This 200 Bucks Vintage Peavey Head is a World Class Guitar Amp!
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- čas přidán 24. 10. 2021
- We playing a late 1970s Peavey 400 Series Bass Head through a late 1970s Orange 4x12 equipped with Celestion G12H30 55Hz Blackbacks. I'm playing a Gibson Les Paul R8 and Simon's playing a 1972 fender Precision and a 1969 Custom Shop Fender Strat. This is a KILLER amp for both guitar and bass!!
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Great amps. Never underestimate Peavey. Especially the older stuff.
Totally agree, I have a peavey triumph 120 combo that blows me away everytime and there's another really good peavey that Lynyrd Skynyrd made famous, sounds great.
czcams.com/video/hJF00YeGE_Y/video.html this one, Peavey Mace
I've never got along with the old Peavey amps 🤷I had the Peavey heritage 212 monster amp and the old old silver stripe Peavey classic 212 combo which the classic was actually a great blues and maybe classic rock amp but none compare the more modern Peavey amps I have that I still use like the little Peavey Bravo, awesome amp all around for everything !
I also still use the Peavey valveking mk1 50 watt 112 combo and the valveking 120 head unit as well as the Peavey USA signature EVH 5150 combo 212 and the Peavey USA 6534+ head with el34 tubes !
All those modern Peavey amps are Great beyond great really, they are awesome and between those Peavey amps I get everything I need from clean twin rev all the way to the highest level of gain ever needed for my playing so yeah I love Peavey, all of them despite not really getting use from the older ones😜 !
@@RodneyWallaceDynamoC . I have a '76 Mace head. Use to have an '81 Mace VT series. Sold that one though
The thing is Peavey have made great stuff, but it takes time for the vintage hype to catch up.
This was the first "real" bass amp I had when I was a teenager in the 1990's! Had it sitting on top of a big brown-face Marshall 1x15 bass cab. I wish I still had both of those. In my young and dumb years, I didn't take the time to appreciate the amp for what it was, I just knew it wouldn't make my cheap P bass copy sound like Les Claypool or Victor Wooten, so I sold it. They're hard to find in good , working condition, and when I do find one, the seller won't ship due to size. I had the footswitch with mine, controlling channel selection, channel series/parallel, fuzz on/off and distortion on/off. Great amp!
Isn't it funny how often we just don't realize what we had.
No doubt!
Guitars I wish I still had:
60s Gibson es 330
83 Gibson Silver burst LP Custom
77 Gibson Flying V
1980 Rickenbacker 4001
I practically gave them away. What was I thinking?
I had a Peavy solid state amp that I bought in 78. It sounded mushy.
Sounds great!
70’s and 80’s Peavey amps will outlive us all.
Thanks Jesse!
Old Peaveys = Rock solid . Un-killable war tanks to this day and on ! I had the `Musician ` head . Was just like this one in the vid . I now have 2 Peavey Valvekings . An older 2x12 100 Watt 4 - 6L6 one and an amazing newer 20 Watt 1x12 EL84 combo . Both Reliable, great sounding amps built to last ..... even if not made in USA . The Legendary Peavey Quality and reliability is still there . Great consistent tone every time I use either .
Exactly. If a asteroid ever hits the earth the only things left will be peavey amps and Nokia phones
@@jonny26281and earth amps
If you notice the camera shaking at times it's because the tone you hear on the distortion channel can't be achieved without a volume much louder than a gigging band. I have this amp and I use the Orange Bax Bangeetar through the clean channel and it is much easier on the ears. I'm surprised these guys aren't wearing hearing protection in this video. (Edit) Actually...they are wearing hearing protection now that I look closer lol...I love this amp either way. Thanks for the demo guys.
can confirm. i have a peavey pa200 and you cant get this without the volume AND the gain all the way up. i just put a pillow in front of my cab lol.
Peavey was everywhere when I was a kid. A lot of the gear was awesome and super durable. But, everyone got bored of it and sold it for the newer and better gear. Like the newer better tube amps and Katanas. Peavey already had the stuff in the 70’s and 80’s made in the USA and cheap. Marketing and globalization really killed a lot of good stuff for everyone everywhere. I still rock the Peavey amps, guitars and PA speakers!
Mannn... I love when TONE gushes from the most unlikely resources!
Long live P E A V E Y !!
