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U.S. Peavey Club

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Had another fun one last night. The ole TL sounded pretty good. This was our last gig for 21. I’ll hit the studio this afternoon to do some touch ups on a couple of songs and then the TL’s work will be done. By the next time we gig (mid January) my new Muckelroy bass should be done and will become the main player and the TL will fall into the backup role. Don’t worry though, it won’t be neglected!

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jjk2007 said:
Had another fun one last night. The ole TL sounded pretty good. This was our last gig for 21. I’ll hit the studio this afternoon to do some touch ups on a couple of songs and then the TL’s work will be done. By the next time we gig (mid January) my new Muckelroy bass should be done and will become the main player and the TL will fall into the backup role. Don’t worry though, it won’t be neglected!

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I've always wanted to try a Muck... Now, to steer this ship back to Peavey :)
 
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Chuck M said:
I find it interesting that the ABM is my favorite bridge and others, like yourself, prefer the Hipshot. I have two basses with Hipshot bridges. They are my Roscoe fretless 6 and my Modulus Q6. The bridges are fine and do what they should do but I find it easier for me to set up the ABM.

I recall the first bass I bought that had an ABM and I did not care for the bridge since I was not used to the odd way adjustments are made. I came to appreciate the ABM when I learned that I can always properly set intonation on a wound (not contact core) B string. On the Hipshot you sometimes have to reduce the length of the saddle adjustment screw or the spring or both to get the string long enough for proper intonation.

Peavey used the Hipshot bridge on the USA Millennium basses and those basses have the well earned reputation of requiring a neck shim to set the neck angle. I have yet to find a bass with an ABM that I could not get the action low enough and yet your experience is common. I have read many complaints about the ABM not going low enough. I recall only one of my Cirrus basses that has some of the ABM bridge saddles as low as they can go.

Years ago I read an article by Rick Turner in Guitar player magazine. Rick stated that it is more accurate to set intonation using the harmonic and fretted notes at the 19th fret instead of the 12th fret. I have found that intonation is indeed better when I use Rick Turner's method.

I am happy that your GV is working out for you. It certainly is a beauty.
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The quandary with the Millennium was indeed that A bridge. I had a purple one shimmed. They simply didn't engineer that piece with the bass to work right, worse than the ABM, imo. Then you have some customs and the tiger eye models with the same bridge, and they were fine. Boggles my brain as to how many basses can't get action as low as you want, because the saddles run out of adjustment. *facepalm*
 
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mb94952 said:
I've always wanted to try a Muck... Now, to steer this ship back to Peavey :)
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I live pretty close to Brady and had him do some repair work to a couple of my basses. While at his shop back in the day he let me play a couple of his basses while he was checking mine out. His basses were on par with anything I have ever played (Smith, Fodera etc) and they all had super low action with no buzz, and sounded amazing. I knew I wanted one but could never afford it until he came out with his ‘budget line’ called the Pro Player series. That was in my wheel house so I put my deposit down this past April. Hopefully it will be finished here in the next few week.

Now back to all things Peavey. I finished my very few punch ins at the studio and now we wait for the final product. It’s been a while since I’ve done recording and the TL sounds great even on just the straight, raw tracks. The engineer was impressed with how well it tracked. :bassist:
 
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songwriter21 said:
The quandary with the Millennium was indeed that A bridge. I had a purple one shimmed. They simply didn't engineer that piece with the bass to work right, worse than the ABM, imo. Then you have some customs and the tiger eye models with the same bridge, and they were fine. Boggles my brain as to how many basses can't get action as low as you want, because the saddles run out of adjustment. *facepalm*
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Don't blame Hipshot for "poor engineering". The 'A' bridge is what it is. It's up to bass builders to "engineer" their builds around whatever hardware they plan on using.

If your Millenium ran out of saddle adjustment room, then maybe Peavey didn't bother to calculate the optimal rout depth for the neck pocket? That's on Peavey, not Hipshot. Just sayin...
 

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