Peavey T 40 Bass Guitar
Вставка
- Опубліковано 3 тра 2020
- Please watch: "Vintage Fender Jazz Bass From Japan"
• Vintage Fender Jazz Ba... -~-
Peavey T 40 Bass Guitar
DWOFS Sticker
www.paypal.me/Davesworldoffun...
Penny Black CD
www.paypal.me/Davesworldoffun...
Become a Patron
/ davey4557
Facebook Group HERE
/ 709188682862895
Twitter Me
/ davey4557
My first bass was a T-40. Heavy as sin, but man what a tone monster.
I had new one for a week in 84. Played one gig with it and felt like I needed therapy after it.
Had one for about 10 years, heavy beast to gig with, but I was young, couldn't bear the load now for sure, but played like a beast, killer tones. Took it to the studio for my bands demo. miss that bass.
Exactly damn I wish I had kept mine.
I've had my eye on a few for a while now but while some are priced high, others have exorbitant shipping attached. I bought a T-60 a couple of years ago from a pawn shop in Arab, Alabama...an absolute bargain and the shipping was right. I live in hope (".)
@@gp85hkg Wow ... There's a place called 'Arab' in Alabama !
The thing with Peavey guitars at the time was to match Gibson and Fender quality while being a fraction of the price and still made in the US. Their most prominent ad was simply a Les Paul Standard listed at $918, a Stratocaster listed at $790, a Peavey T-60 listed at $375, and a giant *WHY?* at the top (from 1979).
I was at a jam session 30ish years ago and I tried a T-40 and I hated it. I was so stupid. I wish I had one of these in every color.
@@sethbrown8912😂😂😂
03:00 Dave getting his first Peavey Hernia lifting a T-40.
My 1st Peavey hernia was an '88 TNT 150
My friend worked for Peavey in the early 80's and played one of these. Heaviest guitar I ever played.
My first Peavey Hernia was an old ass 1x15 bass cab.
I had a pair of 2x15 peavey cabs (for some daft reason) and one had a set of speakers specific to that year.... BIG ASS magnets, the thing took two people to struggle with it. I don’t slag off OLD Peavey gear, because it was workable and could take a lot of abuse. They built a lot of stuff really well.
@@williamross2579 I can empathise having had to lug my H&H 2 x 15 Reflex Cab around and often up a narrow flight of stairs to a Practice Room … Mind you, it was cheaper than going to the Gym !
The 40 stood for "It weighs 40 poinds".. Wish I had mine!
the painted basses and guitars where made thinner and where also made out of poplar/basswood which was lighter the natural ones where made with NORTHERN ASH WOOD and where at least a couple of milimeters thicker which was a lot heavier
@@ernestochang1744 Did those sound very different due to the poplar/basswood? Or do you just get the benefit of a lighter bass with all the same tones?
@@synthsei im going to put that whole myth of "different woods sound different because of different density/patterns of wood" to rest.
On an acoustic instrument yes the body wood of a guitar makes a difference 9n how your instrument is going to sound, on a electric instrument it doesnt matter and heres why. When manufacturers build your electric guitar the average manufacturer wax pot their pickups, now you say what is wax potting? Well the whole point of wax potting is to isolate the pickups into picking up only the *string sound* if pickups where not wax potted, you would hear a lot of feedback and ambient noise coming through your amplifier which is why 90% of the electric guitar pickups come wax potted from the factory. If your electric guitar could pickup "wood tone" it most likely would sound like sheet.
Now to answer your question, the poplar body would just make it lighter, doesnt make it sound different and if it does, the difference in sound would be so minimalistic that the average ear could not hear a difference, unless they already know what theyre looking for
@ernestohang1744. I have a painted PV-T40 in Burgundy and it is 12 pounds. I believe the body is made of Northern Ash.
