Peavey Foundation 5-String

Bold-on neck, two humbucker pickups with separate volume knobs for each and a tone control. Standard tuners. Everything is very basic.

I generally like the sound of this bass. The mid-range seems to get a little nasal on some combo amps. I run it through an SWR Workingman's 12 and can get some great sounds out of it by monkeying with the amp settings a bit. I keep the tone cranked up and the amp tweeter turned on and get a great Geddy Lee twang, or slap the tone down to zero and get a nice warm boom. With the separate knobs for each pickup, I can tweak my sound even more, but I'm usually very happy with both pickups cranked to full and going with one of those two tone settings, depending on the style of the song I'm playing at the time.

I bought this puppy new, and the very first thing I did with it is lower the action on the strings (a little fret-rattle doesn't scare me). The neck is ramrod-straight, and I was able to bring the strings WAY down without any problems, which is impressive considering how thin the neck is and how much tension the extra B string puts on a bass.

I've heard people complain about the white finish turning cream over time. I wouldn't know about that because I bought the black. It's a very pretty and very glossy black, so I usually keep a rag handy to wipe off all my hand-prints.

No thumb rest, but I tend to just rest my thumb on the B string most of the time when I'm playing.

Built like a tank. I've DROPPED this bass, face-down, on more than one occasion, and it usually doesn't even get knocked out of tune.

I've never once had to make adjustments to the neck. I've used it for years with the factory settings. It's absolutely perfect.

It's the heaviest bass I've ever owned. If you're a guitarist who's planning on teaching his 90-pound girlfriend to be a bass player, look elsewhere. This is a big bass and demands a strong shoulder. Fortunately the strap buttons are up to the task of keeping it in place.

The build quality is mostly very good. My only nit-pick is that the knobs (steel knobs tightened on with little screws) tend to come loose very easily. Sometimes for traveling gigs I just take them off so I don't have to worry about them. One of these days I might just replace them with some nice rubber ones.

I never gig without backup axes, because even though I almost never break bass strings, you never know. However I'm never in the slightest bit concerned about the hardware on this monster.

I've never once had to deal with Peavey customer support, in spite of owning two guitars, a PA amp, two sets of speakers, and this bass. Their stuff just flat-out doesn't break. I guess that's why their amps are so popular with schools.

Peavey guitars and basses are the most under-rated axes out there. Tons of bang for the buck. I've been playing for 15 years, using this bass for about 10 of them. When one was stolen, I replaced it with another just like it.

If you are a serious bass player and haven't played a 5-string much, you owe it to yourself to try it out for an extended period. It's not the extra-low D, C, and B at the end of the neck that make it awesome to have (although it's fun to boom out a note or two down there as an tooth-rattling accent), it's the fact that you can stay up in the middle of the neck more often, playing on the thicker strings and ready to fly up the scale. Playing a low C way up on fret 8 of the E string, knowing you can reach down the low G without moving your hand, is a delightful and addictive feeling.

Mid-90's US made, 5-string. Solid alder or poplar body, 21-fret maple neck. Two coil-tapped humbuckers which revert to single-coil as tone is rolled off. Was white, faded to cream color. Long scale, fairly thin neck. Came with good original hardshell case.

This thing seems to be able to get the gamut of bass sounds-sharp and trebly to warm and wooly and all kinds of combinations. I'm running it through an old tube Ampeg B-15 with no effects. The tone controls change the pickups to single-coil mode, and you can even get some out-of-phase sounding combinations. Very flexible. My favorite setting is the rear pickup all the way up, front pickup about halfway. I am a rock/blues guitarist who wanted a bass to do home recordings and fill in on bass occasionally live.

Here's where the glimmer fades a bit. Neck pocket has about 1/32" gap on either side. It doesn't move, and stays in tune, but that's kind of sloppy. Plastic control cover on back is a really sloppy fit as well. Also, the finish is horrible. The paint on the body is kinda ripply, and the fingerboard seems to suffer from excessive lacquer-it's built up around the frets in some places-esp. at the body end. Also, the front pickup doesn't seem to want to move up or down and the controls seem to like loosening up. Conversely, the fret job is good, the nut is fine, and the intonation stayed true after I adjusted it.

The bass has good, solid hardware-the bridge wasn't rusty and the tuners seem to have held up well. The strap buttons, amazingly, are tight as a drum. I adjusted the truss rod when I bought it (it was used) and haven't had to since. I'm going to have to loc-tite the control nuts
or something-they seem to get wobbly when the weather changes and I have the same problem with the jack plate as everyone else. Planning on replacing it with a metal one.
It stays in tune and the neck doesn't move. It balances well. I'd use it on a gig as backup no sweat-I don't have one anyway!

never dealt with Peavey personally but I hear they're great.

I've played guitar and bass (mostly guitar) for over 25 years. I've had a few basses go through my hands-a Mustang, a Rickenbacker 4000, a Gibson EB-0. I'd say the Rick was my favorite, followed closely by this one. It can get the stock Rick sounds no problem. If I were to lose it, I'd go looking for another one, but I'd probably go with the four-string. It has great sound, great balance, a flexible pickup arrangement, a great case, a nice neck, good tuners and a hefty bridge. It also has a lousy finish and a sloppy neck joint (which doesn't seem to affect it). All in all, if you don't want to spend a fortune for a decent working US made instrument go find one of these and keep it close. You CAN'T go wrong for the money.

Rock solid. Great for an intermediate player like myself, but also would be cool for a beginner, too. Original peavey factory set-up, but whoever had it before me tuned the top two strings to "e"--wierd...but it actually sounded great like that!

I play in a punk band and beat the crap out of my instrumente (3 chords and a cloud of dust) The peavey brand has easilly sounded the best with the beatings they take

There is about a half-inch of action on it, but it sounds full and punchy, plenty of oomph for a hardcore band

The Peavey brand has withstood plenty of my bashings. For the price, you can't beat it. Many gigs later and it's still thumpin'!

'Cmon, it's Peavey, they really treat you well

I've been playing for about 6 years now, Ialso have a 1977 Fender Musicmaster shortneck, which is great but you really cant beat on it like the peavey

LATE 90'S AMERICAN MADE. BLACK WITH MAPLE NECK/FINGERBOARD. PASSIVE PICK-UPS WITH TWO VOLUMES AND A TONE. 34" SCALE WITH DECENT BEEFY MACHINE HEADS AND GOOD QUALITY BRIDGE. BOUGHT USED.

THIS BASS SOUNDS REALLY GOOD FOR MANY STYLES OF MUSIC, ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR MOST MODERN COUNTRY AND CONTEMPORARY STLES. NOT A REAL IN YOUR FACE SLAPPER LIKE A MUSICMAN, BUT GREAT FINGERSTYLE PLAYER. THESE ARE REALLY A SLEEPER FOR THE PRICE. I HAVE PLAYED AND CURRENTLY OWN SEVERAL TOP SHELF BASSES SUCH AS LAKELANDS, MIKE LULL AND MUSICMAN AND THE THE SCARY THING IS FOR THE PRICE, THESE PEAVEYS ARE INCREDIBLY GOOD PLAYERS. NOW I'M NOT SAYING THEY'RE AS GOOD AS THESE BOUTIQUE BASSES BY ANY STRETCH; BUT FOR THE DOUGH THEY ARE A REAL SLEEPER. IF YOU'RE A SLAPPER...FORGET IT, BUT IF YOU LIKE TO DIG IN FINGERSTYLE, THESE BASSES CAN DO IT WELL. RUN THIS BABY THROUGH A DECENT PREAMP AND YOU'RE LAUGHING.

BOUGHT USED AND SET UP MYSELF. BLACK FINISH IS PRETTY DULL BUT O.K. ONCE SET UP THIS BASS IS A KILLER PLAYER AND I'M PICKY. NICE FRETWORK AND A COMFORTABLE NECK FOR MY HANDS. REALLY REMINDS ME OF MY LAKELAND FOR PLAYABILITY....NOT KIDDING. MACHINE HEADS ARE AS GOOD AS ANY, REALLY BEEFY.

