NBD: Peavey T-45

[B-Mac]

Oh I know the controls
I have that reference as well

This?
https://peavey.com/manuals/80370359.pdf

 

[StringslamDan]

I've always thought the T series basses were some of the best looking basses ever made! All that chunky chrome goodness and the chrome pickups! They're like the Muscle Car of basses! Love my T-40! I'd definitely like to get my hands on a T-45 though! Sweet bass man!

 

[Gustopher]

That is stunning. I am down with that!

 

[bassliner50]

Nice head stock! The rest too. How does it compare to a P?

 

[dalkowski]

zing. schwing.

 

[redstrand]

I've always thought the T series basses were some of the best looking basses ever made! All that chunky chrome goodness and the chrome pickups! They're like the Muscle Car of basses! Love my T-40! I'd definitely like to get my hands on a T-45 though! Sweet bass man!

Oh it’ll be more shiny soon, I ordered a chrome ring for the pickup

 

[redstrand]

This?
https://peavey.com/manuals/80370359.pdf

Yep, can’t wait to plug it in at some point

 

[redstrand]

Nice head stock! The rest too. How does it compare to a P?

Should be beefier. It’s able to do single coil and humbucker with a turn of that middle knob and should get dubtastic with the extra tone knob

 

[redstrand]

1982 according to serial listing. Neck is settling in. That was one long journey to get here

 

[B-Mac]

@redstrand
This is not meant as a hi-jack of your post.
I don’t know if it’s the lighting but I noticed a difference in hue between my ‘83 T-45?
Yours seems browner and mine seems redder. Or am I just imagining this?

 

[Bassmike62]

oooooh dat nice !!!!!

 

[BEADG63]

Beautiful burst. This is what I classify as the perfect specimen of tobacco sunburst. Congrats

 

[dbsfgyd1]

After 5 T-40’s I think I found what I was looking for. It’s the color combo I dig and one pickup will do. It’s heavy but balances perfect on a strap. Restrung it with labella flats(through body set) and will let it chill for a bit. The case is the best version and condition I’ve seen

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‘nice looking bass. Congrats!

 

[Bass V]

that's a gorgeous piece of Peavey, the maple contrast is sweet. if I didn't have a T-40 that I hate all the many sounds of I'd still be dying for a 45, do the 45s have the same baked in circuitry tones?

 

[redstrand]

that's a gorgeous piece of Peavey, the maple contrast is sweet. if I didn't have a T-40 that I hate all the many sounds of I'd still be dying for a 45, do the 45s have the same baked in circuitry tones?

Yep just with three knobs, volume, single coil to humbucker tone like the 40 and then an additional tone knob

 

[B-Mac]

Yep just with three knobs, volume, single coil to humbucker tone like the 40 and then an additional tone knob

So what do you think?
Is yours more brown and mine more red?

 

[xn34]

Nice bass!

 

[ardgedee]

@redstrand
This is not meant as a hi-jack of your post.
I don’t know if it’s the lighting but I noticed a difference in hue between my ‘83 T-45?
Yours seems browner and mine seems redder. Or am I just imagining this?View attachment 4148127

Color differences can depend on the lighting.

Mine looks really red in this photo, but indoors under LED lamps it looks closer to brown.

 

[redstrand]

So what do you think?
Is yours more brown and mine more red?

It’s more brown on mine

 

[redstrand]

Color differences can depend on the lighting.
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Mine looks really red in this photo, but indoors under LED lamps it looks closer to brown.

Mines more bursty and brown, I think outside it’s a touch more red than the photo. But those were shot near a window at work with the one led light above it
I totally dig this