WOW - they did such a great job at grain matching. You can't even tell where the seam is. I have always wanted a T40
They come up on reverb and talkbass classifieds pretty regularly. Best of luck! I'd love to own one, but I've blown my gear budget likely for the year already lol
I've had one for a number of years. The T40 and T60 were really good instruments.
The T-40 along with the Peavy combo 300 was a match made in hell for me in my high school jazz band. But the tone plugged into a 2x15 extension cab, made me forget about the weight.
My school had the exact same setup I assume since the early 80s. I skipped other classes to play on the T-40 through a little practice amp. I was able to get the 300 combo before I graduated,hopefully one day I can buy the bass from the school. You’re right a T-40 cranked is just magic
Built like a Sherman tank, and twice as heavy! They are tone beasties though.
I guess that makes sense. Sherman tanks were pretty weak compared to their contemporaries. The two piece laminate neck can cause issues over time (crack/separate at the glue joint due to the pressure of the truss rod on the the joint).
I've been following you for a year or more and have been waiting for you to work on a T-40! This is awesome. Thanks as always!
Looks like the T40 has made another fan here. Thanks for this one, Dave. Nice work, as always.
After 35 years of playing and owning a shit ton of bases, I can say with confidence that the T-40 is one of the best basses ever made. Sure, it's heavy but not nearly as heavy as people make it out to be. It's a great playing and sounding bass. The aesthetics may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they work well for me.
Finally! I love my T40, even though it’s heavy as hell.
These basses are epic
this is what my first and current bass is, been playing for a few months and i’m finally starting to understand things
First bass I ever played. Loved that thing. Neck is amazing, tons of tones to play with.
I love the peavy T40 Bass
BASS player here, afther you video i saw it on okz.ca at 1000 CAD. With molded case.WOOOW!
That one is in pretty great shape for it's age. Very cool!
Nice full sound.
THE GREATEST STORY THAT COULD HAPPEN TO OUR WORLD...
Davey fixed a bass...
Rock on M'Brutha...
🍻
That’s my exact bass.. Mine was a complete grunge job when I got it.. but it cleaned up nicely and your 100% right about that neck.. best neck feel I think I’ve ever played on. I actually had to change my tempo (slow it down) because it became so easy/quick to get to my next notes. Those toaster pickups are super dynamic.. I can make pretty much make any bass guitar sound with it and it pretty much blows away anyone I play with. Best guitar investment I ever made.. even has the original case. You should get one for your collection Dave.. you won’t be disappointed. Great video on setup.
BTW - I bought some XL strings from another string manufacturer and had the same issue you had.. to short. You should have shown your cool open slot tuner string wrap techniques.. maybe on the T-45.
Little factoid you may not be aware of.. but the T-40 was Peaveys first attempt at a CNC carved body.. that’s why the wood is so heavy/dense so it could hold up to the primitive CNC machines they had back then.
I had one of these T-40 anchors, identical to that one, in 1983. My first bass. My last shoulder...
That gutar was terrific, and matched your terrific intro. I haven't the biceps for that one any more. Thanks.
Great job,,Dave,,,that bass has a monster of a sound
I am on my 2nd T40. Phenomenal studio bass, very versatile and huge tone. Journey, Atlanta Rhythm Section both used them in the studio. Champagne Jam was recorded on a T40.
I miss my old Peavey :( It was ao wonderful!
Hey Dave! Really cool that you printed out the tone chart I made from what I found on the internet all those years ago. I agree that it probably doesn't actually get you those specific basses' tones, but it's still got a hell of a versatile tone range and I wanted more people to get into trying these tree trunks (instead of spending thousands on multiple basses like the Rickenbacker, Gibson EB, or higher end Hofner).
My goodness. I don't normally do an audible laugh at the sight of high action but this one got me. Wow!
When Peavey introduced this bass it was supposed to be the best production bass at the time. Compared to late 70s and early 80's Fenders this blew them away.
D'Addario long scale strings used to be too short for string through bodies. They appear to be winding them longer the last few years.
If you're concerned about through body stringing, DR and GHS strings always are long enough.