🤟🏻💀⚡️🔥🍕🍺🎸🎛💣🧨🔪⚰️🚬💊🔊♠️🏴☠️🇸🇪
Wow what a fantastic sounding amp head Johan! I've seen these for sale over the years in Australia but had no idea they sounded so good. Each guitar sounds true to its own voice only better. Nice amount of gain and breakup. You can clearly hear the difference between the strat and the les, that doesn't happen on all amps, especially when overdriven.
very stable amp, these were in all the rehearsal studios around NYC, thanks for sharing, Johan, take care!
Wowie zowie I waited for this and it’s now it’s the benchmark and the exception! 🤘🙌🤘
Sounds great! Excellent playing!
The Peavey PA, standard, and musician heads that all look really similar are also really surprisingly nice.
ive got a pa200. i honestly think they are all using similar circuitry
Cool! This amp takes me right back to the 70s. A mate had one, along with the matching 2x15 cab. His Ricky produced a sound that could rearrange your internal organs through that thing. You could literally feel the whole building move with the sound pressure it generated! To this day that experience is imprinted in my mind and the only bass combo that has come close was at a Marco Mendoza gig. He was using an Orange bass cab... Powered by a Peavey Firebass head that night. After the gig I got a chance to chat gear with him and he agreed, The old Peavey bass amps just do something special when you get them fired up.
My first Amp was a similar musician 400 w/ tall 4 x 12 with square backs way back in the early 1980s & Thanks for the demo and revisiting the tones and I know the British cab and speakers help quite a bit for guitar use.
I still have one with the matching (crazy rare) folded 1x18”! The cab is something really special, basically a copy of an Acoustic 360. If you see one, SNAG IT!
Cool! What speaker is in the 1x18?
@@JohanSegeborn These came with 4ohm Cerwin Vega speakers. It doesn’t feel like a high power speaker, but still very efficient for what it is. Absolutely perfect fit for this amp, and also a wonderful match for any 50w tube head
I had the cab that had a 18" cerwin vega turned backwards in it, with a centerion head on it. I miss that amp. I haven't seen another since that one. You had to rotate the speaker around till you found a spot that didn't rattle the roof, literally.
Kind of confirms how important Speaker and Cabinet selection are!
Great Content Johan, Thank You
Wowsers! Sounds amazing
Great video as always.
In the 70's I had a Peavey Musician guitar head 120watts solid state with effects it sounded killer.
Loved the thick tone Simon was getting 🤟🤟🤟🤟 let's go !!!!
Holy crap! I found one of these for sale, came to CZcams to see if it sounded halfway decent and I think I fell in love with this thing.
I love the 400 series amps. The Bass 400 is effectively identical to the Musician 400 (guitar version), which is one reason they work so great interchangeably. Only real differences are some effects such as reverb, tremolo etc.
Interesting, thanks!
I sold my Musician 400 head. (Instant sellers remorse). Unfortunately, the (weirdly connected) footswitches are worth almost as much as the heads.
@@Steaminlidz looks like a 6 pin male din cable
I have two Peavy Musician 400 heads from the 70’s. This is one of the first amps I ever owned. I bought a back up one like 5 years ago for $15 and it is like new, yes $15! They are 210 watts RMS, this amp is LOUD! They have real spring reverb’s in them also. They accept pedals better than any amp I have ever owned and they have amazing cleans. The transformers in these things are huge! I even owned the huge 4X12 cabinet that weighed as much as a small house. If you can get one for cheap I highly recommend it. The only downsides are the pots tend to get dirty and noisy and will need to be cleaned. Rock and Roll 🎸🤘🏻👍🏻
Is that solid state? I think I had one. The 4x12 cab was on wheels and it was about a foot taller than a marshall 4x12. It was on casters. I remember stacking the head and guitar case on top and rolling a half mile to a friend's to jam. The cabinet barely fit into the back seat of my 72 Dodge Dart.
I've got a Peavey Standard from 1974 and I love it to death
I love the guitar tone at 2:22
Hi Johan,
Only now that I'm older (66) am I realizing that Peavey was putting out great amps all along. We were indoctrinated to believe that Peavey amps were inferior to other amps back in the day. Now I realize that I just didn't know how to get a good tone from them. I currently own the latest iteration of the Bandit and an early nineties Classic 30. The only mods I've done are loading them with Celestion Vintage 30's. They both sound great.
