Tanner's Favorite Things - 1980 Peavey T-60 Tonal Review
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- In this video, Tanner reveals a Peavey guitar he's always wanted to get his hands on - the Peavey T-60. This Chip Todd designed guitar was built in the USA utilizing cutting edge CNC technology with skilled craftsmen. I ended up blundering what some of the controls do, but hopefully my corrections make sense.
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My first guitar was a 80 Peavey T60, it was my Dad’s but he never learned to play it. I still have it and I’ll never get rid of it.
That's a nice legacy piece that you got there! These are going up in value because folks realize how great they were!
@@tjkcivic yeah bro i love it so much
I have a 79 thats been my main electric for about a decade. The phase is primarily for the middle pickup position as your correction plies. But a hidden feature is that when the bridge is on single coil the phase switch selects which coil you are hearing (prove it by tapping with a screwdriver). It can help add or remove that little bit of extra brightness.
Thanks, Bill, i thought that might be the case! Thanks for confirming, i could hear a slight difference in the bridge, but couldn't nail it down. Thanks for the comment.
Great video Tanner its nice that ur doing this guitar justice. My dad gave me his T-60 and it’s what I learnt to play on. With sheet music and an owners manual to figure out the damn knobs lol. It’s a really unique guitar with an understated cool factor. Thx a lot
Thanks, @Adam Lukes! I appreciate the positive feedback! It has a lot under the hood, for sure. I hope to showcase all of the T-series Peaveys over time.
Fantastic review mate
Thanks, Tylr! I love me some Peavey!
it really was. easily the best review I've ever seen for this guitar.
Awesome video!
This guitar's motto is "The Most Underrated Guitar In The World".
I bought my first guitar and it was a peavey. It sounds great.
P.s thanks for a review of this guitar. There isn't as many. But the people who know about this guitar try to keep this guitar a secret for we don't want the price to go up anymore
Ha, that's a good point, Reece, I've yet to pick up a Peavey guitar and not be impressed. If my little ol' channel can have any effect on the market of these guitars, that would be an unintended consequence, but one worth taking for me!
Seeing as they are selling double what they were two years ago on reverb, I’d say that ship has sailed
'' I sold my Gibsons and Fenders over the years, but i still have my Peavey T60 after 45 years..'' You can see it here.. ua-cam.com/video/bwKefZvVrms/v-deo.html
Lol right? Im so mad at myself for never getting one when they were dirt cheap. Used to see them sub-$100 all the time, then like so many other things, they started creeping up, and suddenly took off. Now finding one under $600 is a miracle. Hell, finding one under $1000 is pretty good!
I bought one for about £200 around 15-20 years ago.
Great guitars. I have the T'15, "mississippi mustang" for many years. Wonderfully constructed guitar. I've gigged and recorded hundreds of times. I love the ferite bar single coils. Very musical. I'd love to have the T60 and a bass. Thanks!
Thanks, John, i'm on the lookout for a T40 bass, myself. I am trying to document all of the T-series, and i have a ways to go, but the T-60 and T-15 were stapes for me!
Best guitar ever made! The t-60 smokes Les Pauls and Fenders. I can't see myself ever selling mine.
Thanks for the comment, David! Peaveys really do rock!
I love that! Man love he's ax!!!
Great channel! My bud, Mark had the Peavy t60 black and played a mean lead while I strummed the tele on Freebird. Those were the days.
Nothing does Skynyrd like a Peavey!! Thanks for the comment, and rock on!
Three piece bodies, and it's also worth noting that they were the first CNC manufactured guitars. '81 and later had a slightly more complex body with a comfort cut. Love my Peavey guitars - can't beat these American beauties. Good video and I appreciate the updates/corrections that were added as text later.
Thanks @lowelljohnson9938. I love these beasts too, and i'm torn about the value of these finally catching up to what they're worth. It's great that people are recognizing how great these are for the money, but it's getting harder and harder to find the T-series for less than a grand now!
Great Guitar! I have a matching T 60 and T 40 just like yours. I love mine. I got them both in 1980 when the music store started handling them. I have had Gibson Les Paul custom, Les Paul recording, 335, Fender Strat, Telecaster and a few odds and ends guitars but this is the only ones I have had in regular electric guitars. I would never get rid of them. If you ever get the chance and find one compare the T 60 you have and the one with the hot pickups with the little metal bar down the middle if the black part of the pickup. They really sound great on distortion. I hope you enjoy yours. Have a blessed day!
Thanks, Glen! I love all Peavey guitars so far, but there is something special about the 80s T series!
