Villex_Europe

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='161381' date='Mar 21 2008, 12:41 PM']Err, buy it and follow the instructions and it's not difficult, get a friend to help etc Let everyone know how you get on.[/quote] Hi there, I thought I'd stop by! I'll see if I can re-phrase what GreeneKing said - The booster has three contacts. In, Out and Ground. Take the 'hot' wire going to the 'tip' of the jack socket. Solder it to the 'In' contact of the booster instead. Connect 'Out' contact of the booster to the 'tip' contact of the jack socket, and 'Ground' to ground, and you're in business! Tigran

Absolutely gutted, but I won't be able to come because of circumstances beyond my control! Sorry guys, Tigran

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='136436' date='Feb 8 2008, 12:15 PM']Sounds like a deal![/quote] Sounds good! Bring your basses over, I'll have PRTB in a box so you can plug your basses in and hear the difference it makes! Tigran

Hi Everyone, I will be exhibiting at my second guitar show. I will have a jazz bass with Villex pups and the PRTB booster with me, as well as a Strat fitted with PRTB booster and a jack booster. I will have some precision and jazz pickups to pick up at a show special price, as well as the boosters. These are great shows for GASoholics - come and see for yourself! [url="http://www.guitarshows.co.uk/newcastle.htm"]http://www.guitarshows.co.uk/newcastle.htm[/url] Tigran

[quote name='BassManKev' post='121518' date='Jan 16 2008, 03:31 PM']im looking to replace the pickups in me peavey grind 6 string bass, im just wondering if you make 6 string pickups??[/quote] Hi BassManKev, I am sure we can sort something out - can you send me the dimensions? Email me on [email protected] or pm me on this website. Tigran

[size=3]Hi Everyone, I thought I'd give you a chance to read the review on Villex Jazz Bass pickups which goes on sale today! Any comments or questions welcome! Click on the top of the image to read it properly. Tigran[/size]

[quote name='kneal6' post='99644' date='Dec 5 2007, 03:15 PM']Built-in distortion/overdrive. Already been done on a few but if there was a nice onboard distortion with a couple of different sounds, and maybe with the low-end filtered out and clean (or lows coming from another pickup), that'd be ace.[/quote] Would you buy an onboard overdrive if there was one available? Please vote and tell me why! If there is enough interest we could provide one fairly quickly!

[quote name='kneal6' post='99644' date='Dec 5 2007, 03:15 PM']Built-in distortion/overdrive. Already been done on a few but if there was a nice onboard distortion with a couple of different sounds, and maybe with the low-end filtered out and clean (or lows coming from another pickup), that'd be ace. Also, I think a flanger type comb-filter would be nice. So you'd have a knob for controlling the delay between signals, then you could choose which part of the sweep you wanted it on a leave it there. Loads of tonal options there. Also you could play with hammer-ons and make time-synched flanger sounds by moving the knob! It's a winner.[/quote] Very interesting point on distortion! We can produce one very easily (a passive one for onboard installation), and we discussed this a while ago internally. We came to a conclusion that most players wouldn't like to put one in their guitar/bass! So I am really anxious to know whether more people would be inerested. Will have to come back to you on a flanger type comb-filter - are there any active ones I could read on? Tigran

Hi Everyone, Many thanks, Fullrangebass! I invited Fullrangebass to post his review here, so you can look at it as an independent product preview. It's not on the website yet. I will be getting a set, putting it in a bass and submitting the bass for a review here in the UK; but that will take 2-3 months, and I thought this would be a good way to give you all heads-up. Tigran

[quote name='metalmaniac' post='96916' date='Nov 30 2007, 07:37 PM']standard pickups but in wooden covers instead of plastic, like p,j or soapbar style.[/quote] Standard pickups? Mmm... How would one go about all the different wood finishes then? Tigran

[quote name='ARGH' post='96849' date='Nov 30 2007, 05:46 PM']Make pickups for ERBs, esp 9/10/11 strings.[/quote] We do, as special orders. Tigran

