Peavey Bass Guitar

If you play daily, you should change strings every couple of weeks. Replace your strings as you notice them becoming dirty or discolored, before you experience a disappointing loss of performance.

The goal of truss rod adjustment is to create the correct amount of bow in your bass guitar’s neck to facilitate optimal playability. To check the neck’s bow, hold the guitar in normal playing position and fret the string at the first fret, while fretting and holding the same string with your picking hand thumb. Then, stretch your picking hand index finger as far as you can to fret the middle area of the neck. The distance your string travels to meet the fret is the bow. Peavey recommends a .3 mm to .5 mm (.010” to .020”) bow. To make adjustments for neck bow or relief (backbow), adjust the truss rod in 1/4 turn increments, and then recheck.

A properly intoned bass guitar will sound in tune no matter where you play along the fretboard. Bass intonation describes the accuracy in relative pitch (of your bass with itself ) as you play the same note or chord. Intonation is determined by the length of each string as controlled by the location of each string’s saddle. To check intonation, complete all adjustments to the truss rod and string action, and tune your guitar. Then, compare the fretted sound of the 12th fret to the open harmonic of the 12th fret. If the notes are the same, no adjustment is required. If they do not match, you will need to fine-tune each offending string using the adjustment screws to move the saddle location.