Peavey TNT 115S

I purchased the Peavey TNT 160 Scorpion new in 1990. I hope I am using the correct review. It is a 1x15 160w (solid state of course) combo that proudly displays "Scorpion Equipped". Has low and high gain inputs, Gain has two push buttons: Bright and Punch. I suppose they could be useful for a sudden burst of uncontrolled volume. (ya cant control how mush punch or Bright) There's a crossover section for biamping ( I tried this only once). The chorus that I have never used when playing with other musicians....hmmmm...Anyhow, There's a Pre Amp out and a Power Amp in. I have bypassed the pre amp and have gotten better tone. The back has a ground +- switch. I used this amp for rehearsal and several party gigs only. It has a hard time projecting enough punch competing against two powerpop guitars. I?m considering selling it or modifying it because it has no speaker in jack. A headphone out would be nice. But most of all it needs two side handles. It must be pushing 75lbs. The day I bought it I built a cart to set it on.

I'm no longer using it, but I was using a Rickenbacker and before that, an Ibanez Pstyle. I eventually started upgrading and bypassed the pre with a SWR Grand Prix. I have trouble getting a warm sound out of it. (I know...go tubes) It handled my style fine. I play Post punk, power pop, Emo...Frank Black,Possies,Weezer, etc. This amp is pretty versatile at mid volumes. At low volumes the noise will drive you crazy....It hums loudly with nothing plugged in. At loud volumes the big 15" speaker starts to get flabby and you start to hear solid state distortion....not pleasant noise. This amp would need some help competing with two guitars in anything bigger than a large living room, or garage.(if you play Rock)

Never had a problem. I would use it without a cab backup, but I would bring an extra pre or DI like the Tech21 Sansamp BassDriver.

I never had to call support

I have been playing for 15 years. I now have a SWR Grand Prix preamp, QSC PLX1602 powering an Eden 210XLT...much more expensive and better sounding. I would not replace the Peavey with this old model. For big sound without the back ache go with a modular rig, not a combo.

Don' know when it was made. I bought it in 1999 from a pawn shop so its prob 1997-1998. It's the black with silver trim model (as opposed to the black/green early 90's, or black/red 2001 and later)
Extremely versitile as bass amps go. It has shelving compression, 7 band eq, bright, punch, and contour switches, master volume, chorus. The only thing that I wish it had is a speaker out jack. WTF??? It's a sealed cab with no speaker out so I would have to mangle it to put one in it. Oh, it also has an effects loop and a built in crossover to bi-amp with.
I currently use it at home. It's so freakin' heavy you would definitely want to add wheels if you gig with it.
I'll give it an 8 in this cat because the speaker out is a big issue.

I bought it originally to play bass with, but my bass sits in the closet and I focus now on my guitar playing. Thing is, this sounds so much better than my guitar amps that it has become my primary rig for that! I own several tube amps including Music Man, Peavey classic, and Fender Hot rod deville and silver face deluxe. For most playing styles this thing blows them all away. Unfortunately there is no reverb so I have to use either my zoom unit or Digitech valve fx preamp for that effect, but the built in chorus works just as well for guitar as it does for bass. It sounds outstanding on bass, being able to go from a dull foggy vintage bass sound to a tight slappy funk to a chorus'ed Les Claypool with a few button tweaks.

This is where it falls short. I have no knowledge of how it was treated before I purchased it, but it has a problem. Every time I move it from room to room, the power will not come on afterwards. I give it a solid kick in the side, and the power then comes on and it works until I move it the next time. This would be a serious problem if I were to need it for a gig...It's probably just a loose wire though. One of these days I will take it apart to find out.

Don't know about support. I bought it in a pawn shop, so I doubt they would be too willing to fix it :)

I've been playing either bass or guitar for about ten years now. If it were ever stolen, I would probably replace it, depending on how easy it would be to find one of these used. Peavey product prices are set by the individual stores, so they are usually ridiculous. I try to only buy used peavey products. I think this one runs about $600 new...

I bought this as my first real gigging bass amp. The amp has a lot of features which I don't understand e.g. why have a shelving control and a 'bright' button and a graphic equaliser - there is too much crap on it to decide. No headphone socket is stupid. I get the sound I want, but it took a while. One big handle on the top is useless - I had to get side handles fitted myself - one person will hurt themselves trying to carry it with it's handle. Never used the in built chorus effects, surely something like a tuner would be of more use.