Dave the bass whisperer ...
When these 1st came out friend of mine bought 1 , his cousin bought the t60 6 string version . Both still hav em n play em pretty regular . Who knew ?
Great vid Dave!
I recall seeing a used T-40 in a music shop. I picked it up to try it out...but as soon as I felt the weight, I put it down and walked away. I knew I could not play or enjoy it due to the weight. I was impressed that it was typical USA overbuilt quality. And the sounds it can make offer a lot of versatility. I have owned a few other Peavey basses but none that heavy. My ‘78 Fender Jazz Bass was also super heavy so I traded it for another bass.
My first bass. Too big for me but I loved it. Awesome instrument! An absolute tone machine!!
Great studio instument.
My first bass was a T40 also. Heavy is a kind term. I did use it at a gig once to persuade some not to beat the crap out of our lead singer. Good times!
+1 , My 1st bass as well, I quickly grew to hate that thing :-) . My shoulder still hurts (20 years ago) . Thank God for my modern P bass !!
My first band in ‘81 the bassist played a t40. He still owns it and it still plays great but the weight is a killer...
Love my American Peaveys!
Holy crap thought i was back in the 70s
I also had a T40! It was a great bass. Why I ever sold is beyond me. I want it back now!
Do you remember the weight?
Second best bass I own.
My Grandma's coffee table is my "go to" bass... Who would have guessed?
Nice bass
No matter how much I feel like your Coronavirus stress ball, your videos pick me up! “I pooped a little”
My parents bought me one for Christmas 1984, I was 17. I played a New Years Eve gig with it and discovered just how heavy it was. Traded it back to the same music store they got it from for a J-bass. It sounded great, but you needed someone else to hold it while you played it.
the ones that were not painted like you see in the video where made out of NORTHERN ASH WOOD the ones that were painted on the later models i think 1981 upwards on painted models the body wood was made of poplar
I got one for Christmas when I was about that age too! I was just practicing on it a little while ago almost 30 years later.
They need to reissue this beast.
man, Dave flipped it over and I thought he was working on grandma's coffee table for a minute.
Years ago (mid 80s?) I had a dep. job in a covers band for a few weeks when their guitarist was on holiday. He told me I could use his guitar and amp. Can't remember the amp but I remember the weight of the T-60. Also recall it had a relatively slim/shallow (front to back) neck. Anyway, back then Peavey stuff was so reliable, and even a run of the mill Bandit got me through countless bar band gigs without a problem.
Although it's incredibly heavy, I still love mine and all the tones that I can get out of it. If you go with a wide very thickly padded strap it's really not that much a burden, though it does take a toll by the fourth set. I'd ended up ordering a replacement set of height screws for the bridge since they are prone to stripping over a long period of time.
Cool to see a Peavey on the table. I live in Meridian,MS home of Peavey. Their World Headquarters is just down the road about 1 mile from my neighborhood.
Jason, do you mean to say that the Peavey headquarters *was* down the road from you? They closed their USA manufacturing facility and everything is imported from Asia now.....can't be much of a "headquarters" left....
@@goodun2974 The Corporate Office is. Yes, actual production facility's stunt down maybe 10 years ago. They had several buildings in town dedicated to the different lines. I've met Hartley and his 2nd wife. I even sold them bikes over the years. I spent the last 30 years of my life working at our towns only IBD (independent bike shop). 👍
I have an old Peavey Foundation bass and the truss rod cover is a giant pain in the ass on that as well.
Lol 😁
The man is Hartley Peavey. I think Harley and Harvey must be close relatives?🤔
Keep up the excellent work Dave!
Same here a ''79 T-40 back in 1988 sadly stolen in 1992, after watching this may just save up for another one.
