I understand nostalgia. For no other reason, i recently bought a fender squier from a pawnshop. It reminded me of being 14 (in 94) and my cousin and i learning nirvana songs.
90s Peavy Predators were absolutely made in the U.S.A. In Meridian, Mississippi. Then in 2004 they started making stuff overseas in Asia (but also the U.K.) In short, your 90s Peavey, in additon to not being allowed within 2 miles of any grade school, (get it? Predator? ha ha) was made in the U.S.A. Even in the 70s Peavey stuff was seen as well made and reliable but lacked the ellite bonafides of Fender amps and guitars. I know guys who still gig with backj breaking 80s Peavey P.A. equipment as it still works. Personally, I though their stuff was just ugly. Not that anyone asked but my first new guitar was a 90s Gibson Epiphone Telecaster. Not joking, my best friend had the Stratocaster version. I would love to have one today.
@@danielktdoranie from what I could gather online, the necks were actually made in the US, whereas the bodies were made in Taiwan. It could be wrong though.
@@SlaughteredDecayI’m pretty sure throughout the 90s the necks still said made in the USA some of the late 80s and early 90s peaveys were incredibly good not just for the money they were legit giant killing working men’s guitars, they weren’t considered cool and I had to have that fender shaped headstock so I bought a Squier and probably could’ve bought a way nicer Peavey for a hundred less
Thanks for taking us down memory lane. I do agree that there are do many options for beginning guitar players these days! My first real rig was a Series A Jackson clone, gun metal metallic finish with a matching headstock, black hardware. A somewhat Floyd rose-ish trem bridge and a coil split switch. The amp I had was the exact model Crate you had in the demo which, when I saw it I said "Ahh there's my good ol' reliable Crate!" It wasn't too bad for what it was tho. But again, they didn't have too many choices for budget gear in 1988.
WOW that was the sound when I started to learn guitar! That fizzy distortion through a tiny practice amp but it did the job back then. I taught myself how to play through a setup like that. Thank you for making this video Taylor it was a great trip down memory lane. It even sparked some conversation with me and my wife about my first guitar and amp.
Oh man, this was a blast from the past! My first rig was a ‘92 Peavey Predator and a Peavey Rage amp. I gigged with that guitar for YEARS! I now have 60 guitars and basses, but that first electric is still in the mix. Highly modified, but will always have a special place in my heart. The Grunge pedal holds a little less special place… Thanks so much for this video! I’m going to go pull the Peavey out and show him some love.
My first guitar was a cheap strat copy that looked exactly like this. In the 90’s you didn’t really have much of a choice outside of the big brands as the China guitar industry hadn’t taken off yet. The brand name was “Magnum” and it cost me $500 AU with a 10w solid state amp. It was really bad so as soon as I had some money I upgraded to a 60’s Aria Diamond, a really nice ES 330 copy made in Japan in the early 60’s. I traded my Strat in and ended up paying $350 for it. I still have it today. In fact I’m currently restoring it with new parts and I’m upgrading the pickups with some vintage voice Alnico 5 humbuckers. All gold hardware with a floating roller bridge, bigsby and locking tuners. All hardware will be gold. Also need to redo the binding as the nitrocellulose original binding has decayed and is falling apart. Also needs a paint touch up near the neck.
This is definetly the most hyped I've seen you in a video yet the excitement is rather obvious. I just got back my original bass I bought back in 93/94 a yamaha bb300. It's kinda rough but neck still looks good have to refinish the back of neck and replace the nut and pickups/ wiring. Plus found the special tool for the lock type feature on the tuners. Can't wait to play it again but so cool I got it back after dude who borrowed it disappeared back in 2001. Oh and to add my first amp was a muscle 10in amp black with pink lol Ah Rippers music lol 😆
I love this. Takes me way back. I had a peavey predator plus from like '99 or 2000. I also had a crate combo amp. I miss those days. So much fun. I have thought about buying an old peavey predator several times. Just never actually pulled the trigger yet.
