Peavey MAX Head

I love this head. Its got an 8 band eq i believe and its loud as hell. the sound is dirty enough to make me feel like i'm actually a bass player and not a glorfied keyboard player. i used to own a david eden nemesis na-650, but i spent quite a bit of time and money just trying to make the thing have a little stanke. No such problem with the peavey. it has 800 watts biamped and it could power a whole city block. the bright and punch buttons are pretty cool. Over all i don't think that there is anything short of a highend fusion sound that i couldn't get out of this bass. the bad thing is that it weighs a God's ton.

as perviously stated, it has many great sounds. there are enough eq options to take up a solid week of your time without getting bored. if you just leave everything nice and flat you will get a nice fat round sound.

this is one of the greatest things about this head. i bought it via eaby and i paid like $40 dollars for shipping. at first you think, "oh that means it will be packed well.", but sadly that wasn't the case. It was actually shipped to me in plastic wrap (just one layer. no padding) and then it was placed in a cardboard box. That's it. I think it came from the north east all the way down to atlanta with no padding whatsoever. When the package got to me i was horrified. It looked like a joke from a movie. The box appeared to have been eaten up by man small scavenger animals. So i unpacked it, plugged it in and... WIHOOO!!! the damn thing works wonderfully. its built in an ATA case! it may weigh a ton, but it will never break and i'll take that over some light amp that will fall over from a stiff wind any day.

They were great. the previous poster noted that you can't find any information on line. He is correct. I called Peavey and they told me that some of their older amps just never made it to being scanned into their system. They did however male me a copy of the manual within a couple of weeks. In short they were great.

If anyone ever stole it i'd want to shake their hand because they would damn near throw their back out trying to get away. I would try very hard to replace this baby, if i could find another one (ebay had a couple for sale within a month or so).
In short: this amp is reliable,sounds pretty good, is too heavey for anyone to steal, but it is not an ampeg, nor would anyone who loves to play through one of these compare it to an ampeg. It is dirty, heave, stanky and freakin' awesome!

Don't know the year, guessing early eighties, 800 watts of solid state, Back Breaking power!!, bi-Amp, from what I gathered , it's a CS800 Power Head mated up with a Pre Amp..Earth Shattering Volume

Playing in a Cover Band , mostly in small to medium sized clubs, ..no need to mike it or DI..mostly cuz we're using a bare bones PA, with way smaller speakers than I'm lugging around...

Driving Peavey 1810 & 410 TX Bottoms with it,
Just pretty much pure sound reproduction, no effects or anything fancy,
Play a G&L 2000, and assorted 5 strings I've picked up along the way

Haven't had any trouble yet (knock wood)

Can't find any manuals on Peaveys website, just too old I guess, but if anybody who reads this knows anything about it, get back to me, I know I'm not using it to it's full potential

Been playing guitar since I was 10, not very well, but..lets see, that's almost 40 years now..damn, everyones getting older but me!!

I'd buy another one, I guess, but good luck finding one, with all my searching for any kind of info on the web (Google) I haven't been having much luck turning up any info on it...

Multiple Access Ampification System.don't hear or see much about these, i think they quit making them early 80's. overall this head has versatility oozing out of it. 1 channel, 2 power sections for bi-amping (400 rms solid state EACH!!!!)or can switch to full range, 8 band rotary EQ, crossover knob, push/pull bright and punch boost. high low balance knob in back. high,low,full range effects loops and line outs. high,low Z outs for Direct in. 4 speaker jack, and 2 connections for bare wires,they screw on a post?don't use'em. and a big Fan to keep it all cool. weighs about 80 lbs built into its own rack/flight case. this amp is just borderline of being too much of everthing, weight,power,complication. but i said borderline!! i love this amp in that if i need a feature...... hey i can do that!!!

i'm a peavey die hard, i play an early t-40 (later ones with the blade in the pickup suck)(read t-40 reviews, great bass!)i run 2 newer 410tx cabs(high pass) and 2 vintage 1810 cabs(low pass) so thats 1600 watts pushing 12-10" and 2-18" woofers,its difficult to breath if you stand to close:) i play funk and rock type stuff. cranked up there's no hiss, no ground problems, but thats probably that bass. the tone is pretty straight forward and clean, EQ actually makes a difference in tone and bright and punch boosts really pack a punch, just wish they could be footswitched. but tone wise,it sound's like a peavey!way better than a crate,not as good as ampeg. sounds like a TKO combo on steroids. it could push 4 8x10's, but thats absurd. the biamping feature Rules!!! control of the direction of the highs and lows sounds great.full range sounds good,but its kinda boring and bland.

so far so good, peavey has a good reputation. The high input jack messes up sometimes,got to make sure the cord is anchored, but thats replacable. i would use without backup.

haven't really dealt with em' much, i hear they are really good.

been playing about 14 yrs. other gear consist of mentioned bass (matching mint t-60) Mxr bass DI. crybaby. if lost,i might replace it IF i could find another,or i'd probably replace it with a mesa 400+, or a peavey 400 classic.i chose this one(acually just dicovered it on ebay on day,never heard of it before) chose it for power for the price, but i like it, its got balls, decent tone, and the rack case is bulletproof,