I use a Rickenbacker & a Fender P bass through this amp. It does produce a powerful punch or 'bang for bucks' as they say. I find it noisy at low practice volumes. I mainly play pop/rock & heavy rock which it is ideal for, in pub/club environments. I DI into a larger PA so volume is not an issue - but you could not play a large venue without some help.

It has broken down twice - the speaker blew during gigs - which is stupid as I never play above 5/6 on the volume pot & the gain is always on 5/6 also. I was not happy. I always gig without a backup - we have a big PA I can DI into if necessary. Does anyone actually take spare bass combos to gigs? Surely moving stonehenge would be easier.

After the speaker blew second time I demanded a replacement - it was less than 6 months old & I was angry as hell. I sent them a strongly worded letter outlining all the issues I had - they did respond quickly & sent me the new amp within seven days and a decent set of handles for the sides. When I bought it there was loads of bull about the'peavey users group' which seems to be non existent - I have never had any literature off them ever, which is a shame as I thought Peavey would be keen to keep users up to date with new products, especially if they want to sell any.

I've been playing for a while, but this was my first 'brand new' amp - if it were lost or stolen, I'd invest much more & get something louder, and preferably lighter. It needs wheels, handles, a headphone socket and a decent manual or less buttons for the sake of it - things like effects loops and crossover need explaining to be of any use. It is a good first amp, and if I had bought it second hand, I would be happy (as long as the speaker didn't blow). I own some Peavey Eurosys speakers (for the PA) which are outstanding and have never been any problem.

Well, I'd say this thing is a nicely packed bass amp! It's got high and low gain inputs, high and low EG selving, "bright" (treble boost) and "punch" (mid range boost) knobs. It's got a 7 band EG which I love, an effects loop (wtf, I never use that, but, whatever, maybe someone else will have a use for it), and it has a lil chorus thingy. Oh yeah, and it has 150watts, which I think is gonna be enough for whatever I feel like doing. 1x15 speaker, so um, yeah.

ya know, I've heard some bad stuff bout this thing, but I personally think it's a pretty awsome combo amp. I know, the chorus prolly isnt some billion-kazillion dollar vintage crap thingy, but ya know, it's a damn chorus, it does what I want it to do. The 7 bands of EQ gives some real nice versatility. If ya dont like it, then just stay calm and TWEAK THE LIL SLIDERS!!! It's all it takes.

Umm... yeah, I could depend on it. I never really broke or anything..................... that good enough?

Um........ yeah...nice....

I know, people cry and people moan about WHATEVER that this amp doesnt have as oppossed to Ampeg stuff or whatever. BOTTOM LINE- I LIKE IT, AND I HAVE NO INTENTION OF BUYING A NEW AMP ANY TIME SOON.

"..and if it comes out bad, these people are just gonna hafta wait"(Kurt Cobain)

I bought this amp used, but think it is an early 90's amp because of the set up. (NO limiter - LED) This amp has two inputs for high and low gain, a knob for gain and a knob for master volume. A shelving system of two switches one for added punch (low end) and bright (high end). The one I own has a seven band equalizer and a switch to control it on or off (graphics) and another switch labled "contour" which I have never notice any difference when on or off. There is also a cross over channel and a built in chours effect. Plus a line out jack and a pre-amp jack. Over all the features of this amp are versatile, even though I never use the contour and or the chours effect. I use this as my giging amp, it is plenty LOUD, 150-watts. When I turn the gain and volume to 6-7 it starts to get to the ear bleeding ground shakin' level. I have played this amp in small bars to outdoor gigs, everytime you'll hear to BASS.

I use this amp mostly with my Washburn Bantum playing styles from punk slap pop to folk rocky IM stuff. I find the shelving to be very useful for the combinations of my styles. I can quickly change from a deep and low fat round sound (ie IM'ing) having the punch in and low on 6-7, bright out and high on zero (keeping the EQ in a V with the dip closer to the high end and more peak for the lower end). Turn around push in the bright turn down the low a bit and crank to high to 7 and I'm ready to get the funk out. I don't use any effects and prefer the clean tones of the bass and this amp is able to do just that. There is full tone even when playing on lower volume and no noticable noise when cranked to the ear bleeding levels.

What really surprised me about this amp was when I first plug my Dean acc/elec guitar into this puppy. The range of this amp is broad and can be tweeked to many differnt sounds; with a simple design. It is after all a bass/keyboard amp, hence the built in chours effect.