Sound good Peavey is great Heavy struff to Carry and un breakable when you
Have a roadie after your concert
I did it for 20years Peavey Rock!
Cool demo 🤘!!
I used to sell these everyday along with other models. The front of the amp is a pre-amp and the back is a universal power amp module used in other models. These are ver stable at 2 ohm where the put out 300 watts. Our store "Strings & Things" was one of the biggest Peavey dealer's west of the Mississippi river. Yes the amp is really more like a mixer and power-amp in a box. I have given demo's similar with guitar, keyboard and bass out of the Musician Head. Most guys wrote it off. Most people kept them because they eventually figured them out. They would usually go out of the door for around $275. new after discount in 1973-74.
ive got a pa-200, and its awesome as a guitar amp
HUGE Deep Purple vibes when your buddy plays the Strat through that beast.
My high school had one. Used it at our senior assembly.
I picked one of these heads up around 12 years ago for 75 bucks for my bass, and I love it. Still use it today, it is sitting right behind me. gonna open it up and clean it out today actually
Recently picked one up for a hundred, what a bargain now
I still own a Peavey Special solo series from early 80's.
I just picked up this head today for $200. It's solid to say the least. Peavey amps will outlive all of us.
The guitar player for Off! Has used these at gigs and his tone was smokin.
I was blown away when these amps came out in the 70’s with 210 watts rms which was a lot of freakin power for that time
Interesting about old Peavey amps is they were pretty good! Good enough that Lynyrd Skynyrd was using Peavey Mace amps back in the day
I had a Mace (too bad it was stolen), and I was shocked at how great it was, and had to buy it.
I think Black Oak Arkansas used an all peavey backline
Fondly referred to as Mississippi marshalls
Great amps, for sure! I've got one of the old C30s and matching cab. I came here for the bass demo but blinked and missed it.
Great video thank you
Thanks, glad to hear it!
I hunted one down because of this video. Paid 350 for the head and 2x15 cab. I'm literally set for life
Same!!!
With most of these '70s Peaveys I've had or been around, you have to get them to paint peeling volume to hit that saturated sweet spot.
Yup
yep. i have a ps200. i had to put a pillow in front of the cab and crank it full, but man did it sound good
My Mark III 400 (1982, HS grad year!) head was all of $99 plus tax at the local Sam Ash.
Tech tip: One thing which will benefit ALL old Peaveys is replacing the two big filter caps. They are all decades old and weren't much to begin with. Just doing the five power supply caps made it noticeably louder, cleaner and quieter. It's always more fun when you feature gear I'm familiar with. Recapped a bunch of those PSs over the years.
Back in the late 1970s a few of the Players I encountered used these Peavey amps. If I remember correctly the difference between sounding great and just loud were the speakers and cabinets they were using at the time.
Gosh that was a long time ago............I kind of miss the 1970s!
Needs to be plugged into a peavey 215 cab.
Hi, Johan!
My love Peavey! Excellent for everything! I got Ibanez Jem from my work. So soon will be the review. See you!
Z.
Love the fuzzy characteristic the drive has
Used to play a '71 P-bass with RotoSound round wounds thru one of these heads (probably a '74-ish?) atop a Peavey 2-15 cab. This was in '75. Switched to an early '60s tweed Fender Bassman head. Wish I still had ALL that gear today! (I grew up about 90 miles west of where Peaveys were born and -- at that time -- made.)
I have used Peavey amps a lot back in the 70s and also bass heads as guitar amps they rock for sure.
My fave is the Deuce combo or the Mace head.
One to look for is the Ultra head it is a bad ass amp.
I bet the Domino's Pizza across the way had their fill of tasty riffs and licks. 😎
Hahaha! 🤣
I had this amp 20 years ago, replaced it with a more portable / smaller amp. The Les Paul sounded nice, but the Strat was harsh on my pc headphones. Kudos for thinking of using a bass amp for guitars!
I play pedal steel guitar and I love bass and keyboard amps. Guitar amps are even more of a crapshoot if they will sound good or not, but bass amps and kb amps usually sound better. They usually have more clean headroom, a wider frequency range, and more than one channel. My 2 main effects I use is a little overdrive every now and then, and reverb/delay. So I just have pedals for that, and a rack reverb.
