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U.S. Peavey Club

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Here are some Peaveys of mine. My Cirrus and two Forum Vs. The Forum V on the left has a busted trussrod, but I am going to have it rebuilt to keep the original Peavey neck. These are some heavy basses, but they have tone for days. Like so many Peaveys, the Forums could have been a monster hit if things had been different for Peavey.
 

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I am so happy that I was able to get my hands of my pair of Forums. The sound they have is phenomenal. It is modern, but more scooped than a Cirrus. The tone is very clear, and works well in a lot of different settings. Now that I have these, I may not buy my friend's AtelierZ, and I am not nearly as worried about buying that Sadowsky UV 70 V. Between my Forums and Cirrus, I may be set as far as modern bass tones go.
 
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Ken R said:
OK, here we go again.
Another Peavey, this time a Dyna. Bolt neck, VFL pups,clean, very easy to play. However...... no matter the position of the dip switches, the active sound is much thinner and quieter than the passive sound. Battery reads 9.31, so that should not be the problem. The passive sound is friggin great!
Any suggestions on the quiet active issue?
Now the Peavey family is
1-Patriot
1- Foundation S (active)
2 Foundations
2-Furys
1- Palaedium
1-Dyna

Ken R
Peavey club number 25 (I think)
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How's this working out? Have you compared it to other VFL equipped peaveys?
 
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Dr. Cheese said:
Here are some Peaveys of mine. My Cirrus and two Forum Vs. The Forum V on the left has a busted trussrod, but I am going to have it rebuilt to keep the original Peavey neck. These are some heavy basses, but they have tone for days. Like so many Peaveys, the Forums could have been a monster hit if things had been different for Peavey.
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Now that I have had my Forums for a while, and especially since I changed the strings to Ernie Ball rounds on the Forum with the good neck, I am totally blown away by this model. To my ears, it is certainly more scooped than a Cirrus, but it still has that modern midrange to it's tone. The sound is very clear and well defined like an MTD 535, although it does not sound one of those either. This bass has a very usable to that works in all sorts of music. This just might be the best Peavey five I have ever played. I certainly like its tone much more than the Millennium. The Cirrus, of course is a classic, so it is in a category of its own. This Forum V makes me content in way that is very rare for a man with my GAS history. In all fairness, I have gotten old, and I am getting tired churning between basses, but this Forums blows me away. They are rare, but if you can stand a larger bass with maybe 17mm spacing at the bridge, check one out.
 

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Dr. Cheese said:
Now that I have had my Forums for a while, and especially since I changed the strings to Ernie Ball rounds on the Forum with the good neck, I am totally blown away by this model. To my ears, it is certainly more scooped than a Cirrus, but it still has that modern midrange to it's tone. The sound is very clear and well defined like an MTD 535, although it does not sound one of those either. This bass has a very usable to that works in all sorts of music. This just might be the best Peavey five I have ever played. I certainly like its tone much more than the Millennium. The Cirrus, of course is a classic, so it is in a category of its own. This Forum V makes me content in way that is very rare for a man with my GAS history. In all fairness, I have gotten old, and I am getting tired churning between basses, but this Forums blows me away. They are rare, but if you can stand a larger bass with maybe 17mm spacing at the bridge, check one out.
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I wanna come straighten your pictures out... on the wall... sorry LOL.
 
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The Foundation rebuild just got nearer today.

Local fella and Peavey owner just sold me his Franken-Foundation.Last year before Peavey UK branch was closed
he'd bought a loaded Foundation body and fitted a Millennium neck.

Now the plan is swap my VFL Foundation neck to the just bought SF body ,fit the spare T 40 neck to the VFL body
and the Millennium neck to the spare Foundation body with only one SF.

Does that make sense to anybody:D
 
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May be heresy folks but I've had a change of heart since last night:jawdrop:

The VFL Foundation will remain stock and the one with the Millennium neck stays as is.
The thing plays so well I'd be crazy to mess with it:D

The T-40 neck will go on the spare Foundation body someday when I figure out what pickup will
compliment the SF,or maybe I'll just leave it in the bridge position:D

Don't they look grand
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Got a question for someone who might know a bit of recent Peavey bass history.. got my eyes on a 5-string Grind BXP for a very good price.. however, its a bolt-on neck and active electronics.. All the 5-string Grinds I have seen are neck-through and passive. I'm making an assumption this is an earlier model. I tried the Peavey site for an archived manual, and there isn't one. the main question I have, the current 5-string Grinds are 35" scale, would this one be as well?
 

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