Same guy wants $299 for a T20 bridge.
He's delusional.
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He's delusional.
Golly, we were all sitting on gold mines and didn’t know it! 
I would like a Trapezoidal baseplate, but it's only worth $20 to me.
Otherwise, I will just put a regular bridge on that body and fill two little holes with wax filler for furniture, or maybe some brown epoxy.
I won't pay big money for Peavey triangle string trees, and Peavey logo neck plates, or the metal Peavey P knobs.
I don't care that much if a Peavey bass is stock original.
My G Bass parts project is finally underway. It will sport Super Ferrite recreations by @Matt Kustom (Nine One Six pups) as described here: tell me about Super Ferrite pickups...need info...
The additional pup will go up by the neck. So instead of the RicRiot I'd been GASsing for, I'll get a RickyG!
The additional pup will go up by the neck. So instead of the RicRiot I'd been GASsing for, I'll get a RickyG!
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- I'm highly opinionated and extremely self-assured
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:
I put it all together with the stock electronics. It sounded good, but still a bit muffled to my ears, without much usable tonal variation. With the standard V V T circuit, the volume controls work like switches - each has basically three positions: full on, 90% on, and full off. I can’t hear any tonal difference anywhere else. And I have absolutely zero use for a passive tone control.
- 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- Because the neck was originally made for a Fender-spec body, I had to move the bridge position back a half inch for the Foundation.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:
The control cavity of the Gen 2 Foundation is pretty small! I trimmed as much as I could in the cavity without breaching its perimeter, and added a separate battery box, but there’s still not room for a fourth knob. So for now the treble filter is tucked inside the cavity. But I may need to enlarge the cavity and make a new cover.
- 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!
Following up here, since I've been playing this for a couple weeks now.
The good:
- It sounds killer! The SF pickups combined with the ACG filter preamp is capable of a huge variety of tones, from Wal-style "pick attack" aggression to buttery-smooth square-wave-synth dub. Very fun!
- It's quite comfortable - light weight, and the narrow string spacing is just right for my preferences.
- This has to be one of the most boring body styles ever. Yawn....
- The horrible Fender-style neck heel right at the fifteenth fret has got to go.
- The B string is at the very edge of the bridge pickup's magnetic window, which de-emphasizes it a bit. I can actually use this to my advantage though, as many of my five-strings suffer from a boomy B if I'm not careful. This bass lets me whack on the B string with abandon, as I tend to do to the other four strings, without making my woofers jump out of the cabinet.
It's always fun to experiment and see what works!
The SF does suffer at the Peavey bridge position for 5 string (which is a touch more bridgeward than a 70s Jazz). I lose the G a good bit on my 91 Dyna 5 bridge pickup. However, I never use the bridge PU soloed on my Jazz/Foundation/Dyna basses, so I have found that I like to lower the neck pickup a touch on the bass strings, and raise the bridge pickup a touch on the bass strings. It's subtle, but gives a nice, tight punch on the low B (and E) on a 34" scale when combining pickups, yet still sounds balanced when soloing the neck pickup.
Agreed on the Gen 1 Foundation body: it's more attractive than the 90s Gen 2.
Moving the bridge pickup towards the neck will sound really nice. The nice thing about straight-line single coils/soapbars is that one can put the neck pickup in the usual J/Foundation spot, but also have the bridge pickup in the Ric spot without bumping into the neck pickup, as what happens with the split coil P and side by side humbucker pickups.
Had to return the Axcelerator. Pretty bad ski jump, unplayable above the 14th fret. Too bad, it weighed in at 7lbs, 12oz.
Been keeping an eye peeled for a nice Axcelerator for a few years, but always hesitated, thinking they'd all probably be too heavy.
A really nice Axcelerator Plus just popped up on the GC used site for $499. I don’t need it but I thought I’d put it on notice for you guys. I owned one a few years ago and it was killer.
Thanks! Placed the order. It looks to be in nice shape, we'll see when it arrives next week. It's a "+" model, I think they're supposed to have ash bodies (along with gold hardware), but this one looks like it may be alder (?...hope so). It's also a sunburst finish w/tort guard, which I like on these Axcelerators and would be my first pick if given the choice, so there's that. No mention of case or bag, so not expecting one.
Weird that it didn't show up for me on the GC used basses site, though. I have to wonder how many other goodies I'm not seeing there. May have to try a fresh search from now on. Again thanks for the link, this might be the one I've been after! Cheers.
