Peavey Mark III Bass Head

175 watts bass. Two inputs, one is for guitar the other is for bass. You can also plug both in for a really full sound. It's basic, but there are enough controls to get at whatever sound you need. There are pre and post volume switches, a five band equalizer, and two shelving switches.

I have used this amp with both the bass and the guitar, and it works with both. Sounds great clean, but I love the fuzzy distortion. I wouldn't expect this from a solid state amp. I practice in my garage which is covered in foam sound proofing, but the low roar keeps my neighbors hating me. This could easily handle any small to medium sized gig.

I've only had it for about a year, but these things are made for keeps. Everything is solid, but I can't give it a 10 until I've had it for 10 years and can still say nothing has changed.

Never dealt with them.

If you are looking for a great amp, with no fuss, this is it. It produces a beautiful sound that will make your neighbors crazy. The high sound is clean too, so it's best to have a cab that can take full advantage of the punch. I'll probably never have to buy another amp, unless I become rich and famous, but I'm not looking for an amp loaded with features; that's what the effects loop is for. If you want an amp with reverb or anything like that, get ready to really open your wallet and lose your music to the electronics.

This amp was designed in 1978 and mine was built in 1980. It's solid state, split into two independant channels. Both have a high and low gain input. Both also have pre and post gain, with eq inbetween. The first channel has passive equalisation while the second has active. It also has a tidy little feature called automix, which allows you to run the bass through both channels and adds another great sound to the setup. It is possible, provided you can find a footswitch (mine came without) to jump between both channels. The second channel also features a non-adjustable Peavey DDT compressor, and then both channels are fed back into a six-channel graphic eq. Overall you can get a huge variey of sounds from this excellent amplifier. I use a '92 Rickenbacker 4003, a '91 ESP Jazz, a '88 Aria Pro II fretless and a '99 Squier Precision. I've found that the Rick just blows the arse out of most amps (most recently a Trace), regardless of the input gain setting. This isn't the case with the Peavey. Every bass sounds just fantastic and meaty, it has a very warm, yet clean sound and getting a superb tone seems to be very, very easy, regardless of what's plugged into it.

I plugged this in and didn't change a thing and it just sounded amazing! You can get a huge, and I mean seriously huge, range of sounds from this amp. It is a remarkable piece of electrical engineering. As mentioned before, I use a Rick, an ESP, an Aria Pro II and a Squier, and they all sound amazing. The compression deals with the Rick's sometimes excessive power with ease. The ESP has the best sound coming out of a bass I've ever heard. From smooth and clean to dirty and powerful with ease, just by adjusting the power of your play (I use my fingers mostly, rarely with a plec. For a 20 year old amp there's barely a hiss coming out of it.

I bought this for #100 Irish pounds (that's about $120 of your US dollars) in an outdoor market, and everything worked. It's 20 years old and every knob and slider feels like it's built to last... still. Only one pot has a little bit of crackle which is easily dealt with. This thing feels like you could feck it out a window, drive over it, burn it and it'd still sound sweet.

I've never had any dealing with Peavey but I was able to download the original user manual, complete with wiring schematic, from their website. That impressed me, greatly.

I'd be happy with this amp if I'd paid ten times what I did pay. This is a class piece of work. If you see one, buy it. It'd be worth getting fixed if it was broken. I bought a fantastic bargain and I've no intention of changing it. Now, if only I could lay my hands on a bloody footswitch...

400 watts of solid state power I think mine is an eighties model (well they're on to the MArk VI now). two non switchable channels one with compressor (simple on off one no nob with it) 8 or 16 Ohm speaker outs compressor channel has bass treble and mid nobs other one only has bass and treble. Both have gain and master and switches for the eight band graphic no loop but does have five inputs two for each channel and one mix. Fits the bill for my quiet loud pop grunge psychedelia. wish you could switch channels and have one set for crunch (but I use my supa tonebender for that anyway) also adjusting the compression might make it actually useful. mix input was useful 'til it broke. it doesn't have XLR outs whic annoys sound folks sometimes but it does have a slave jack and a direct out

Use it with my epiphone thunderbird copy (no pick ups changeds or anyhting) and coloursound supa tonebender through a trace elliot new 4 x10 (one of the furry green ones) and it does the job mighty fine. pretty noiseless clean but feedbacks nicely when you have it really loud and want it to. the actual grunt noise the amp makes on its own with the gain up isn't bad but it is solid state and a bass amp so the idea is that it deosn't make that noise isn' it. very loud indeed although, putting it in different inputs on the same channel makes a difference sometimes but not others it is old and the plug is falling off the back of it so it does buzz abit occasionally. had someone play a really modified p bass with an EMG preamp set up through it recently and it was grunting like a stick pig (a good thing) with my music master weeny fender it sounds pretty cool too especially with loadsof fuzz V reminescent of gratitude by the b boys. Used it in the studio in preference to a hartke rig that was just too clean and icey sounding. It's not as good as teh SVT II i hired for the first lot of recordings we did though but then it only cost #100

Dependable it's old and the only time it broke was when the plug fell off but I fixed it in a trice. otherwise it's had beer in it been left in sheds etc etc and never really given a problem in the last two years. before that it was in a rehearsal studio for years so I guess it has seen an awful lot of hours. it's the only amp I've had for the last few years and I have never had any trouble with on the other hand our guitarists valvestate has a habit of breaking all the time

dunno bought it off of a dodgy german geezer

been playing bass for yurs and yurs (ten about) bought it cos I was hiring it from the rehearsal place to gig with and the boss man was closing the place down, #100 quid was a bargain for something so functional i had thougth I would upgrade fairly quickly but it does sound really cool we recently expanded from a three to a four piece and I am thinking of getting another cab to cut through more I own this head an epi thunderbird tobacco sunburst, a dearmond jetstar, red, a nice selmer treble 'n bass valve amp that I got for a song as well and a fender musicmaster (black early 70's). I do wish it was switchable as the amp overdiven sound is nice for a bit of crunch which combined with my fuzz action would make for some interesting sound options. I need to get the thing serviced as bits of it (nobs, plugs sliders on the graphic the mixer input) have all gone west due to be bashing it about abit, so some creativity with a pair of pliers is sometimes neccesarry for tone adjustment otherwise it's a winner