I have the T-60 and T-40 as well. Actually I have three T-60s, and two T-40s. . I too have Gibson Les Paul's, Strat, 20 guitars total. So we have a lot in common. The T-60 is my favorite sounding. But I really struggle with the super thin neck with my huge hands.
I was hoping to have heard you do some twangy chicken picking. I've seen this guitar used so much in country music back in the day. I played one of these in high school (2003) and I had the chance to buy it cheap. I passed. I wish I had gotten it. Great video.
Thanks, Chris, I appreciate it. I'd love to provide some chicken pickin' but unfortunately, my guitar skills don't extend to that realm...yet! I'll try and learn some licks and get another vid posted. They're great guitars, and only going up in price!
How much is that guitar?
just wanted to say that the phase switching only comes into play in the middle position. The reason you noticed a volume drop in the middle position is because you had the phase switch activated. Normally the middle position adds both pickups together. When you activate the phase switch, it subtracts one pickup from the other so you get funky filtered tones. And also a volume drop.
on the T-series it throws them out if phase and switches which coil is being used (in middle position) but on the bridge pickup it does still switch the coil being used
The T-60 is certainly an underrated, quality axe. Also: plug it in to a combo amp on the floor and crank it to 10, then place the T-60 leaning right up against the amp. Fiddle with the amp's tone controls. The T-60 does things with feedback that I've never heard from any other guitar.
Nice! I love the Peavey combo amps, especially when paired with a Peavey ax! I have an Encore 65 and a Studio 50 that i'll give it a shot with! thanks!
If you are in the bridge position and single coil the phase switch flips the bridge pickup's coils between the one near the bridge and the one near the other pickup.
Thanks for the comment, @michaelwhite7876!
You were right on the first guess regarding body wood, although with a caveat: The natural ash bodies were infact Northern Ash (same wood they make Ash baseball bats out of) but according to an ex Peavey employee of that era, they also experimented with using a tree called Hackberry, which is native to Mississippi and is a very similar wood to Northern Ash.
Thanks, Dean, I had never heard of Hackberry before! I'll have to look into that and do a little research, maybe focus a video on it alone! thanks again for your comment.
Thats real nice info many thanks, i modified mine 20 years ago, you can see it here man.. im 64 now, fingers a bit arthritic ua-cam.com/video/bwKefZvVrms/v-deo.html
Correction; When tone is 10~7 Single coil, Humbucker sounds kick in below 7 on tone. FYI
Peavey was ahead of their time. I've played Gibson's and Fenders but I've come back to my mid 80's Peavey Patriots.
I have a Peavey Patriot that is such a great little axe. Totally agree!
It looks so familiar in every way, I almost suspect this is the one I sold to Starving Musicians in Santa Clara in early 2020. :) I owned that one since 1979, and took extra special care of it. Didn't peel the protective film off the tap plate until the Nineties. Only damage was a single buckle rash scratch you could hardly find if you knew it was there. Loved the split coil humbuckers and the nickel-silver plating. Never needed any setup at all. But eventually you look around and say to yourself "This is a lot of guitars around here" and you have to part with one or two. I remember I included the original booklet in the case with it, and the truss rod key still sealed in its envelope.
Thanks for the comment, Alison, and it's always fun to speculate about the provenance of guitars! funnily enough, i was just in the Starving Musicians store in Santa Cruz this week! Cool store, and nice guys for sure!
Guitar is badass the country players knew it
I had a T 60 years ago. Bought it in 1979 and sold it for practically nothing around 12 years ago. I miss it terribly. Very well made. They were only 350.00 brand new. The frets were amazing. The electronics were great once you got used to them. Back then it was a great idea with the way the electronics worked.
Thanks for the comment, Andrew! I love these old Peavey guitars, and the ones from the late 70s really had something special.
I have the bass version, the T-40, in dark burst. It weighs in at 12.1 pounds. Yours being less than 9lbs is indeed much lighter than most of the T series.
Thanks for the comment! I agree, getting one sub-10lbs is a miracle! 12.1lbs!! You must need a chiropractor after an hour with that!! i'll bet it sounds amazing, though!
Great review. Good sound. Please note that when the tone control is at 10= single coil. When the tone control is at 7=humbuckers.
Thanks for the comment, @JonathanBrough-wg7ji! Noted!
Got a 79 about 25 years ago. Had never heard of it before. People used to bash Peavey calling it cheap man's Fender.
