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U.S. Peavey Club
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- Apr 18, 2008
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Tell me more!So I did a thing.
What neck?
What preamp?
Looks like tight, 80s style string spacing with that 3D5 bridge.
- Apr 18, 2008
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Sorry to drop that and head to bed….. 
I picked up a loaded Gen 2 Foundation body here in the Classifieds.
The neck is a 33” scale five-string conversion neck that I made years ago for a Squier Jaguar body I had. That bass worked well, was really comfortable, and sounded good. But I hated the way that the offset body made it fall over when I leaned it against the wall. So I moved the neck to an old Ibanez body for a while, which was okay, but when this Foundation body came along, I thought “hmmmmm”…
What I like about this mongrel:
So I dropped in an ACG/East filter preamp.
The ACG uses four stacked knobs:
I’ll need to spend some time with it to learn how to dial in all of the tones, and I think it needs new strings, but this should be a fun little beastie!
I picked up a loaded Gen 2 Foundation body here in the Classifieds.
The neck is a 33” scale five-string conversion neck that I made years ago for a Squier Jaguar body I had. That bass worked well, was really comfortable, and sounded good. But I hated the way that the offset body made it fall over when I leaned it against the wall. So I moved the neck to an old Ibanez body for a while, which was okay, but when this Foundation body came along, I thought “hmmmmm”…
What I like about this mongrel:
- Tight string spacing.
- Because the neck was originally made for a Fender-spec body, I had to move the bridge position back a half inch for the Foundation. That’s actually a win, as it means the pickups are a bit farther from the bridge, fattening up the tone. The pickups are now more or less in the “lowered” Rickenbacker positions, as used on certain 4004 models.
- Light weight. I guess this Foundation body is alder?
So I dropped in an ACG/East filter preamp.
The ACG uses four stacked knobs:
- Stacked volume/blend
- Stacked low pass filter/resonance for the neck pickup
- Stacked low pass filter/resonance for the bridge pickup
- Stacked master high pass filter/boost-cut for treble
I’ll need to spend some time with it to learn how to dial in all of the tones, and I think it needs new strings, but this should be a fun little beastie!
- Apr 18, 2008
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By the way, I have the stock wiring harness, bridge, and knobs available for free to the first caller.
… and already spoken for!
… and already spoken for!
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It's been quite a while since I snagged a new-to-me Peavey. Been keeping an eye peeled for a nice Axcelerator for a few years, but always hesitated, thinking they'd all probably be too heavy. But then I found out the base version (non-Plus) Axcelerators have alder bodies, not ash. That could be a game changer weight-wise (rolling the dice here). Paid a premium for it, but it looks to be in great shape, has the finish I prefer (also dig the gold ones!). High hopes for this cool bass, should be here Thursday will post impressions for anyone interested. Meanwhile, a few pics....
It's been quite a while since I snagged a new-to-me Peavey. Been keeping an eye peeled for a nice Axcelerator for a few years, but always hesitated, thinking they'd all probably be too heavy. But then I found out the base version (non-Plus) Axcelerators have alder bodies, not ash. That could be a game changer weight-wise (rolling the dice here). Paid a premium for it, but it looks to be in great shape, has the finish I prefer (also dig the gold ones!). High hopes for this cool bass, should be here Thursday will post impressions for anyone interested. Meanwhile, a few pics....
Looks like a gem!
From @BassikLee: "There were some humbucking SF pickups too. Ronnie Goss first mentioned this. I have two of them. Oddly they are both bridge pickups in first generation TL5 basses. Given the shallow bobbin we've recently learned about, I suspect stacked coils."
Of course! That said, I think many of us are interested in what linear split coil SFs would sound like.
We have no way of knowing the coil configuration without destroying the pickups. That won’t happen on my watch as long as they are working
I had one just like it, same color.It's been quite a while since I snagged a new-to-me Peavey. Been keeping an eye peeled for a nice Axcelerator for a few years, but always hesitated, thinking they'd all probably be too heavy. But then I found out the base version (non-Plus) Axcelerators have alder bodies, not ash. That could be a game changer weight-wise (rolling the dice here). Paid a premium for it, but it looks to be in great shape, has the finish I prefer (also dig the gold ones!). High hopes for this cool bass, should be here Thursday will post impressions for anyone interested. Meanwhile, a few pics....
It was not heavy.
Isn't there a way to "read" the field of the pickups? I know you can find the North/South polarity of the magnets with a compass, couldn't you also do metal shavings on plexiglass to see the shapes and directions of the fields? Even if you had to put a little DC current through the pickup - making it an electromagnet - to make that happen?
Thinking out loud here - I wouldn't think coiled wire around magnets would be that hard to decipher.
Gen 2 Fury basses had split P pickups, and a pickguard that goes straight across below the pickup, as opposed to the Gen 3 Fury which had split P pickups and had the curvy pickguard below the pickup. The Gen 2 Fury has the same body shape as the Gen 1 Fury and the Foundation S.
