Peavey!!???!!!

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Well.....Clint Black is a great singer but a prop guitar player,.........Steve Cropper is to stoned to know the diff.....Nuge uses a compound bow to hunt with, and I prefer a traditional longbow.....McDonalds Vs. BBQ.......don't care who the rest of the peavey users are......
 
Admit it bubinski.Peavey gear is not as terrible as you made it out to be.LOL
 
bubinski said:
I work at a music store and get all kinds of peavey amps in to fix that make all kinds of fuckin weird squeelin crackilin noises that just suck.......most of the problems seem to relate to the using a tube power amp and a piece of shit front end with 10 or more CMOS ic's.......coupling the two together is a electronics nightmare.......I'm gonna start takin them and partin them out and sell the 12's to high school kids for " car subwoofers", salvage the corners and other hardware and shitcan the rest.......Hybrid my ass......so's a turd with corn and beef....The only thing Peavey made ever worth a shit was the CS800 power amp.....and them day's are over.....besides that , they stole the " Spy vs. Spy" logo from Mad Magizine.......Black Widow=blown wup.
the reason they make them so "replacable" is cause the don't hold together......shit, pure shit. I'd walk off a stage with anyone with any peavey crap. Yea, they sell a lot, but so does McDonalds.....both make you wanna puke, unless you have a tiny budget and can't afford to get a good meal....
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I agree with most of what you've said, I OWNED a music store, with a studio in the back. I bought a shitpile of those little Peavey Bandit amps, most for about $15-$20, & resold them for $75, on average. Most of my band's gear is Peavey, & I even have the CS800 power amp, it's in my monitor rack with a Sunn 7000. I have the 1200 & 2000 in my FOH rack, driving a pair of SP2-G's, & a pair of the deep cabinet, single 18" subs. Unreal SPL's! I'm also running a 260 on a pair of Audio Centrons that I use for side fills, they each have a horn, a 10", & a 15", & they get awful loud from just the 260 pushing them. I'm not sure if it's the EV speakers in the cabs, or the power from the amp, or a combination of both, but none of us have ever had a problem being able to hear ourselves when it's up & running... It's funny, but I hear a lot of folks in bands that will shitcan Peavey gear, but they also use the stuff as well, so what's the deal? All the Peavey gear I have has been excellent, but there's been alot of their product that I've owned down through the years that WAS crap. It's almost like playing the lottery with Peavey, sometimes you get a winner, but you usually have to buy 2-3 pieces to get 1 good one. Of course, I've bought all the gear in our PA in the last 2 1/2 years, so that may have something to do with the quality of it... Anyway, just my 2 cents' worth... :D
Groove
 
bubinski said:
I work at a music store and get all kinds of peavey amps in to fix that make all kinds of fuckin weird squeelin crackilin noises that just suck.......most of the problems seem to relate to the using a tube power amp and a piece of shit front end with 10 or more CMOS ic's.......coupling the two together is a electronics nightmare.......I'm gonna start takin them and partin them out and sell the 12's to high school kids for " car subwoofers", salvage the corners and other hardware and shitcan the rest.......Hybrid my ass......so's a turd with corn and beef....The only thing Peavey made ever worth a shit was the CS800 power amp.....and them day's are over.....besides that , they stole the " Spy vs. Spy" logo from Mad Magizine.......Black Widow=blown wup.
the reason they make them so "replacable" is cause the don't hold together......shit, pure shit. I'd walk off a stage with anyone with any peavey crap. Yea, they sell a lot, but so does McDonalds.....both make you wanna puke, unless you have a tiny budget and can't afford to get a good meal....
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The only things I remember Peavey making that were worth a shit were their basses, and the CS800 power amp.

I hate the nasal tone of most of their other gear.

But, after all, that's only an opinion.:D
 
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From late '76- Oct '80, I used a lil Peavey Artist 120 Combo amp in which I put an EV EVM 12 speaker. The amp was played almost nightly and was a true road warrior. I bought it after several years of using various Marshall 50 and 100 Watt Heads and either 1960 412 or the gorgeous 810 Cabs Marshall used to make. I got tired of the Marshalls Eating transformers, tube sockets, and various other small parts that just loved to go up in smoke.

I never even changed the power tubes in the Artist 120. Tubes were made in America in those days and lasted more than 6 to 12 months of hard use.