I had a strat with no branding that my mom bought me from a pawn shop for $100, a shitty crate combo amp, and the DOD death.etal pedal. I still love that pedal, I have owned 3 since the 90s
My first rig was a Washburn N2, Fender Princeton Super Chorus amp with a DoD Classic Tube Overdrive. In my senior year of high school (1994), I added a Zoom 2020 effects processor. 😛😛
my first rig: Nova Stratocaster with 2 pickups, a humbucker bridge and a single coil in the neck which was dead due to a manufacturer defect, into an original mT-2 Distortion pedal, with my dad's 60's fender amp which had a broken tube. I replaced the neck pickup with a hotrail and the bridge with a wilkinson alnico 5 nowadays, and the fender style trem has a roller bridge. I didn't use a noise pedal because back then I didn't need one, the single coil pickup never worked.
@@Funkyguitarcovers Thanks dude, rock on. The mT-2 gets a lot of hate nowadays, I don't have a newer one to try out whether there's a difference in tone, but the originals can get similar to cannibal corpse, obituary, or metallica depending on your settings.
Hell yeah dude! Funny enough I'm pretty sure my friend had a Peavey Raptor and a Crate combo amp too, that thing could not stay in tune 😂 As for my first rig I got pretty lucky: a Schecter Demon 6 (which I have since modded and slapped bridge cables on) and a Marshall MGCF10 combo amp. Looking back it wasn't great, but it was definitely fun!
I had a later (mid-2000s) Peavey Raptor, and a Peavey Predator (when they changed it to a dual-humbucker Superstrat with a licensed Floyd) and both were made in China, I believe. I still have another Raptor, I bought it for $40 off a guy online, and it's surprisingly good for a guitar that cheap, at least in terms of feel and fret work... the pickups leave much to be desired. Hell, even the whammy bar isn't the worst for slight vibrato, definitely not doing Van Halen dives though.
Oh gawd! A DOD Grunge pedal! I remember those! So cheesy sounding! As for the Crate GX-15 - I remember having to sell all of my pro level gear (which served me well, in the loud, distorted rock bands I was in - bye-bye Mesa, and bye-by Gibson) due to a mega money crunch during the recession we had going on in 2002. To have something electric (I already had an acoustic guitar), while I was still el broko during my gear recovery phase, I had a GX-15 that I bought CHEEP (about $40, as an overstock item), that I used. It wasn't the greatest sounding amp, but it was bearable (if you were willing to work hard tweaking the settings) until I had more cash, to get something better.
I feel like Squier redefined themselves in the early 2000's with the classic vibe series... but since then they kinda left the brand on auto-pilot... no signature guitars in that tier anymore, some new paranormal type guitars, but compared to Epiphone as a direct comparison, there's better options nowadays for Fender designs at the budget tier... it's telling too when you have to dig into Fender's site to find a Squier vs Epiphone having its own entire website configured just like the Gibson site. Meanwhile I absolutely did "things" to my first guitar a GiO GRG40... and now I have a non-USA model GRG140 as its spiritful sucessor to become my sustainer machine. XD
You should try using the effects out on that little Crate into a bigger amp's power amp section. You'll need a 1/4" inch stereo into two 1/4" mono splitter Y-cable.
I have a squier strat and I love it Have had it for a year and a half with only minor and very very very occasional issues However, the squier *mustang* I got has been having problems since I got it (none that have to do with the guitar electronics but they're still minor annoyances) And due to personal error, it has thicker frets than I would've preferred and it's kind of a bummer cuz I love both guitars
I started with the same guitar (also in white like you), a small ARIA amp and some Ibanez pedals (Distortion, Chorus, Delay). Then I switched to an Epiphone Les Paul, a Marshal 50W combo and a Line 6 XT live. Nowadays my rig is far from that (I sold all that stuff above over the time) but I still have good (and bad) memories 😂
I had a white/rosewood Peavey Raptor as my first guitar. Part of me wishes I still did. Traded it with someone for a Zoom 505 multi-effects pedal. Totally not worth it.
Haha, I don't know if I'm the guy for that.. but if you want to see a video of me being frustrated and blurting profanities, then maybe that's the move!
