I'm getting the same reading you are getting. This explains why I was kind confused looking at these coils. I did not think lower than the 5k range was going to be a thing but so far three 4ohm range readings.
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I'm going to check it again in the morning and I will post the number I get the second time.
Do you notice any tonal difference wired VVT compared to original volume/blend in passive mode?
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God I love this bass sir...and, yes, the maple/rosewood neck on your 1st Gen Fury came off of an '87 3TS Fury.
That '87 3TS Fury body now has the all rosewood 32" Warmoth Warhead neck on it and a black pickguard (I need to take a better pic of this bass...you can see a stock pick of that bass before I took her apart for @58kites and I here)
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That thing really needs a set of DR Black Beauties.
And a Sharpie over the fretboard dots.
I kind of went crazy with the meter this morning.
Peavey Slant Super Ferrite: 4.22K ohms
Peavey Foundation with the pair of passive VFL looking pickups: Front 7.54 | Rear 7.67 | both pickups 3.91
EMG GZR P pickup: 10.80K ohms
EMG GZR P&J pair: P pickup 7.23 | J pickup 7.01 | both pickups 4.29
Taiwan made Thunderbird Humbucker 9.03K ohms
Seymour Duncan Stacked 51P Bass pickup 26.1K ohms
Peavey Slant Super Ferrite: 4.22K ohms
Peavey Foundation with the pair of passive VFL looking pickups: Front 7.54 | Rear 7.67 | both pickups 3.91
EMG GZR P pickup: 10.80K ohms
EMG GZR P&J pair: P pickup 7.23 | J pickup 7.01 | both pickups 4.29
Taiwan made Thunderbird Humbucker 9.03K ohms
Seymour Duncan Stacked 51P Bass pickup 26.1K ohms
I might have left the wiring stock but the Dyna circuit was starting to have a lot of issues, the pots were all noisy and the output jack needed to be replaced. I prefer passive basses anyway. The bass still has just as much bottom and snap but has a really organic character that just sounds good in a track, the original lacked some of that in passive mode. To my ear it has a more gutsy sound overall with very distinct voices front, back and blended.
Can you post more pics of your bass?
What bridge is that?
Pickguard looks unusual too.
Your trim ring looks like is came from Frets on the Net
Thank you for that - I’ve got a Glockenklang preamp in mine, which is supposed to be pretty transparent. I might try experimenting with a direct output just to see if it makes a difference, even though the Glock has passive switching.
Sure, will take some later. It’s a Mustang bridge. I have a 20 fret neck on it so I moved the stock bridge down which leaves extra holes. Eyeballed the Mustang bridge to cover all that plus a little tighter spacing is a bonus for me. Didn’t pay attention to it being string through haha.
I bought the loaded body on ebay and it came with this pickguard, it has a (rattle can?) finish on it, it’s cream underneath.
Yep aluminum ring from frets on the net.
Very cool, and an interesting bass.
The grain on the body looks unusual.
I've seen a bunch of ash (or hackberry) Peavey T40/T45/T20/Gen 1 Fury/Patriot pics and none of them have grain that looks like yours.
The grain is tighter and the finish is less gold/yellow, the wood shows more brown grain lines.
Thanks. Yeah the grain is killer, had to have it. Reminds me of a topographic map in places. This is the back.
Ummmm...this bass is turning me on...dayummm...
Do you play doom on that thing?!
I may have to throw a Mustang bridge on my T-44 (medium scale T-40 for my 44th birthday
) project...
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Bridge works great for this specific purpose, don’t mind the way it looks either. If you’re thinking of doing the same, I made an 1/8” aluminum spacer underneath to compensate for the humongous stock barrel saddles.Ummmm...this bass is turning me on...dayummm...
Do you play doom on that thing?!
I may have to throw a Mustang bridge on my T-44 (medium scale T-40 for my 44th birthday
Looking for slant size ceramic magnets on the web has been unsuccessful. Nothing close. The width is always a jump from 2 inch to 3 inch. No 2.5 x 1 inch anywhere. The magnets are the biggest hurdle as of right now.
If it is possible to do some kind of batch purchase of these slant pickups the money from the sale could be used to order the custom magnets. A magnet order usually takes about 3 weeks.
To have covers made CAD drawings would be needed and the smallest order possible is about 10 covers. IDK if the generous designer of the SF pickup covers would donate his time and skill to this effort.
Or
Blades could be cut and plated for a exposed blade pickup made from vulcanex with a large baseplate to place the large magnets on. This would cut out the need for CAD and covers.
Another option would be a pickup like @XsoGol prototype custom order duel pole I designed. This would be the design with best price as a lot of the files are already created and tested
Feedback on this post is appreciated , trying to see if this project can move forward. If there is enough interest in recreation to get over the magnet order. Normally I would just order to have the magnets in stock like on the other designs but I really don't know what could be done with these huge ceramic mags outside the slant and the Toaster I think
If it is possible to do some kind of batch purchase of these slant pickups the money from the sale could be used to order the custom magnets. A magnet order usually takes about 3 weeks.
To have covers made CAD drawings would be needed and the smallest order possible is about 10 covers. IDK if the generous designer of the SF pickup covers would donate his time and skill to this effort.
Or
Blades could be cut and plated for a exposed blade pickup made from vulcanex with a large baseplate to place the large magnets on. This would cut out the need for CAD and covers.
Another option would be a pickup like @XsoGol prototype custom order duel pole I designed. This would be the design with best price as a lot of the files are already created and tested
Feedback on this post is appreciated , trying to see if this project can move forward. If there is enough interest in recreation to get over the magnet order. Normally I would just order to have the magnets in stock like on the other designs but I really don't know what could be done with these huge ceramic mags outside the slant and the Toaster I think
I’m interested in a pickup. Will poke through the super ferrite thread to see what the dual pole prototype design is.
Photos are over in 'tell me about super Ferrite pickups' I'll post here so no search needed
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It makes perfect sense that a bass with this Dyna preamp would sound better with the preamp completely out of the signal path vs 'passive' mode. It's a very cool design that has features that really didn't become standard until the last couple decades: active/passive with a passive tone control. However, it's a preamp design from the mid 80s, so it's not the most transparent sounding preamp.
I learned a lot about that pre when I got my 91 Dyna 5 as a basket case project. The preamp was pretty rough. The switch was shot and it needed a new jack. Most of the pots were janky at best: loose torque, scratchy/noisy, not making good contact throughout the sweep... As everyone here knows, finding those spider pots is impossible, and it's rare a working Dyna preamp came up for sale. Replacing the jack and switch was easy, the pots were not. I gave up looking for a pre or the pots. I then removed the pots from the board, took them apart, cleaned them up, reassembled them and reinstalled on the board. Fingers crossed, they all worked! I got lucky. If that fix didn't work out, I was looking into Vol Blend Tone passive mode or perhaps an Audere preamp.
