The only problem I have with those videos is that these guys are all professional techs and clearly have a lot of experience with what they're doing. They go very quickly and make it look easier than it is. You're going to want to move more slowly than that.
The bridge adjustment video works if you have a floating Strat-style bridge. I think your Peavey does, so you should be okay, but if it's a Tune-o-matic style bridge the procedure is slightly different. He also doesn't even mention adjusting the scale, and only does height. In order to get your instrument playing at it's best, you may have to adjust both.
Adjusting the truss works pretty much as demonstrated, but unless you've been doing it as long as he has you're going to want to go much more slowly. The rule is that you never give it more than a quarter turn at a time. Give it a quarter turn, re-tune, check the neck, and repeat as necessary.
I wouldn't suggest messing with the neck angle. If it's that far out, you'll probably want a professional tech or luthier to look at it. Screwing up the neck angle can really fuck up your guitar.
You're also going to want to replace the strings (I assume you either know how to do this or can at least figure it out; it's very simple), but that's probably as far as you'll want to go on your first set up. There are other adjustments that can be made, but those are the important and easy ones. Adjusting string height at the nut or messing with the fretboard is the sort of thing that should be left to the pros.
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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
Electric guitar and acoustic guitar may share tuning and fingerings, but in some ways they are actually different instruments. Being good on one doesn't automatically make you as good at the other. Acoustic players have fretting-hand strength many electric guitarists don't need to have, at the same time electric players often have fretting-hand control (bending, vibrato, muting at distorted amp settings) that many acoustic guitarists don't need to have. Players who are good on both generally have had to practise on both, and adapt their technique accordingly depending on which they are playing.
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I don't disagree with this, precisely, but I think you may be over-emphasizing the difference. Yes, an acoustic has a very different feel from an electric, but there's more that carries over when going from acoustic to electric than when going the other way. In particular, acoustics are much less forgiving on play technique, since you can't mask sloppy playing with distortion or reverb, so starting on acoustic forces a player to learn to play well, whereas a player who learns exclusively on electric can get away with a bit of slop. This ultimately leads to acoustic players being superior down the road, in my opinion. At the same time, the differences aren't significant enough to really make a fuss over, and as I said above you'll learn much more from an electric you play than from an acoustic you don't.