jimdgreat1
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Found this in a pawn shop and I'm tempted. Looks pretty rough though. Looking for someone who knows the way to date these. Might go back and get it this afternoon. Looks like a fun project.
Peavey pacer amp questions.
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Nice project amp - might be a torture chamber for tubes.
jvin248
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^ Should be Transistors.
If you've seen the love that Peavey Bandits are receiving on the Internet, these can garner that too. If you approach it as a clean pedal platform you'll have the best luck.
Look up youtube video "whips cheap guitars bandit" and he'll show you how to play a Bandit (and this Pacer amp). Poke around Intheblues youtube channel and Johan Sageborn's channel for 'Peavey'.
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jimdgreat1
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Seems like I read once the first number in the serial number is the last number of the year made. The letter is the month. So this could be January 1979.
Stopped back by but they didn't have a guitar cord to try it. I'll take a cord with me next time. For $75 it's tempting. I have several older peavey amps so it would have company.
Stopped back by but they didn't have a guitar cord to try it. I'll take a cord with me next time. For $75 it's tempting. I have several older peavey amps so it would have company.
Yes, mine was a S.S. Amp
Hartley and his wife used to stay at the hotel I was a desk clerk at in 1981. Good people. He would come down around 9 or 10 and we would talk about gear. He said people would go thru his dumpster for blem bodies or necks. Said he didnt care and was glad they didnt go to waste. He sent me a thick mailer once with all kinds of info and promotional material on the particular line be had out at the time. He said the Pacer was a popular amp.
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fender4life
Poster Extraordinaire
Trust me on this. I've been playing since the early 70s and the pacer was one of my first amps. Since then i have owned and played countless amps and i feel the pacer is literally either the worse amp i have ever played or maybe a tie with the carvin SX i believe it was called. Both those amps sound hideous. I would recommend you stay away from it even at a lot less than $75. I was not experienced with tone at that point and could tolerate pretty bad tone w/o realizing how bad it was, but with that pacer it was dead obvious to me how horrible it sounded. Mark my words !
jimdgreat1
TDPRI Member
Got time to go pick it up today. Sounds great! No humm at all. Kind of like a miniature bandit. Need to pop the front off and clean it up a bit. Found the missing knob on the bay. Really didn't need another amp but what the heck.
codamedia
Poster Extraordinaire
Up until the early to mid 90's Peavey's dates were relatively easy to figure out by serial number and a little knowledge of the era.
Look at the serial number... it starts with "9A".
The "A" stands for "Amplifier".... (it does not stand for the month.... if it did, all Peavey amplifiers were made in January
)The "9" designates the year... but you need more knowledge to put it in the correct decade.
The amp you are looking at is the "solo series" that ran from the late 70's to the mid/late 80's. The style changed again around 1987 or 1988. ... so that makes this amp a 1979.
IMO.... This is one of the best era's/series for the solid state Peavey's. The Pacer was a workhorse for Peavey through the entire 70's... the Bandit wasn't introduced until 1980. It's not really a smaller version of the Bandit, the Bandit is a later/larger version of the Pacer
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strat a various
Friend of Leo's
I have the older version w the silver knobs. Just had it re-capped. It is the best sounding SS amp I have ever owned. Mine had an alnico speaker in it.
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