alittlebitrobot

...that's a pool cue. Isn't it?

Very interesting.
Also, it looks like it weighs a tonne.

Just wait until Warwick decide to switch to the IMPACT font and this'll be perfect.

Eugh. Guitars are such a tiring little Boys Club sometimes. (Lots of sometimes)
Anybody seen photos of an eBay auction with some topless fella posing "erotically" with a guitar?

Yeah, I've seen this desperate pile of crap a few times.
Just burn the thing.

"The body is made of a thick ply material"
....."material", eh?

yeah, I'm sticking with my RC2 but that does look nice and neat. I read some spiel that said "[color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif]EHX’s goal was to build an affordable looping pedal..." but I doubt it's going to be as affordable as comparable pedals.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Arial, sans-serif]We'll see.[/font][/color]

SO nice.
The Fortress is their best body shape, imo. With the exception of the ugly 'lipstick' pickups, I'd love to have a Fortress Flashback.
Happy New Bass Day

God, I love Peaveys.

The highlight of this is definitely the slightly cropped battery cavity. Great planning there.

...well.... the tuners look decent..

I'm far from an expert on this..
very far.
But I've seen videos and read advice about truss adjustment that basically boils down to this; the truss rod isn't there to do any heavy lifting, it just holds the neck in a particular position. So, the advice is to loosen the truss rod, bend the neck yourself to the required relief (trying to allow for subsequent string tension) and then tighten up the rod again to hold the neck in that relief.
I have to say, I saw this more in discussions by luthiers/techs fixing quite badly bowed necks.

I'm still convinced that Peavey are the most under-rated basses out there. For the money, these are fantastic.
I just can't go back to 35" scale but I would love this.
Good luck with the sale.

good gawd

wow

wow, go handy, jeweytheroux. That's a hell of a price drop. In fact, there's a load of lovely basses for sale here at insane prices. The few people who are in the market to buy must be having a whale of a time.
This is bound to go at 500.
GLWTS

Always loved the Fortress shape. Beautiful bass.
GLWS

Staying or going, have a bump anyway.

Funny, @chrismuzz, my first electric bass was pretty much this but orange/red. It was called the Dynabass, but that's not the same as the actual Peavey Dynabass.
....confusing.
Anyway, it's a lovely bass. Good luck with the sale

oh wow! Beautiful bass.
There's another ATK for sale on BC at the minute and they're mighty tempting. This is a bit of a crappy year for me, bill-wise, so I won't be buying anything but, if this does go back under the bed, I'm sure I'll come knocking eventually.
Good luck

oh, wow, this looks sooo good. I usually only like natural finishes but this looks really amazing.
I'm just too scared to buy a bass I've never played (never seen one of these in Ireland).
People say these have a thick neck but is that just relative to the usual insanely-slim Ibanez neck? Or is it actually thick compared to other brands?

Good luck with the sale

Interesting idea all right, but it looks incredibly awkward to play and, more importantly, it sounds awful.

Thanks for taking a look/listen

I just had the actual songs on mixed into my headphones but I had the volume too low so I was mostly drowning it out... but I just ploughed on anyway.
Thanks for the tip, Bilbo.
I think I just need to play slow for a while. It's all too tense and in a hurry. Need to caaaalm down.
I also need to find a way of accidentally recording myself so I don't get all self-conscious and tense up.

Hi,

I just threw up (I use the phrase advisedly) this video on youtube.

For two reasons really. First, on the off-chance that somebody gets some enjoyment out of it but second, and more importantly, I [b]always[/b] play worse when I'm recording. I'm not in a band and I don't want to join one so this isn't really a [i]big [/i]deal, but I do want to record my own stuff and I don't want to be constantly punching in and out to correct errors the whole time. I want to be able to do one good take from beginning to end so I thought doing this might help to make me relax a bit.
And it's not just that listening to the recording means I'm picking up mistakes I didn't realise at the time. Just knowing I'm recording myself makes me fluff notes and, on the fretless, my intonation goes wonky in a way that I can detect even while I'm playing.
Anyway, with all that in mind..
[media]http://youtu.be/gf-eF46kmQE[/media]

I'm going to add to the chorus of 'Embrace it. It's a good thing. Better to use it than to wrap it in cotton wool and lock it away.'
but some day, soon, my currently pristine new bass will get a dent or a scratch and I'll be so angry at my own clumsiness... for about...oh, a minute or so.
That moment in that famous, tragic fairy tale that Billy Apple told earlier is so annoying because it's just a silly moment of clumsiness and, looking back, it seems so avoidable.
It doesn't matter, though.

Some day, maybe ten years or so from now, I want to get a custom-made bass but I'm worried that, if I do, I'll be insanely protective and careful with it in a way that I'm really not with my current basses. I wonder if anybody here has experienced this?

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1383923745' post='2270894']
You got those wirings wrong. If you can post some pics of both the Peavey's wires and the EQ you got from your V490 we can try to help you hook it up the right way.

Cheers
[/quote]

Thanks! It looks like a mess in photos so I made a diagram, as unambiguous as I could, for both basses.
The Peavey is a passive 6 string with soapbars.

The V940 is (was) an active 4 string with PJ pickups.


I'm not sure if you'll actually be able to tell from this what I should do. If you can, that'd be AMAZING. If not, no big deal. I'm pretty happy with the sound of all my basses now, I just wanted to learn a little bit more about modification and how tone circuits work.
Cheers.