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NBD: Peavey Foundation (love trading on CL!)

rojo412

rojo412

Sit down, Danny...
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#1
I got a keyboard as payment from a repair I did for a friend. It didn't work that great and I didn't want to put money into fixing it, so I put it on CL and lo and behold... I got a good trade!

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I have no idea what year it is, but it's a Peavey Foundation with those Seymour Duncan pickups with the dip switches on them. I've always wanted to check those out!
When I first plugged it in, it didn't work. But a battery solved that quickly.

Oh, it came with this, too...

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(USA Fury neck)

I'd say I made out pretty well on the deal.

What I guess I'm not sure of, and I'm sure the Peavophiles (Peaverts?) would know:
What year is this thing?
Is the ebony fretboard a rarity?
 
#8
Handyman said:
You know anything about those fancy pickups with the DIP switches? I don't think I've ever seen those before.
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From the Duncan forums:

Originally Posted by Seymour Duncan FAQ
Functions of switches on old-style "Active EQ" bass pickups
We stopped making the switch pickups ("Active EQ") in the mid-'90s. We replaced them with the Pro-Active series.
The little rocker switches on the Active EQ pickups change the sound. Switch #1 shifts the coil resonance. On a Jazz Bass neck pickup and a P Bass pickup, the resonance moves downward from 22 KHz to 6.4 KHz. On a Jazz Bass bridge pickup, it move downwards from 17 KHz to 4.9 KHz. The effect is to give a more focused sound with a harder attack. Switch #2 gives a broad band bass boost of 4 dB for the Jazz Bass neck and P Bass pickups, and 5 dB for the Jazz Bass bridge. The switches can be a very effective tool for changing the tonal "character" of your instrument.
 
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The Fury neck is going up for sale. I have a couple of people interested but nothing set in stone just yet.
(PM if interested, I guess. It's in damn good shape!)

When I plugged in the bass, it didn't work either. But I'm a hell of a lot better at figuring out bass problems than keyboard problems (Battery was really the only problem). So I figured, what the hell!

As for Peaverts: PEAVEY EXPERTS! I didn't mean it derogatorily. (Holy crap, DEROGATORILY is an actual word!)
 

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