chrismuzz

There's your answer 😂 Thanks! It's a Peavey Zodiac. I've had a bit of a love affair with them for a while now!

Sorry guys 😂

Every gig I do this, and I pull a bird every time. Might be a slight exaggeration...

I always have the volume and tone full up as I've set my tone around that. If I need to adjust on the fly I just dial back to suit

You don't know me! 😂

Only one of my six has the adjustment wheel!

One less fret though ;)

Sid approached me as I only owned five Peavey Zodiacs, and he knew this wasn't as many as I needed. He was kind enough to hold the one he owned for a couple of weeks for me, communication was very thorough and he even went to the trouble of arranging us meeting up at a fellow BCer's place near me as he was buying a bass too! Thanks again dude

Oh bugger, it's in London

About half an hours drive to Birmingham

I love Zodiacs, I have five of them now! Weirdly enough the white and rosewood ones are the lightest, have the thinnest necks and a less deep sound. The bridges are poor quality pressed steel which will eventually cause your strings to break if you play super hard like me. If you replace it with another metal it'll make the tone noticeably less bright. They look nice with hipshot kickass bridges, and if you get the steel saddle inserts it will sound very close to the original bridge

Good call GM. It's a shame as they used to offer really good service, and were the only place I'd order from. I didn't actually realise they'd changed hands at the time but knowing that, and that problems are still ongoing, I'd never use or recommend them again.

I had trouble with them last year after placing a £200 order which was never fulfilled. They ignored phonecalls, voicemails, emails and facebook messages, and only tried to contact me after a couple of weeks and a successful PayPal dispute. They phoned to offer an excuse and I told them I didn't want to know and hung up. flip those guys!

I've had Elixirs on my main basses since 2017 and theyre still bright and clangy. I'm gonna find a few older posts and mention it in there too.

Ee-pip-honey

Passive bass, preferably with single coils, steel roundwounds, low action, and a decent drive pedal. Sansamp will do the job easily enough!

To be fair, standing in front of the guitarist during a solo is like standing in front of the vocalist during the choruses haha

I play passive basses with my fingers and play quite hard. I definitely need compression!

I wouldn't even be mad

It's difficult to imagine Peavey making lightweight gear. Maybe it really is that small but still weighs like 40lbs!

Nice! Hows it sound compared to, say, the old Max / Firebass series amps? I've had Markbass for years but compared to old Peavey stuff it's kinda thin sounding

Glad to see them bringing back sealed cabs! The Classic series cabs are my favourite. I notice that the 4x10 is smaller than mine though, I'd be interested to hear the difference

I forgot to reply here sorry dudes! I received the pickups in the end. Interestingly the pickup covers are no longer removable like on the other two sets I purchased. They might just be glued on but I'm not brave enough to rip them off just yet! The PBXN I bought was the last one the guy had. I spoke to someone at Entwistle to ask if they had been discontinued and I got told "definitely not". They just don't have enough demand currently to make more but they will be coming back!

I thought it was just the plastic covers that were oversized. Couldn't you just buy smaller ones on eBay for a pound and use those?