I have an Acme Low B-2 2x10. It sounds like an 18 and needs some serious power to produce normal volume levels. I don’t gig it, since it’s sound is not full range enough for my tastes... and then there’s the power consumption issue too.
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U.S. Peavey Club
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I like them. I ran into one, but the power needed was an issue and traded it away. Too bad, a 2x vertical stack would be killer for my reggae gigs
Yeah, they’re quality cabs, very affordable, and unique amongst 2x10s, just not a cab that suits what I do. Mine stays at my singer’s house for when we rehearse there.
I get it. I've just never heard such clear lows from such a small cab. I understand why they're so inefficient!
It's done! Behold the Foundation T or T42.5? haha. 82 T45 neck, 87 Foundation body, pots and jack, 78-82 era Toaster and knobs and 80s Super Ferrite. The initial construction is shown in the pics below in the quote...
Installed the Toaster in the bridge. Tried the spin-a-split scheme, but there was still signal leaking through the spilt Toaster with both volumes all the way down, which made the "soloed" Super Ferrite have that sort of phasy, scoop tone. If the Toaster was in humbucking mode, the signal was appropriately killed with both volumes all the way down and the soloed SF sounded like it should. Instead of coming up with a whole new wiring scheme to mimic the T40/T45 volume/spin-a-split tone (which would probably have to be a 3-way switch with master V & T), I just installed a mini switch to do single coil mode. Works just as it should and lends a more T series vibe to the look of the controls.
Wired it up to split to the neck side coil, as that coil was magnetically the opposite of the Super Ferrite. It does have decent hum cancelling properties mixed with the SF in single coil mode, but the pickup has a better volume blend and more present tone in humbucking mode.
I'm very happy how it turned out. Took it to band practice the other night and put it through the paces for 3 hours. Really like the T45 neck profile, and having a Peavey with a wider nut width is a nice change. The tone is killer, too! Hard to go wrong with a Super Ferrite/Toaster combo. Also, since I will most certainly be playing this one more than my modified Patriot ("RicRiot" with an extra SF in neck position), I moved it's Hipshot D tuner to this one.
The only minor thing is that the alignment of the neck/bridge looks a little skewed to the treble side. This is just how it bolted together without any doweling and redrilling. The neck is in the pocket perfectly tight and there are no drop outs from the pickup nor E or G strings slipping off the sides of the fingerboard. Gonna just leave it be!
OK, so I have a FrankenPeavey project in the works. I have been sitting on a fully loaded, rosewood fingerboard T45 neck and a single good (and another weak) Super Ferrite for over a year. Seems like a waste of good parts, but couldn't get rid of them.
Well, found a loaded, black 87 Foundation project body (complete, with no pickups). It arrived, I cleaned it up, attached the neck, dropped in the SFs, strung and set it up and is great all around. Originally was going to just install the neck Super Ferrite and rock this thing like a pre-57/single coil P bass, but then found an older toaster T40 pickup, which is on the way, along with a pickup ring from Frets On The Net.
I have never mixed T40/45 pickups with Super Ferrites, can anyone else chime in on this? I tend to play on the neck pickup soloed or in a 50/50 blend with the bridge pickup. Seems that the T40 pickup has a similar output to a P pickup in series mode and a vintage J pickup in split mode. Since this is the older version, I gather that's is not quite as aggressive as the later blade version. The Super Ferrites seem just a touch hotter than a vintage wound J pickup, so I feel they will match up well. I'm going to have a push/pull pot do the split, as one of the original volume pots is pretty shot. If I run into phase or RW/RP hum cancel issues, I know of another Super Ferrite with the opposite polarity to my good one I could get, if so desired.
My primary decision is whether to rout the T40 pickup for bridge or neck position. I already have an Ibanez RB630 bass modded as a virtual T45 with a blade T40 pickup in the Precision sweet spot, so I am leaning towards the bridge location for the T40 pickup in this build, for variety.
If the T40 pickup is to be in the bridge position, I would rout out towards the neck, putting the rear coil in the current space reserved for the Super Ferrite-pretty much putting the coils in the 60s and 70s J locations. Would play with the wiring phase so the bridge side coil activates in single coil mode. This will have that J/MM look with a Meridian flair.
If in the neck position, I would rout out towards the bridge, with the front coil in the current SF rout-putting is right in the P sweet spot. Also would play with the wiring phase so the neck side coil activates in single coil mode. This would be an interesting P/J variant. A T/SF if you will....
I welcome any opinions or experiences with pickup choice and location.
OMG !!!!!!! Genius. It HAS to be the BEST passive Peavey on the planet. My Abraham Lincoln hat is off to you (Because his hat was huge)
Beautiful work! And genius wiring! I’d love to put that through the paces at a rehearsal and a gig or two!
