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U.S. Peavey Club

#11,981
Runnerman said:
Mine is silent....so I'm not sure what your issue is there. Maybe something amiss.
I have Chromes on mine and it sounds phenomenal. Have gigged several times and always get great complements on the sound. I have the Fenders (mediums though) on my Patriot (also silent btw) and they also sound quite good but I prefer the Chromes I think.
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Cool......a SF is a single coil pickup, i know some will be more silent than others but its not as quiet as my 85 Foundation with both pickups on...always a bit of hum with any single SF in my experience but nothing drastic unless i stack pedals.

Of course dirty power will make hum worse with any single coil.
 
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JEDI BASS said:
View attachment 3111270 I’ve searched my butt off, with no luck! Can someone message me exactly how to wire this pot for series/parallel on my foundation please? Someday I will buy the books and educate myself. But for now, I need a “complete idiot’s” schematic please. I want to use the push/pull as the neck volume control. Thanks!
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I may have found a schematic that will help. But I have a question. Why do the SFs have 3 wires, when jazz p’ups have 2?
 
#11,983
JEDI BASS said:
.....I have a question. Why do the SFs have 3 wires, when jazz p’ups have 2?
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Coil hot, coil ground and shield. The silver shield is connected to the magnetic assembly and copper tape around the coil to ground them separately from from the coil ground. This means the shield and pickup parts it grounds are not in the signal path and is why the Super Ferrites are the quietest passive single coil you'll find, IMO. Jazz PUs are noisy because the magnetics aren't grounded and the coil is not shielded.
 
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mech said:
Coil hot, coil ground and shield. The silver shield is connected to the magnetic assembly and copper tape around the coil to ground them separately from from the coil ground. This means the shield and pickup parts it grounds are not in the signal path and is why the Super Ferrites are the quietest passive single coil you'll find, IMO. Jazz PUs are noisy because the magnetics aren't grounded and the coil is not shielded.
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Its a great design the SF pickup!
 
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#11,988
Fathand said:
Thanks for the tip, we'll have to look into that. I left the bass to be checked yesterday, and I'll hear at some point if it still is salvageable.
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If you have the truss nut off lube it's inside threads and it's base that sits on the washers with a small amount of Vaseline. Don't put any on the threads of the rod as it would be forced out when the nut is put on and may get on the wood at the bottom of the pocket. Most of these 40 year old truss rods have rust under the nut and that causes binding and broken truss rods.
 
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mech said:
If you have the truss nut off lube it's inside threads and it's base that sits on the washers with a small amount of Vaseline. Don't put any on the threads of the rod as it would be forced out when the nut is put on and may get on the wood at the bottom of the pocket. Most of these 40 year old truss rods have rust under the nut and that causes binding and broken truss rods.
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Would graphite powder work as well? I need to do this to a few projects in the fall and I'd rather not worry about anything getting on the wood.
 
#11,990
ATLbassist said:
Would graphite powder work as well? I need to do this to a few projects in the fall and I'd rather not worry about anything getting on the wood.
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Graphite powder would lube but won't stop or prevent rust. I get a little ball of Vaseline on a toothpick and work it into the nut threads then put the nut on a 10-32 bolt to spread it out, smear a taste on the base of the nut and wipe most of it off before threading back on the truss rod. Tip...use a #2 Phillips screwdriver to start the nut. Put the tip in the hole in the nut at an angle and with a little pressure it will grab enough to turn the nut but not damage threads.
 
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JEDI BASS said:
I’ve searched my butt off, with no luck! Can someone message me exactly how to wire this pot for series/parallel on my foundation please? Someday I will buy the books and educate myself. But for now, I need a “complete idiot’s” schematic please. I want to use the push/pull as the neck volume control. Thanks!
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I used this exact same pot on my Forum Plus for series/paralleling the split coil P pickup and series/paralleled my Foundation with another brand of pot. If I was adept at using a drawing program, I would make a Foundation/CTS P/P specific diagram. Since I'm not, I'll try to coach ya through it. :)
Firstly, I used this diagram:
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The trick/confusion with the Foundation is making note of which color is hot and ground on each pickup (since they reverse). Mech addressed this. On my 84 & 85 Foundtions, the black is hot and red goes to ground on the neck pickup, and red is hot and black is ground on the bridge pickup. The plain wires all go to ground, too. I assume that is the standard wiring for Super Ferrites. Given that, and by looking at the above diagram, just reverse the colors for the neck pickup on the diagram. (Double check on your Foundation by noting which color wire goes to the middle tab of it's respective volume pot.)

Now that the pickup wire colors are sorted, the trick with the CTS pot is that you have to translate the switch's wiring diagram to the row of solder through-holes just under the pot tabs. They are all labeled correctly, just refer to the actual switch terminals for reference and then solder the wire in the appropriate through-hole. For example, you would have to put a jumper across solder holes 1 & 3, neck ground (red wire) to C1, bridge hot (red wire) to C2, the continuation of the neck's (red) ground wire from 2 to a pot casing/ground and tab 4 is the continuation of the bridge hot (red wire) to the bridge volume pot.
It's kind of a pain to have to translate the wiring, but worth it. The push/pull CTS pot is really nice, and soldering to those through holes vs directly to the switch tabs is a little less dummy proof when it comes to ruining the switch from too much heat.

kkaarrll said:
played all 3 of mine today

that super ferrite won the day for me
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I played 2 of mine yesterday (the Dyna and the Forum Plus) and played my T45 tribute Ibanez the day before. Gotta say, the Super Ferrites nearly always win the day!
 
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I picked up a trio of basses on Sunday. No Peavey stuff this time. Why post about it here? Well, I'm glad you asked. The one bass of the trio that caught my eye was a Chinese Ric copy. Five piece neck thru, etc. Plays great, looks close enough to get the point across. Pickups aren't the greatest. Enter eBay and a set of SF pickups from either a foundation or a dyna. Pickups will be here this week. I'll post pics, after the surgery
 
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#11,996
BassikLee said:
I picked up a trio of basses on Sunday. No Peavey stuff this time. Why post about it here? Well, I'm glad you asked. The one bass of the trio that caught my eye was a Chinese Ric copy. Five piece neck thru, etc. Plays great, looks close enough to get the point across. Pickups aren't the greatest. Enter eBay and a set of SF pickups from either a foundation or a dyna. Pickups will be here this week. I'll post pics, after the surgery
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Nice! Looking forward to the result. SFs are gonna rock the Ric!

JEDI BASS said:
Just picked up the last of 3 Peaveys I bought from Ken R and got a pleasant surprise.... active pickups!! I had no clue!
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Nice! They are great sounding.
I personally like the cleaner look of the Foundation S Active more than the passive Foundation S. The passive has those kinda clunky pickup rings.
 
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