Electric Guitar Owner's Manual
6 7 8 Guitar Configuration 9 10 11 12 5 5 14 13 15 1 4 3 2 1. Pickup Height Screw 2. 5-Way Pickup Selector 3. Volume 4. Tone Controls 5. Strap Button 6. Bridge 7. Bridge Pickup 8. Middle Single Coil Pickup 9. Neck Pickup 10.Position Markers 11. Fret 12. Fingerboard 13. Nut 14. Tuning Keys 15.
Congratulations Cleaning & Care So, you are the owner of a new Peavey Electric Guitar. Congratulations! Your purchase proves your taste in musical instruments is superb. Peavey offers a wide variety of guitars for beginners to professionals, each with unique qualities and features. While our professional luthiers have carefully inspected your guitar, every model requires some initial set up, and periodic maintenance is required for peak performance.
Cleaning - Wood Cleaning - Fingerboard To clean and care for the major wood parts of your guitar (body, headstock or the back of the neck), Peavey recommends that you use a clean, soft, lint-free, dry cotton cloth and specially formulated guitar polish available at www.peavey.com/accessories. Use of an inappropriate rag or polish may result in scratching the finish of your instrument. Properly caring for your fingerboard requires special attention.
Cleaning - Metal Storage & Travel To clean and lubricate the major metal parts of your guitar (strings, pickups, bridge, tuners), Peavey recommends that you use a different clean, soft, lint-free, dry cotton cloth and specially formulated guitar string cleaner available at www.peavey.com/accessories. Forming a cloth fold and running it up and down the length of each string can quickly clean strings.
Accessories Strings Add-on products like stands, hangers and straps that are made of plastic, rubber or man-made materials may chemically or physically react with and damage the finish of your Peavey guitar. Peavey offers a full line of accessories at www.peavey.com/accessories). Every player needs a strap for peak performance, however, straps and strap buttons are designed for “ordinary” use.
Changing Your Strings Unless you are reconditioning your fretboard (see care and cleaning), strings should be changed one at a time to maintain proper neck tension. New strings should be free of defects (twists, kinks, bends) that can cause sound irregularities or breakage. All strings must be stretched upon installation. After your first tuning, carefully pull each string away from the fretboard, stretching it gently (too much force will break thinner strings). Then, retune your guitar.
ACM® Bridge - Changing Your Strings Insert a new string through the hole in the back of the guitar and pull through until the ball end of the string rests tightly against the underside of the bridge. Thread the other string end across the string saddle, across the nut and into the small hole in the corresponding machine head tuning post. Allow two inches of slack for turning around the machine head post. Each winding should be beneath the one before it to prevent slippage.
Double Locking Tremolo - Changing Your Strings First, detune the 6th string (the thickest, top string) using the machine head tuner—two or three turns should remove the tension on the string. Then, using a 3mm Allen wrench, unlock the corresponding string clamp located at the nut. Then, back on the bridge, reset each Fine Tuner to its middle range. Now, you are ready to remove the 6th string.
Tune-O-Matic™/Stop Tailpiece - Changing Your Strings To replace strings, thread the new strings through the string holes located on the back of the tailpiece and bring them up and over the saddle. The intonation can be adjusted by moving the saddle forward or backward using a Phillips head screwdriver on the adjustment screw at the rear of the bridge. Raise or lower the two height adjustment spinners on either side of the bridge to adjust string height.
String Action Pickup Adjustments String action refers to the distance between the strings and the frets on a stringed instrument. Peavey technicians carefully set optimal string action on every guitar before it leaves our factory; however, changes in temperature and moisture (humidity), changing string gauges, making neck adjustments or tuning can alter string action enough to require a height adjustment to restore your guitar to factory specifications.
Intonation Neck and Truss Rod A properly intoned guitar will sound in tune no matter where you play along the fretboard. 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.
Volume and Tone Control Neck and Truss Rod thumb (where the neck and body meet, typically around the 16th fret). Then, stretch your picking hand index finger as far as you can to fret the middle area of the neck, somewhere around fret 7-8-9. The distance your string travels to meet the fret is the bow. Peavey recommends a .3 mm to .5 mm (.010” to .020”) bow, easily measured and set with a steel rule.
Pickups & Pickup Selector Switch Balance Control & Push-Pull or Push-Push Coil Tap Single-coil pickups and dual-coil pickups (humbuckers) convert your guitar’s string vibrations into an electronic signal that is processed by your amplifier. To create a specific tone, some instruments feature a balance control that determines the mix of pickup signals being sent to the amplifier. In the center (detented) position, both pickups send the same volume.
Accessories Accessories Peavey offers a wide range of accessory products to support and enhance your purchase. Please visit the Peavey web site, www.peavey.com for specific details and suggested list prices.
Warranty Your Peavey Warranty covers defects in material and workmanship in Peavey products purchased and serviced in the U.S.A. and Canada.
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