U.S. Peavey Club

[songwriter21]

Someone posted this guy yesterday. He can make any pickup you want.
TOM BRANTLEY REWINDS
Also, you can buy the Cirrus pups from AliExpress ; that is if you can actually receive your order.
I think the student stigma is long worn off. I'd say Rogue, Harley Benton, etc took that crown. Serious players all have a Peavey in their arsenal, at least a lot of them do.

Pretty sure Carey Nordstrand will make anything, too.

 

[Bleecker]

Learning question.. the very late ones that look almost like a VFL... are these also the same guts?

I believe those are not SFs...someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[songwriter21]

I believe those are not SFs...someone correct me if I'm wrong.

They're just single-coils.

 

[kodiakblair]

They're just single-coils.

SF's are just single coils, pretty low wound ceramic single coils with a blade.

Later single coils are also ceramic with a, C-5 . Think the SFs might have used C-8 but the later version uses more wire to compensate.

 

[Bleecker]

SF's are just single coils, pretty low wound ceramic single coils with a blade.

Later single coils are also ceramic with a, C-5 . Think the SFs might have used C-8 but the later version uses more wire to compensate.

Happy New Year Brother!

 

[ctmullins]

(I feel like this has been asked before, but…)

Which currently available pickup is comparable to the Super Ferrite? Nordstrand’s Big Blade is amazing, but not ceramic.

 

[kodiakblair]

Sad but true. Don't know if all that many people would care to buy a Foundation now.
The Peavey stigma still exists, also there are tons more choices out there today, and Fender still rules the roost.

Outside of the folks here, very few; less outside the USA.

I see 2 forms of Peavey stigma, USA & rest of the world. Hartley said his "95% of our customers are 'over there' and we better go to them." speech in 84, the money raised from those markets lifted the company and the product line exploded.

While the amp lines were a success it's not so true for guitars/basses. Those were just another name in a long list of non Fender/Gibson brands. The timing was another issue, they were competing against confident Japanese companies who had cast off the 'cheap copies' business model and strike their own path.

 

[kodiakblair]

Happy New Year Brother!

And a Happy New Year to you, may 2023 treat you and your's kindly

 

[58kites]

I think the student stigma is long worn off.
I'd say Rogue, Harley Benton, etc took that crown.
Serious players all have a Peavey in their arsenal, at least a lot of them do.

The student stigma keeps a guitar/bass manufacturing company in a place where all those students will go buy something else after they learn to play the guitar or bass.
Yes, the student stigma has worn off....and Peavey no longer makes Basses in Mississippi.
No more Foundations, good Furys, Patriots, USA Cirrus, USA Millenniums, and many other great instruments.
Peavey had an uphill battle trying to compete with Fender and Gibson when they first introduced the T40 & T60 because those looked not very much like a Fender or Gibson instrument, and they were also a company based in the deep south USA which carried a stigma too.
Then selling so many instruments to the school programs, they formed a mental association in people's minds that they were cheap junk for students to learn on.
I may be way off base here, but I think it makes sense.
I was working at NAMM (at Whirlwind) the year (and for several years after) Hartley showed up with the T40/T60.
I believe many people saw them as "Country and Western" looking which put them in a limited spot.
Their bass shape migrated from T40/T45 to T20 to Gen 1 Fury (which is a beautiful shape IMO) which fell more in line with Fender basses.
The Precision and Jazz has obviously dominated so many peoples perception of what a bass should look like for 70 years now.

 

[MNAirHead]

SF's are just single coils, pretty low wound ceramic single coils with a blade.

Later single coils are also ceramic with a, C-5 . Think the SFs might have used C-8 but the later version uses more wire to compensate.

for the life of me... I can't hear the difference....

But then again my ear is used to bombastic active stuff

 

[songwriter21]

That's a thick top!

 

[kodiakblair]

for the life of me... I can't hear the difference....

Not just you, folks make a far bigger deal out of any supposed differences than there actually are

 

[MNAirHead]

Not just you, folks make a far bigger deal out of any supposed differences than there actually are

I know I'll be shamed, I sincerely can't hear the nuances of an Axcellerator, TL, Dyna and Cirrus.

I can hear the Millenium Preamp.... I can hear a BQuad... I can hear a fury with flats.....

When mixed in band context, it seems like much of it is judgement (signal chain, strings/setup, touch etc)

That's a thick top!

*Thicc

 

[kodiakblair]

I know I'll be shamed

Not by me Tim, nor by the good folks in an audience

"Good tone" is short hand for "I heard your bass". The glowing terms we see on TB to describe tone don't exist in real life

 

[ctmullins]

Not by me Tim, nor by the good folks in an audience

"Good tone" is short hand for "I heard your bass". The glowing terms we see on TB to describe tone don't exist in real life

... And all of our elaborate fantasies of shade and color and nuance and subtlety simply evaporate in a cloud of wishful smoke in the cold light of reality ...

 

[BassikLee]

Agreed. In a mix, things that tend to actually survive are bright/dark, dead spots vs even response, and blatantly obvious effects. The nuances, "I have to use my rosewood board P with Chromes on this song. I want flats, but fairly alive flats", nope. That's one reason I've been playing my Ibanez EHB almost exclusively lately. While it was more expensive than some of my old US made Peaveys, it's easily replaceable. That, and it sounds good, plays well, and weighs 7 pounds. Not bad for a fiver.

 

[Bassinthemudd]

In a mix, things that tend to actually survive are bright/dark, dead spots vs even response, and blatantly obvious effects.

...especially digital effects.

 

[AudioTaper]

Seems like a good price on a Dyna with Super Ferrites. Not affiliated
Peavey Dyna Bass - Black Peavey Dyna Bass - Black | Reverb

 

[Bassinthemudd]

Seems like a good price on a Dyna with Super Ferrites. Not affiliated
Peavey Dyna Bass - Black Peavey Dyna Bass - Black | Reverb

Yeah, that seller has been highlighted here a few times. He has a lot of Peaveys for sale, at good prices. If I were looking, rather than trying not to, I'd make the four hour drive and check them all out.
Decade XS | Reverb

 

[Bleecker]

Decade XS | Reverb

He just listed this a couple hours ago and I snagged it! He worked with me a bit, I knew I couldn't drag my feet on this one. First new bass in quite a while. Anyone have a bar for this?