Peavey Combo 300 What is it?

[Stylee Mousse]

I always thought Peavey shallow 15 cabs lacked low compared to better designed 115 cabs.

during a brief interlude (2 decades) as a guitar player my wife played bass in our and other bands and stuck by her older Peavey 115 and it grew on me. No boominess, useful built in HPF based on design (like an SVT 810 in that regard).

I don’t love moving it though. Has to be 60#

 

[Gluvhand]

I played a lot of Peaveys back in the day, but this was my favorite. Paired on top of a matching Peavey 115BW cabinet, it made a potent 300w stack, with lots, as you can see, of EQ. In it's day in the early 80's, this was a rig to have.

Like all of the Peaveys, these basically had the tone of a box of cornflakes, but short of leaving them at a nuclear test, they were indestructible. All these years later, don't know the shape this one's in, good luck.

In a lot of cases, a dead giveaway that it's a guitar amp is reverb, and usually an open back on combos. This has neither. Peavey 'Combo' amps were always bass rigs.

They also made/make keyboard combos. KB 100, 300...

 

[J Wilson]

They made lots of combo amps, I only seem to remember them using 'Combo' in the name for bass amps.

 

[Gluvhand]

They made lots of combo amps, I only seem to remember them using 'Combo' in the name for bass amps.

Got it. I missed the ' '.

 

[J Wilson]

No sweat, I wish I knew other amps like I remember Peaveys.

 

[jastacey]

I still have mine, used it for many years, had to have the speaker reconed, once, it can get somewhat loud, it is very top heavy, my current use is a door stop, works well for that

 

[Thummel]

I also had one in the 80’s that I bought new. I paired it with a matching powered 2x10 with a horn run through the crossover. Ya, crazy heavy and uninspiring tone. I ended up selling this rig to our keyboard player and it actually made for a nice keyboard setup. I replaced it with an Ampeg 8x10 fridge with an Ampeg SVT 200T solid state, 350 watts at 4 ohms. Huge improvement!

 

[basscooker]

I turned mine into a head and cab (sold off the cab) and used the BI-amp to send high to a Crate b150 with a 3620 cab. I loved the tons of eq and pull knobs. Lots of different tones in there.

 

[gwangi]

Peavey Combo 300 What is it?:

It's what organized crime henchman used to tie down to folks they snuffed off and dumped them in the ocean to make sure they definitely did not float to the top!!!!

 

[5StringBlues]

Decent 80's rig. Not too shabby.