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U.S. Peavey Club

#6,943
JEDI BASS said:
Just played around with my T-40... trying to get a sound similar to what I'm getting from my dual humbucker Bongo and my Classic Stingray. I think I can get there eventually. Any suggestions?

The bridge pup solo'd in humbucker mode wasn't close enough to my Stingray. I need more tweak time.
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Have a look at these two videos:


 
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Yep, that's a 90.
Last of the two piece necks....great necks.
The pickup is basically split P and they are pretty hot. Wound a bit hotter than a Precision in my experience.
Those flatwounds will make it thump real good.
Nice bass!
 
#6,947
furym said:
More pics

The serial number is hard to photograph, it is sort of pressed into the back of the headstock. 04380***

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That is exactly the same bass as one I am looking at which is super lightweight at under 8 lbs.

Can you tell us the weight of your Fury and what the resistance reading is on the pickup?
 
#6,948
Runnerman said:
Yep, that's a 90.
Last of the two piece necks....great necks.
The pickup is basically split P and they are pretty hot. Wound a bit hotter than a Precision in my experience.
Those flatwounds will make it thump real good.
Nice bass!
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The 2 piece necks are excellent....very resistant to twisting (better than Fender) but many I have encountered were badly needing the trussrod tightening.

Fortunately I have never encountered Peavey bass necks that couldn't have the trussrod tightened successfully (according to my local repair guy who has serviced basses since the early 70's with 1000's of Peavey basses passing thru his shop).

Including my 85 Foundation and 87 Fury which I bought for cheap as the shops thought they were "too warped" and beyond trussrod tightening!

My 85 Foundation neck was badly out of adjustment........but gradually I have that neck playing almost dead on perfectly in spec....I tightened the truss rod a series of times, maybe 3 times gradually....its now perfect imo.
 
#6,949
DavidEdenAria said:
That is exactly the same bass as one I am looking at which is super lightweight at under 8 lbs.

Can you tell us the weight of your Fury and what the resistance reading is on the pickup?
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Wish I could, but my bathroom scale is a cheap walmart one that barely reads my weight and I am not sure how or where to measure the resistance reading on the pickup. If it is something I can do without disassembling the pups or the bass then I will gladly hook up a multimeter if you tell me where. I am not taking apart the bass though I finally got it set up like I want.
 
#6,950
DavidEdenAria said:
The 2 piece necks are excellent....very resistant to twisting (better than Fender) but many I have encountered were badly needing the trussrod tightening.

Fortunately I have never encountered Peavey bass necks that couldn't have the trussrod tightened successfully (according to my local repair guy who has serviced basses since the early 70's with 1000's of Peavey basses passing thru his shop).

Including my 85 Foundation and 87 Fury which I bought for cheap as the shops thought they were "too warped" and beyond trussrod tightening!

My 85 Foundation neck was badly out of adjustment........but gradually I have that neck playing almost dead on perfectly in spec....I tightened the truss rod a series of times, maybe 3 times gradually....its now perfect imo.
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How do you tell that this is a two piece neck? Where are the pieces joined?
 
#6,953
furym said:
Wish I could, but my bathroom scale is a cheap walmart one that barely reads my weight and I am not sure how or where to measure the resistance reading on the pickup. If it is something I can do without disassembling the pups or the bass then I will gladly hook up a multimeter if you tell me where. I am not taking apart the bass though I finally got it set up like I want.
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Its easy if you have a multi meter (which all guitarists should have).

Set the meter to resistance and insert any guitar cord to the guitar itself....then take each lead of the meter and connect to the other end of the guitar cord...one lead at the tip of the guitar cord and the other lead at the long shaft part of the guitar cord.
 
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DavidEdenAria said:
Its easy if you have a multi meter (which all guitarists should have).

Set the meter to resistance and insert any guitar cord to the guitar itself....then take each lead of the meter and connect to the other end of the guitar cord...one lead at the tip of the guitar cord and the other lead at the long shaft part of the guitar cord.
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Using a radio shack analog meter with only a 1 k ohm scale it reads about 14 on the scale. Not sure what that converts to.
 

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