Peavey Bässe

Gast72603 · 6. März 2017

You arouse envy in me

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

If you ever visit Scotland they are here to be played. :bier:

Gast72603 · 6. März 2017

Thanks a lot kodiakblair!!
A friend was this Year in Scotland, he was impressed by the Country, People, Buildings and the Scottish accent

Tom the bass · 6. März 2017

kodiakblair schrieb:
Here are the covers from my Cirrus USA & Custom USA. The Custom TR cover is just plastic with a rosewood veneer.
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If you convert to .dxf any laser cutting service will produce them. Remember print out at 100%

Very nice - thx very much
kodiakblair

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

Tom the bass schrieb:
Very nice - thx very much
kodiakblair

Glad to help. BTW I forgot to give the thickness, they are 2.5mm thick.

Tom the bass · 6. März 2017

kodiakblair schrieb:
Glad to help. BTW I forgot to give the thickness, they are 2.5mm thick.

OK, now I will try to build my new one. Thats what I like at the web. Thanks for your fast helping my friend!! WKR Tom

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

Just taken these Tom. Size is identical on 5 string . I don't own a 6 string so cannot comment on that.

Tom the bass · 6. März 2017

kodiakblair schrieb:
Just taken these Tom. Size is identical on 5 string . I don't own a 6 string so cannot comment on that.
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I took the size from the middle of my screws in the bass. This pictures are very good - so i´ll overwork it. PLEASE take the middle size between the screws in your plate too. So I can compare it.

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

18mm is what I get.

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

From bottom left screw to top screw I get 26mm.

The covers I need to draw up are the old T-40 type. I have around 4 or 5 basses missing them.

Tom the bass · 6. März 2017

kodiakblair schrieb:
From bottom left screw to top screw I get 26mm.

The covers I need to draw up are the old T-40 type. I have around 4 or 5 basses missing them.

such like this...

kodiakblair · 6. März 2017

That's the very one Tom :bier:

Tom the bass · 6. März 2017

Cheers kodiakblair - and in the next few days I´ll try it. Good night

kodiakblair · 7. März 2017

Good night Brother :bier:

uncool sam · 7. März 2017

exarp schrieb:
the Scottish accent

It's not an accent, it's (Scots) Gaelic!

Gast72603 · 7. März 2017

Pardon

schafhalter · 8. März 2017

kodiakblair schrieb:
With these the MIDI triggers are built into the frets,almost like on a keyboard. There's very little latency

It is a very nice bass to play just bass on. Reminds me of later Foundations but with B-90 body cuts.

I used to own such a thing back in the early nineties.
It triggers really fast, but also has some downsides: some playing techniques like bending or sliding do not work, because the system expects you to pick a note whenever you change the fret you're playing at, and the signal of the magnetic pickups is not converted. It is just a combination of note + volume that is transmitted.
So if you play a new note, then you also have to make the string vibrate stronger than before. This is the reason why you may play hammer-ons and -offs, but you have to have very good control and assure that the new tones are "louder". Hammer-ons are obviously easier to trigger than the offs.

While I found the general concept of the Peavey Cyberbase very attractive, the combination of its downsides - along with my sloppy playing - let me sell the bass again ...

edit: typos

kodiakblair · 9. März 2017

You are limited to 8 step slides but it's 25 year old technology so limitations are to be expected. I do find the procedure for setting string velocity strange but again it's a product of its time.

Certainly it's easier to use than the Synthaxe or worse the Casio DG-10

kodiakblair · 30. April 2017

Well my brothers there has been a new arrival,two actually but only one of importance.
Back in 1991 Peavey put out the RJ-IV named after the Journey bass player Randy Jackson. it's a fret through neck design PJ with 3 band EQ and a Hipshot D-Tuner.

It plays and feels very like the Unity bass which it resembles a great deal.The EQ is quite strange in there are dip switches to select/boost various frequencies,the dip switches are located on the PCB behind the control cavity cover

Not an easy bass to find,It took me 5 months searching and 4 attempts before I got lucky. Randy Jackson being an unknown and the odd choice of colours can't have helped sales

Here she is :bier:

With the exception of a couple variations on the Axcelerator bass (Forum AX,Cyberbass) and the Collectors Jack Daniels/John Taylor Liberator basses there's now at least one example of every Peavey bass at Scotland's Home For Wayward Peaveys. Admission Free