Peavey Amps for Jazz

**Gippo** · 06-27-2015, 07:35 AM

I'm a happy Classic 30 owner. I play it with Es 175, Es 335 and Godin 5th avenue with floating Benedetto pu

**kris** · 06-27-2015, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by Gippo

I'm a happy Classic 30 owner. I play it with Es 175, Es 335 and Godin 5th avenue with floating Benedetto pu

Classic 30 is a loud amp.

**Gippo** · 06-27-2015, 12:30 PM

Yes, great headroom. Just once i had to use 5 (of 10) volume. Great satisfaction: even with 175 013 strings equipped no crunch.

**SierraTango** · 06-27-2015, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by entresz

My favourite jazz guitar amp I own is my 1976 Peavey Session 400. Another amp I use heaps is my mid 1980's Bandit 65. The old Peavey amps are great.

+1 on a Session 400. It's also a classic amp for Pedal Steel. 200w with a 15". When they came out with the Session 500 it was quickly renamed the "Hernia 500" by steel players. I still have a mid-seventies Session 400-however don't use it for jazz guitar gigs. Too heavy.
Peavey did address the weight issue and the Nashville steel amps with a 12" are an excellent jazz guitar amp-usually found used for about 350. This '79 Sho Bud sounds fantastic though my Session 400-it's a great, classic PSG tone.

**Longways to Go** · 06-27-2015, 03:20 PM

I had an Envoy 110 for a while. Really liked the size, build quality, decent power, but I never got the jazz tone out of it I was looking for. Tried speaker swaps . . . eventually traded it. I'm a classic 30 fan. I'd buy a classic 20 if it included reverb too.

**D.G.** · 06-27-2015, 03:45 PM

I owned a 6505+ (EVH designed amp) -- not very good for jazz though

I've played a couple of Classic 30's and they were ok, but compared to a Fender BF, seriously lacking in subtly and texture.

The hardest punk sound I ever heard was back in the late eighties, a trio called Diesel 99. The guitar player played some sort of cheap humbucker guitar through a Bandit with all the knobs dimed. Thickest, meanest tone I've ever heard!

**kawa** · 06-27-2015, 04:27 PM

Jazztone Test:Envoy 110 Ser.G0113938 and G0113942
Inst:ES175D
Refer-Amp:'66BFVR(C10NS) Tone:T1(Min) B3.5
Envoy setting result:Modern Mode L3 M2 H0
It's a very nice Jazzguitar tone !
Blue Marvel is good speaker.
(Replace check result)
Also TransTube tech is very good.

**mattm** · 06-30-2015, 08:55 AM

I'd bet my Backstage 30 110 runs along the same lines. I get a great jazz tone but at lower volumes; I've noticed a pretty good breakup when using my HB equipped semi-hollow and full hollow body. It seems to do better with strats though (which I don't play any longer)

Believe it or not, I got crazy and tried a bass amp since I get so much low end from my Hollow body with flatwound 13's. I picked up a Peavey Basic 50 115 from CL for just $50 to try out and am amazed at the jazz tone I get from it. It has a Pre/Post gain but the amp stays clean when both are dimed so plenty of headroom to be had. This so far, to my ear anyways, beats out any other peavey model I've had, not to mention my old JC120 and Polytone. I may look around at an upgrade since I'm definitely settled on using a bass amp but this little gem might just stick around (if it ain't broke-don't fix it, I guess.)

**BobD** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Sounds great to me.

**Jazzman301** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Its not a bad tone at all. I know Ted Greene had a SS Peavey that he really liked. I feel like this cat Steve colors his sound with delay or something beyond normal reverb. None the less its not a bad tone at all. Not what I would call a classic tone but very nice at any rate.

'Mike

**BobD** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

I guess that Peavey is a Stereo Chorus model. They go pretty cheap too.

**RonD** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

I use a Peavey Envoy at my teaching studio. It's very easy to get a very good jazz tone, with very little tweaking.
The Envoy is too small for gigging, IMO, but I've used older versions of the Bandit, with the same result. Very usable amps, very inexpensive.

**kawa** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

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Peavey Envoy 110
Good Jazz Tone, Almost Same To '66 Vibrolux Reverb, Points are the Blue Marvel Speaker Unit(Eminence) and the TransTube Circuits.