So silly. Incredibly well made and versatile guitar with tone pockets all over the dials. Brilliant guitar. Sounds amazing with my
Peavey Classic 30 which might be the matching most underrated amp. Will say the 30 had a pretty so so speaker. Swapped out for
a vintage Celestion I had and sounds better than any of my other vintage amps. Good on ya Hartley!!
I love the 80s and 90s Peavey stuff, so solid!
Video starts at 10:00, yes, 10 min talking
I bought a new T-60, swamp ash natural finish, and a Pacer Amp in 79. Traded in for a 99 Black Wolfgang Standard. Should have kept the T-60.
Fair winds and following seas to all.
I believe that phase thing works no matter what pick up it’s on. Because I own two of these things. And just like you heard when you did it in this video there is a difference when you flip that switch. That wasn’t just your imagination, my friend.
Thanks for the confirmation, @comancheviperrrr. These are such under rated axes!!
Definitely a difference in sound on the phase for the bridge pup, got brighter and more defined when knocked up towards you.
Probably has a different electrical resistance for the reversed path (to at least some extent..?) and maybe that could be why the tone is different (?) or could be less capacitance in that position or something (which would explain the frequency response difference), no idea... Definitely some physical (electrical) reason for the difference in tone tho
Good theory, Tylr, i think something is definitely going on there! thanks for the comment!
Luthier here. With any loose nut you can just add Elmer's glue to keep it in place. Ideally nothing too strong like super glue, you want to be able to replace it if necessary, without damaging the neck.
Nice, that's a good option i haven't tried. i'll give it a shot the next nut i have to reset!
Try that t60 in a 80s Peavey Heritage tube amp , thats what I giged with back in the day .
My buddy has a Peavey Classic 50 with 2 12s. I'll try to get this rocking through there!
I learned how to play on a t 60,AC/DC Powerage and a t 60 was it,I can’t believe these are in style
Thanks, Stephen! These will always be in style! ....hopefully.
I grew up with a guy that had this exact guitar ... i mean exact ... he ran it through my dad's (loaned) 50 watt marshall head with a homemade cabinet (celestians). I would play my luds and OMG we would fucking rock. You don't think a 50 watt head would be loud but in a small bedroom and the amp on 10 ..... And his guitar always sounded so good and clear.
Thanks for the comment, Jimgaddio6255! I absolutely love my Marshall Plexi 1987X 50W head for that exact reason! Peavey into Marshall is a classic combo!
My guitarist had a top of the line Les Paul and a Strat and set them aside when he found the t-60. I never knew why. I played his Les Paul 'til I too bought a T-60. I still have it. I've gone acoustic since, but I'm going to have to pull it out of storage and reminisce. I mostly set it to play rhythm and kept it on one setting and never took advantage of its versatility. We both ran Peavy 2x12" amps as well.
That sounds like a killer setup! thanks for the comment, Partner348!
First cnc production guitar
Phase only effects bridge in middle position
Very good guitars mine is a 78/79 (not sure)
Square case
Non rail.
Awesome gitter
I just repaired mine, ive got out of second hand. Dammn it was a lot of work but i could manage to keep all original parts. Despite the weight its the best guitar ive ever played. Dammn.. every second of work i had with it was just worth it. Im never going to sell it!
That's what i like to hear! keep 'em forever! Great axes.
T60 love came from Jonhy Copland with SRV,Tin Pan alley.. live.. Says it all about what this axe could do.👍👍👍👍..🎸💯..T26 is what I'd love to own..
Thanks for the comment, Ben, I've been looking for a T-26 too, but it seems like folks hold onto those!
My dad has the whole collection of the Peavy "T" model guitars, he's got every one of'm
Thanks for the comment Wesley, i'd love to see that collection assembled in one place! If your dad would be interested in having me document each one, i'd pay for shipping! Let me know. Thanks!
@@tjkcivic oh hey, thanks a lot...but knowing my dad(a very secretive kinda guy) would decline.
My dads a funny guy, im tellin' ya!
I will ask him though, thank you for the offer✌
Oh,he also has all the basses too
@@wesleyalan9179 10-4. i know the type! thanks for sharing, and keep me posted if there's a change of heart!
@@tjkcivic 👍
@@tjkcivic..so I went to visit dad yesterday afternoon, after work. That joker was upset that I even mentioned anything about it to anyone, especially online,lol! He can be so paranoid at times..he was in the war(Nam)
He doesn't like anyone knowing things about him, I feel a lil' bad now,lol! Oh well,nothings gonna hurt him...what he doesn't know want hurt him,lol
Sorry...but thanks for the invite once again✌
I had one just like it in 80 and a sunburst in 84
The Peavey Sunbursts seem really rare. I haven't been able to find one for a reasonable price yet! Thanks for the comment!
