Peavey Horizon II

neck is carved from hard rock maple with slat peg head

body is a double cutaway body peavey named the naturalite

1 volume nob,indivual tone nob for the neck pickup, indivual tone nob

for the bridge

pickups are blde pole peices H-s-H which work through a weird 3 way

toggle switch one toggle for the bridge and neck pickup and another

for middle pickup

24 frets made of high crowned 18% nickle silver

many of these guitar a equioped with Octave plus tremolo (this guitar

was not)

because of the uniqie tone circuitry which allow dual or single coil

operations for each pickup indepently the rotation of the pickup

tone controls you able to select almost any sound you want

I honestly like every tone that came out of this guitar

especially when it was out of phase it gave me the chills

the new "naturalite" body style is one of the uglyest body style i have

ever seen and this is the guitar great flaw. this is why a guitar a

great as this could sell for 500 dollars on the 1980's and if your

you got a good mouth peice can be found for 100 dollar today

the neck could be a little smaller and the action could be slightly

lowered just because i'am not a great player but for a real guitarist

it is probly set right.

amazingly well constructed this guitar will withstand live playing

the hardware is orginal but, looks like new

the horizon ii a great guitar

i love the sound better than t-60

i wish i owned this guitar

and i may buy if it is still at the pawn shop when my money is right

the last thing i like to add is that the operating guide for the

horizon ii and other forgotten peavey teasure can be found by going to

peavey website

that is where i basically plagiarised the information i listed under

the feature section

Made in the USA probably around 1984, has 24 frets, has a volume and 2 tone controls, 2 toggle switches, both of which are 3 way. Has 2 humbucker and 1 single coil pickups, which are both peavy pickups as far as I know. I have no idea what kind of wood it is, but it has a natural finish and its heavy. I bought it at a pawnshop 3 years ago for $100.

I really like all the different type of sounds I get out of this guitar. I play mostly heavy stuff like System of a Down, Godsmack and Primer 55. I play it through a marshall G30R cdr amp with a Boss distortion pedal and a cry baby wah pedal.

I have dropped this guitar a few times once on the pavement and it hasnt broken. The volume control falls off quite a bit, I'm not quite sure its the original one. The strap buttons are solid, I just have a shitty strap. Is a dependable guitar, and the only guitar I own, Im poor.

I have been playing on and off for 3 years, only other gear I own is a Marshall G30R cdr amp, a Boss distortion pedal and a Jim Dunlop cry baby wah pedal. If stolen Id be pretty pissed and probably try to find another one. My favorite feature is the location of the volume control and the pickups.

Bought at an auction and seller said it was made in 1984 in the USA. it's a strat,Floyd Rose model,24 frets. Two tone and one volume and 3 pickups,2 humbuckers and a single coil in between. It also came with 2 three way toggles, The Finish is beautiful it's a metallic red with a black pickguard that really sticks out when light reflects off of it. came with a Peavey hard-shell case, and picks

Buying this guitar was the right choice, the sounds when playing any variety of distortion was awesome. I own a digitech rp12 and a crate G40C.you can make almost any sound no matter what your style is.

When i got this guitar it was in perfect condition except for a few minor scratches. the low e string tends to buzz a little when you try to play fast. Other than that it is in great shape for a guitar the was made in the 80's

This guitar was built to last, the neck looks brand new, all the controls are on solid never had trouble in over 5 years. Would definitely play live if I had a band.

Never had to deal with the company because bought it from a previous owner. Did not come with a warranty. No need to get this long lasting guitar repaired.

I've been playing for almost 9 years, before I owned a Fender Deluxe Series Cyclone. The on thing I love about this guitar other than the sound is how this guitar looks when played in a bright room it looks almost like a reflector. Before I choose to purchase this guitar I searched For 3 months on e-bay and in pawn shops.

Bought new around '86 U.S. made, serial# 01922811, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard, maple (I think), last of the LARGE T-60 style pegheads, tobacco-sunburst, 3-pickups: H-S-H, blade-type polepieces, non-locking stock tuners, plastic case. Guitar has a three-way toggle switch for the front and rear pickups and a three-way switch for the middle pickup. in/out of phase and 'off' in the middle position. Cheapass tremolo but I attended a Peavey-seminar. The factory guy said, "Don't put the 1st and 2nd strings under the little "string-trees", wind your strings from bottom to top on the tuning pegs so they'll have a straight-shot across the nut and you'll alleviate that 'sawing-out'-effect in the notches. Also, it'll recover it's 'tuning' after a fierce 'dive-bomb' if you like to do the whammy-bar thing a lot."

I play a variety of styles, mostly classic-rock (Floyd, Skynyrd, Eagles, etc.) I have a Peavey Special 130 amp. also, a Zoom 505 w/expression-pedal. The guitar will sound like Tele, Strat, Les Paul, and with the middle pickup out of phase with the neck pickup in single coil mode you can even get a "Rickenbacker"-sound (like the early Beatles). The only thing it WON'T do is play the middle pickup by itself.

