or so. Todate, i've never had a problem with any of the heads or cabinets that i've used during that time.

For the past 4 yrs i've been using a Peavey Classic 400 tube head, and it's incredible. It's got tons of tone and power. Until recently I had been using 2 Peavey 410TX cabs with the head, but as I get older, and this stuff seems to be getting heavier, I decided to replace the 2 410TX cabs with one Peavey Pro 410 cabinet. Now this is bass heaven!

I agree that Peavey gear seems to have a mystique about it. It's great equipment, but it's got a questionable reputation from what I can see. It doesn't hold it's value like other gear. I guess that's what happens when you mass produce stuff.
Cheers,
JC :bassist:
 

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