I still have mine, Serial 0080..., which makes it an 1981. Your Serial 0065... indicates 1980. I noticed your model does not have the T60 "Blade" Humbuckers that mine has. And while our guitar cases look nearly identical inside and out, mine only has 3 latches. I bought mine used from a guitar buddy that wanted me to join his rock band in 82. I didn't own an electric guitar or amp so he sold me his T60 and Peavey MACE 2-12 combo with Black Widow speakers. This guitar is a dark horse with wide tonal range. It just never achieved a main street appeal (think MTV) which explains your comment about recording studio gear.
Thanks, David. I appreciate your comment. I'm pretty sure they switched up the pickup style in 1980, and you can find both blade and non-blade style in that year. Glad this video took you back to '82!
My serial starts 0071. Do you know hows the age?
@@W17714N According to the serial number range/date information posted on this website, peaveyt40.forumotion.com/t91-serial-number-dating?highlight=serial+numbers, that would also make it a 1981.
@@davidpowers9023 I have two 78 ash models that have 77 scribed on back of the pickguards, one 78 ash models, and one 80 sunburst model. I am having a hard time finding necks with decent fretjobs on them so I am gonna have 2 of the Guitars refretted, so until then I put a Carvin CTH neck with carbon fiber rods and double action truss rod in the neck. It is so solid and action can go low as I want at Low E 6th string got action 1/8th" or less off top of the12th fret and High E 1st string got action1/16th" or less off top of the 12th fret with no buzzing frets. The original Peavey neck Low E 1st string got action1/8th" off top of 12th fret and the High E 6th string got action 1/16" off top of the 12th get with no buzzing frets. Ist fret on Peavey or Carvin necks were . 010 to . 020 action off top of 1st fret. Excellent intonation and sustain. All my Peavey T60 Guitars have all OEM equipment in near mint condition, except for fret wear that I am gonna have done in the near future on two of the Guitars. The pickups are all proprietary rail type pickups. My 80 model has 23 frets but hey it has twenty two and that's just fine with me. I do not know why Peavey never put 22 to 24 frets on the early models rather than just 21 and 23 frets on the Guitars. I have seen necks on T60 Guitars with Peavey shaped tuners but Logo'd with the Gotoh G and the Sperzel S stamped on the back of the tuner gearing caps. These Guitars will play any genre or style stock or modified and their value keeps on rising. My guitars have been all appraised from $1500 to $3000. I have never seen a non-rail Peavey T Models . Peace and Play 🎸 On FetBro's and FretSis's . . . 👍🤘🎸😎🙏 DDHarris 1-11-2021.
@@W17714N 8Mxxxxxx ............................................1978
0000xxxx t/m 0030xxxx ........................1978
0031xxxx t/m 0047xxxx ........................1979
0048xxxx t/m 0065xxxx ........................1980
0066xxxx t/m 0099xxxx ........................1981
0100xxxx t/m 0129xxxx ........................1982
0130xxxx t/m 0169xxxx ........................1983
Ha. I got one of these when I was 11 years old and just learning to play. It was 1987. Mine is a 1978 or 1979, I think. It's pretty much the same as yours but finished in black. I just got it out to play it today and weighed it. Mine's 9.2 pounds. Still a little heavy for my tastes. Other differences...I don't have the Peavey "P" on the back of the tuners. Same tuners otherwise. Mine has a bone nut, or maybe plastic. I don't know. The previous owner added a single coil in the middle which probably ruins the value. Guess I could remove it.
I have never had it set up. Not once. I have never even turned the truss rod no matter where I lived, from Texas to LA to DC and even Boulder. Rock solid.
I'm wondering how you like the frets? That's the only thing about the guitar I don't like. They're super short and don't even seem to have a crown on them. It plays really nice but bending isn't good because of them, so I haven't played it much since I was 16 or so. The pickups sound so good that I'm thinking about having it refretted.
That's awesome! The old gal had something left to say after all these years! Send a pic if you can!
Great review with intelligent well thought out presentation & information. The problem with guitars turning humbuckers into single coils is that it's always a compromise to give musicians more versatility with one guitar, which I think 40 years ago (and even today) is great for live playing in a band. Also add the 40 year old electronic circuit into the mix which now might need a bit of a clean to sound at their best is probably what made it harder to discern the differences as you flicked through them. I really enjoyed the video thanks for making it. I bought a similar T-60 & a few other Peavey guitars over to Australia about 10 years ago when the Australian dollar was at its best rate ever for me to do it, needless to say I wasn't disappointed. :-)
Thanks, Stirling, I appreciate your comment, and agree 100%! Peavey was not afraid to go into the danger zone to try something new!
