USA Peavey Millennium 5

These were my go to basses in the late early 2000s. I don’t think I ever truly appreciated how good they were. I will never forget when Dan Lakin told me to my face that he created the Skyline series to combat Peavey poaching sales from him.

 

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The downside of variable midrange preamps is that they can offer too many options. I know it has taken me a while to become efficient at dialing in my Sire V7.

 

I have an American Geddy Lee Jazz on the world’s longest layaway, and I was playing it at the shop, and was struck how easy it was to dial in killer tones on this passive bass. If a bass is well made with good pickups and pots, passive goes a long ways.

 

They have lovely, thin necks!

 

I owned my Millenniums at a time when I was really swayed by what was the current Talkbass common sense. At that time, there was the prevalent attitude that closer string spacing was no good and Millenniums are 17mm at the bridge. I also really loved how the bridge humbucker could be split on Lakeland’s, but not on the Millennium.

In the end, Millennium is a nice bass that worked fine for what I did, but I was chasing the bass I did not have.