Sounded angry and ready to rock. God bless and rock on 👍😎🎸
Glad to hear it J! Rock on!
Can't wait!! This is one I have.
Glad to hear it!
I really enjoyed the video. Never knew it could pull of such great sounds cranked up!
Have one of these was using for bass. Old Peavey stuff can sound great. Also have a Mace and of course an original bandit that kicks ass.
I had one and loved it! If you had the foot switch the better then you can blend channels! Same with the hybrid Deuce and Mace of which I have a nearly mint 1981 Mace BW!
For local gigs, nothing beats a peavy combo bass amp. I've toured and used many rigs. Mesa, trace, Eden, Bose stick, gk. Peavy TNT or TKO still my favorite amps to stand next to
Had One, got stolen years ago. Loved it!
Killer amp! As all Peavey products of that era this head delivers solid rock tones! Cheers Johan!
Cheers Vincenzo!
Peavey rocks, and they even managed to put out great contemporary tweed amps.
What else is there to ask for?
Ha! We have one of these as a monitor amp for one of the monitor channels on our mixing board. It works for band practice.
I've got one of those amps.. bought it new. I had Darlington output transistors put in many, many years ago. It's sitting in the back of a closet.. gonna get it back out. Thanks I forgot about it.. lol
yngwie would want that strat on the stand. it's on his Christmas list every year
the blue bossa at the end lmao
I am certainly enjoying the celestion G12 H 30 55hz blackbacks
The Centurion is also killer. It’s also fun to play guitar through their black widow 18” speaker cabs.. why not?!
That's big
i have a centurion and it kills!
sounds pretty nice for humbuckers and 24.75” scale length. the single coils @ 25.5 scale was pretty shrill. but also sounds nice on bass - good find!
I'm on a quest for Old Peavey amps. They're great.
There may not be tubes, but the components are so analog, it barely matters. Would be convenient to have a great amp rig which rules on both bass and guitar.
I have a Standard head from the same Era, everyone is always impressed by both its power and its seriously heavy distortion. Great for dropped tunings.
Can it sound good at garage jam levels?
@@ProSimex84 louder.
The Musician 400 head is even better. I consider myself fortunate to own one and the "rare as hen's teeth" accompanying footswitch. Separate Fuzz and distortion that you can blend, tremolo and reverb, plus the comprehensive tone controls.
Crushingly loud, too.
My takeaway here is that almost anything sounds good if you run it through a great cabinet.
Almost anything sounds good in the hands of somebody that know what they're doing. It's the carpenter, not the tools.
Bingo!
@@franktreppiedi2208 iThink so too.I have cheap stuff that sounds as good as high dollar rigs I hear on here.Epi sg and a 90s princeton chorus.
I have an old musician that is about to come out of the shop and I am almost too excited to wait any longer lol
Randy rhoad’s quiot riot rig with a distortion plus and some other toys! Sounds so good I love it!
Post all the Peavey. 😎
I’ve got a standard, a standard pa and a musician. Good stuff indeed
I started out on a 1x12 Peavey Bandit before it was the Bandit 50 lol. You have to respect the old American made Peavey amps, but I still will go to my Marshall JCM800 combo (4104 or 4010) about 99.5% of the time haha
I don’t have THAT. But i DO have a Classic Series 50/50 and 2 4x12 cabs, & a Rock Master Tube preamp. It screams (so do my neighbors). Peavey was great
Dude !!!!
I love my own Peavey Rock master all tube rack mount pre amp !
I run it into either a very loud and clean 100 watt jcm800 head or run it into a Peavey 6534+ 120 watt head with Mesa oversized 412 cabinet with old celestion G12-35M
Speakers that just sound killer and I love my cheap inexpensive rig !
I just remembered the Peavey Bravo 18 watt 12inch speaker combo that is my favorite little amp also has the Rock master pre amp in it also so you may really dig the amp like I do !?😜
I've got a Peavey Backstage which I have modified. I kept the preamp stage, but installed a 250W class D ampplifier, switch mode power supply, and a 300W speaker.. It is still lightweight and small, but damn fucking LOUD!!!! It's always funny when people ask if that little thing is loud enough, then hit the strings and watch their jaws drop.
Which backstage model?208,210?