I still LOVE Peavey instruments. It could be argued that Harvey picked up where Leo left off. Always handmade in USA. Sometimes a bit proprietary, but always smartly designed. My main guitar is a Gretsch 6120. I have a few Fenders. I also have an old Peavey Predator I find incredibly useful on stage and in studio alike. But the only bass I ever really use is a '91(ish?) Peavey Unity Series in Koa with a perfect neck-through and mahogany fingerboard. I own a P-Bass just because, but it serves mostly as a hat rack. My Peavey bass does more than I'll ever need. It's served me since I was 16, and I couldn't think of playing another. Hartley Peavey is the man.
I build bass guitars and have found that ash wood varies in density and weight from one board to another. I recently built two ash body basses and one was much heavier than the other. It’s a great tone wood though.
Same here a ton of sounds but a ton of pounds! Used to get a lot of compliments on my tone when ever I chose the T-40. Had to sell it. My back has never been the same! Stay safe David
If I had to choose just 1 bass guitar to use for the rest of my life, I would choose a Peavey T-40.
Criminally underrated and a real workhorse!
By the way, it would take a lot of years for me to understand how it works fully....and there are ways to make it lighter on the back of the base without ruining the front .... if you don't care about the resale value.
I have a T40 and the T60 Guitar... They have a great sound, and play well. Other than the weight, I find little to fault them on.
"I pooped a little" lol
My sisters for Bass was a 78 T-40 .. she quit a few years later sold me the bass for $100 :)
They're honestly not worth much more than that. I don't know why they never quite caught on. Probably the weight but Jazz Basses aren't light either and everyone has at least one. There's a billion T-40's floating around though but you can't beat a MIA bass with a dozen usable sounds and built like a tank that you can get for $2-300. The T-60 is a really neat guitar, too. Somebody donated a set of T-60 pickups to me and they sounded awesome in a 335 clone, none of the crazy switching but still great.
@@tmtmtmtmtm they go for about $350-400 now on ebay not including shipping .. an overall great bass for me cause I only play at home ... but nothing beats a precision bass tone imo
ColdToiletSeats yeah, add another $100 for shipping. I see them advertised on Craigslist for $500-700 from time to time.
Yeah one of my first guitars was a t-60. Sold it to buy a Strat. Wish I still had it. Can’t find them for less than $500 whenever I cone across one.
T M Ehler too bad they’re worth actually more than what you paid for.
I had the T-60 guitar version of this. Not a week when I don't regret selling it...
I like mine fine, great sustain, tone etc. It looks good in sunburst me thinks. Should be great for studio work. They do make some nice straps these days to help with all that sustain weight. Doesn't bother me but I've done heavy labor most of my life. Lot of bang for the buck.
T series is killer, I’d love a T-40 and a T-60 guitar. Both are top shelf IMHO!
The heaviest bass I ever owned. It was a tank. Sounded good though. Also the Peavey guitars were some of the very first CNC produced guitars.
in the 70s here in SC good friends with marshall tucker, I played in a band for 6 years played a les paul with a musicman hd130 with a marshall 4 12 cabinet. our bass player use a fender p base with a peavey amp, but we thought a peavey guitar of any kind was something you chunk off a bridge. southern fact
i need to use D'addario extra long for my peavy cirrus when i go body through. but thats a 35" scale bass (5 string). normal length always worked on 34" basses neck through for me
Ahhhh!!! StewMac adds before and after video!!!
I have an old T-40. It's a pretty nice bass but it's a heavy beast; it looks just like the one you have there. Notice it takes an entire hardware store full of screws just to attach the pickguard! Nice setup as always, Dave.
& still looks Warped : )
Holy crap theres screws in screws!
Does it have a 5-6 piece ash body?
@@j_freed judging from the amount of screws it takes to hold it together, a 10 piece.
@@j_freed Probably. But don't get too hung up on number of pieces of wood and how it affects tone--because it does not. Vintage Fender *necks* are three pieces (neck, fingerboard, skunk stripe).
1 of my mates here has 1 of your T shirts!
