Any love for Peavey basses here?

[Lex Luthier]

I'm not really a bass player, but I've owned a couple of Dyna basses, because they are usually cheap and sound good. This is my latest, a Dyna Unity Limited bass, kind of a poor mans Spector with the radiused body. The Alembic-style oval inlays are kind of neat, too. Seems like a really cool bass.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8623/p1dk3.jpg

[fyrwyr]

The mahogany models really sound great to me, like the old Hamer Cruise basses from the '80's; thay play great too!

[padavis]

Ive never owned a Peavey Bass, but I did listen to the Bass player for the Christian Rock band Remedy Drive who used a Cirrus of some flavor and man that was one awesome bass sound. The thing is gorgeous as well and from my experience with a Wolfgang they are very solid built guitars. I hope he is still using that and he gets some sort of kickback for that!

[Deaj]

I've owned two Peavey Cirrus basses - alder w/maple top bought used locally -and- alder w/redwood top that I ordered through a dealer after owning the maple bass for two years. A buddy of mine had purchased a redwood topped Cirrus and I really liked the sound.

The maple topped Cirrus was bullet-proof - never gave me a moments trouble in the 3 years I had it. While a 35" scale length is a stretch for my stubby little hands I found the Cirrus comfortable enough to play. Fit and finish was top rate, neck was rock stable, and the tightly flamed exhibition grade maple top was mesmerizing! The electronics package was simple and very flexible. This bass recorded wonderfully plugged straight into the console.

The redwood topped Cirrus was a different story. I actually favored the tone of this bass over the maple bass until the trouble started. It had electronics issues that began before the bass was 2 months old. I owned the redwood bass for no more than a year and it spent more time at the warranty repair shop than in my hands. After 1 years time Peavey agreed to give me a full factory refund on the bass.

As it turns out there were several poorly documented revisions to the Cirrus electronics package around the time that my bass shipped and the various repairs were made with a mix of old and new spec parts. Near the end they replaced the entire electronics package with new parts. It was finally working after 10 months but it sounded different. It didn't sound bad it just sounded different than what I'd ordered (it sounded just like my buddy's redwood Cirrus when it arrived and quite different after the last repair). I've owned other Peavey products and, aside from this bass, none has ever given me any trouble. Just bad timing I guess. The lack of like-kind replacement electronics drove me to sell the maple Cirrus.

I flirted with the idea of buying one of the early MM/J style Peavey Millenium basses (great sounding instrument) after lots of demo time but never did. I had used the factory refund from Peavey to buy a used Keith Roscoe bass and decided that a 34" scale length was more comfortable for me.

[forestryguy]

I have a Dyna-Bass that I bought second-hand in the late 80's that serves me well, although I don't really play much bass. It has active/passive controls with a built-in 9v pre-amp.

[IIIBOOMERIII]

My first 2 basses were peavey and I think they make some
really nice bass amps too. I had a candy red Foundation S and
a the other was a blue t-20. LOL but they served me well
to learn on. Peavey my not be the greattest stuff in the
world but it is almost bullet proof and last forever.

[Bassomatic]

I played one of their wood/graphite models recently (forget the model name - with a sparkle black finish, no less) and it was absoultely killer in both playability and sound (active elec's.). I'm actually gassing for it, and may have to pony up the $550 to grab it. Easily beat every other bass in this fairly modest shop - used Warwick, Spector, Fender, etc.

[Bassomatic]

I'm not really a bass player, but I've owned a couple of Dyna basses, because they are usually cheap and sound good. This is my latest, a Dyna Unity Limited bass, kind of a poor mans Spector with the radiused body. The Alembic-style oval inlays are kind of neat, too. Seems like a really cool bass.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8623/p1dk3.jpg

Damn, that's a good looking Peavey!

[sethmeister]

I have a Peavey TL-5 I bought used years ago for about 500 bucks. Great bass. Ebony board, neck through body with flame maple wings, Bartolini's. Very stable and plays great.

[Lex Luthier]

Damn, that's a good looking Peavey!

Thanks, that's what I thought when I first saw it.

