Peavey bass usage?

[kodiakblair]

28 minutes ago, Misdee said:

Didn't they have a piezo pickup in the bridge?

They did that. Trim pots on the back of the bass allowed you to set the output level for each string to pan the string left or right if you were going bi-amp.

 

Sold mine last year to a fellow BC member. 

That's it to the right of my Palaedium.

 

Selection of some other Peaveys I've owned.

[Gizmo]

Here's a scan from my Bromberg issue of "Bass player USA"   

 

 

30 minutes ago, Misdee said:

I remember these!

 

I don't think they were made for long. They were a beautiful, elegant design. Never seen one in the flesh but I remember Bass Player Magazine featured one, must have been sometime in the early '90's and they always looked lush to me.  Didn't they have a piezo pickup in the bridge?

 

I bet this is a beast of a bass. God knows what it would cost if it were made today. 

 

 

i think these were made between 94-98 not sure how many but i was told mine was one of the later revisions (with the fixed Piezo) & Rick Tunner had A Lot to do with the design of the gubbins/pups (even before Peaveys signing on of Bromberg (RT is in BB's Backstage pass VHS talking about the project)...seems there was quite a bit of fall out after the release though and everyone went their separate ways never to speak again (or so im told) I know from my own research that there were a LOT of problems with the PCB/Electronics/piezo a number of players just ended up ripping it all out and fitting the Bartolini NTBT-918 preamp & piezo buffer as a replacement...something i looked at myself years ago.

 

One thing i do dislike about this bass...you just can not play it sitting down...the hook on the lower horn is quite painful if balanced on your leg ! apart from that it's a stella bass (but quite marmite)

 

Id like to try one of the Dean or Carvin All wood basses of brians design, again never seen one this side of the pond. 

[kodiakblair]

5 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

you just can not play it sitting down...the hook on the lower horn is quite painful if balanced on your leg

It wasn't an issue if you hold it like a classical guitar, lower horn hooked over your left leg.

[kodiakblair]

This one was my favourite of the US basses.

 

Patriot, cheapest model they ever made 🙂 Really enjoyed the simplicity of it, set me down the path of single coil P-basses 👍

 

[Misdee]

1 hour ago, Gizmo said:

Here's a scan from my Bromberg issue of "Bass player USA"   

 

 

 

 

i think these were made between 94-98 not sure how many but i was told mine was one of the later revisions (with the fixed Piezo) & Rick Tunner had A Lot to do with the design of the gubbins/pups (even before Peaveys signing on of Bromberg (RT is in BB's Backstage pass VHS talking about the project)...seems there was quite a bit of fall out after the release though and everyone went their separate ways never to speak again (or so im told) I know from my own research that there were a LOT of problems with the PCB/Electronics/piezo a number of players just ended up ripping it all out and fitting the Bartolini NTBT-918 preamp & piezo buffer as a replacement...something i looked at myself years ago.

 

One thing i do dislike about this bass...you just can not play it sitting down...the hook on the lower horn is quite painful if balanced on your leg ! apart from that it's a stella bass (but quite marmite)

 

Id like to try one of the Dean or Carvin All wood basses of brians design, again never seen one this side of the pond. 

Wow, I remember being a postgraduate student sitting in my crappy apartment reading that very article. I used read every issue of Bass Player Magazine over and over, so much that I can pretty much still remember everything in them now.

 

Such an idiosyncratic design is bound to divide opinion and have it's own quirks, but all I can say is I wish I had one. 

[Misdee]

2 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

They did that. Trim pots on the back of the bass allowed you to set the output level for each string to pan the string left or right if you were going bi-amp.

 

Sold mine last year to a fellow BC member. 

That's it to the right of my Palaedium.

 

Selection of some other Peaveys I've owned.

That Palladium bass is another lost classic. Two passive humbuckers and a supremely playable neck.

 

I remember reading an interview with Geddy Lee and him mentioning that Jeff Berlin had gifted him one (I was going to say "had given him one" but thought better of it...) and was very impressed.

[ajkula66]

I've owned several Peavey basses (T-40, second generation Dyna 5, modded Patriot...probably forgetting something) and while I found the build quality impressive never came across one which really spoke to me. I'd still be interested in trying out a TL5 and a couple of other higher-end models, though.