For sale only: The first Peavey B Quad 5 off the production line. The B Quad 5 is the unicorn of basses and this one is the King of the Unicorns. I scoured the Internet for months and months to find a B Quad 5. In all that time before I found this one, I only ever saw one other one for sale, and it was fretless, which I did not want. And this one is the color Peavey calls Magenta - my favorite!
This BQ5 is actually signed on the back by Brian Bromberg himself. It says:
"Thanks! This is the first B Quad 5 shipped." Then dated and signed by Brian Bromberg. The ink has worn off some, but (unfortunately) not by me.
Anyway... if you don't know the B Quad 5, it is a bass designed by Brian Bromberg and made by Peavey for a few years. I believe the B Quads (they also made a 4 string) are the finest and most expensive basses Peavey has ever made.
The neck is graphite and made for Peavey by Modulus. It has two VFL pickups (neck and bridge) plus piezo pickups in the bridge saddles. The bass features optional stereo output. The switch controls Mono vs Stereo output. And it has 2 output jacks, for when you want to use Stereo. The 2 magnetic pickups (the VFLs) output equally to both L and R in Stereo, but each Piezo pickup has an individual Pan pot (and Gain trim pot) that can be accessed through the control cavity cover on the backup. Those Pan pots let you adjust each string to be panned however much you want to whichever side you want. I never use it this way, myself. I just set the Pan pots to all centered, so the bass sounds the same whether it's in Mono or Stereo mode.
The controls include a Master volume, individual volume controls (stacked) for each VFL pickup, and a separate volume control for the Piezo pickups. There's a 2-band boost/cut EQ (stacked, bass/treble) for the VFLs. And there's a Passive Tone control for the Piezos.
The sound is just flat-out incredible. Peavey VFL pickups (as are used in the Cirrus line) are known to be fantastic. But then the piezos add another dimension - some warmth, to my ear - that just takes the Cirrus sound up a level.
The neck is the Modulus graphite neck. You can get action that is so low, well, it's too low for me to play, that's for sure. MNAirhead set this baby up for me and I had to raise the saddles a bit, after I got it, just so I could play it. This, the B Quad 4 I had, and the Sadowsky Jazz I used to have are all equals on being able to have the lowest action of any bass I've ever tried.
And it can be yours for $1950, shipped in the original Peavey hardshell case via FedEx Ground to the Continental U.S..
More pictures (including the case) here:
http://s227.photobucket.com/user/stuartv/library/Peavey B Quad 5
This BQ5 is actually signed on the back by Brian Bromberg himself. It says:
"Thanks! This is the first B Quad 5 shipped." Then dated and signed by Brian Bromberg. The ink has worn off some, but (unfortunately) not by me.
Anyway... if you don't know the B Quad 5, it is a bass designed by Brian Bromberg and made by Peavey for a few years. I believe the B Quads (they also made a 4 string) are the finest and most expensive basses Peavey has ever made.
The neck is graphite and made for Peavey by Modulus. It has two VFL pickups (neck and bridge) plus piezo pickups in the bridge saddles. The bass features optional stereo output. The switch controls Mono vs Stereo output. And it has 2 output jacks, for when you want to use Stereo. The 2 magnetic pickups (the VFLs) output equally to both L and R in Stereo, but each Piezo pickup has an individual Pan pot (and Gain trim pot) that can be accessed through the control cavity cover on the backup. Those Pan pots let you adjust each string to be panned however much you want to whichever side you want. I never use it this way, myself. I just set the Pan pots to all centered, so the bass sounds the same whether it's in Mono or Stereo mode.
The controls include a Master volume, individual volume controls (stacked) for each VFL pickup, and a separate volume control for the Piezo pickups. There's a 2-band boost/cut EQ (stacked, bass/treble) for the VFLs. And there's a Passive Tone control for the Piezos.
The sound is just flat-out incredible. Peavey VFL pickups (as are used in the Cirrus line) are known to be fantastic. But then the piezos add another dimension - some warmth, to my ear - that just takes the Cirrus sound up a level.
The neck is the Modulus graphite neck. You can get action that is so low, well, it's too low for me to play, that's for sure. MNAirhead set this baby up for me and I had to raise the saddles a bit, after I got it, just so I could play it. This, the B Quad 4 I had, and the Sadowsky Jazz I used to have are all equals on being able to have the lowest action of any bass I've ever tried.
And it can be yours for $1950, shipped in the original Peavey hardshell case via FedEx Ground to the Continental U.S..
More pictures (including the case) here:
http://s227.photobucket.com/user/stuartv/library/Peavey B Quad 5
