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U.S. Peavey Club

#18,509
A9X said:
Humour. I can use currency converters too.
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Ahh,humor. A curious concept, Captain.;)
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mb94952 said:
Ahhhhh... Local, too !
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These are so killer.
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I had one - tweeter blew, so I bypassed the tweeter and crossover. Sounded great but omg the weight! Sold it to the bassist in a budding metal band. Great songwriting and energy, but very limited funds. I was stoked to help even a little. Included the Max450 amp. Gave him a killer deal. Super nice dude too. I have no doubt he’s putting a hurting on the audience with that rig. I’m just too damn old to cart that lead around. Sounded freaking great though!
 
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Wow, $1000 T40s! I knew it would happen just because of inflation at some point. A friend bought one for $200 two years ago. At a music store!

Raw N Low said:
Goes to show how strong Fender and Gibson were back in those days. Peavey made great robust and solid instruments that were way ahead of their time. It's a shame that Hartley never felt the need to go back and revamp most of those instruments. I think he towed a fine line of improvement vs. innovation. He made a lot of stuff, called it a day, and never looked back.
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I'm sure many of us would love to see a T40.2 :D
 
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bigtone23 said:
Wow, $1000 T40s! I knew it would happen just because of inflation at some point. A friend bought one for $200 two years ago. At a music store!

I'm sure many of us would love to see a T40.2 :D
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That seems like the kind of thing that Eastwood might take a run at. They've already done a take on the Ovation Magnum which was the second-heaviest bass I've ever owned—after my T-40. They don't seem inclined to take on complex electronics like the weirdball single coil/double coil T-40 trickery, but you never know with those folks.
 
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jmlee said:
That seems like the kind of thing that Eastwood might take a run at. They've already done a take on the Ovation Magnum which was the second-heaviest bass I've ever owned—after my T-40. They don't seem inclined to take on complex electronics like the weirdball single coil/double coil T-40 trickery, but you never know with those folks.
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That's a great point. If the T40s become market priced at $1000+, I'm sure a $650ish Eastwood T40 may hit the line up. It would certainly fit in well with their offerings: funky and slightly odd.
 
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A9X said:
It's hardly complex, very straightforward on an EE level.
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I appreciate that; however, what I meant is that Eastwood tends to go for a more simplistic take on the pickups and electronics in their instrument reproductions, not trying to reproduce how the original instrument might have sounded—more how it looked.
 
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OK, remember the "slightly intoxicated lowball offer" Fury I got off of Reverb the other day? It showed up yesterday. Holy smokes, what a little beast. I threw some chrome flats on there and it is quite the thump machine. The neck is WONDERFUL. Pretty light, plays fantastic. It really looks brand new. Jeez, I had no idea about these. It's my first Peavey bass. I've owned several of their amps in the past (in fact I still have one in storage), but I am seriously impressed. I guess it's a 1995? SN# begins with 077. It's not really a visual stunner, pretty plain jane...but that's what I was going for. Thanks for the words of encouragement, now someone else knows your little secret!
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Hey all, I recently got hold of a gen 2 fury but I can't get anywhere close to the action I want from it without lots of buzzing and choking out above the 12th fret. Worth noting that all the frets seem well seated.

Now before I go leveling all the frets I thought I'd ask what people think in case I've missed an obvious solution. Reason being is it has a microtilt neck, which are new to me. The tilt doesn't seem engaged so in my mind shouldn't be affecting the geometry negatively, and similarly I can't fathom how changing the angle would help me out in this situation. But as I said it's a whole new world for me.

So yeah, any peavey specfic advice or should I get to leveling?
 
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UncleBalsamic said:
Hey all, I recently got hold of a gen 2 fury but I can't get anywhere close to the action I want from it without lots of buzzing and choking out above the 12th fret.

So yeah, any peavey specfic advice or should I get to leveling?
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Should you level? At this point, no.

A general rule is that buzzing above the 12th fret is due to bridge saddles being too low. Buzz lower down on the neck... you can assume is relief related. There are other factors, but I’d need the neck in hand. If the action is too high once you’ve gotten the relief where it should be, the neck tilt is correct, and saddle height raised to where the buzz goes away... then you should could consider fret leveling.
 

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