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Why are old Peaveys so cheap?

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I'm about to join this cheap Peavey bass club. Bought 2 Axcelertor's with the 2tek bridge yesterday. Gotta a pretty fair price on the pair @ $350 each. Looking forward to checking them out.
 
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fourstringbliss said:
That's a killer deal on those basses because Warmoth sells new 2tek bridges for just over $200 - just for the bridge.
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I knew that because I'm in the middle of a Warmoth/2tek build now.

The 2 basses were near mint except one was missing a battery cover. I'm looking forward to playing them. They were in Marysville, WA
 
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Waldo19 said:
So this USA Fury popped up on CL for $150 w/ hard case. I am talking to the seller and hope to be able to check it out this weekend. From reading this thread the asking price seems like a good deal, especially with a case.

I don't need another bass. But I don't have a P bass in my collection and I really like thinner jazz bass neck profiles. So, I'm thinking this is too good to pass up.

Any opinions or advice before I take a look in person would be appreciated. Are there any Peavey Fury specific things I should be looking out for when checking this bass out?

Thanks in advance.
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If the neck is straight and it plays and sounds well, buy it. $150 w/case is a good deal. Man... you can't touch anything of that quality for $150 these days. Buy it now, because in a couple years, people will smarten up and you wont' be able to touch a bass like that for that price.
 
#328
I have a 90's Peavey DynaBass 5 string.... The thing growls!

Anyone that disses on the brand has probably never played one, because they have the idea that Peavey is not a good brand.

Their loss. And they'll probably spend $3000 on a boutique bass that sound just like a $200 Peavey.
 
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Slagg66 said:
I just bought a B Ninety for 150. Needs cosmetic work and strings and set up. I love the tone just wondering what somebody could tell me about them.It is my first Peavey.
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Budget priced US- made Peavey. Great bass. High quality construction, light weight, and best of all - a very fast neck. One complaint - the output jack needed replacing. I bought mine for such a low price that I threw a Bartolini preamp and a Bart J pickup into it, just because I could. I've played $1,500 basses that weren't that nice.

This is mine.

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smcd said:
Budget priced US- made Peavey. Great bass. High quality construction, light weight, and best of all - a very fast neck. One complaint - the output jack needed replacing. I bought mine for such a low price that I threw a Bartolini preamp and a Bart J pickup into it, just because I could. I've played $1,500 basses that weren't that nice.

This is mine.

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But is it the real deal? :)
 
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smcd said:
Budget priced US- made Peavey. Great bass. High quality construction, light weight, and best of all - a very fast neck. One complaint - the output jack needed replacing. I bought mine for such a low price that I threw a Bartolini preamp and a Bart J pickup into it, just because I could. I've played $1,500 basses that weren't that nice.

This is mine.

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Nice!! Here's mine!

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Peavey suffers today for sins committed decades ago. There was a time where their gear, once it aged just a few years, would develop terrible scratchiness in the pots and the amp volumes would drop. Consistently. You'd want to like their stuff, but you'd bring a Peavey PA or bass amp to a gig and, after the first couple songs, the stuff would just fade out.

So those of us around back then remember, and then relay the stories on a forum like this..... which is unfortunate for that brand, because they seem to be good quality nowadays.

Bassamatic said:
Shhh! We don't want to spread the word! Really - this is too bad. These older and many new Peaveys are great instruments - they just don't get the appreciation they deserve. It is really a part of marketing to present a proper image - perhaps Peavey marketing has not done a good enough job. Maybe the products are priced too low to have that proper quality image?

There is something to the feeling that if it is expensive it has to be good. An article in the newspaper today showed that the public perception of Mercedes car quality was very high - #6, I think, while the REAL overall quality is not nearly that high.
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coyote1 said:
Peavey suffers today for sins committed decades ago. There was a time where their gear, once it aged just a few years, would develop terrible scratchiness in the pots and the amp volumes would drop. Consistently. You'd want to like their stuff, but you'd bring a Peavey PA or bass amp to a gig and, after the first couple songs, the stuff would just fade out.

So those of us around back then remember, and then relay the stories on a forum like this..... which is unfortunate for that brand, because they seem to be good quality nowadays.
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Much of that is the sins committed by the owners. Someone would buy a TKO 65 instead of a Combo 300 and think he could just turn it up all the way to play along with a drummer for hours on end, and it would only last a few years doing that before it died with the DDT bulb long burned out.

There were countless places with an old plywood rack full of Peavey power amplifiers sitting in the back of a dirty stage in a hot bar for years and years with no ventilation just churning away doing their job.

It's funny how people always notice the abused gear when it dies, but never seem to marvel at how it managed to survive as long as it did.
 
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coyote1 said:
Peavey suffers today for sins committed decades ago. There was a time where their gear, once it aged just a few years, would develop terrible scratchiness in the pots and the amp volumes would drop. Consistently. You'd want to like their stuff, but you'd bring a Peavey PA or bass amp to a gig and, after the first couple songs, the stuff would just fade out.

So those of us around back then remember, and then relay the stories on a forum like this..... which is unfortunate for that brand, because they seem to be good quality nowadays.
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I'm sorry, my friend, but you don't know what you're talking about. Peavey had the best engineering staff around the industry 'back then'. If you knew electronics, you could see how well their stuff was engineered and manufactured. My observation is not an opinion. I worked on their stuff in a shop and worked on every other brand as well. There was not an amp ever made that didn't suffer from dirty pots. It's no secret their bass amps were tanks, so I don't get "after the first couple songs, the stuff would fade out". I still own two Peavey amps. A Centurion ('79) and a Mark IV bass ('83). Yeah, like after 30 years I've had two bad pots and one failed jack. Easily repairable.
IMO, Peavey's reputation has suffered because of brand haters like you who don't know squat about electronics.
 
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coyote1 said:
Peavey suffers today for sins committed decades ago. There was a time where their gear, once it aged just a few years, would develop terrible scratchiness in the pots and the amp volumes would drop. Consistently. You'd want to like their stuff, but you'd bring a Peavey PA or bass amp to a gig and, after the first couple songs, the stuff would just fade out.

So those of us around back then remember, and then relay the stories on a forum like this..... which is unfortunate for that brand, because they seem to be good quality nowadays.
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This is my experience, too.
 
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