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Peavey rigs, UNITE!

Thats a beautiful rig! The PRO cabs are serious SPL! Similar porting to the Eden 410 cabs. Still well over 100lbs like my 410TVX. Its a hernia maker thats for sure!

Like all Peavey gear, I could take my 410 cab to downtown Baghdad, shield myself from harm with it, and will still work flawlessly at the gig that night. Ha!

Peavey rig porn ?? OK, I'll play. This was my rig for about a dozen years back when I wore a younger man's clothes . . . a Peavey Pro 500 head with a DBX noise gate into either (or both) a Pro 210 or Pro 410 cab.
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Recently bought this VB-2. Had the original JJs in it. 10 minutes after bringing it home, crackling sounds then ZAP! Needed new tubes. Did the fuse holder mods, and added a new set of Big Bottle EH 6CA7s and preamp tubes. Fixed all the ripped tolex, polished it up, and added 5050 LEDs. I'd say it come out amazing! Sounds great too!

Still on the hunt for that VB-MA but really loving the sound on this head!

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Recently bought this VB-2. Had the original JJs in it. 10 minutes after bringing it home, crackling sounds then ZAP! Needed new tubes. Did the fuse holder mods, and added a new set of Big Bottle EH 6CA7s and preamp tubes. Fixed all the ripped tolex, polished it up, and added 5050 LEDs. I'd say it come out amazing! Sounds great too!

Still on the hunt for that VB-MA but really loving the sound on this head!
I ran across your video about the fuse mod on YouTube last night!
 
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For your next set of tubes, I would try to find some 7581a tubes or use Kt 77. The EH 6CA7 didn’t do it for me as well as I had hoped in my VB-MA. I’ve wanted to get a VB 2, but am going to build my own bass amplifier and model it as a heavy real transformer version of the VB-MA.
Recently bought this VB-2. Had the original JJs in it. 10 minutes after bringing it home, crackling sounds then ZAP! Needed new tubes. Did the fuse holder mods, and added a new set of Big Bottle EH 6CA7s and preamp tubes. Fixed all the ripped tolex, polished it up, and added 5050 LEDs. I'd say it come out amazing! Sounds great too!

Still on the hunt for that VB-MA but really loving the sound on this head!

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For your next set of tubes, I would try to find some 7581a tubes or use Kt 77. The EH 6CA7 didn’t do it for me as well as I had hoped in my VB-MA. I’ve wanted to get a VB 2, but am going to build my own bass amplifier and model it as a heavy real transformer version of the VB-MA.


If you would like some funding for that amp build, I'd be interested in that VB-MA you got there! ;-) Seriously. Let me know! Im ready to buy.

The EH big bottle 6CA7 tubes have a big bottom and low-mid range character to it. Add a bit of overdrive to the front end and it really opens up tone wise.

Tubes are hard AF to get right now. I was lucky to find the EHs at the price I did.
 
Eurotubes is about 30 mon away, so I can get JJ tubes pretty easy. Their KT77 sound good in it an have more punch. 7581A are very solid and even throughout. They bias like a 6L6 but have a 35w plate dissipation. I actually went back to the stock Ruby el34bht tubes. They do sound good and I can save my 7581A for my next build.
If you would like some funding for that amp build, I'd be interested in that VB-MA you got there! ;-) Seriously. Let me know! Im ready to buy.

The EH big bottle 6CA7 tubes have a big bottom and low-mid range character to it. Add a bit of overdrive to the front end and it really opens up tone wise.

Tubes are hard AF to get right now. I was lucky to find the EHs at the price I did.
 
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Thats convenient!! Andrew at Eurotubes helped me with biasing my VB-3. I wanted their pro bias tool but since the VB-3 and VB-MA are regulated DC for the heater circuit their pro tool doesn't work with that, only VAC.

Anyways if you are ever interested in selling that VB-MA im all ears! :-D

Enjoy the rig! Wont lie, I'm a bit jealous you have one! :-P



Eurotubes is about 30 mon away, so I can get JJ tubes pretty easy. Their KT77 sound good in it an have more punch. 7581A are very solid and even throughout. They bias like a 6L6 but have a 35w plate dissipation. I actually went back to the stock Ruby el34bht tubes. They do sound good and I can save my 7581A for my next build.
 
I bought my Peavey rig in 1986...MKIV Head and 1820 Cab. In 1991 bought a Peavey Dyna Bass 5 which perfected the sound through the Peavey rig. Purchased a used 1979 T-40 bass for $600AUD in 2018.
I have gigged the 1991 Peavey Dyna Bass through this rig for the better part of 30 years and it's still working perfectly all these years later. Indestructible great gear that has served me well. I included a few pics.

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I bought my Peavey rig in 1986...MKIV Head and 1820 Cab. In 1991 bought a Peavey Dyna Bass 5 which perfected the sound through the Peavey rig. Purchased a used 1979 T-40 bass for $600AUD in 2018.
I have gigged the 1991 Peavey Dyna Bass through this rig for the better part of 30 years and it's still working perfectly all these years later. Indestructible great gear that has served me well. I included a few pics.

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You know I dig the rig ;) but tell me about that fretless :woot:
 
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About time I finally posted here.

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When I think of what first inspired me to make music, I think of the pointy Peavey logo. When I was in kindergarten and my dad was still alive, he took me out to a rock show and I thought it was the coolest thing. I started doing somersaults on the dance floor, and dancers made room for me. I remember the lights, and that logo, and blue knobs, and the singer having everybody clap for my dancing. My dad must have put in a word. I remember telling, and illustrating, this story in my kindergarten class. In high school, I finally got a Mark III head, pointy logo and blue knobs and everything, and while I liked it well enough for a time I didn’t realize then how good I had it and traded it away for who knows what. Happily, more than 20 years down the line, I have recaptured a bit of that magic by acquiring some gear with that pulchritudinous pointy Peavey logo and that sound I finally appreciate properly.

I finally got this Mark IV head back after a bit of trouble. Thing was, the tech couldn’t find anything wrong with it! Whatever had caused the problem got corrected in the course of his routine checkup. Good for another 40 years! :bassist:
 
About time I finally posted here.

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When I think of what first inspired me to make music, I think of the pointy Peavey logo. When I was in kindergarten and my dad was still alive, he took me out to a rock show and I thought it was the coolest thing. I started doing somersaults on the dance floor, and dancers made room for me. I remember the lights, and that logo, and blue knobs, and the singer having everybody clap for my dancing. My dad must have put in a word. I remember telling, and illustrating, this story in my kindergarten class. In high school, I finally got a Mark III head, pointy logo and blue knobs and everything, and while I liked it well enough for a time I didn’t realize then how good I had it and traded it away for who knows what. Happily, more than 20 years down the line, I have recaptured a bit of that magic by acquiring some gear with that pulchritudinous pointy Peavey logo and that sound I finally appreciate properly.

I finally got this Mark IV head back after a bit of trouble. Thing was, the tech couldn’t find anything wrong with it! Whatever had caused the problem got corrected in the course of his routine checkup. Good for another 40 years! :bassist:
34 years ago today that he died, incidentally. I really didn’t plan that.
 
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TNTwins (or TNT wins!). Most modern combos with outrageous power claims simply can't compete in clean volume and lowend authority. Prefer this setup to my SansAmp RBI+Hartke 3500+Peavey cabs (410TVX+115BXBW) rig. Tight 15s is where it's at for me. These are both Scorpions and both have an added cheap piezo horn.

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Will always love the TNT 160 Combo it was my first "pro" combo, giigged with mine for roughly 10 years. :thumbsup::cool:
 
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Will always love the TNT 160 Combo it was my first "pro" combo, giigged with mine for roughly 10 years. :thumbsup::cool:

Still regularly gig mine, either one or both, and people don't cease to be amazed at how warm, punchy and overall powerful these sound with my pre-baked tone (still the same Zoom as "preamp" -or others I have, same gen-). Also have this "small" version of the "stack" (TKO-80 & 75).

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Seriously thinking of selling my head+cabs rig (less than fancy hartke 3500 head + old heavy 410TVX and 115BXBW Peavey cabs), they haven't been out of my studio for probably a decade, and haven't been used probably for the last 3 years. Even tho' not state of the art at all my combos are real dependable, easy/cheap to repair and they just blow the paint off any equally rated modern combos, with much authority. I've been wanting a Headliner 1000 head for years, maybe I could keep the 410 for a killer half stack with a better chance of coming out with me on the road. Still, much more than I need. My combos sound so good and are so dependable it makes it real hard to GAS :bawl:
 
Well, it has taken years of wanting, and the last 8 months of ridiculously serious hardcore hunting outside normal sales channels, but I scored a BRAND NEW NOS VB-MA. Came with power cord, foot switch, and FS cable. Did I pay a mortgage payment to buy this amp? That and then some! So worth it!

I'll post more about it in the days to come, but man I'm so happy to finally have my collection all complete!

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