[TENAX]

just bought my first bass..a peavey grind 4 string..just love it..easy to play and versatile sounds. but little did i know how expensive bass strings were compared to guitar strings though..man! also got a used 94 (pre-gibson messing them up) trace elliot gp7sm amp (130 watt at 8 ohms) from a great guy at talkbass.com. great forum for all things bass if you haven't been there by the way including a huge "peavey club" thread:)

[Chuck King]

I had a Peavey T-40 for a while, and I sold it recently to the bassist in my band, who uses it now as her number one player. (I sold it with a right-of-first-refusal if she ever sells it---I'm just glad that she uses it with our band!) That thing sounds great! Tonally they are very versatile. They're still available pretty inexpensively, but I think they are slowly starting to become cult favorites. Yes, they're heavy, but the gal in my band (who is less than half my size) plays it for hours without complaining.

[scottlr]

I have a Peavey Patriot I bought many years ago to record with. I think I paid in the $150-200 range for it. Ugly, but plays fine and sounds pretty good. If I were a bass player, I'd have probably replaced it by now, but just to do bass tracks, it's fine for me so far.

[r9player]

first of all in my opinion it'll hard to beat a Spetor bass those are just amazing. But I traded mine to a person who was moving away who showed a lot of promise on bass and I took his .. squire POS .. well after suffering through that finally landed a Peavey Foundation, light, cheap and a great bass!

[tone4days]

I have a Dyna-Bass that I bought second-hand in the late 80's that serves me well, although I don't really play much bass. It has active/passive controls with a built-in 9v pre-amp.
me too

sometimes i think about picking it up full time to get gigs on the side

always felt good and had solid tone

t4d

[9fingers]

My lady has a Dyna bass (80's) that is a really nicely made instrument (a great purple finish too). It is on the quiet side tho, active or passive. Don't know why, any ideas?

[Lex Luthier]

My lady has a Dyna bass (80's) that is a really nicely made instrument (a great purple finish too). It is on the quiet side tho, active or passive. Don't know why, any ideas?
Mine has a trim pot on the inside which can be tweaked to change the output.

[Zilmo]

I have an Axcellerator 2T from the mid nineties that's pretty cool.

[TheRockDoc]

I always found PeeWee basses far superior in comparison to PeeWee guitars. The basses always seemed solid, and bass players I played that had them always seemed to have a great solid thunder.:BEER

[ghoti]

We shall see.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Peavey-Grind-Bass-6-BXP-NTB-6String-Bass?sku=511372

I got this on clearance, almost half-price...hasn't come just yet. Have heard Peavey is a real deal as far as price for quality, and played a 5-string butcher block model at the store that wasn't too bad.

Mahogany and buckers for a warm growl, neck-thru for sustain, thru-body bridge also for sustain, and hopefully the lower horn doesn't hit my hand when I play up high (of course, you hardly ever play up high on bass with a lot of music so it's a situational issue).

[TENAX]

i've been playing the bass line for george benson's breezin' up high on my 4 string peavey ntb grind..never notice the horn in the way at all, now that i think about it. love the sound of the beast through my trace elliot head and 2 x 12 southbay ampworks cab

[Deaj]

We shall see.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Peavey-Grind-Bass-6-BXP-NTB-6String-Bass?sku=511372

I got this on clearance, almost half-price...hasn't come just yet. Have heard Peavey is a real deal as far as price for quality, and played a 5-string butcher block model at the store that wasn't too bad.

Mahogany and buckers for a warm growl, neck-thru for sustain, thru-body bridge also for sustain, and hopefully the lower horn doesn't hit my hand when I play up high (of course, you hardly ever play up high on bass with a lot of music so it's a situational issue).

I've played several 4 and 5 string versions of this bass and I thought they played very well and sounded great - well beyond their price range IMHO. Peavey gear may not be everyones thing but I've found nothing but high quality and consistency in their product line. I say this even with my less-than-stellar experience with my special ordered Redwood/Alder Cirrus (see earlier post on page 1). Every other Peavey product I've owned or used has been totally reliable and great sounding to boot!

Congratulations on the purchase of your new bass! Be sure to post your thoughts once you've had a chance to put it through its paces. :)

[phatster]

I'm lovin the T-20 fretless I just obtained,it is oldschool thump...definately a R&B monster!Nice weight compared to the T-40.

[ghoti]

I got the bass a couple days ago and I've been playing it, comparing it to my two others.

