Hellzero

This: https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/instruments_de_musique/2481532893 Amazing Benedetti pickups and excellent (when you understand how it works) Aguilar preamp. Barrillon is the luthier who bought Benedetti when Michel died.

Dave aka @Dov65 and I were the same age, 59 years old is no age to go to sleep forever. I know, I'm repeating myself, but that's quite a shock. And he was such a nice person. 😢

Exactly this, the aluminium version fitted at the beginning by Warwick are simply dire and have a huge tendency to break. Put an iron model the correct way @julesb and it will be fine for years and even decades.

Monk Montgomery was the first professional user of the then new electric bass. 😉

Or a new approach to your slap technique @Bass Wielder ...

The Bugera Veyron Mosfet is the only bass amp close to that requirement: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/bugera-veyron-mosfet-eq-analysis.1459228/

Same here, gutted. 😢

Yes, the original pot for the volume is a 25 kOhms log, but was replaced later with a linear one. 100 kOhms log for the bass and 1 megOhms reverse log for the treble, but again linear one will do the job perfectly with a more useable progression.

You didn't answer @tauzero, but if you solder that 25 kOhms pot between the preamp output and the jack, your bass will found way better than with the non matching 500 kOhms pot...

You could have used the provided rubber clip system instead to attach this Noctua fan (which are the only really silent fans available): it would have been way more fast and easy. 😉 I've done this modification to all the amps with fans that I came across.

Worth checking the early 90's Yamaha TRB Slap Cut series too. 😉

Calling @Andyjr1515 !

So was Hans J. Kullock, who died in 2021, the founder of the MAI in Nancy...

So the volume pot is after the preamp?

You still can wire the pickup directly into the preamp and put the 25kOhms pot at the output of the preamp, so it will work more or less like a real Stingray preamp. 😉

In Brussels, you can try these: https://saibrussels.be/ https://www.sound-academy.co/en-us/ville/bruxelles https://www.iad-arts.be/formations/son In Nancy, France, you can try this, the equivalent of the Berklee College of Music in Europe: https://maifrance.com/

Le Fay pickups are made by the Dobbratz brothers, the two owners of Le Fay. Andreas Richter is now making their preamps: https://www.richter-ee.de/

It's 4 pickups in fact... 😉

Congratulations @admiralchew ! I played a few Ritter's a long time ago at the Frankfurter Musik Messe when I still had hair (and they were very long) and I clearly remember Jens asking me to remove my perfecto brown leather jacket before even thinking touching an instrument... Amazing basses, amazing finish, amazing tone, amazing versatility, amazing ergonomics and amazing look, but I would be afraid to take it outside home... Talking about gifts, here is one, bought brand new, from my wife a few years ago, and not even on a special occasion:

Hélas, Anti, I only have that old Arpège schematic.

Waiting for the message for mine, what is your serial number range?

Superbly done deffreting job too!

I knew that I had the 1982 preamp version schematic somewhere. Here its is @p4ul : And the layout: