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Don O

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New Bass Day. Forget that one guitar only for a week, I put in my time :dood: . Having seen Peavey this and Peavey that for over a year, I drank some PV kool aid and pulled the trigger on this bad boy. Neck feels great but I’ve only plugged it in to the Duotone, not a bass amp yet. Has a wide variety of tones with all those dang knobs. Not too heavy either.


From the ad:


Peavey Millennium bass guitars are well regarded as the essential working player's bass for their solid low end, playability and craftsmanship--in fact, pros such as John Campbell (Lamb of God), Josh Sattler (doubleDRIVE) and Marco Mendoza (Ted Nugent, Whitesnake) are avid Millennium players. Each Millennium AC BXP bass Features a solid Basswood body, hard rock maple neck with rosewood fretboard and an attractive quilted maple cap. An active electronic system, driven by Peavey Cirrus neck and bridge active pickups, provides an extra boost in volume and tone with more expressive sound control. These 21-fret, 34 inch scale basses also feature volume, pickup blend, bass, mid and treble controls, as well as the new Peavey headstock design. The studio quality active 18 volt electronics accurately reproduce even the most nuanced performance.

There's a lot to be said for an instrument that just feels right. Widely praised for their solid tonal response, comfort and craftsmanship, Millennium Series bass guitars are essential equipment for gigging bass players who crave a finely crafted instrument that responds to an individual's touch.

Millennium AC BXP
Designed with the same VFL active electronics that we use in Cirrus Series bass guitars, the Millennium AC BXP opens a new world of active-pickup tones for bass enthusiasts. Onboard electronics include volume, pickup blend, bass, mid and treble controls, with a rosewood fretboard, five-bolt hard rock maple neck and agathis body with your choice of quilted veneer or solid-color finish. Available in 4-string and 5-string models
  • 34 inch scale
  • Five bolt neck attachment with hard rock maple neck
  • Solid Basswood body, rosewood fingerboard, highly figured quilted maple cap on trans models
  • 21 Frets
  • 19-1 mini die cast enclosed machine heads
  • 2 way fully adjustable torsion rod
  • Individual finger-style bridge
  • String-thru body or top load
  • String-thru ferrules
  • 2 Peavey USA design VFL active humbucking pickups
  • Active preamp
    18 volt electronics
  • Volume, pickup blend, bass, mid and treble controls with 12 db boost/cut
  • Satin black hardware



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Jeez, I just re-looked at the pics. Look close, there’s saw dust all over the guitar. I was working in the basement when UPS came. I opened the box and got it out to get used to the temp. About about an hour later I came up from the basement work and tuned it and starting playing it. Didn’t pay attention to all the saw dust on my shirt.
 
Was playing it some last night. Not being a bass player (but a desire to learn) I was working on using the 2 finger method to pick. That’s gonna take a lot of practice. So I grabbed a heavy pick. Was picking the strings with the pick basically flat against the strings, meaning the pick surface was parallel to the string. Got nice smooth base notes. Then for the heck of it I changed the vertical pick angle to about 45 degrees so just the edge of the pick hit the string first. DAMN, just changing the pick angle and it sounded like a totally different bass guitar. Is that normal for a bass?
 
Was playing it some last night. Not being a bass player (but a desire to learn) I was working on using the 2 finger method to pick. That’s gonna take a lot of practice. So I grabbed a heavy pick. Was picking the strings with the pick basically flat against the strings, meaning the pick surface was parallel to the string. Got nice smooth base notes. Then for the heck of it I changed the vertical pick angle to about 45 degrees so just the edge of the pick hit the string first. DAMN, just changing the pick angle and it sounded like a totally different bass guitar. Is that normal for a bass?
That is definitely the nicest Peavey bass I ever seen.
Yes, bass has more articulation than guitar when you play it clean. It's distortion that masks the small differences in sound.
 
Was playing it some last night. Not being a bass player (but a desire to learn) I was working on using the 2 finger method to pick. That’s gonna take a lot of practice. So I grabbed a heavy pick. Was picking the strings with the pick basically flat against the strings, meaning the pick surface was parallel to the string. Got nice smooth base notes. Then for the heck of it I changed the vertical pick angle to about 45 degrees so just the edge of the pick hit the string first. DAMN, just changing the pick angle and it sounded like a totally different bass guitar. Is that normal for a bass?
Amp Mad is right, also what makes a difference is if you pick closer to the neck or the bridge.
 
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