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Peavey T-40 Club

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#502
I just traded my GK 112 up for an Ampeg BA 210. Wow. I hear much crisper,cleaner tones through my T-40 now. Don't need any effects. I still have'nt mastered all the tone variations the bass provides on it's own. Sounds so good I'm compelled to play much longer. Wife doesn't seem to like the 220W upgrade much.
 
#503
T-Forty said:
I'll try the first two suggestions, but I am not technically inclined. I don't even know what a multimeter is.
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They sell them at different prices at Radio Shack and in the auto part stores.
 
#505
Hey people, I just bought Serein2j's bass on page 17 of this forum. It's a 1978, I think. It's pretty sweet, if you ask me. I just love T-40s. I'm gonna part out my 1982, as it is in rougher shape than my 1978. I would love to fix it up, but I don't have the time or money. My only problem is, you guessed it, the weight. I'm a fairly big guy, too.
 
#507
nateh415 said:
I want to know what dial settings and pickup positions people are using to get what kind of tones and for what kind of musical style, i.e., what sounds closest to a p-bass or what is best setting for delta blues, etc. Any thoughts or ideas?:confused:
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Not a T-40 owner any more, but I would simply put 10 on the neck pup, 0 on the bridge pup and somewhat mellow it a little with the ton, that's the closest you're going to get.
 
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nateh415 said:
I want to know what dial settings and pickup positions people are using to get what kind of tones and for what kind of musical style, i.e., what sounds closest to a p-bass or what is best setting for delta blues, etc. Any thoughts or ideas?:confused:
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My favorite settings are both pickups on, with full volume and "in phase", neck pickup's tone at 10 (for single coil mode) and bridge pickup's tone at 7 (for humbucker mode). You can hear it Invalid Link Removed (bass plugged directly into the sound card's input jack) and here (bass plugged to my practice amp with line out plugged to the sound card's line in).
 
#512
Had one way back when, then I "Van Halenized" it. Killed it but good. Ripped the neck pup out, cut the pickguard down, slapped a Kahler on it, painted it black and white, then stripped it down and painted it neon green. It was laid to rest after that. All I have to remember her by is the neck. Some day I will get another '78 and enjoy it for what it is.
 
#515
I molested mine as well...I had a 79 that I bought new. My first bass. It was natural, because that's all they had, but I wanted mine to be a sunburst, like my favorite p-basses. So at 13, I took it completely apart, and commenced to "sunbursting" it - myself.

Didn't turn out so good. I wound up saving for about 2 years while I borrowed a "student bass" from school. I eventually got a Ric 4001 that I still have today, completely pristine.
 
#518
Ok, so I prolly should have posted here first, but I managed to get very close to a Rickenbacker kinda sound with dead rounds on it, and I wanna put some flats on it to REALLY get that old school rock groove going (coil taps FTW)

The ones I have on hand (chromes) aren't long enough. Any suggestions? Would Rotos fit? I know I cant use labellas because the t-40 is string-thru only.
 
#519
Basstovsky said:
... I wanna put some flats on it to REALLY get that old school rock groove going (coil taps FTW)

The ones I have on hand (chromes) aren't long enough. Any suggestions? Would Rotos fit? I know I cant use labellas because the t-40 is string-thru only.
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I put Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats on mine for some studio dates. They're working out just fine.
 
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