"Granny's coffee table" lmfao! Thanks man
Had one of those in the late 80's. Lost it to a house fire. Damn shame, it was one of the best basses I've ever owned. Never heard such harmonics and clarity in a sub $1000 bass.
"Peaveyed my pants..."--hahaha...wasn't ready for that one!
My back is hurting just looking at it.
Heavy like a neutron star.
Yup it's a heavy beast and mine live in it's case most of the time. I wouldn't sell it for love nor money though. My T-40 is a great playing bass with so a tone pallet that I haven't found on any other single bass.
BTW for the unwashed masses (pretty much every bass player, lol) the Peavy T-40 is/was USA made and the first commercial bass using CNC.
got one just like this one 1971 model !!!!
That is highly interesting...the earliest came out in 78 and those pickups only started around 81.
Hi there Dave. I have the equivalent guitar, thè T60, which I've hàd ßince 1978. Vèry stable, and you can get strat-luke ànd Les Paul tones as well.
try playing November rain from guns and roses, on your Peavey T60 and now go to a guitar store grab a gibson les paul and try to play november rain. My point is on your Peavey T60 you cant bend your B and E string as far or as fast or effortlessly as a les paul
It sounds good. Maybe because of that solid bridge.
It's all in the pickups and the circuit. Part of the bridge is hollow.
This was my first bass , got it for I think $250 in 1982....it was a floor model demo, great bass....the 40 is how many pounds it weighs.
A few years ago I played one of these and was amazed at some of the tones it could make. I’d love to convert one to fretless.
It's the 4001 Rickenbacker, that has those funky scale.hahahaha👍
Talking about my generation...I like it.
Great bass for getting your reps in with your playing. No more wimpy bassists!
(Where did Harley Peavey find those heavy trees?)
The T40 weighed 11,800 lbs … and was a Soviet Light Amphibious Tank … Is this the American version ?
They also made a T45 and that was even heavier … SO, watch your back when you lift that one Dave !
Glad you finally found the hole 🤣
That's a fantastic bass....if you've got a good chiropractor...
"Grannie's Coffee Table"... Live at Madison Square Garden. With special guests.
I still have my T-40, Ross Valory from Journey used to play one. Where did you find that secret tone chart?
Never met a Peavey neck I didn't love.
I have a T40, but needs to be set up properly. Problem is finding someone to do it right like the gentleman in the video. Peavey has some particulars setting up this bass. One person below mentioning switching the 250K pots for 500K pots for tone improvement.
PV eh? Yeah, PV made some GOOD basses & guitars in that era!
Hello can some1 help me i have a peavey t40 from 1980 the toaster pickup style the pickups from the factory that dont have a blade poking out of the top like you see in the video. Why is it so dam dark??? Its not muddy its just extremely dark did they do something with the pickups from the factory to sound THIS DARK?!?!?!
01:16 - someone used the pickguard as a pickholder, lol
Looks cool though... even though... it's not gonna make it a better or worse bass but... is it a 5-piece body on a natural finish?
BTW, how much did that particular one weighted? I'd gladly have one... when sitting down I guess. But I saw around that a bridge swap and some other hardware tweaks would noticeably fix (or ease) that
Hi,does anybody know where I can get a copy off of the internet of those pages of preset sounds that sound like those other instruments that Dave is looking at ,any help finding this would be appreciated.thank you
what is the size of the socket was used to adjust the truss rod?
Why is it that everytime I see a UA-camr with a Peavey T-40 they're working on it but not playing it?! 🤨
They said they built it that heavy cause they didn't know better, it was the first series of guitars/bass.
Got the T60 and T40. The names sound like russian tanks and they're about in that weight class. Swamp Ash...
@Davey: Do you know any way to stop this type of output jack from spinning without getting on the inside?
Fuckin Peavy- always top quality
The T40, Marmite looks, kinda like the Ibanez ATK... you either dig it or you don’t, but you can’t deny how good they sound. Heavy though... one for the tone junkies and chiropractors!
Mmmmmmmmmm.....Aaaaaash bodies