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PEAVEY TKO 65
« on: May 25, 2015, 05:06:56 PM »
Walking through the park this afternoon i heard some music from afar. What caught my ear was the bass tone cutting through the dense trees and through the meadow. I followed my ears and came upon the shaggy group of guitars a keyboard and drums. The bass player plating an old frankenstein Fender etc. bass through a Peavey TKO 65... Wow..he put that amp through some hoops, then slowed down with some pure tone.  Afterwards I got talking and he let me have a go. Playing my own partcular style and beeing out in the open this combo covered a lot of ground. Gonna get me one

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 08:13:17 AM »
Cool, I played through something called a Peavey Databass over the weekend at my drummer's place. Sounded quite good, and plenty loud. That and my little Acoustic B200 are a couple of 1x15 combos that I really enjoy playing through.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 07:24:15 PM »
AFAIK that model isn't made any more, although you do see used ones around often enough. Good sounding solid state amp but quite heavy for a 65 watt combo.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 10:38:54 PM »
Peavey s/s combos like the TKO and TNT series all have the same tone, which can be a very good one in the right hands.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2015, 07:09:59 AM »
Peavey s/s combos like the TKO and TNT series all have the same tone, which can be a very good one in the right hands.
Or not so much in mine.  I heard great stuff coming out of a TNT, bought one and could never get happy with it.  UNLESS I used a Sans ahead of it.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2015, 04:46:28 PM »
I bought a new TKO 65 back in the 80's. It was my first Peavey and just an amazing little amp. I bought a lot more Peavey gear over the years because of that amp.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2015, 06:15:31 PM »
Psycho has the right idea.  If you worked with the amps innate sound they sounded great.  If you tried to make it sound like an Ampeg...it wasn't gonna happen.

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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2015, 07:58:33 AM »
peavey's may have one tone but its the one i like.
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Re: PEAVEY TKO 65
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2015, 03:31:03 AM »
I've had a Peavey TNT 150 with a Black Widow since 1991............ The only thing that ever made it feel light was a Combo 300. I've always said that the TKO 65/75 was the best combination of weight & balls in the Peavey line. They must have made a ton of them, finding them used is no problem.
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