Looks are pretty awesome. Nice basic shape, lots of shades and stripes of natural wood (doesn't look that much like the one in the listing except for overall shape, either because of wood variation or because this is "b-stock"). I saw a ding on the front and one on one of the horns, but nothing you wouldn't get from playing regularly. My Rogue has worse wear than this one simply from getting dropped/running into stuff (how do these things happen? :RoCkIn)

Anyway, it resonates quite well and is lighter than my Rogue, with a brighter tone (pretty amazing for humbuckers but it might be the strings and wood contributing to that feeling). It feels easier to play, as well. It gets a hum into the amp I'm not sure is caused by lack of shielding or simply the amp itself...I recently broke my amp though so we'll see how it sounds through another when I get one (amp had issues sometimes anyway so I guess not a huge loss).

I like the Gibson-style controls for the passive p/u's fine. I think I like actives better, but what it has is good. I kind of expected it to growl a bit more like a Thunderbird does, but it's got its own character -- nothing wrong with that. Bottom horn will clip your wrist if you play in extremely high positions unless you go around it, but not as bad as some.
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Here are my other basses:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Rogue-LX406-Pro-6String-Bass?sku=519246

Rogue really made a great 6-string for the money. Very pronounced midrange "chunk", and active EQ and pickup selector means you have a lot of control over the sound. For three times the money you could get a Schecter that's a little better, or you could waste your money on a Tobias (OK, maybe just not to my taste, but I've been disappointed with almost every bass over $1000 I've tried in a store including Tobias, Modulus, Warwick...I mean, they were good but not $1000-$2000 better than others in my opinion). Of course, you can tell the corners Rogue cut and it all adds up to a great "beater" but maybe not a primary instrument. I'm tempted to string flats on it to accentuate the dull boom, but maybe might simply give it to my brother to learn on...he said he knew someone in his area he could learn from, and Christmas time is coming up...

http://www.rondomusic.com/product1198.html

Already wrote a review on this page. Tone is really good, QC sucks (mine came with cracked poly on the back and sending it back for replacement would cost me about 1/3 of what I paid for it plus whatever the shipping on a replacement would be). Electronics likewise good, strings and setup are great, feel is great; all in all a great fretless for someone who doesn't want to spend big bucks on a custom fretless.

[wallypip]

I have a T-40 that I use as a backup and I also have flatwounds on it. It has a really nice low, thumpy tone and it is very articulate in the low to mid registers. So I only use it occasionally for more bluesy stuff, but it is so well made that it is also the perfect backup.

It also makes for a great weapon if you're strong enough to swing it. :)

[rduckwor]

I have two Peavey's and had a Grind as well. I've been thru all sorts of Fenders, and others including Ricks and my Peaveys have consistently been my keepers. Many view them as inexpensive basses and they are from a $$ standpoint (well except the Cirrus), but they are typically well designed and well made with good electronics just as you would expect from an electronics manufacturer.

As for the Fenders, well, I have only a P-Bass now. Peaveys are a Cirrus-5 and a Fury-5 with flats that just kills.

RMD

[Zilmo]

I have a couple Axcelerator 2T's from the mid/late 90's. Pretty nice for an inexpensive bass.

[Bassomatic]

I have a couple Axcelerator 2T's from the mid/late 90's. Pretty nice for an inexpensive bass.

Did you score another since your 10/2007 post?

[Zilmo]

Did you score another since your 10/2007 post?

Yes, I got a fretless.

[Bassomatic]

Yes, I got a fretless.

Nice.

[Zilmo]

Nice.


Thanks. It's kind of cool.

[bluzbass]

I own two T-40's and a T-45,awesome tone but they are a little heavy. Nothing made today can come close to the tone-for-the-money of these basses.Check e-bay regularly,they come up.

[pir8matt]

A bassist I play with has a T-40 and loves it!

[Ah Xoc Kin]

I flirted with the idea of buying one of the early MM/J style Peavey Millenium basses (great sounding instrument) after lots of demo time but never did.

I have a Peavey Millenium (4 JB I think) currently on eBay, with only a few hours of use. I recorded some stuff with it but I seldom play bass. I have played maybe 3 basses, and this one is extremely comfortable and well balanced, in addition to being versatile. I really like it, but it deserves to be played!

[case4bass]

Peavey is great! If ya aint got the bucks Peavey will get the job done.