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The Official Peavey Thread!!!!

#281
Just got this yesterday so can I be in the club? :hyper:

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#283
'89 Peavey Dynabass Unity, Midnight Blue. It get s very 'barky' and 'breaks up' real nice when I push it. Very sliky sound, but dark and rough at the same time.

I've been playing my Schecter a lot lately, but once in a while I break out the Peavey and rediscover it- then swear I'm going to play it at my next gig! And maybe I do... I paid $300 for it, which ain't bad for a neck-thu with a super-sleek neck and decent active guts. Nice axe, fun to play.
 
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#291
As nice as Peaveys may be, that one needs a lot of work just to get playable. You would need a bridge, pots, some kind of pickguard and the easiest part is choosing a pickup. You would probably have to do some routing to get the pickup in. So my conservative estimate is $150 plus lots of labor. When you're finished, you will have a bass thats worth $150 if your lucky. That $50 + $150 gets you into eBay Peavey Foundation territory. Just a thought.
 
#292
jgsbass said:
As nice as Peaveys may be, that one needs a lot of work just to get playable. You would need a bridge, pots, some kind of pickguard and the easiest part is choosing a pickup. You would probably have to do some routing to get the pickup in. So my conservative estimate is $150 plus lots of labor. When you're finished, you will have a bass thats worth $150 if your lucky. That $50 + $150 gets you into eBay Peavey Foundation territory. Just a thought.
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So just sell it, then?
By the way thanks for your input, folks!
 
#297
Hey all!

I am the proud owner of 2 Peavey Foundations, as well as a Peavey rig!

One question I do have that some of you may be able to help out on:

How can you tell which Foundations have the fabled Super-Ferrite pickups and which ones don't? One of mine (which I recently bought for a fantastic price from Woody!) has what I would call the "2-segmented" pickups - basically a plastic border with a single coil in the center. The other one (a fretless) has the one-piece soapbars. The instruction manual for the Foundation on the Peavey website lists "super-ferrite" pickups as stock for the model - is that right? Are there two versions of the same pickup, and if so, is one of them superior?

Help me out!
 
#298
djwackfriz said:
How can you tell which Foundations have the fabled Super-Ferrite pickups and which ones don't? One of mine (which I recently bought for a fantastic price from Woody!) has what I would call the "2-segmented" pickups - basically a plastic border with a single coil in the center. The other one (a fretless) has the one-piece soapbars. The instruction manual for the Foundation on the Peavey website lists "super-ferrite" pickups as stock for the model - is that right? Are there two versions of the same pickup, and if so, is one of them superior?
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The Super-Ferrite pickups have "SUPER FERRITE" imprinted right on the top of them!
 

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