It's been a while brothers but you'll be glad to know Peavey still
rules my heart
over-rules my brain
and over-runs my house
An unexpected Palaedium model came up for sale in England.
Designed with help from Jeff Berlin. If this early model is anything to go by the Cort Jeff Berlin basses will be outstanding.
Next is this USA Millennium.
I've mixed feelings about this bass
For a number of years I've heard great things about them but was happy enough with my BXP models.
So what does 3x the price get you ? 35" scale,is it really needed on a 4 string ? Variable Mid pot, again not really needed. Plenty basses play great without it.
OK so it's the higher quality hardware and wood then
Yes it's a very nice bass but comparing the BXP AC models to it has me thinking the BXPs are fantastic value and great basses.
Another I'm not convinced by is the USA Grind
I prefer the Vietnamese BXP model, the build quality feels higher and some thought appears to have been given to design.
The USA Grind strikes me as something just churned out. Only my personal opinion of course.
Things picked up pace on the next 2. TL-5 designed with American bass player Tim Landers and a Unity bass.
The Unity came from a luthier in a tiny town outside of Nashville with the wonderful name of Moonshine Guitars.He was the fella who restored the Paul
Tutmarc bass,you know the 1st solidbody electric bass built in the 30's. May just be a passive through neck Dyna bass but Boy does it play sweet
The TL-5 is a 2nd gen so has VFLs instead of Ferrites and has the most beautiful flamed maple body and neck. I wished my skills with a camera were
better.Very flat feeling neck,radius is 15" and being a 5 string helps with my terrible floating thumb technique.
Coming to the end of this marathon post,on my only 2 days off in the last 8 weeks so trying to fit everything in.
Had been trying to find a Dyna/Unity Series bass but the shop in America wouldn't ship to Europe
When I got around to asking for help it had been sold
Lucky for me I'd asked a former engineer from Peavey and he was planning a serious mod. The saying "it's not what you know but who you know " was true in this
case and a Dyna/Unity made it's way from Meridian
The midnight blue doesn't photograph well and as you can imagine the set up was second to none.This had been a project bass and had Duncan Basslines
fitted,not my favourite pickups but I've gotta say they worked great with the Dyna preamp. Here's the serious mod the fella was planning.
5 string T-40 !! very cool
Last up is the Foundation S
I'd heard an American complaining about the bridge on these,couldn't get a low action he said. Rubbish.this shipped from a used music shop in Colorado
with a very acceptable 1.25mm - 1.5mm action and 3mm left on the grub screws. Fella can't have known how to use the next tilt. Schaller built the PJ
pickups for Peavey and they are modeled on Dimarzios. I'll take this over my B-90 with Seymour Duncans.
Before I start packing for Mondays' job. Has anybody played the Milestone 4 ? Young fella at work wanted to learn bass and I picked one up for him cheap (£80 with amp). Only had a short time with it but thought it was a really nice starter bass.
My apologises again for the long post.
