Blasphemy!

[Xpensive Wino]

 

[mikeslub]

Doesn't do anything for me.

 

[Xpensive Wino]

Doesn't do anything for me.

Nor I.

 

[J T]

meh

although I've seen pedal steelers with peaveys

 

[Xpensive Wino]

meh

although I've seen pedal steelers with peaveys

The Peavey 400 (with the single 15" speaker is still a staple).

My late tech was a Buckethead aficionado and kept a Peavey combo near his bench for testing; of course I perforce played through it when hanging with him; but I didn't share his golden opinion of the sound.

In the late Seventies/early Eighties, Peaveys were ubiquitous (mainly due to their low price and the company's dealer finance scheme), but I am a tone snob, although I confess owning a tweed Classic at one point. It was quickly culled from the herd.

Hartley had a wry story about what ruined his brands' rep in Japan. Apparently it caused him to change his distribution agreements.

IIRC, Lynyrd Skynyrd/Rossington Collins was the only "name act" I heard using Peaveys (Mace heads and combos paired with 4 X 12 stacks) but that was about it.

 

[Jeff08]

Dude complaining about weight. I was 17 in 1981 and put the TKO 65 Black Widow on layaway at around $179. I paid it off weeks later and they tried to charge me like $50 more for being BW equipped and mismarked. They backed off and I went to pick it up and had to use a dolly to get it to the car. It weighed almost as much as I did. I never considered the weight before that. I'm still lugging that cruise ship anchor around. The handle is only good for pendulum moving it half a swing for a few feet in a room. You gotta squat, tilt it and bear hug it before you stand up if you want to take it any distance. It must weigh 100 lbs. and it's only 2 feet tall and 21.5" wide.

 

[jb_abides]

If the discussion is really about a back-up for a gigging musician, not about absolute bargain bin approach, there are other solid state offerings out there.

In fact, some have become primary solutions, like a Roland Blues Cube or Boss Katana, an Orange Crush. The list goes on...

If you are digging about for solid state bargains, I'd prefer a Marshall or Vox from the Aughtes.

 

[J.D.]

I agree with a lot of what he said. I had some variation of Peavey USA 1x12 SS combo around for many years for noodling and general testing. Got it for free. With very minor routine maintenance it worked as-is and always worked perfectly. No tubes, nothing fancy...but flip the power switch and worked immediately every single time. Tone wasn't spectacular, especially distorted, but it made noise.

 

[Xpensive Wino]

I agree with a lot of what he said. I had some variation of Peavey USA 1x12 SS combo around for many years for noodling and general testing. Got it for free. With very minor routine maintenance it worked as-is and always worked perfectly. No tubes, nothing fancy...but flip the power switch and worked immediately every single time. Tone wasn't spectacular, especially distorted, but it made noise.

Well, there's that.

 

[Xpensive Wino]

If the discussion is really about a back-up for a gigging musician, not about absolute bargain bin approach, there are other solid state offerings out there.

In fact, some have become primary solutions, like a Roland Blues Cube or Boss Katana, an Orange Crush. The list goes on...

If you are digging about for solid state bargains, I'd prefer a Marshall or Vox from the Aughtes.

Even BITD, Yamaha and Roland made some decent SS combos.

 

[Vics53]

Somewhere around '96 I picked up a used Peavey Bandit 1x12 combo. I had only been playing guitar for a few years and at the time when I bought it I was trying to recover financially from my divorce. Didn't have an amp (or much money) so I thought why not. I actually really liked the clean channel. Not bad at all for what it was. As far as the amps OD, well, I didn't care for it. Had that amp for a number of years and it never acted up.

About 8 years later I bought a Peavey Classic 30 of which I still have. I accidentally knocked the amp off a a speaker cabinet one time and that amp kept on ticking! Never once acted up. Ran a EQ pedal through the loop to tailor the sound a bit more to my liking. Even used it a church for a while. I know there's much better offerings out there but it served me well.