The other guitarist in the last band that I was in before I quit music continued to use 2 Marshall 100 heads (one for spare) and a 1960 cab. The lil Artist 120 with that EVM12 Speaker NEVER had probs keeping up with his Half Stack.

When I got back into music in mid 2000, I spent four months searching for an amp and had a budget of 500 bux for one. I tried everything. I wanted versatile. No stomp boxes for Distortion and a good clean sound. In the last third of 2000, Peavey released the 2nd Gen TransTube Combos. I had tried the earlier Bandit and Studio Pro and they just didn't do anything for me. When I tried the 2nd Gen Bandit, I liked it alot. Then they got a 2nd Gen Studio Pro in and I fell in love with that amp and bought it. I still have it and it's an awesome lil amp once you learn how to tweak it. It's the most versatile non-modeling amp I have ever tried.

For Christmas 2001, I bought myself a Peavey Prowler 112 Tube Combo and it's awesome too. 45 of the loudest Watts I have ever heard. Fender Clean on the Clean Channel and anything from Dirty Blues to Grunge on the Dirty Channel. Awesome! It's particularly great at doing the Plexi/JCM 800 thing and will do Mesa Boggie in a pinch.

Yeah, I love Peavey gear... alot!

CR ><>
 
Who's that guitar player that uses/endorses Peavey?...

hmmmm... the name escapes me......















Oh yeah, Eddie Van Halen....

:D:D
 
A friend of mine owns a Peavy Classic 2-12" Black Widdow
speakers 60 watts, transistor pre-amp and tube power amp section. He's had this amp since 1980!!!!!!! And it has NEVER failed. Freaking impresive.
 
Thats what I am mostly getting at. Peavey never breaks!

Sound wise, I might differ w/ a few of you here. I mean, My old Peavey Megabass was alright, but my Eden WT400 w/ a 4x10" and an 18" is a whole lot better!

Doesnt Eddie kinda suck now? I think he does
 
Kelly5150 said:
Who's that guitar player that uses/endorses Peavey?...

hmmmm... the name escapes me......















Oh yeah, Eddie Van Halen....

:D:D
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Ed's a god. However, keep in mind he endorsed Kramer. ;)

Be that as it may, I loved my Peavey 5150, RockMaster, and Bravo. I still have the Bravo, and it's still cranking.
 
keep in mind whoever Eddie endorses is gonna design and make his guitar along side him to his exact specs....and i guarantee the guitar hes playing isnt off the rack.......
 
I think the top of the line Wolfgang's are pretty much what he uses.. I'm sure his are worked over by him or his tech and set up to his specs....

:confused: :p
 
my first was a peavey rage..... sucked...... my second was a peavey bandit..... wasnt as bad but it took HOURS of tweaking to get it sounding ok..... i got it the way i liked it and stuck some duct tape over the knobs so nobody would screw up my 4 1/2 hours work on tweaking it.
 
I liked the early comment "never broke down."
never thought about that.

built like a tank, I'll give 'em that, on the few I owned and abused...never broke down.

My current garage sale, Peavey Studio- 1980 Pure Discrete Components...
haven't even changed the speaker out!!..... and its still going!
My kids are singing thru the thing now with distortion up, playing guitars....cranking it up..SKA and Aquabats...rock, metal scremo emo, raggae..

It still looks brand new.

Did I mention It's "Pure Discrete 1980 Studio components". ...one tech jump from Tubes right? No Filament drift, its clear with a slight analog warmth, no tubes to be bothered with during those cold December gigs....DISCRETE COMPONENTS....not chips, Transistors and Resistors.....get rid of your old noisy tube amps and hassles!!
Upgrade to the "NEW" DISCRETE COMPONENT ELECTRONICS.... ;)

just kiddin... :p

I hear the name Peavey and I think White Peavey amps on Lynrd SKynrd, One More for the Road.... pfffffttt
 
Doug Quance said:
The only things I remember Peavey making that were worth a shit were their basses
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i've never used anything Peavey but their basses, i don't think. not for an extended amount of time, anyway. but i quite like the bass i've got. fairly thumpy sounding - no real sheen to the sound, but it feels fairly responsive.

Andy.
 
I only own one piece of Peavey gear, but it is built like a tank. There's very little question in my mind that this thing will last virtually forever. Wish more manufacturers had that kind of philosophy toward their build quality. These days, most affordable gear is really disposable. It's unfortunate.
 
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