I just bought a Jackson Soloist replica, made in Korea in 1990, for 100$. I wish I could have you review it, it came with real Floyd Rose on it and has good weight to it. I can't find anything on the internet on the brand unfortunately 😣
My first guitar I got in 2016 and it's a modded Peavey. It's a strat style but the headstock says Peavey Generation EXP (that's their tele style) I have no idea what was done to it but it looks great and I still love it
I got one of these, but it might be a post USA made one. I unno. It was $40 and I just wanted it to hack it up into a Splatterstein (frankenstrat with a splatter paint job) another classic case of Peavey's biggest enemy being their poor marketing team and internet forums.
my 1st guitar was a n 95/97 epiphone strat with a batwing headstock, miss that guitar. also fender 25 r frontman and a boss hm2 pedal, now THATS a rig!!
Does your grunge pedal say bass and treble or do you have the "coveted" butt/face labeled version? I had a similar peavey as my first real guitar (I had a raptor with an SSS layout and a 3+3 headstock, kinda weird), the DOD grunge was my first pedal purchase too. Nostalgia overload!!!
No, I had one of the OG versions but no idea what happened to it. I bought one of the reissues a few years back just to have it. Same with the death metal pedal, but for whatever reason they kept the labeling on that one.
My first guitar was a Hohner St Metal. It came with a single humbucker pickup and the worse floyd rose clone ever... god that thing was terrible.. Even a Jackson Dinky would outperform that thing :D Edit: and my first amp was a Roland DAC-15
TONE KNOB TWEAKING! WHO TF ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS it sounded better through the crate than the boss for me. Another PS, is that the SE electronics ribbon mic? I want one of those bad!
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I understand nostalgia. For no other reason, i recently bought a fender squier from a pawnshop. It reminded me of being 14 (in 94) and my cousin and i learning nirvana songs.
90s Peavy Predators were absolutely made in the U.S.A. In Meridian, Mississippi. Then in 2004 they started making stuff overseas in Asia (but also the U.K.) In short, your 90s Peavey, in additon to not being allowed within 2 miles of any grade school, (get it? Predator? ha ha) was made in the U.S.A.
Even in the 70s Peavey stuff was seen as well made and reliable but lacked the ellite bonafides of Fender amps and guitars. I know guys who still gig with backj breaking 80s Peavey P.A. equipment as it still works.
Personally, I though their stuff was just ugly.
Not that anyone asked but my first new guitar was a 90s Gibson Epiphone Telecaster. Not joking, my best friend had the Stratocaster version.
I would love to have one today.
@@danielktdoranie from what I could gather online, the necks were actually made in the US, whereas the bodies were made in Taiwan. It could be wrong though.
This is interesting to know! I would've thought "crafted" simply meant it was assembled in the US, and imported from Asia.
My 1978 T-40 is the ugliest bass I own, and one of my prized possessions.
@@SlaughteredDecayI’m pretty sure throughout the 90s the necks still said made in the USA some of the late 80s and early 90s peaveys were incredibly good not just for the money they were legit giant killing working men’s guitars, they weren’t considered cool and I had to have that fender shaped headstock so I bought a Squier and probably could’ve bought a way nicer Peavey for a hundred less
@@danielktdoranie that's cool I I've visited meridian a few times
I still have one of these. It’s been modded a lot but it’s one of the best playing guitars I own!
Thanks for taking us down memory lane. I do agree that there are do many options for beginning guitar players these days! My first real rig was a Series A Jackson clone, gun metal metallic finish with a matching headstock, black hardware. A somewhat Floyd rose-ish trem bridge and a coil split switch. The amp I had was the exact model Crate you had in the demo which, when I saw it I said "Ahh there's my good ol' reliable Crate!" It wasn't too bad for what it was tho. But again, they didn't have too many choices for budget gear in 1988.
WOW that was the sound when I started to learn guitar! That fizzy distortion through a tiny practice amp but it did the job back then. I taught myself how to play through a setup like that. Thank you for making this video Taylor it was a great trip down memory lane. It even sparked some conversation with me and my wife about my first guitar and amp.