AWESOME!!! I’m thrilled that I was able to give you the tip. It does look really clean. It also looks like alder. The Plus model I owned definitely was ash. Definitely post a NBD after it shows up!Thanks! Placed the order. It looks to be in nice shape, we'll see when it arrives next week. It's a "+" model, I think they're supposed to have ash bodies (along with gold hardware), but this one looks like it may be alder (?...hope so). It's also a sunburst finish w/tort guard, which I like on these Axcelerators and would be my first pick if given the choice, so there's that. No mention of case or bag, so not expecting one.
Weird that it didn't show up for me on the GC used basses site, though. I have to wonder how many other goodies I'm not seeing there. May have to try a fresh search from now on. Again thanks for the link, this might be the one I've been after! Cheers.
I will. I was just comparing pics of it to pics of the blue one I just returned. Looks like the pickup locations are slightly different, with the "plus" bridge pup placed back closer to the bridge than the other one was. Could just be a distorted parallax view from camera angles though, I guess. Zooming in on the Plus body, looks like barely any grain to the wood, reminds me of poplar, which I guess could be a possibility, too.
Anyway, looking forward to it. Being that it's from GC used site, it could be great, or it could totally suck. No sweat though, local GC store is 25 min from me.
GC used can be a crapshoot but man it’s TOTALLY been a goldmine for me for several years. Only a few duds but lots of insane deals. Like you the GC is 25-30 minutes away for me as well so if I don’t bond with it ……it’s gone.I will. I was just comparing pics of it to pics of the blue one I just returned. Looks like the pickup locations are slightly different, with the "plus" bridge pup placed back closer to the bridge than the other one was. Could just be a distorted parallax view from camera angles though, I guess. Zooming in on the Plus body, looks like barely any grain to the wood, reminds me of poplar, which I guess could be a possibility, too.
Anyway, looking forward to it. Being that it's from GC used site, it could be great, or it could totally suck. No sweat though, local GC store is 25 min from me.
Im pretty sure the pickup spacing is identical on all Axcelerators. On mine it was very close to the bridge. Maybe somebody here can chime in to let us know for sure.
Interesting. Check out this pdf from Peavey, where the locations of pickups look different ( more towards bridge) than on the blue non-plus pic in above post #27727.
https://peavey.com/manuals/80302204.pdf
Also the Peavey manual describes the Plus versions as having pau ferro boards (hope mine will, love pau boards) instead of rosewood, as on the non-plus model.
From the same Peavey source I found that (according to the manual) the Axcelerator 5 has a poplar body and rosewood board. All Axcel models appear to have identical 18v EQ circuits and active VFL pickups.
A question for anybody who might have some info on this....
The RJIV bass - when did Randy Jackson first become involved with Peavey and had them develop his signature bass? Presumably some time after he was recording and touring with Journey, as at that time he seemed to use the green Jackson and the pink polkadot Stingray.
Plenty of examples of him using both of those or that maple neck Aria (like with Jean Luc Ponty, for example).
However, other than an instructional video, I’ve never actually found any footage of him using the RJIV - in much the same way that it’s hard to find more than a couple of examples of Jeff Berlin using the Palaedium.
In fact, on the DVD cover showing him using the koa RJIV, the whole headstock is airbrushed out - like when JB used the Palaedium with black gaffer tape stuck over the logos.
Almost as if the relationship with Peavey was over as soon as it started? At least Rudy Sarzo used his signature basses (in various iterations....).
It’s a fine bass, of course - nicer imho than the Sarzo and always my go-to bass.
The RJIV bass - when did Randy Jackson first become involved with Peavey and had them develop his signature bass? Presumably some time after he was recording and touring with Journey, as at that time he seemed to use the green Jackson and the pink polkadot Stingray.
Plenty of examples of him using both of those or that maple neck Aria (like with Jean Luc Ponty, for example).
However, other than an instructional video, I’ve never actually found any footage of him using the RJIV - in much the same way that it’s hard to find more than a couple of examples of Jeff Berlin using the Palaedium.
In fact, on the DVD cover showing him using the koa RJIV, the whole headstock is airbrushed out - like when JB used the Palaedium with black gaffer tape stuck over the logos.
Almost as if the relationship with Peavey was over as soon as it started? At least Rudy Sarzo used his signature basses (in various iterations....).
It’s a fine bass, of course - nicer imho than the Sarzo and always my go-to bass.
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