Peavey 1820 in the house

[0175westwood29]

My love for old peavey gear is getting out of hand! 
 

 

this is super clean, I’m gonna be taking it out of the flight case as that adds a lot of size and weight but can’t wait to plug this in alongside my 2x215 peaveys and my custom 215 

 

when one popped up I had to grab it!! 

[ped]

Title should read ‘Peavey 1820 is a house’ 😂

 

Looks amazing 🤩 

[Downunderwonder]

...or Peavey 1820 in its house.

[Lozz196]

I’ll bet that’s one great sounding cab

[Steve Soar]

I had one in the late 80's, totally rediculous and unless you  can bi-amp them really inefficient, still want one.😊

[Steve Browning]

1 hour ago, Steve Soar said:

I had one in the late 80's, totally rediculous and unless you  can bi-amp them really inefficient, still want one.😊

 

Have to agree. I had one and used an Acoustic 220 (my immediately pre-Boogie rig). Low notes were great but the sound just disappeared further up the fingerboard.

Edited May 24, 2022 by Steve Browning

[0175westwood29]

2 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

 

Have to agree. I had one and used an Acoustic 220 (my immediately pre-Boogie rig). Low notes were great but the sound just disappeared further up the fingerboard.

Really looking forward to trying it out in a combo with a 215 

[Japhet]

Gigged one of these for years. Mine was 4 ohm with Black Widow drivers. Awesome cab and not too bad to move around on casters. Proper trouser flapping ability. It used to feel like someone was kicking the back of my legs stood in front of that 18.

[BassmanPaul]

22 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

I’ll bet that’s one great sounding cab

I never liked the cabinet myself. Playing through one was never a pleasure.

[Giffro]

Bought my Peavey MKIV head and 1820 cab in the early 80's and gigged well into 2000's. Great rig and still is. 18" Black Widow 2x10" Scorpions. Thunderous.

 

[Steve Browning]

Despite what I said earlier, I always remember looking at the pair of Peavey Max heads, each on top of a 3620 cab, on the cover of Live Alive by Stevie Ray Vaughan and thinking 'I'd love to play through that'.

[bassmayhem]

Now you only need the 3620:

[bartelby]

I love old Peavey cabs. But I know I'd end up having to get them all, so it's best to not start... 😃

 

A 3620 under my CTM-300 would be a wondrous rig... 

[Dan Dare]

Ah, Black Widows. I replaced the nasty stock drivers in my Bassman 2x15 cab (one blew and the other didn't look too clever) with BWs in the 1980s. Needed a Volvo estate to get it around, but sounded epic with a Trace AH350.

[Lozz196]

13 hours ago, bassmayhem said:

Now you only need the 3620:

That is a tower block of a cab

[MacDaddy]

The Peavey Black Widow seems to be a rite of passage 😆

My 1x15 was definitely a 2-person job to get up stairs. Sounded great though.

[Bunion]

I’ve had a few peavey black widow setups and apart from the weight being an issue they punched the lungs out of people in the audience!