I've had this amp for over a year and a half and have never seen a problem with it. Backup? Never heard of such a thing. But to note, a fellow musician had the same amp and the speaker went on him, that was replace by finding a reasonable priced cab, and cutting off the head of the Peavey. His amp still ticks though now as a partial stack rather then a combo.

Only dealt with their website to get a manual, which was downloaded and printed, only costed the price of paper and ink. No snail mail or middle man involved. The manual didn't give me ANY useful information on the "contour" button, which is why I wanted to see it. Overall the manual isn't very informitive if you're familar with musical electronics. "Turn this up get more of it" type stuff, well DUH.

I have been play bass now for six years and guitar for longer then that. I think it might be rather hard to lose this thing it's 2x2x1 feet in volume and wieghs 90 pounds, kinda hard to miss. But if it was stolen or something I would concider buying another one, and hex the thief that fork lifted it away. It's a combo amp so it is on the massive side, 90 lb., so I just wished that Peavey had put side handles in the cab instead of just one top handle, like they do on their non-combo cabs. One person can break their back twice if they move this sucker to far, two people or a hand truck is the way to transport this thing.

this is a solid state peavey 7band equalizer low high... four buttons for to enhance punch, bright, contour and button to turn the equalizer on and off. two inputs for high and low gain there isnt that much of a difference one is a little louder has pregain master it also comes equipped with a built in cho.rus which im not a big fan of using. one thing that drives me crazy about this amp is that i doesnt have is a speaker out for an extention cabinet ahhhhh!
also if you dont have an active bass the 150watts this thing puts out isnt enough

this amp is a bit noisey... all the time you konw the sound that crackly eeerrrrrr i play a lot of different styles this just doesnt cover them very well. i can get about one sound i like then ill go tweak the bass or something and ill loose the other sound. i cant get a good balance out of this thing. i also cant get nice tone it just sorta sounds weak it has quite amazing bass im sure the neighbors can hear it three houses down. sometimes i cant get the sounds i like mostly dead ones one thing i dont understand is that when you take out the punch selector switch it gives more bass

what can i say i roll it up the stairs to get it back in my room because its so heavey and ive had no problems yet

never dealed with peavey

if it were stolen ide rejoice besides the fact that it was a waste of 500 dollar amp that i only paid 380 for mabey ill sell it for 400 ...
i wish it had a different preamp and a better range of sound damnit!
oh well on thing that was sort of weird was that my grill kept falling off seeing as how it was held on buy little tiny velcro squares its a very very average amp could be a good way to rip someone off. peavey you should have taken a bit more time on this one instead of just spitting it out.
oh yaeh did i mention that it weighs about 100 pounds and it only has one top handle two side flip outs would have helped

this is the 1998 model. and i like it alot. It is a solid state 150w 15" speaker beast. it only has one channel to which the inbuilt chorus can be added as well as having effects loops and power amp inputs. As well as this it has punch, bright, a 7 band graphic eq with an on/off switch as well as being able to defeat the amps default contour. It also has shelving options and pre gain with 2 inputs, both high and low.

It sounds great with my bass, a split coil 4 string. I hav etried it with different basses and different musical styles and it has enough control to be able to adjust it to your needs and get a superb sound. And it barely distrots at high volumes, i love it

This amp is the most reliable i have ever had, i would definatley play a gig without a backup, mainly because i couldn't afford one but it awsome. It's basically bulletproof

never had to, use it

i love this amp, i've had it about 3 months now and it's still great. It has enough grunt behind it to play gigs with that big booming sound as well as optional external speakers. If it was lost or stolen i would hunt the person down and proceed to slowly stab them to death with a blunt screwdriver. I would definatley buy it again although if i had enough money i'd have to go for an Ampeg head with amesa/boogie stack

This is actually a bass amp, I got it for my bass but a year ago I started to use it with my 6 string. It has Post and pre gain. High, Low nine equalizers (I am not sure of the frequency range). It also has a chorus, but I tend to stay away from using it. It also has a amp limiter that protects the speaker from any demage.

I play classic rock, this amp gives me what I wont. It not noisy, it works great for single coil clean sounds. If you really wont to use the amp to its fullest, get an overdrive (Chandler Tube Driver if possible) and pull the high eq. down and the high to 10. You will get a great juicy, tangy, saturated overdrive.

I must say I got ripped off! When I got it I only played for a year and I had no idea about anything! As time passed I wonted to get rid of the amp but I soon realized that good sound is were you find it. If I would have the chance I probably would buy the amp again but for 300$ not 500!