Oh man, this was a blast from the past! My first rig was a ‘92 Peavey Predator and a Peavey Rage amp. I gigged with that guitar for YEARS! I now have 60 guitars and basses, but that first electric is still in the mix. Highly modified, but will always have a special place in my heart. The Grunge pedal holds a little less special place… Thanks so much for this video! I’m going to go pull the Peavey out and show him some love.
My first guitar was a cheap strat copy that looked exactly like this. In the 90’s you didn’t really have much of a choice outside of the big brands as the China guitar industry hadn’t taken off yet. The brand name was “Magnum” and it cost me $500 AU with a 10w solid state amp. It was really bad so as soon as I had some money I upgraded to a 60’s Aria Diamond, a really nice ES 330 copy made in Japan in the early 60’s. I traded my Strat in and ended up paying $350 for it. I still have it today. In fact I’m currently restoring it with new parts and I’m upgrading the pickups with some vintage voice Alnico 5 humbuckers. All gold hardware with a floating roller bridge, bigsby and locking tuners. All hardware will be gold. Also need to redo the binding as the nitrocellulose original binding has decayed and is falling apart. Also needs a paint touch up near the neck.
This is definetly the most hyped I've seen you in a video yet the excitement is rather obvious.
I just got back my original bass I bought back in 93/94 a yamaha bb300. It's kinda rough but neck still looks good have to refinish the back of neck and replace the nut and pickups/ wiring. Plus found the special tool for the lock type feature on the tuners. Can't wait to play it again but so cool I got it back after dude who borrowed it disappeared back in 2001.
Oh and to add my first amp was a muscle 10in amp black with pink lol
Ah Rippers music lol 😆
That grunge petal looks awesome
I love this. Takes me way back. I had a peavey predator plus from like '99 or 2000. I also had a crate combo amp. I miss those days. So much fun. I have thought about buying an old peavey predator several times. Just never actually pulled the trigger yet.
I had a strat with no branding that my mom bought me from a pawn shop for $100, a shitty crate combo amp, and the DOD death.etal pedal. I still love that pedal, I have owned 3 since the 90s
My first rig was a Washburn N2, Fender Princeton Super Chorus amp with a DoD Classic Tube Overdrive. In my senior year of high school (1994), I added a Zoom 2020 effects processor. 😛😛
Dude, this is the EXACT first guitar I've ever owned and I still have it to this day!
my first rig: Nova Stratocaster with 2 pickups, a humbucker bridge and a single coil in the neck which was dead due to a manufacturer defect, into an original mT-2 Distortion pedal, with my dad's 60's fender amp which had a broken tube. I replaced the neck pickup with a hotrail and the bridge with a wilkinson alnico 5 nowadays, and the fender style trem has a roller bridge. I didn't use a noise pedal because back then I didn't need one, the single coil pickup never worked.
That’s a hella of a rig, dude right on 🤘🏻🎸🤟🏿
@@Funkyguitarcovers Thanks dude, rock on. The mT-2 gets a lot of hate nowadays, I don't have a newer one to try out whether there's a difference in tone, but the originals can get similar to cannibal corpse, obituary, or metallica depending on your settings.
Started in 1994 on a Yamaha Pacifica. Wish I had the peavy.
Those Pacificas are HEAVY, weight wise!
My first rig was literally the same as yours; grunge pedal, crate practice amp and a peavey predator! Still have the guitar 🎸
Peavey Raptor through the Rage amp was a staple of my childhood
would love to see you try out the 20 yr old vintage wraith axxe
Hell yeah dude! Funny enough I'm pretty sure my friend had a Peavey Raptor and a Crate combo amp too, that thing could not stay in tune 😂
As for my first rig I got pretty lucky: a Schecter Demon 6 (which I have since modded and slapped bridge cables on) and a Marshall MGCF10 combo amp. Looking back it wasn't great, but it was definitely fun!
