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Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:25 am
by EffinNewGuy
My father-in-law gave me his old 70’s Peavey Classic, pre-VT series. It even had the 4-button foot switch and was in remarkable shape with the original 6L6s. Then my wife left it on for a few days and one of the 6L6’s went out. Great super massive cleans. Hitting the front end with my hoof reaper yields ecstasy.

I also have a late 90’s Classic 50 head that has been modded with some sort of switch that affects the tone stack. It also has “#2” written in Sharpie. I suppose it was someone’s backup for touring at some point. This is currently my main amp.

I’m going to have to play around with that 70’s Classic soon too.

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:52 pm
by Plumerai
The one thing I hated was the handle. One handle centered on top of a heavy amp that weighed more on one side.

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 8:59 pm
by somanytoys
mortron wrote:
Wed Jun 17, 2020 7:05 am
My first Bass amp was a TNT115... Thing was big and loud. It also nearly killed our drummer when he decided to play bass and sing one jam. I guess the music shop I bought it from didn't do much tech work, nor did they earn me about vintage amps and the stupid death caps.

I have a friend who owns one, and feel uncomfortable just sitting next to it haha.
Damn! Don’t hear that many horror stories about them. I really wanted one of those when I was growing up, but could only get the TKO. I totally blew that up later, but it served me really well for a long time, it was a good amp for me.

I used to play with it set really low, and sit on it to feel me playing along with albums I would listen to thru headphones. I woke my dad up one day while he was sleeping off of a dog shift, he was not happy. If I’d had a TNT, I’d have probably been a homeless kid...

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:54 am
by Tweedledee
I have an old Peavey Express 1x12 combo that delivers lovely sparking cleans with tight, punchy low end. In a blind test I bet a lot of people would say it's a tube amp--at least when run perfectly clean. But if you want that (not so pleasing, IMHO) 90s solid state overdrive tone, it's definitely in there. ;D I picked it up on Craigslist for $40 earlier this year. I opened it up and sprayed all the pots with contact cleaner, which helped with the scratchiness (I'm pretty sure no one had opened up the amp since it was new). It weighs a ton and I think it's rather ugly, but I don't see how you could ever get a better clean tone in a 1x12 combo for so cheap.

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Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:34 am
by s_mcsleazy
it's weird but every shitty practice space i've ever been in has an old peavey bass amp. i'm reminded of that steve albini line "you can find a bit of peavey gear at the bottom of a lake, dry it off and it will still work. it will always sound like a peavey but it will still work"

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:22 am
by Jonesie
My go to saying for most of Peavey's line:

"Peavey: Solid state, solid tone."

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:40 am
by SadFuzz
https://m.imgur.com/a/vPvkl

A picture of John McGeough playing through my amp <3

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:49 am
by HNB

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:03 am
by spacelordmother
Love the old Peaveys! Have had quite a few of them through here -- it's a gift and a curse that people are starting to catch on and you can't pick them up cheap anymore. Very glad to see the Backstage Plus love in this thread, as that's all I've held onto. It's such a great home amp -- gets plenty loud and sounds great. Got this pair separately, both very very clean, for $75 total:

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I also used to have a Renown which was great but wayyyy louder than I needed for home use. Pretty proud of this little footswitch I made for it. The Renown lets you choose channel A, B, or both (C), but the footswitch jack only works for A or B and reverb on/off. I never turn the verb off (do people do that?) so I rewired it for A or B, A+B. Metal font forever.

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Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:31 pm
by stooge
Just picked up a clean early 80s Butcher head for cheap.

120 watts, all tube, their take on a JCM 800 with 6L6s. Sure, it’s heavy and ugly, but what’s not to love about it?

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:41 pm
by HNB
Still loving my Bandit 65. It has great cleans. :)

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:04 am
by bah humbuck
spacelordmother wrote:
Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:03 am
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This is an absolute work of art.
stooge wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:31 pm
Just picked up a clean early 80s Butcher head for cheap.

120 watts, all tube, their take on a JCM 800 with 6L6s. Sure, it’s heavy and ugly, but what’s not to love about it?
Reminds me of my favorite YouTube video: Peavey Butcher Test - YouTube
(It seems like I can't embed a video here? neither the [youtube]BBcode nor YouTube's embed code work)

Re: Love for old Peavey

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:24 pm
by sessylU
The other thread about JBL 15" speakers reminded me that I ought to chime in and say how much I appreciate the Peavey Black Widow.

My best mate had a bass amp with one when we grew up together. Sounded great.

Since then, I've always been greedy and wondered what a BW 415 would sound like....