PEAVEY TKO 65

[copacetic]

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

[gearHed289]

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.

[Dave W]

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.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

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.

[Rob]

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.

[Thornton Davis]

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.

TD

[patman]

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.

[nofi]

peavey's may have one tone but its the one i like.

[Grog]

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.