Todays Setup for close to '66 Vibrolux Reverb (Jensen C10NS×2), V3, T2, B3.5 (Fender's 1 as Minimum)

Inst : Guitar 67' ES-175DN V8 T10, Strings Gibson SEG 1040ML, Cable Belden 9778 2.5m

Amp: Volume 4, Modern, Low 4, Mid 2～3, Treble o～1, Rev 0～1

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**kris** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Nice jazz sound.
I use Peavey Classic-30 with my arch-top jazz guitar.
I like fat sound of it.

**jorgemg1984** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

I like my Bandit 65, very nice amp although it has too much mids. He is using some sort of delay and maybe reverb from the amp?

**Jazzman301** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Really nice playing Kawa! I know from reading the book Teds wife wrote that he definately used a Peavey amp, among a stable of fenders and a few choice Ampegs.
Those Peavey amps really do sound nice. I still contend that the sound is a bit more modern than other amp choices....BUT I would not kick it out of bed thatsfor sure.

'Mike

**BobD** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

I've been doing a little research and it seems the Peavey Stereo Chorus was Peavey's answer to the Roland JC120.

With the Peavey going for less than 200 most places, that's a great deal for a similar amp to the Roland. Not to mention I haven't read anything about the Peavey hissing or sounding bad on the distortion channel.

Needless to say I'm on the hunt for a cheap SC212. That should be a step up from my Micro Cube!

**Dennis D** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

I bought one new - -mostly as a practice amp.....Once I got used to dialing in the sound I wanted, it's been fine.....the cabinet had some rattle issues early on, but that was only at high volume.....and by 'high' I mean way too much for a home setting.....the street price new should be about $250., and bang for the buck,it's hard to beat !! No hiss, no noise at all. I am pretty sure I'll never wear out this amp !! MHO Dennis

**ES350** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Try an old Bandit (cheap, cheap, cheap) on the clean channel...pretty transparent sounding with the right speaker. I compared it to my '66 Twin and it was pretty close...

**brad4d8** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by ES350

Try an old Bandit (cheap, cheap, cheap) on the clean channel...pretty transparent sounding with the right speaker. I compared it to my '66 Twin and it was pretty close...

+1 on both the Bandit and the "cheap, cheap, cheap." They're also built like a tank.
Brad

**docbop** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by ES350

Try an old Bandit (cheap, cheap, cheap) on the clean channel...pretty transparent sounding with the right speaker. I compared it to my '66 Twin and it was pretty close...

I have and old Peavey Bandit "teal stripe" and they are the ultimate spare amp or primary amp if money is tight. They sound good for lots of styles and like cockroaches will survive a nuclear attack. I use it for practice amp for guitar and even bass sometimes. They can be found pretty cheap used and it gets a good Jazz tone. I've had/got Boogie's, Fender's, Marshall, and the Peavey has more hours logged on it, because I hate burning up tubes for practice.

If you search around the inet you find sites that compare the various years and the sound and quality of each.

**Steve Z** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Here's another great video that I just found on YouTube with Andreas Oberg playing through a Peavey.

**Klatu** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by jorgemg1984

It does sound very good (but honestly I do not like his playing or the rhythmic sections playing...)

I can't believe you don't like his playing.

I do have my own complaint about Oberg, and it's that the guy is too good to be true. First of all, he looks like a Ken doll. The first time I saw the guy I thought he looked like an underwear model or a David Bekham stand-in. Second, he has extraordinary talent both in music and in sports. I read that he is so accomplished in soccer that he had to choose between a career in professional soccer or elite jazz performance

. . . what a jerk.

**kawa** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Peavey Electronics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good Price for Us, Designed in the USA and made in China

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/amp-owner...ndit-club.html

**jorgemg1984** · 06-30-2015, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Klatu

I can't believe you don't like his playing.

I do have my own complaint about Oberg, and it's that the guy is too good to be true. First of all, he looks like a Ken doll. The first time I saw the guy I thought he looked like an underwear model or a David Bekham stand-in. Second, he has extraordinary talent both in music and in sports. I read that he is so accomplished in soccer that he had to choose between a career in professional soccer or elite jazz performance

. . . what a jerk.

I am sorry, is what a jerk directed to me? Didn't get that...

I honestly don't like his playing - a bunch of bebop licks played extremely fast (and I hate that strong staccato sound on the strings). I don't hear anything original or personal in there but that's just me, I respect anyone who thinks differently.