No factory flaws, but the neck weakened a little after about 6 months of regular daily playing. I tightened up the truss-rod just an 'eency' bit, (not even a full-turn) and it's never done another thing in all these years. The action is and always has been great. I've played on brand new Ibanez 'RG'-Series guitars in the store that are NO BETTER!

Will this guitar withstand live playing? Duh! I wish I'd had it with me in Vietnam. I've played this guitar in the rain, in freezing cold outside weather, it's never failed. Good finish, never needed anything but wiping off with a soft cloth. I don't even use polish, just a couple of drops of lemon-oil about twice a year. As to using a backup guitar: I would never play a gig without a backup. I'm HELL on little "E"-strings. That's why I also have a Peavey-Predator w/Kahler for backup.

never tried

I'm 54. Been playing 41 yrs. I've owned everything there is. If there was anything I wish I'd asked before I bought, it would've been about it's resale value. I had no idea you could give $500 for a new Peavey, go out the door and come back in with it and the bastards only want to give you $100 for it. The local Fender dealer told me "Hell, I don't even want that in my store...just throw it on the old barbecue pit next time you're doing some burgers." Still, as to the QUALITY of this intrument, NONE BETTER!!!

Made in USA in 1984. Solid body Strat-inspired shape, with maple neck and rosewood fingerbaord in a 24 3/4" scale, 24 frets. Three pickups, two outer humbuckers wired to a three-way switch, centre single-coil wired to its own three-way switch, all three pickups vacuum-sealed with epoxy in plastic cases and with blade polepieces. Master volume, two tone controls for humbuckers, with funky cast metal knobs. Gotoh tuners: originally had Peavey Powerbend trem, later swapped for a Kahler Trad trem. Came complete with a blow-molded heavy-duty hardshell case.

This is my main axe, for a very good reason - it has killer sound. The pickups on the Horizon have a great deal of output on them, yet at the same time they're also have a great amount of clarity. Using this with my Peavey Classic 50 212 amp, I can get incredible chord grind on the distortion channel as well as jangly arpeggiation, clean channel I can nail some great Strat and Telecaster type tones. Using the distortion or overdrive from my
Roland GP-8 processor, I can actually nail some of Brian May's tones!

The secret? The Circuit. Introduced with Peavey's T-60 guitars, it's a tone control specially wired to split coils on humbuckers, and was developed for Peavey by pickup/electrical guru Red Rhodes (note that Dan Armstrong came up with a similar circuit in the late 1960s, and Washburn offers a similar feature on their Idol guitars). From 0-8, the tone control functions as a stock humbucker; from 8-10, one coil kicks out and gives you single-coil sound. Extremely simple, and eliminates lots of toggle switches.

The Horizon II ups the ante by adding a centre single coil wired to its own switch: centred is off, in up position it's in-phase (for Strat sounds), down position is out-of-phase (for the types of tones David Lindley referes to as "goink", instant Teisco!)

Even cooler: the two outer humbuckers are wired in-phase, so when you have these two on in single-coil mode you have a particular Tele sound.

The neck humbucker has a nice amount of warmth even in single-coil mode, and with the tone rolled down and sufficient gain added is capable of "woman tone": combine this with the single-coil in up-position and you get a notched wah effect. The bridge is brash and punchy in humbucker mode, and more Tele than Strat in single-coil mode.

With the versatility of this layout I'm able to conjure up at least 12 useful tones from this one guitar, combine this with a good two-channel amp and a multiprocessor effects unit and you have a wide pallete of tones to play with

It was pretty well set up when I got it from the factory. Finish was flawless on the neck and body. I remember when Guitar World reviewed this guitar in '85 they likened it to what you would get if you crossed a Strat with an SG and they pretty much hit the nail on the head, except back then Peavey was clobbering both Fender & Gibson regarding the build quality of their instruments. (This was just after Fender got itself out of CBS' clutches and before Gibson shook themselves loose from Norlin). Peaveys from this period were just beginning to look more contemporary and less utlilitarian, and they were built like tanks!

One other thing - the colour. Peavey designed their colours so that they would especially stand out under stage lighting, particularly their metallic colours. Mine is Sunfire Red, a candy apple finish that uses a silver base coat rather than gold, and under stage lighting it really stands out, with a nice glow to it. Other colours I've seen these in include gold, silver, a Lake Placid Blue type and an outrageous metallic bubblegum! They also came in more traditional colours including sunburst.

considering that it's 17 years old it's held up well to accidental spills and falling over. The urethane finish is pretty scratched up but you can really only see this up close, and there are no chips in the finish. The finish on the neck has held up surprisingly well, so have the tuners. I only recently had to change one of the switches (these are huge honking Switchcraft types!) from wear, that says a lot.

The only thing I had some problems with were the bridge pieces: because I was at the time interested in Steve Vai and Allan Holdsworth whammy shenanigans, these quickly developed some deep grooves which led to reduced string life. I decided then to install the Kahler, however if Graphtech had sold their replacement graphite saddles at that time I would have considered that option (and may still do so, as I still have the original bridge). The original graphite nut is still holding up well, though, even after all the whammy stuff.