First rig was a finger hut special harmony stratocaster and the little amp it came with in the 90s that I got for Christmas
Im a spark amp junkie straight up lol. But I would chase this magical nostalgic dragon any day. Nice set up.
that Crate amp takes me back. I had a BX-50 12" combo, and I used it for bass and guitar. I had the DOD FX-86 Death Metal :D
I had a later (mid-2000s) Peavey Raptor, and a Peavey Predator (when they changed it to a dual-humbucker Superstrat with a licensed Floyd) and both were made in China, I believe. I still have another Raptor, I bought it for $40 off a guy online, and it's surprisingly good for a guitar that cheap, at least in terms of feel and fret work... the pickups leave much to be desired. Hell, even the whammy bar isn't the worst for slight vibrato, definitely not doing Van Halen dives though.
*I still have a Predator AX from '94 that has H-S-S configuration. I swapped out the stock bridge HB for a Kent Armstrong. It's my cheapie guitar!*
Oh gawd! A DOD Grunge pedal! I remember those! So cheesy sounding! As for the Crate GX-15 - I remember having to sell all of my pro level gear (which served me well, in the loud, distorted rock bands I was in - bye-bye Mesa, and bye-by Gibson) due to a mega money crunch during the recession we had going on in 2002. To have something electric (I already had an acoustic guitar), while I was still el broko during my gear recovery phase, I had a GX-15 that I bought CHEEP (about $40, as an overstock item), that I used. It wasn't the greatest sounding amp, but it was bearable (if you were willing to work hard tweaking the settings) until I had more cash, to get something better.
I currently own 2 Peavey Predators and aside from my PRS, theyre my second fave!
I feel like Squier redefined themselves in the early 2000's with the classic vibe series... but since then they kinda left the brand on auto-pilot... no signature guitars in that tier anymore, some new paranormal type guitars, but compared to Epiphone as a direct comparison, there's better options nowadays for Fender designs at the budget tier... it's telling too when you have to dig into Fender's site to find a Squier vs Epiphone having its own entire website configured just like the Gibson site.
Meanwhile I absolutely did "things" to my first guitar a GiO GRG40... and now I have a non-USA model GRG140 as its spiritful sucessor to become my sustainer machine. XD
That was my first axe too in 1995. My mom got it at a pawn shop and it had a big crack in the middle of the neck so i could bend the neck a little.
You are bringing back memories i didnt know i had. I forgot about that pedal. I had one lol
Spray a bunch of CRL Electronics cleaner into that 5way. Will clean right up 😉
You should try using the effects out on that little Crate into a bigger amp's power amp section.
You'll need a 1/4" inch stereo into two 1/4" mono splitter Y-cable.
I have a squier strat and I love it
Have had it for a year and a half with only minor and very very very occasional issues
However, the squier *mustang* I got has been having problems since I got it (none that have to do with the guitar electronics but they're still minor annoyances)
And due to personal error, it has thicker frets than I would've preferred and it's kind of a bummer cuz I love both guitars
I used to have a Peavey predator guitar. It eventually became an ashtray. Before that though it was fantastic!!
I started with the same guitar (also in white like you), a small ARIA amp and some Ibanez pedals (Distortion, Chorus, Delay).
Then I switched to an Epiphone Les Paul, a Marshal 50W combo and a Line 6 XT live.
Nowadays my rig is far from that (I sold all that stuff above over the time) but I still have good (and bad) memories 😂
Peavey bros! 😂💪
My first rig was a bc rich bronze series warlock and a randall rg80. Was actually pretty good lol.
First rig? Zeny Stratocaster, through a jack to usb and a 30 day trial of studio one
Fantastic video overlays
My 1st rig was a squire strat, into a DS-1 to the same Crate amp. It sounded so tiny to me haha
I had a white/rosewood Peavey Raptor as my first guitar. Part of me wishes I still did. Traded it with someone for a Zoom 505 multi-effects pedal. Totally not worth it.
dude this was my first guitar hypeeeee!!!!
My buddy had that guitar when we were growing up lol awesome to see it
My first guitar was a 91 made in usa Squier stratocaster. Bought new with a hardshell case for $110.