@@williamgregory6684 Can't find any model number, but it is the vintage version with one 10" speaker and no efx. Gain, eq, master. that's it. It has a lot of Skynyrd twang in it.
I had one of these from new, as a Bass amp.
I was always fighting with the tone though.
My fault , I should have got the cab with 12s not the 2x15.
It DID last me some 10 years though.
Only blew an output transistor once towards the end just before I went Trace Elliot.
Walking on the moon 🤘👍
ive never heard anything by peavey that i like !
It's not the amp, it's the player.Anyone can make an amp sound crappy.A good musician can make a crappy amp sound great. It's all in the hands and your imagination!!
Johan, you were messing with the 6 band EQ when the guitar was plugged in to the normal channel, to use that EQ you need to be plugged either into the lead side or one of the middle inputs. The two middle inputs run the channels in series or parallel.
Is this tube or sold state? Looks like it’s probably transistors. I’ll never forget a buddy of mine back in the late 80’s had a solid state peavey combo with one 12 inch speaker and it sounded killer. Perfect overdrive channel for 80’s metal. This amp sounds sweet with the LP, strat and bass. For that price I might have to check it out. Loved the Gary Moore at the end. Does it have a MV?
Solid state.
Hey Johan, so we have this amp in our rehearsal room, but never use it. After watching your video i decided to try it out for guitar. But it doesn't quite sound like this. Ofcourse the guitar and the cab that is used plays a major role, but you aren't using any pedals nor after processing right? The amp also may need some service because some features like the fuzz are broken, and sometimes it makes a weird sound.
Wish they'd make amps like these again.
Professional quality american made analog solid state amps are a thing of the past, unfortunately. Get your peaveys while you can, gents!
Reminds me of the old sunn stuff
I have a "pa" from that same series. Best stand up bass rig I've ever used live. Have tried sunn 500t 300s Ampeg well too many heavy break all the time playing x3/week. Peavy when my rig was down for a gig. Told the tech to recap the Peavy after instead of the SVT
ive got the pa200. its so awesome
Lynyrd Skynyrd of all bands were endorsed by Peavey - And they didn`t sound too bad !
They sounded killer indeed!
Their tone was better with the original Marshall and Fender mix, but the Peaveys were more unique sounding, and the all white looked impressive cool.
PSA: Queens of the Stone Age having me using these in their guitar rigs and in the studio since 2007.
How do you think this amp would work through a one twelve cabinet?
Check out the price on the Peavey Decade right now.
I slept on the opportunity to buy a Standard a few months ago.
Wish I would’ve snagged it.
RRRockin'! \m/
Old peavey SS is danged cool, though I suspect most of us didn't think so at the time- it was a stepping stone to something "better". How do ya like those blackback 55hz, @Johan Segeborn
I gots one a them they’s fun, not krazy loud (for Bass) but very growly
I had the guitar version. Mine was more mushy sounding...thirty years ago!
Mine was extremely mushy and not at all responsive. It was good for bass, but not so good for guitar.
What cab were you guys running?
@@matthewbrown4402 had a 4x12 in my bedroom
Got much better sound out of a vtx peavey. Solid state pre and 6l6 powa
@@matthewbrown4402 I had a 4x12 in my bedroom. The neighbors were always calling the cops. The cab was like 6-8 inches taller than a marshall style cab
Everything sounds great when Johan Segerborn plays it.
Anyways you guys could do just a strictly bass demo using the series and parallel inputs?
I hate to be the naysayer in the bunch but I traded a 65 Fender Blackface Bandmaster for a Peavey Musician 400.Dumb move. It had no sustain, or feel like most solid state amps also lack. It was a good bass amp but if you want a good old Peavey Amp, get one with tubes. I used it for bass and it was also good ballast for my AMC Gremlin to avoid getting stuck in the snow. They are also pretty old and most will need expensive repair.
I have 11 Peavey amps all USA made from 1978 to 1996 and they all work very well. Peavey's rarely break down!There are many professional and semi professional musicians that make their bread and butter with them and can attest to that
Randy Rhodes used 1970s Peavey Standard 260 in Quiet Riot his amp of choice.
Well for old stuff i would öove to have peavey century-200h😮
I always knew about these and i suggested them to everyone for doom cause they were cheap cant anymore now they going to be 500+
If you need good, cheap, and reliable Peavey is the ticket.