[quote name='Shaggy' post='96691' date='Nov 30 2007, 02:27 PM']My old Listerud had MM style Bassculture neodynium pickups with flamed maple covers - having made a couple of customs I'd have loved to have used something similar instead of the usual black plastic SD's or Barts (ebony covers on one, maple on the other). Be pricey, I guess.[/quote] We can accept a custom order with pickup covers provided by the customer. Would be hard to make covers for all tastes and it's not exactly our core area, but if you want to make your own we will happily fill it with Villex magic. If you are interested we can discuss this further.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='96619' date='Nov 30 2007, 12:43 PM']I'd like to see an MM/J system developed where the output is the same, regardless of whether 1, 2 or 3 coils are selected. This is the major drawback of all the HS stingrays I've tried because it means I'd have to adjust the gain on the amp every time the pickup settings are changed. +1 on the sustainer Very cool for fretless, I can set up a mild feedback effect on my Pentabuzz if the amp is loud enough and that sustains and swells wonderfully.[/quote] Hi Crazykiwi, I am getting a lot of suggestions on various coil switching options. What I can't get my head around is why have coil switching at all when you can have a passive mid control which allows to achieve similar effect in a sweepable control with no hum? Sustainer does sound like an interesting idea.

[quote name='metaltime' post='96614' date='Nov 30 2007, 12:39 PM']what about a pickup that runs from the end of the neck to the bridge that doubled up as a ramp with a control to select where abouts on it you want it to pick up. that would be cool[/quote] I have a feeling someone already has done that. I'll send you a link when and if I can find it. Tigran

[quote name='charic' post='96600' date='Nov 30 2007, 12:16 PM']Imagination run wild you say... now youve done it Ok heres one ive been pondering over myself recently and could have been done but i havnt seen it yet. How about a pickup that was BOTH a P and J style pickup and is possible to switch between the two? I kind of have an idea how to put this one into action too. Imagine this is the pickup configuration: [][] Each square is the same size as a single PUP of P size proportions and you simply turn on the pickups you wish to [][] use. People talk about versatility... this would definately do that! Feasable?[/quote] If I understand you correctly, this would be 4 indivdual coils, and you could switch them to have either 2 linear J style humbuckers, or 1 P pickup (either left or right handed)? The thing is, Villex pickups sound very similar regardless of shape, and tonal changes are controlled by a mid control which comes with all the Villex pickups rather than switching coils. And, for extra versatility, you can add PRTB Villex booster. To illustrate this, I am giving you links to sound samples with Villex J and Villex P. Here's the jazz bass Villex sample [url="http://www.villex.com/downloads/jazzbass.mp3"]http://www.villex.com/downloads/jazzbass.mp3[/url] Here's the Villex precision bass sample [url="http://www.villex.com/downloads/villex.mp3"]http://www.villex.com/downloads/villex.mp3[/url] I think they sound quite similar. Sorry this sounds like a sales pitch - what I am trying to do is take your suggestion, examine the benefits and then see whether the benefits can be provided by the technology that's already there. If you can convince me that the solution you are suggesting gives something the existing technology can't give (and Villex are quite different to conventional pickups), we will happily look into the suggestion!

[quote name='Machines' post='96582' date='Nov 30 2007, 11:41 AM']Passive EQ = tone control on any passive bass. It in theory can only cut not boost. However Villex appear to be doing very clever things .[/quote] The present Villex system includes a passive mid control, which works through modifying characteristics of a feedback coil built into pickups. That's not how the new system will work though...

[quote name='s_u_y_*' post='96479' date='Nov 30 2007, 03:52 AM']I'm intrigued. How does a passive EQ work, or is it too early to ask about the product?[/quote] Questions have to start some time. Villex don't tend to do detailed explanations, but this will prompt me to develop a text. Watch the space!

