Good score and yes the prices on Peavey basses are creeping up these last few years. The pick-up is the Peavey designed Super Ferrite Pup. A lot of fanfare amongst Peavey enthusiast's like myself. The T-20 is equipped with a relatively large one placed and angled in the "sweet spot". The thumb rest seems to keep your fingers right in that spot. Cool bass dude! Cheers!
I’ve been having a hard time putting it down, it sounds so good. It’s the only bass I have strung with roundwound strings and I think I may keep it that way, it gets a tone completely different from any of my other basses. The only complaint I have is that the neck is wider (at the nut) than I’m used to, and I’m having a hard time getting around it as nimbly as I do my p basses. I’m considering putting the fretless neck from my foundation on it. I could probably sell the neck for more than I bought the bass for. It’d just be a shame, it’s a beautiful maple neck.
They are cool basses! I have a T20 and a slant pick-up Fury. I would keep trying to get used to it...but if you decide to part with the neck please let me know. Cheers!
Lovely basses! I think that 1st gen fury has the coolest body shape, just pointy enough without being a “pointy guitar”. Reminds me a lot of the peavey patriot guitar I used to have. Sadly the patriot basses look like someone beat them with the ugly stick, IMO. For now, I’m just going to enjoy the T20 as whole. I expect once gigs and band practices start back up I’ll find out how much I can or can’t hang with this neck.
Such an 80’s zeitgeist color scheme lol. It’s kinda rad now, in a retro way. The horns of that body are just all wrong to my eye. Too long, too much space between them and the neck, and the body is too wide. I don’t know why they didn’t just use the same body as the fury or the foundation. Oh well, some like it. Its it’s own little niche now.
Yes I like the Red Fury body best, the Patriot is a cool bass very light weight easy to play, but it is kinda fugly... I like the early Foundation body too. This bass is on its way to me off reverb, I couldn't help it...RIP EVH!
Nope, 77’s on the Grote Hofner clone. I meant the T-20 is the only bass w/ roundwounds at the moment, and it has Ernie Ball slinkys. On a hollow body, flatwounds are the only proper string, IMO, to get that deep “thunk” tone. I keep a foam mute on it too. Here’s a demo.
Thanks, that’s kinda what I go for on my basses. I haven’t played an upright since I was 19, but I love the sound of them. No worries about the confusion, looking back on my post it wasn’t worded the most clearly lol.
