Peavey Tour 700 dead as a dodo.

[simonc61]

Has anyone else had problems with any of the Peavey Tour range of bass amps? I bought mine secondhand in the summer of 2012. I then used it for about 10 gigs during that summer until the band did the dirty on me. Since then it's been in storage in various places, a garage, my flat, and being Peavey, I just always assumed it would 'work' when I needed it next.

Couple of months ago I went along to see about joining a band - a couple of utterly deluded guitarists as it turned out - plugged the Peavey in and the power light came on, but no sound. No amount of fiddling could get it working. I plugged into one of their amps and after an interminable hour of 'jamming' I made my excuses.

I've since checked the fuses in the plug and back of the amp but they're fine. Now the power light isn't even coming on. I took it to a reputable repairer nearby and he couldn't do anything with it and said sending it back to Peavey was the only option. I rang Peavey and on top of sending it to them they want £60 just to look at it before they do anything, so that's not an option.

Is it just me or has this happened to anyone else?

[3below]

Tour 700s can be found for about £200 if you wait long enough, tough call. Both of mine totally reliable (I have the same expectation of Peavey kit as you do). Could be worth opening it up and seeing whether there are any internal fuses. Failing that time to find a good electronics repair shop locally?

[Wooks79]

Is it April 1st? Peaveys don't die!!

[icastle]

My first Peavey Tour 700 was awful - I sent it back to Peavey and they replaced it.

By all accounts there were whole areas of the pre-amp board that had been badly soldered.

If you want to get it fixed, that'd be number one on my checklist.