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
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on May 26, 2015, 11:38:54 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.
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.
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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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.
peavey's may have one tone but its the one i like.
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.