THIS BASS WAS BOUGHT AS A CHEAP TRAVEL/GIGGING BASS AND IS HOLDING UP GREAT. WAY BETTER THAN ANY FENDER EVEN CLOSE TO IT'S PRICE RANGE. HARDWARE IS SOLID, ALTHOUGH CONTROL KNOBS NEED OCCASIONAL TIGHTENING. LIKE MOST AMERICAN BASSES, BUILT LIKE A TANK. DECENT NECK POCKET FIT AS WELL.

NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH PEAVEY.

AS I SAID, I'M A BIT OF A GEARHEAD AND OWN SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL AND VINTAGE BASSES. I'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR 20+ YEARS ON A SEMI-PROFESSIONAL BASIS AND CAN'T FIND A BETTER DEAL ON A FIVE STRING BASS THAN THIS. PEAVEY IS INCREDIBLY UNDER-RATED, BUT THAT'S FINE WITH ME BECAUSE IT KEEPS THEIR PRICES LOW. MAN, ASIDE FROM MAYBE YAMAHA, POUND FOR POUND PEAVEY GIVES YOU THE BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. I MEAN AN AMERICAN MADE 5 STRING FOR JUST OVER 200 BUCKS ? NO BRAINER.

This is a nice looking, maple on maple necked bass. 2 passive single coil pickups with seperate volumes, 1 tone control. Poplar body. Mine has a string through bridge but I've seen ones that arent. Boring paint, only available in three colours.

The whole reason I ditched this bass for my current one (a 5 string musicman stingray) is sound. There is alot of low mid (read boomy), not enough deep low end on the low b, not quite enough upper mids, and absolutely no high frequencies. This drove me up the wall. It can get by in jazz when eqed properly, although it doesnt have that j bass butteryness to it at all, and you can get a darker rock sound with it (Nirvanaish). Funk? Nooo way, there is no punch here. Punk? Nope. Not enough attack, even with a steel pick. I love this bass but the sound really doesnt fit with anything, especially if you are using anything other than a really punchy amp like a 2x10. New pickups would help a bit, but even when played acoustily, there is nothing happening in the high frequencies. What a shame.

Bass came beautifully set up, everything was great. No flaws. As I said before, I play a musicman stingray 5 now (a $2000+ bass) and I was amaized how close the peavey came to mathing it in playability.

Nothing ever happened, except the knobs fall off, which is thouroughly annoying. The shaft is too short. Bas design.

Its peavey. My dealer and the company are both great

Beautiful bass in search of tone.

5 string bass with dual blendable pickups. Black solid light-weight
bass with clear laquer finish. The neck is a smooth natural ash wood
neck. It has volume, bass/treble and a blendable selector. Pickup
configuration is a hole pickup and another hole pickup. Bridge style
is a string thru back of bridge. The neck style is a full thin neck
for easy manuevering.

The sound is crisp and smoothly balanced. I compose classical
bass compositions. I use a 25 watt amp with full eq. The mid
range has a warm full sound. The bottom has dark sound. The
higher range has a clear smooth bright sound. The bass has
terrific range and it's blendability enhances a full sound.
For the dollar the sound is unbeatable. I don't like that it
doesn't have a thumb rest. Although, I will install it soon.

Overall the bass was set-up well at the factory. The only complaint
was a loose tuning peg that buzzed but was repairable with clear
glue.

Overall the bass is made to last. Although the finish on the body
is wearing. Strap buttons are solid. This bass can be used without
a backup.

I have been playing for 28 years. The neck is my favorite feature.
The pickups respond very easily to the slightest touch. I play with
2 hands a tapping method with right hand with chords on the left.
The combination between the neck and the pick ups brings out this
play very well. I tryed out many basses at least 25 and this was
the best. I wish it had a thumb rest and a pick-up guard. The
body is solid and doesn't have a guard.

its a 95 model usa made of course 21 fret 5 string 2 volume knobs 1 tone 2 single coils peavey passive

i play rock and metal and 4 what i do i love it ive been playing 6 years this isnt the best bass i have owned but it does a hell of a job i bought it used so it was beat up a little its been droped a couple of times but the day i got it it got strap locks so that dont happen i use it for my main bass right now im looking at a bc rich but this ones worth hangin on to

it was probably decent out of the factory but i got it used

it holds up really well peavey makes good equipment

i have delt with peavey on several occations they are the shit!

my only complaint is its not ACTIVE!