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U.S. Peavey Club

#2,101
NickInMesa said:
I do not own one single active bass. Just too much control and too artificial sounding for my own taste.
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If you ever have a chance, try out a bass that has passive pickups and an Aguilar OBP-3. I said the same thing about actives till I put an OBP-3 in a passive bass that I wasn't digging so much, and the OBP-3 sounded very organic and when flat the pickups passive tone still shone through. I just used it to cut all the 'mwah' out of my fretless since I don't really like that sound, but love the feel of a fretless. It may not be for you, but its the closest thing to a passive bass tone with active controls that I have found :D

Not tryin to force anythin down your throat, just sayin if you ever find you have to have an active preamp, thats what worked for me who also thought preamps always sounded too digital, artificial, and crisp.
 
#2,102
Bass to..

Interesting on the Aguilar... I'm interested as would love to do something on one of my 7 strings (I must be bored again).

Note to lurkers.. many basses already have passive pickups and a preamp.

One of the things I'm considering on the Fury (pbass era) is adding a Demeter passive (no battery) preamp to the Early Barts I located...

No Mwaahhh.. on a fretless (don't let the bass nerds hear you).. wow.. once again you'd hate one in the stable.. it's almost incontrollable (graphite neck).. and yes.. has Barts and knobs/switches all over it. (nope not a USA PV)

Aguilar.. checking it out.

Timmy






Basstovsky said:
If you ever have a chance, try out a bass that has passive pickups and an Aguilar OBP-3. I said the same thing about actives till I put an OBP-3 in a passive bass that I wasn't digging so much, and the OBP-3 sounded very organic and when flat the pickups passive tone still shone through. I just used it to cut all the 'mwah' out of my fretless since I don't really like that sound, but love the feel of a fretless. It may not be for you, but its the closest thing to a passive bass tone with active controls that I have found :D

Not tryin to force anythin down your throat, just sayin if you ever find you have to have an active preamp, thats what worked for me who also thought preamps always sounded too digital, artificial, and crisp.
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#2,103
Basstovsky said:
If you ever have a chance, try out a bass that has passive pickups and an Aguilar OBP-3. I said the same thing about actives till I put an OBP-3 in a passive bass that I wasn't digging so much, and the OBP-3 sounded very organic and when flat the pickups passive tone still shone through. I just used it to cut all the 'mwah' out of my fretless since I don't really like that sound, but love the feel of a fretless. It may not be for you, but its the closest thing to a passive bass tone with active controls that I have found :D

Not tryin to force anythin down your throat, just sayin if you ever find you have to have an active preamp, thats what worked for me who also thought preamps always sounded too digital, artificial, and crisp.
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Well, there is active and active.

Pre-amp and active pickups are not exactly the same thing.

By artificial I mean that EMG pickups in a plastic instrument would sound the same as in an instrument made out of ebony.
 
#2,105
I find for the aguilar is best when you only tweak each knob a bit, theres something like 15 DB of boost and cut (meaning an overall 30 DB difference) available for each band of EQ, and when you fully boost and/or fully cut it can start to sound artificial. I pump the low mids (I have the optional push-pull high/low mid pot) to about halfway boosted, the bass up a smidge, and cut the treble about halfway for my standard tone, and it sounds natural, none of that 'coldness' I found with my experience with EMG, Ibanez, and Bartolini. Also might be of note I keep both pickups balanced equally, and roll the volume off a little more than halfway to keep its output at the same level as my passives. That might also have something to do with it. I wouldn't be able to vouch however, for how well it plays with tonewoods, as the bass I have it in is a low end model. As always YMMV.
 
#2,108
I have owned 3 US Cirrus 5 string basses at one time (Bubinga, Walnut, Burled Walnut) - love them. Now I just have my Burled Walnut as I prefer the body with a gloss finish. My other 2 had the rubbed-oil finish and I kept digging my nails into the body when slapping - I did not like that feeling! Lots of little chips too. I thought of adding a plate of some sort to them before but decided to leave them stock, sell and buy another gloss finish. I would like to have a Redwood or Maple body with a Maple fretboard for my next one...funds permitting of course.
 
#2,109
I have this pic in a few other threads but I though I should put my updated Peavey family photo in here as well. :hyper:

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#2,112
rickenbaker said:
Just got my new RJ-IV a couple of weeks ago in pearl purple burst. I don't stop getting complimented on the color and it sounds beastly. Because of this thing I now have a peavey fetish
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RJ? What's that? You'll probably be able to hear me smack my forehead from all the way over there when you tell me, but I just can't think of it. Pics would help that of course =)
 
#2,118
I'm new here and skimming through the pages and pages of this thread, I hope this is the right place to post something like this. In the past month I have picked up a two Peavey Basses.
One is a Sunburst/Maple Neck T-40 and the other is a Purple Sarzo Signature. I'm looking for some parts for both.
For the T-40 I'm looking for a pickup selector switch (large round bat style), nut and case.
For the Sarzo I'm looking for knobs (the speed knob style with rubber grip ring especially) and a case.

If anyone has parts they would like to sell or information on where to find these parts please contact me.

Now I have to get back to reading all the pages in this Peavey thread.
 

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