And a peavey bandit 112 amp. Horrific
My vintage Silvertone strat-copy sounds just like that.
You've gotta try a Firefly, Taylor. Great budget guitars.
I only buy Gibson or fender products , as a matter of fact I bought a Gibson explorer last week
watching this early 👏 waiting for you to build a leo jaymz AL guitar kit! metal asf
Haha, I don't know if I'm the guy for that.. but if you want to see a video of me being frustrated and blurting profanities, then maybe that's the move!
@TaylorDanley definitely will be good content 🙏🔥 thanks for replying ♥️
I just bought a Jackson Soloist replica, made in Korea in 1990, for 100$. I wish I could have you review it, it came with real Floyd Rose on it and has good weight to it. I can't find anything on the internet on the brand unfortunately 😣
I got one of these that someone converted into a fretless it’s wicked
My very first guitar was a Peavey T-15. Pretty sure it was made of oak.
My first guitar I got in 2016 and it's a modded Peavey. It's a strat style but the headstock says Peavey Generation EXP (that's their tele style) I have no idea what was done to it but it looks great and I still love it
They make (made) really cool guitars!
I got one of these, but it might be a post USA made one. I unno. It was $40 and I just wanted it to hack it up into a Splatterstein (frankenstrat with a splatter paint job)
another classic case of Peavey's biggest enemy being their poor marketing team and internet forums.
i had a metallic green lotus and that dod grunge pedal
Predators had the best neck feel i have an 1989
Another Pacifica type of break, uh?! Namastè.
🔥🔥🔥
My pop bought me a Ferrari red Peavey Patriot back in 1988. I wish that I still had that guitar! Sweetwater rocks! They have great customer service.🤘
Nice! I always wanted a red guitar, but because I was such a huge Waynes World fan I chose White/White lol
Diddy's favorite guitar 😂
That crate sounded better than the katana 🤔
Had a peavey patriot first guitar put new strings on wrong 😅
my 1st guitar was a n 95/97 epiphone strat with a batwing headstock, miss that guitar. also fender 25 r frontman and a boss hm2 pedal, now THATS a rig!!
Does your grunge pedal say bass and treble or do you have the "coveted" butt/face labeled version? I had a similar peavey as my first real guitar (I had a raptor with an SSS layout and a 3+3 headstock, kinda weird), the DOD grunge was my first pedal purchase too. Nostalgia overload!!!
No, I had one of the OG versions but no idea what happened to it. I bought one of the reissues a few years back just to have it. Same with the death metal pedal, but for whatever reason they kept the labeling on that one.
My first guitar was a Hohner St Metal.
It came with a single humbucker pickup and the worse floyd rose clone ever... god that thing was terrible..
Even a Jackson Dinky would outperform that thing :D
Edit: and my first amp was a Roland DAC-15
I had the same guitar
Crap, it might have been a raptor... Now I don't remember. Either way, it was great. I was young and poor. Don't judge
A harmony strat clone and a crate 2 12 combo
Epiphone Stratocaster a red one.
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TONE KNOB TWEAKING! WHO TF ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS it sounded better through the crate than the boss for me. Another PS, is that the SE electronics ribbon mic? I want one of those bad!
Now they like to say designed in the USA lol
I don't know why everyone likes fender stratocaster so much to me they are just a average plain guitar...
Man we need to get you a real budget amp to play through. A peavey rage or crate gfx15 lol jk
7 String Katana Tone? I know im a pest
If i use the link 2 times do i get 10% more handsome?
For you, we'll do 15%
I first read it as a $90 guitar, not a 90's guitar.
Lol, sorry. 90's as in Grunge and Flannel 😂
Its both
You can def find these for 90 bucks
I closed every RUclips tab I had open once I saw you had a new review, Taylor. I did have a Peavy practice amp, but never a guitar.
Btw Taylor Dan I followed you on TikTok 🤟🏿🎸🤘🏻 thank you for inspiring me to play more music and start a RUclips channel of my own
Crate! 🤣 I owned a Crate head that was owned by Jake E Lee at one time. I had to do so much damned soldering on that damned thing. It was so old!