This one required a little TLC as well but so worth it. A very intriguing piece of gear, lots to explore.
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U.S. Peavey Club
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It's the only Ric I've ever spent any real time with so I don't really have much experience for comparison. I must admit that I'm a sucker for a glossy vintage tinted all maple neck but if blind folded probably couldn't tell the difference from rosewood. I've also swapped out the bridge for a Hipshot and installed a Nordenbocker neck pup so it's not exactly stock anymore as well.
Great rig and fantastic looking too, Congrats!
songwriter21
I have an obsession for wood. The musical kind.
Well, I am happy to say that I am very pleased with the Millennium preamp on my Peaveys, so much so that I've ditched outboard eq, with the exception of a contour pedal for slap tone on the fly. All I use is a little midrange bump on the bass, while everything else is flat. Never thought a fully-active system would be so...simple?
Picked up this 1991 Unity Koa in mid-December and really dig it. Never played one before, but I love koa so had to do it. It suffered from the same problem I've seen in most PJ setups, that is the P pickup kind of dominates when both are on, so I built a two-channel active blend preamp with separate trim controls for each channel. Now I can gain up the bridge pickup a bit and have a usable, distinct blended sound.
Fury Vs Fender Pbass
Months back someone posted if there were any Fender Basses with a similar profile & feel as a Split P Fury
"some" USA Fender Pbass Special is about as close... it has a "line" on the back of the neck and is not exactly the same radius.... the weight is in the same realm....
Unfortunately you have to hands on test as this "close" unicorn was a special run for Guitar Center... they normally were a HoneyBurst Color... and will cost you 3x as much (and probably be road beaten -- the finish is as thick as tissue paper)
Months back someone posted if there were any Fender Basses with a similar profile & feel as a Split P Fury
"some" USA Fender Pbass Special is about as close... it has a "line" on the back of the neck and is not exactly the same radius.... the weight is in the same realm....
Unfortunately you have to hands on test as this "close" unicorn was a special run for Guitar Center... they normally were a HoneyBurst Color... and will cost you 3x as much (and probably be road beaten -- the finish is as thick as tissue paper)
That looks like an awesome 2 channel active blend board. Is this something that you're going to sell commercially?
Actually there's another Fender P Bass that has a slim neck much like the Fury.
It's a MIK Fender P bass Squier series made in the mid 1990s. The neck on these are slimmer than the standard P bass.
We have both basses in our household so pretty easy to compare the Fury side by side by feel in our case. In comparison, my MIM Fender P bass (in my user pic) feels much thicker than either.
I'm not sure if this video has popped up in this thread, but I really liked it. A very useful comparison of Super Ferrites and VFLs. It confirmed my theory on what these pickups sound like: SF-agressive & Ric-ish, VFL-smoother & J-ish. Props to the feller who made the vid!
One of my Favorite basses ....ever...T-45 in "Merlot Burst" (what I call it anyway)
ALso very fond of this ragged toothed old beast
YEs-- the large fury BLACK thing at the edge of each photo is my Lab/BloodHound, Murphy who MUST inspect all gear -- before after and sometimes DURING playing
ALso very fond of this ragged toothed old beast
YEs-- the large fury BLACK thing at the edge of each photo is my Lab/BloodHound, Murphy who MUST inspect all gear -- before after and sometimes DURING playing
That Koa Fury above with the two channel pot is S I C K !!
The video above with the VFL's vs. Super Ferrites is killer. Both sound great, and great playing Bigtone 23.
Personally, I LOVE VFL's so much that I've had about 4 custom basses made over the years by Garz Guitars and I had him use VFL's. It was the right decision. I have a custom bass now with Alembic pickups in it and I am going to switch them out for VFL's when I have the money to pay the shop to re-route the holes.
But as far as vintage sound goes like going for old Fender Motown tone, I'll take Super Ferrites over Fender type pickups every time. Basically, I will ALWAYS choose Peavey pickups over anything else EXCEPT for Nordstrand because I can have them wired to do single coil/humbucker and series/parallel. I had that done on an Ibanez Prestige with a 3 way mini toggle and it was the right decision there, too. Gosh I regret selling that bass.
The video above with the VFL's vs. Super Ferrites is killer. Both sound great, and great playing Bigtone 23.
Personally, I LOVE VFL's so much that I've had about 4 custom basses made over the years by Garz Guitars and I had him use VFL's. It was the right decision. I have a custom bass now with Alembic pickups in it and I am going to switch them out for VFL's when I have the money to pay the shop to re-route the holes.
But as far as vintage sound goes like going for old Fender Motown tone, I'll take Super Ferrites over Fender type pickups every time. Basically, I will ALWAYS choose Peavey pickups over anything else EXCEPT for Nordstrand because I can have them wired to do single coil/humbucker and series/parallel. I had that done on an Ibanez Prestige with a 3 way mini toggle and it was the right decision there, too. Gosh I regret selling that bass.
Has anybody here taken a T45 and done the series/parallel/single coil with a toggle switch instead of the first tone knob that does single coil/humbucker/bass roll off.
Who wants bass roll off to get a thin sounding bass?
Who wants bass roll off to get a thin sounding bass?
Possibly, I'm still making some tweaks and currently doing all the SMT soldering by hand. I'm leaning more towards an AC taper Noble vs MN taper Bourns pot, but of course the pinouts are different so I'll need to make a new PCB for each, pick just one, or allow for pop/nopop jumpers to allow for either. I'd really like to still have an active/passive option, but need more than two poles so a standard push-pull pot won't work. Brainstorming options, including bistable relays.
Can you elaborate on that? VFL are 3 wire pickups but being active the power runs up the red wire. How does the coil tap work?
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When I asked the same question last year I was told you can't get series/parallel/single. T40/45 pickups are a kind of humbucker hybrid. The red is the single coil so single/humbucker is simple but I've no idea how you could swap series/parallel.
Heads up for a lined fret less Foundation with a very nice sunburst at The Minor Chord in Littleton MA.
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Hey Kodiakblair,
I was saying the NORDSTRAND pickup can be wired single coil/hb, and series/parallel. The VFL is a humbucker with a microchip built in hence the 3 wires.
I was saying the NORDSTRAND pickup can be wired single coil/hb, and series/parallel. The VFL is a humbucker with a microchip built in hence the 3 wires.