Hoping u could help me figure out my serial number. I have a T-60 to sell from my Dads collection. sounded good to me during last few min of video. Thanks for info
hey mswoe042. Thanks for the comment, but unfortunately, I've had to go down this road already and the only way to get a good date on a specific T-series serial number is to call or email Peavey directly. They take a little while to get back to you, but they will respond. Good luck, and let me know if you need any help with that.
I love mine. The controls get everyone turned around backwards and it always makes me laugh
Ha, if you can get on board with the backward layout, rock it!!
I had a 1984 Red T- 60 with Black, way heavy. Sold it, bought a T- 30 3/4 Scale, Swampstang!!
I dig the solid color T-60s, that must have been nice. I haven't had a T-30 yet, looking forward to trying it!
You're describing the single coil/humbucker function completely backwards, you know that right? Tone at 10 is SC, tone below 7 is HB.
it looks like i made a mistake.
Those are not humbuckers, they are a combo of humbucker and single coil pickups depending on the position of the tone knob. 0 to about 60 single coil and 60 to 100 humbucker from what i recall.
other way around, 7-10 is single coil and 6-0 is bucket
The necks on the T-60 are as thin as the G&L Fullerton models
This one definitely is, maybe thinner! This is the thinnest neck I've ever seen on a Peavey, for sure.
Full on is single coil Humbuckers if you roll off tone below 7...
Well ill never get that time back.😂😂
The more you play these (I have the T-27), the more versatile you realize they are. If you only had one guitar .......... well, you might find that these would do the trick.
That's so true, T noiset! thanks for the comments, and glad you're tuned into the Peavey glory!
I'm here from the doom/stoner band Dopelord. They had one but with a aluminum neck.
Thanks SxTflife, i'll bet that aluminum neck added even more sustain to this already badass guitar! Send sound samples if you have any, i'd love to hear it.
Favorite Peavey's
T-60
Generations
Falcon
Super machines
Let’s Call the interior ‘Russett’👍!
Always wanted one of these and came close a couple times. Too pricey now.
Hey @eric_in_florida, thanks for the comment. You're so right about that...not long ago you wouldn't find one of these for more than $400, but those days are gone!! Maybe a deal will come up locally for you soon!
@@tjkcivic Haha well I'm in sell mode now since I play very little. I did check Reverb out of curiosity and there was a couple near me in the 800-900 range. I would probably pay that if the wood looked really nice and it had all the right knobs etc. I've seen some where the wood pieces seemed really mismatched. There are some listed for well over a thousand too, just insane!!
For real! They pack a lot of value into those old Peaveys!
are those the orig. pickups?
you know it!!
My dad and i have one of these
You guys are lucky! these guitars are great, and getting harder to find. Thanks for the comment.
@@tjkcivic Oh yeah, thanks for the video man :)
Got an '82 T-60 sunburst...skinny neck,(too skinny), sounds great...weighs 10lbs! I don't gig with it...haha
That sounds about right. I can't believe the heft of these T-60s, even with the super slim necks! they're great for recording more than gigging, i'd imagine.
T60 is the king.
Horizon ii is the Prince.
Hey Shibboleth, Thanks for your comment, and that's a valid statement. I have a 1983 Horizon II myself in Metallic Red and i love the dual blade humbuckers with the middle single-coil. I'll have to get a review of it at some point as well!
@@tjkcivic please do
Tune it man.
How much is this guitar?
Hey Willian, Thanks for your comment and question. This is a good question, as prices for Peavey's US made guitars has just started to rise over the past two or three years. You used to be able to find one of these here in the US for $450-$500, but I haven't seen one listed for under $800 in any condition worth buying. They're great US made guitars, but the world is starting to realize that and prices are going up on all US made Peaveys.
Leave these American guitars to me..yall can have the Indonesian Chinese stuff...lol...great instruments..
Swamp Ash!
I have the same guitar.. it’s white oak... #00292082
Nice! I'm not up on how to date Peavey S/Ns, is that also a 1980?
Near PERFECT guitar! Would have been absolutely perfect if they would have designed it for bigger hands.
Thanks for the comment and T-60 love!! I'm glad I was able to find this guitar locally!
My Peavey T-60 I bought new in the early 80s was the best playing and sounding guitar I ever had... and the ugliest.
Ha, ugly is in the eye of the beholder! i kind of dig the aesthetic, but they are heavy and sound great!
Stop talking and let's hear them tones