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PEAVEY GRIND

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Bassbasixx

Feb 3, 2008
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Dana Point Ca
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#1
I love the way this bass feels and plays skinny neck low action after set up, thought it sounded good, I bought a Squier vm jazz and it sounds way better bright punchy warm. Played them back to back and now I hate the way the Peavey sounds, just sounds week and sterile>anyone know of some replacement pick ups that will fit without any mods that will bring this to life that don't cost a small fortune? thanks in advance for any replies
 
#3
If I'm correct, it's has passive electronics (no battery). I did some research on the Grind and thought about acquiring one.
Perhaps an active preamp will work for you. I use A Bartolini 4.6 A/P in a Brice HXB 406 and I love it. It is designed for use with passive pickups.

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#4
I've got a Invalid Link Removed - which is exactly the same bass as the Peavey Grind, except that it has an active pre-amp in it. As purchased, it comes with a simple cut/boost 2-band EQ, but I swapped it out for an Artecsound SE3PA (3-band with parametric mids). These little pre-amps are available very cheaply and give great performance for the money.

I agree that without an active pre, the supplied humbuckers can be rather flat sounding. With one, though, you're in a different league. :)
 
#5
My thought is, if your bass doesn't sound good when running it passive, and you have to add an active circuit to make it sound better, you should get a better bass. Why waste money on a pickup if it won't completely do the trick? And any bass I have with active eq, I always set the eq in the flat position.

I hear a lot of young guys playing live with active basses and they've got the bass and treble cranked and it just sounds terrible. I wonder if they can actually hear how bad they sound.
 
#6
62bass said:
My thought is, if your bass doesn't sound good when running it passive, and you have to add an active circuit to make it sound better, you should get a better bass. Why waste money on a pickup if it won't completely do the trick? And any bass I have with active eq, I always set the eq in the flat position.

I hear a lot of young guys playing live with active basses and they've got the bass and treble cranked and it just sounds terrible. I wonder if they can actually hear how bad they sound.
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I only boost the bass slightly and leave the treble flat. Sorry if some of us actually like to use our eqs to shape our sound. I thought the knobs turned for a reason.
 
#7
FrankDV said:
I only boost the bass slightly and leave the treble flat. Sorry if some of us actually like to use our eqs to shape our sound. I thought the knobs turned for a reason.
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I'm not saying everyone is a tasteless clod when it comes to eq. Sure it's nice to add a touch of something to warm the sound, but when you need it to fix an already bad sound it's different And a lot of young guys I hear, as I stated, crank the bass and treble on full.
 
#8
62bass said:
I'm not saying everyone is a tasteless clod when it comes to eq. Sure it's nice to add a touch of something to warm the sound, but when you need it to fix an already bad sound it's different And a lot of young guys I hear, as I stated, crank the bass and treble on full.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. Im pretty young, only being 19. Not all of us kids are like that, but I know what you are talking about. Lately, everytime I go into sam ash of guitar center someone cranks both controls like you said.
 
#11
I forgot to add: to avoid capacitive loading of longer guitar cables, use the shorter, 1,5m etc. cables.

This way you won't kill the tone with the nasal hi-mids cable-resonance, it will remain more open. I find stock soapbars are quite sensitive to loading (probably that's what you describe as "weak"), using a short cable is a super-cheap way to get a good tone out of your grind IME.

If you want sharper "active" tone, get the active emg40's.

ymmv
 
#12
i bought a Grind when they first came out & the playability is superb. but as you point out, the tone was lacking indeed.
solution;
Nordstrand my friend, either Fat Stacks, Big Singles, Big Splits, or Dual Coils.
I dropped a set of Fat Stacks / coil tap in mine, kept it passive, ( as i detest onboard pre's ) & get a pure organic fat tone.

change out the pickups, & this thing smokes
 
#14
NorCal Dog said:
i bought a Grind when they first came out & the playability is superb. but as you point out, the tone was lacking indeed.
solution;
Nordstrand my friend, either Fat Stacks, Big Singles, Big Splits, or Dual Coils.
I dropped a set of Fat Stacks / coil tap in mine, kept it passive, ( as i detest onboard pre's ) & get a pure organic fat tone.

change out the pickups, & this thing smokes
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I checked out the big singles 165.00 and the Big splits 205.00 per set this may be the way to go although a little pricey, but like I said I love the feel and look of this bass and everything else, sort of looks like a killer bee IMO> Are these a direct drop in with no routing involved ? and yes I would rather stay passive
 
#15
I've been thinking about a project bass to mod and your thread has convinced me to get a Peavey Grind 5. So I just picked one up at Guitar Center on sale for $250. Today I stripped off the hardware and am applying tung oil. Will then upgrade the pickups with Bartolinis and let you know how it sounds and post a photo. Will leave the hardware black. I was thinking about gold so it would look like a Cirrus, but the mahogany is lighter in color and the black seems to work best. Happy bass playing.
 

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