Hi Everyone, My name is Tigran, I run Villex Europe. I've posted a couple of special offers here before. Ped has been promising me my own forum for a while... but things take time and I have something interesting to discuss, so with Ped's permission I am posting in the general forum. I would like to start a thread which is a bit unusual, yet I hope is going to be interesting. I want to know what you all want. Here we are, [url="http://eu.villex.com"]Villex, [/url], a company making pickups and boosters. We think day and night how to please our customers and come up with wonderful technologies. We do get feedback occasionally, but it's around what's already there. Would be very nice to get some feedback regarding what [b][i]could be[/i][/b] there. So, let your fantasy run wild. The only 'limitation' is there is no battery. Doesn't necessarily mean we can't do what the battery is there for without one though. An example: we are about to release a product which is all passive and represents a combination of pickups and a 3 band passive EQ, with output about 3 times the volume of a P pickup. Please keep it focused! Tigran

[quote name='mr pablo' post='87389' date='Nov 12 2007, 04:52 PM']Having read Peter's review of the booster i decided a few weeks ago to take the plunge and put one in my mid 80's mij fender P, to cut a long story short i ran out of wire when installing it and had to strip all the controls from the bass as i had some recording to do, fast forward a few weeks via my LGS and i have got my Pbass back today with a wizard thumper pup, stacked vol/tone and villex booster installed and i must say i have struggled to put the bass down since i got back from picking it up, i went with a stacked 500k pot and the extended treble has brought the bass to life in a way and i have found all 3 boost positions very pleasing to the ear and like Peter i'm loving position 3 on the booster with the tone fully open. It is a great piece of kit and for the money i'm well impressed with the versatility my bass now has to offer. Nice one Villex [/quote] Thanks Mr. Pablo! Only two days left to go till the offer on the booster expires! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7255"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7255[/url]

Hi Robbie, Thought I'd let you know that 'a few months back' is actually February - it's only taken you a year Tigran [quote name='RIM Basses' post='79638' date='Oct 26 2007, 07:29 AM']I ordered a Villex tone booster and a set of Villex jazz pickups from Tigran a few months back, looking to fit them in the first RIM Jazz Bass that I will be starting early next year, so Ped if you want to try them out once the bass is finished mate I bring it round yours. Tigran, I haven't forgot bud just been so busy this year. Cheers, Robbie.[/quote]

[quote name='steve-norris' post='79571' date='Oct 25 2007, 10:17 PM']Sounds like an interesting mod, i wonder if it's anything like the Has sound varitone I have one fitted to my charvel and it's so much more useful than a normal tone control, one of the positions gives a passive overdrive effect. One of the reasons i like it is the 'click' and the tone changes by a known variable, very useful.[/quote] Hi Steve, The big difference is the Villex booster gives volume increase. Has sound varitone doesn't. Since mid boost is generally needed to cut through, it makes much more sense to have it combined with volume increase.

[quote name='ped' post='79159' date='Oct 25 2007, 12:20 AM']Works for me too! Glad you like the booster - it certainly is an easy and relatively cheap way of really adding that extra something to the bass signal. Mine was installed in an active bass and the benefits were great, and I hear that in a passive instrument the difference is even more noticeable. Isn't Tigran just a lovely chap, too?! I should think with the added treble boost this really opens up the sound of the bass. What better way to spend a measly £50! Cheers ped[/quote] Thanks for the kind words Ped. I took the booster out of my Villex loaded Squier as reviewers in magazines were getting confused with two mid controls. I now feel like a drug addict with withdrawal symptoms - and this is with Villex pickups that are more versatile than most! It's like my bass suddenly became four times less versatile. I think you fully appreciate the effect of the booster only when it's no longer there, because it fits in so naturally. Tigran

[quote name='G-77' post='47377' date='Aug 19 2007, 01:59 PM']and a big thanks to Dave for sorting out the room.[/quote] Big thanks from me too, Dave. For me the highlights were the Markbass combo and Dave's Darkstar loaded bass. I was pleasantly surprised to see Oxblood show interest in my Roland basscube combo - shows that every piece of gear has its place under the sun. And, of course, big thanks to everyone who complemented my Squier loaded with Villex pups and booster. Tigran