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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:38 pm
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Well lads I can tell you that as a endorsee, what matters is what's seen.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:46 pm
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agreed.
one more from the road isnt marshall IMHO.
they used peavey mace into JBL loaded cabs.
its rumored that they even used JC 130's too.
heck who knows? those were the better yrs of
peavey in my opinion anyways.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:51 pm
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You'd never tell. Once a guitar and amp have been mixed then mastered they could be anything. Such is the power of outboard eq. We rely so much on what is seen or supposed, based on live peformance. Or common misconception.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:58 pm
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you could very well be correct with that statement.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:52 pm
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way cool jr wrote:
you could very well be correct with that statement.


Mate listen to any Doobie Bro's rhythm guitar. Forget the band just listen. You'll swear its a telecaster neck pickup. You don't see anything but a LP on vid's though.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:20 pm
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that is true. i dont believe ive ever seen a doobie pic w/o pauls.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:41 pm
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Y'all shut up.....I've been missing my vintage Marshall 2x12 combo bad enough lately....I bought it in the mid 70s,and I think it was a late '60s model...shows how much I was into stats like year models back then,I just knew it sounded great and I sold it to buy a Mesa Boogie that sounded like somebody put a curse on it to have no tone,only sound. :( oh yeah I owned Peaveys too. :oops:
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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:50 pm
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nothing wrong with peavey mind you, ive owned my fair share. still own a few
as a matter of factly. they are very road worthy amps. solid as rocks.
i dont use them any more as my tone has moved on. even still, they arent for trade and they arent for sale.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:58 pm
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Yeah,seriously Peavey has made some good amps,for awhile here in Nashville in the 80s it seemed like every country player had one,and so did alot of the R&R guys,when Peavey first came out they were everywhere...and they were made in the south!


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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:04 pm
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peavey was the goto amp for a lot of folks in the 80s. even their solidstate amps were choice back then. peavey was a safe bet for those on a budget too.
all around solid amps. i still catch myself when i run across an old reliable for sell.
its always tempting "just incase".

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:54 am
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I rate Peavey very highly, much higher than I rate Mesa for their drive sounds. Though I'm never going to be a fan of massive cascading preamp distortion. I didn't really get on with the JSX preamp section, because it seemed to take whatever was put into it and shape it to the sound the amp was set for. Rather than work with the guitar/effects it dominated them. Bit of a sticking point for me cos I constantly ride the guitars controls and like to hear a difference.
That aside it sounded gargantuan, absolutely bloody enourmous.
I liked the old solidstate Bandit's too, back when I was a kid. Though that could be nostalgia clouding memory. I did sell the thing after all.
I do like the Mesa clean sound, I think that is divine, really gentle, squashy and comlex.
That 800KK is bad enough for over gain with the silly switch pressed in. My next mod is to seperate the inbuilt noisegate from the inbuilt midboost. So I can use the excellent noisegate (it's the only one I've ever liked) without the silly boost.

RebelSoul, them old 2x12 JMP 50's are going for around £2500 in the UK now. I'd expect $4-4500 US prices. Just to add insult to injury! :P My 800 combo was a US model shipped back to England.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:43 am
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yeah thanks nikininja!! :lol:
sad thing is I sold it for $400 to my cousin who I thought was going to give me a chance to buy it back if he ever sold it,but no,he didn't :x .....makes me sick,it was a great Marshall combo.


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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:44 am
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niki

the bandit's were the best. every rockin kid worth his weight had one. i still have 2.
not my sound any more but as mentioned above, i wont get rid of them
"just incase" lol. on more than 1 occasion eddie was seen with peavey bandits and backstage's. ive not played any of the new ones though. mine are straight from the 80's.
i have heard that the peavey quality has dropped a great deal to down somewhere close to crate. if that is true it would break my heart seriously. im not saying that crate quality is bad, ive owned them and will stand by the 80's selection with pride for the times, but peavey was heads and tails about them, arguably the most rugged amps ever built. each and every knob was user friendly and did what it said it did smoothly.
time after time my peaveys have powered up and performed on demand just as good as they did day one. back in the day you could grab a kramer or charvel, turn on your peavey, and it would be a safe bet to cover just about any 80s metal band out there.
oh and back in the day, chic's digged peavey's lol. oh and if you had a peavey classic
you were heard all over town believe me. ive had to cops called on me more times using that amp.............. shiot niki, now look what youve went and done.
now i gotta come home and pull out the jacksons and a couple peaveys tonight. :twisted:

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:57 am
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Another much overlooked solidstate wonder!

I dunno whether Peaveys quality has dropped. In this day and age, we see a war between manufacturers to offer the best spec, for the least money at one end of the market. Then (and where Peavey always were) at the other end, companies building bombproof amps that sound good and cost accordingly.
Take that Bandit for example. They were around £380 a throw in the UK in 1986. About £50 shy of the price of a new strat as a point of comparison. Not a cheap amp at all. The Roland JC120 was about the same price the reissues sell for around £1000 new.
A similar quality solidstate amp that focused on clean, opposed to the Peavey's focus on drive.
So you can safely assume that had things gone differently for the Bandit and it was still in production. It would have been at around the £1000 range putting it firmly in the 'Bombproof touring gear' end of their product line. Rather than the 'good gig amp' end.

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Post subject: Re: The Tone King.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:54 am
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i wonder if it would be in peaveys interests to do a reissue on some of their
80s stuff? would they sell, who knows? they even had that look about them, uniformed.
as for the jcm, it was used by tones of folks too, clapton, uncle ted, bunch of names at some point. i liked the old musicman amps too. you cant find them anywhere either, not over here anyways. wonder where they would be today if.........

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