Thanks, y'all!
It's always great when an idea works as well as one would hope it would. I love the Super Ferrite tone, but was always curious how a T pickup would blend and integrate with one, and it does incredibly well. The T pickup ring doesn't perfectly cover the edge of the old SF rout, but is close enough.
Now my Peavey tones are as follows.
82/87 Foundation T42.5: Neck SF and bridge T40 toaster (skewed towards the neck) with single and humbucker modes. It sounds like a slightly more aggressive and punchy Foundation with a T45 neck feel.
84 Foundation: Stock, with a push/pull pot for series operation of the pickups. Gets thicker and louder, if needed.
87 Patriot "RicRiot": stock, with an additional neck position Super Ferrite and 3 way pickup switch. 4003 Killer.
94 Forum Plus: Stock, but gutted the electronics and replaced with Wilde P46/J45L pickups, 500K volume with push/pull for putting the P46 pickup in parallel mode, 500K tone pot, 250K ungrounded M/N blend. A super versatile P/J that not only gets solid P tones, but it fakes a J tone really well, too.
84 Ibanez RB45: My great feeling old Ibanez RB630 turned into a virtual T45. Original split P pickup replaced with blade T40 pickup. 250K volume and tone pots with push/pull for single coil operation and Lawrence bass Q filter tuned for 400Hz cut. This runs the gamut of T45/P-ish tones in humbucking mode, Ric bridge pickup (and Patriot) tones in single coil mode and hi-fi, quasi active to scoopy thick to dubby tones as the Q filter is rolled down. Killer single pickup bass.
85 Dynabass. Stock, but strung BEAD. Super Ferrites and an active preamp for low B rumbling? Yes!
It's always great when an idea works as well as one would hope it would. I love the Super Ferrite tone, but was always curious how a T pickup would blend and integrate with one, and it does incredibly well. The T pickup ring doesn't perfectly cover the edge of the old SF rout, but is close enough.
Now my Peavey tones are as follows.
82/87 Foundation T42.5: Neck SF and bridge T40 toaster (skewed towards the neck) with single and humbucker modes. It sounds like a slightly more aggressive and punchy Foundation with a T45 neck feel.
84 Foundation: Stock, with a push/pull pot for series operation of the pickups. Gets thicker and louder, if needed.
87 Patriot "RicRiot": stock, with an additional neck position Super Ferrite and 3 way pickup switch. 4003 Killer.
94 Forum Plus: Stock, but gutted the electronics and replaced with Wilde P46/J45L pickups, 500K volume with push/pull for putting the P46 pickup in parallel mode, 500K tone pot, 250K ungrounded M/N blend. A super versatile P/J that not only gets solid P tones, but it fakes a J tone really well, too.
84 Ibanez RB45: My great feeling old Ibanez RB630 turned into a virtual T45. Original split P pickup replaced with blade T40 pickup. 250K volume and tone pots with push/pull for single coil operation and Lawrence bass Q filter tuned for 400Hz cut. This runs the gamut of T45/P-ish tones in humbucking mode, Ric bridge pickup (and Patriot) tones in single coil mode and hi-fi, quasi active to scoopy thick to dubby tones as the Q filter is rolled down. Killer single pickup bass.
85 Dynabass. Stock, but strung BEAD. Super Ferrites and an active preamp for low B rumbling? Yes!
Your virtual T45 sounds great, I have three split P Fury basses, I would like to modify the 1992 model by swapping in a T40 pickup the same as you did...need a T40 pickup though.
I re-read my post and realized it's sounds like I heard it, what I meant was that his description of the Ibanez "T45" sounds like a great way to mod a Peavey bass.
I have five split P basses (three split P Furys) and would really like a single pickup humbucker bass.
I need to find a good deal on a T40 pickup....anybody?
Yeah, finding a T40 PU is a trick. I patiently waited until one popped up. The catch was that it had no PU ring or mounting screws, just the pickup and springs. Frets On The Net had the other parts.
If your string spacing is narrow enough, there are lots of T60 pickups out there. Straight from the mouth and mind of Chip Todd... He said that the T60 pickups sound way better than the T40 pickups. When he put those in little Peavey basses, they sounded better than T40 pickups. Regrets About the T-40
If your string spacing is narrow enough, there are lots of T60 pickups out there. Straight from the mouth and mind of Chip Todd... He said that the T60 pickups sound way better than the T40 pickups. When he put those in little Peavey basses, they sounded better than T40 pickups. Regrets About the T-40
Got lucky and found one on ebay. Looked for a Schaller M4S Extender.
