Peavey Super Festival Reissue

[PinkMohawk]

Something pretty niche, but special for those of us who still love the old Peavey era. The old Super Festival has been reissued, as well as a 6x10 with the classic style. Remains to be seen just how accurate to the original it is, but given that I know there are at least a couple of amp worshippers on the staff there, I have high hopes about it. 

[eude]

I'm really happy to see this.

I loved Peavey stuff back in the day, even the 90s stuff.

I really hope they keep running with this homage effort. They've re released the Decade and there's a handful of new preamp pedals, all with the classic 80s and not so classic 90s styling.

[PinkMohawk]

4 hours ago, eude said:

I'm really happy to see this.

I loved Peavey stuff back in the day, even the 90s stuff.

I really hope they keep running with this homage effort. They've re released the Decade and there's a handful of new preamp pedals, all with the classic 80s and not so classic 90s styling.

Likewise, I realise it's not the same, not really, but that classic style and design language is something special. I've spoken with the guy who made the push for this to happen, he thinks of it as something like his baby, getting this made. With any luck, we'll see some real numbers move for Peavey with these throwback releases and they'll start making a move back to the classics. I've still got a pair of old Century Bass heads in storage that need repairs, but I loved those amps when I had them working. 

[Ed_S]

They look absolutely excellent. The cab wouldn't be practical for me, but I'd have the amp head right now.

[PinkMohawk]

3 hours ago, Ed_S said:

They look absolutely excellent. The cab wouldn't be practical for me, but I'd have the amp head right now.

To be fair, impractical cabs is a very Peavey thing to do. The 3620 was a Peavey creation after all. 

[Ed_S]

3 minutes ago, PinkMohawk said:

To be fair, impractical cabs is a very Peavey thing to do. The 3620 was a Peavey creation after all. 

 

Oh aye, I'll never forget the first time I tried to drag the provided 2x15 BW with 400 series head on it across our rehearsal room.. it wasn't going anywhere without a fight, so I can only imagine what the 3620 must have been like to shift!

[PinkMohawk]

29 minutes ago, Ed_S said:

 

Oh aye, I'll never forget the first time I tried to drag the provided 2x15 BW with 400 series head on it across our rehearsal room.. it wasn't going anywhere without a fight, so I can only imagine what the 3620 must have been like to shift!

Hahaha yeah, I ran one of the old 2x15's for quite a while. I got so sick of the crap wheels they'd included on it that I went and bought some big and smooth ones from Blue Aran. Good lord it was so much more pleasant to move around after that. 

 

And just in case anyone is wondering, the ideal wheel replacement for an Ampeg 8x10 is using skateboard trucks, not wheels. Makes a great place to grab hold of when you're humping it up stairs too. 

[danbowskill]

 class D I gather?

[Lozz196]

On 28/01/2025 at 17:13, PinkMohawk said:

To be fair, impractical cabs is a very Peavey thing to do. The 3620 was a Peavey creation after all. 

I had a Peavey 1x15, had a Black Widow in it I think, awesome sounding cab, weighed something like 95lbs - and I lived in a 2nd floor flat when I had it, no lift.

[kodiakblair]

52 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

I had a Peavey 1x15, had a Black Widow in it I think, awesome sounding cab, weighed something like 95lbs - and I lived in a 2nd floor flat when I had it, no lift.

Had these 2.

 

158lb each and lived on 3rd floor, took a chainsaw to them when access to a skip came my way 🤣

 

[eude]

1 hour ago, danbowskill said:

 class D I gather?

Yes, but I expect it's the same power stage as the newish Trace 1200W job.

That sounds wonderful and is very very loud. Peavey and now Trace too have never taken the pee with their ratings, even with class D. If it's 1200W it's 1200W.

[Lozz196]

22 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

Had these 2.

 

158lb each and lived on 3rd floor, took a chainsaw to them when access to a skip came my way 🤣

 

Ouch!

[ebenezer]

I was a big fan of Peavey back in the day...they were massively ahead of their time...my first amp was the "combo 130" fitted with 15 inch black widow, parametric mids, ddt limiter, this was late 70s!!.....later came the 450 watt database combo, even smaller, but more brutal,  digital amp and processor controlled low end with an excursion filter....come on Peavey, stick it to the other manufacturers,  we know you can do it.

 

[PinkMohawk]

1 minute ago, ebenezer said:

I was a big fan of Peavey back in the day...they were massively ahead of their time...my first amp was the "combo 130" fitted with 15 inch black widow, parametric mids, ddt limiter, this was late 70s!!.....later came the 450 watt database combo, even smaller, but more brutal,  digital amp and processor controlled low end with an excursion filter....come on Peavey, stick it to the other manufacturers,  we know you can do it.

 

Old Peavey gear was something really special, I've got a lot of love and time for the old gear, from the aesthetic to the sound. Them moving away from those old designs was disappointing, though I suppose that, in the US at least, they were so ubiquitous that everyone was just tired of them. 

 

I do hope that this is the beginning of a move towards that older school of design that made them a staple though, with a modern twist since they do need to cater for the modern audience. After all, there's only so many doom players willing to drag walls of amps to gigs anymore. 

[eude]

5 hours ago, PinkMohawk said:

I suppose that, in the US at least, they were so ubiquitous that everyone was just tired of them. 

I actually think that their gear was so well designed and built that perhaps they had to change things to try and get folks to buy new gear? Sadly they just went in the wrong direction.

They could really do something here though, if they keep this 70s, 80s and even 90s look going with reissue style products, built with modern features. Sadly, Peavey don't currently seem to be able to do anything quickly

For obvious reasons, hopefully, I'm not going to be buying anything new fro the US any time soon, but hopefully in 4 years time there might be some cool stuff to ponder.

[PinkMohawk]

8 hours ago, eude said:

I actually think that their gear was so well designed and built that perhaps they had to change things to try and get folks to buy new gear? Sadly they just went in the wrong direction.

They could really do something here though, if they keep this 70s, 80s and even 90s look going with reissue style products, built with modern features. Sadly, Peavey don't currently seem to be able to do anything quickly

For obvious reasons, hopefully, I'm not going to be buying anything new fro the US any time soon, but hopefully in 4 years time there might be some cool stuff to ponder.

You know, that's a good thought actually. We all know how bulletproof the old Peavey gear is. 

 

Yeah, you're sadly right, I spoke to the guy who came up with the idea of reissuing it, according to him it took a good year to get some movement on the project, and even then it took another engineer picking up the project and working on it before it got OK'd. I imagine the pedals were an easier sell, but hell, even the Decade reissue, that video of Josh Homme bringing it out as the secret weapon was a couple years back wasn't it? If it took them that long to bring out a guaranteed money maker like that, it doesn't fill me with hope. 

 

Likewise, I'll not be sending my money across the pond, no matter how much I might want to (Damn I want one so bad) but sometimes, you just have to stick to your principles. 

[eude]

3 minutes ago, PinkMohawk said:

Likewise, I'll not be sending my money across the pond, no matter how much I might want to (Damn I want one so bad) but sometimes, you just have to stick to your principles. 

4 years and it will all be over, one way or another

Gives Peavey plenty of time to get all this stuff right.

[PinkMohawk]

10 minutes ago, eude said:

4 years and it will all be over, one way or another

Gives Peavey plenty of time to get all this stuff right.

Yeah, assuming he doesn't throw a tantrum and press the big red button because he didn't get his way. 

 

You're right, hopefully the US market will really pick up on these, frankly any of these new releases and not just the bass amp, will show them that this is the right move to make, and keep them going.