Peavey has been wonderful with any of their products I've owned, and have helped me out in the few times I'd needed assistance. When I needed a replacement truss rod cover for the Horizon II (the original was destroyed by the guy who installed the Kahler's nut, which I subsequently removed when I discovered that it was sucking tone) and got in touch with Peavey by e-mail, they sent me a free one! Regarding the switch, they don't have it in their inventory but directed me to AllParts.

it's an amazing guitar, and it would definitely be missed if it were stolen or lost. Even my Peavey Falcon, an amazing axe in itself (see my review) wouldn't fill the hole its loss would make. I'm an extremely picky person regarding guitars, and had gone through at least four different guitars (including a particularly bad '78 Strat) before finding this little gem - and I'm not sure I could find another Horizon II as Peavey only really made this guitar for about two years and not many seemed to have been sold in my area of Canada. Now around the US South, that might be a different matter :)

When this came out it was Peavey's top of the line (if you don't count the earlier T-60 which was still in production) It has three pickups two HB's ad oe single in the midle. It has several toggles to activate the middle pickup or throw it ou of phase with another pickup. the tone contrals also act (like the tone controls of the T-60) as coil tappes above 7 for sigle coil and above 7 they become humbuckers. my model has blade pickups , I have seen later versions with humbuckrs with pole screws. so this things got coil taps, phase switching and high output pickups, about 30 usuable sounds

Now this is the best part, Nobody knows about this guitar they are cheap used, some have trems, mine doesn't. if you can't find one of these under $200 you're not trying, $150 with a case is not at all unusual. This thing sounds great, strat sounds, tele sounds, woman tone in the neck pickup, les paul in the bridge, and the clean tones are phenominal, this was peavey's top of the line in the very early 80's and somebody was really trying. I own a dozen or so quality electrics and this is right up there with the best soundwise.

Its got a real thick neck almost les paulish, but not quite Ibanez artist. I bought this used and It had a little rust on the neck plate, but hell its almost 20 years old, it was made very rugged.

I could dig a trench with it

Its peavey.

this is one of those guitars that no one knows about, its kinda ugly or at the least utilitarian. and like I said they are cheap, buy one and It'll be the one you pickup the most often in studio, to get several different good sounds to tape and you'll tell your Fender custom shop/PRS snob bodies about this killer cheap guitar that sounds great. Peavey has several models that fit that discription, I own 7 of them, The most I paid for any of them was $225 used. all combined I paid for them what my 78 Gibson SG is worth.

I don't know what year it was made but I know they stopped making them around 1984. I would say mine is around 1980. It is a soliod body electric with three pick-ups.(H/S/H) The pickups are, what appear to me as, wierd in a way. They have a single magnetic piece of metal the runs across them, two on the Humbuckers, but from what I heard they don't make those type that much anymore. Two tone and one volume control and two three way toggles. 24 frets on what looks to be a maple neck but I am not quite sure. String throught the body bridge and the tuners are touchy but nice. The finish on the guitar is quite nice. High gloss metallic pink is my color and boy does it hold up well. The features on this guitar are pretty good all around.

It has many different options of sound. I play all types of music and it suit them well. I use it on a Marshall AS80R, which is made for acoustic guitar, and it still sounds nice. When I take it to Marshall JCM-100 it can handel being distorted as well. Depending on what settings you have it on it can have a nice bassy sound or a nice full bright sound. i never had any dislike with the sound quality.

I got it used so I don't know how well it was set up from the factory but mine seems just fine for being about 18 years old. The strings rattle once and a while but with the right strings, nothing. The bridge is made well and the pickups were placed well also. Mine didn't have any flaws thankfully it had a careful previous owner.

This guitar has withstand everything that I have needed it to withstand. Plays great live and the hardware is perfect yet. You cant even scuff the finish, it its quite nice. I would take it to a giig with out a backup if my house wasn't too far away but i'm sure it would hold, it has so far.

I have never needed it.

Overall this guitar is great. I have never had a single problem with it and I have been playing for three years. I would take it everywhere and will probably never sell it. If it was stolen I would find the guy who stole it and tell him that he stole a nice guitar before I beat the shit out of him.

1984. Made in the USA. 24 fret 24 3/4 inch. solid body. three pickups (H/S/H)two tone and two volume controls, a three way pickup selector and phase shifting. mine has schaller tuners on it i brought the instrument second hand so i'm not sure if they're standard.

i play a alot of funk and it suits this well , it can sound bright and full (not at the same time though) so it handels being distorted well .it has a very wide range of sounds almost good for any music, although the bridge buzz's a bit (although it is 15 years old).

i got it second hand so i'm not sure how well it was setup from the factory. the action is perfect, nice and low without the strings buzzing on the frets. it's 15 years old and still has a perfect finish. although the floating bridge tends to lift up at the back if you put heavey gauge strings on.

it's a solidly built guitar, play it live alot, it has already stood the test of time. i play it all the time and have never had a problem with it.

never needed it

i have been playing guitar now for 5 years, and its the best guitar i've ever played, i would never get ride of it, and would try to replace it, if it broke (although i can't see it happening).