That looks prettty awesome, and yes Giblin was on a few KB tracks , as was David Paton, another fine bassist who played on 8 of the tracks on her first album and 5 tracks on her second
Yes i see the bridge is not original , as bridge pup is not that close to the bridge on the 900
But the measurement from the 12th fret will be accurate
I can only repeat - use the 715x
It may not have the 12 band EQ or dual compressor of my SMX, but if you cant get a suitable tone out of a TE, you need to see a specialist
Just because, here's the other 2 colours Peavey issued for that model
I think the dark one is called T-Black, though it was really some kind of nice burgundy/brown. Cant remember what they called the light red model. It'll be on the web somewhere.
That's a fine looking axe. Maybe thats the sweet spot, but tone is personal so it wont be the sweet spot for everyone, but i'm kind of thinking somewhere there abouts.
Pino is not really on my list for fave fretless players, tone wise ( so sorry Pino fans ) but neither is Jaco.
For tone, i love this guys sound on a ( is it a Zon ? ) Del Palmer ex Kate Bush band but maybe tricky to emulate because the Zon doesnt use a regular pickup
Del said in an interview that he wished he'd done the original recording on a fretless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-9TWI-UAk
In my head, i've always thought, rightly or wrongly, that it's hard to EQ out the growl from a pickup so close to the bridge, and a bit of the loss of low end, but happy to be corrected on that