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Dear Sandy,
Aria Sinsonido
Just found your circuit board notes re above bass and would welcome your comments on following since my understanding of electrics is just above zero!
I have a fretless early version Sinsonido bought new many years ago and all working fine - which I fitted with Thomastik - Ingfeld phosphor bronze strings - the ones developed for Rick Turners range of Renaissance basses. The aria is my go to fretless on lots of gigs.
I've been keeping an eye out for a spare at a sane price and one has just arrived. It appears to be a later model without the headphone output ( which I never use anyway ) and the two controls on the bottom of the body not the top. It all works (tone ok, balance across strings ok) except the output is probably a third of the volume to my "old" Sinsonido and not sufficient to gig.
Pots both work, jack cleaned with alcohol but not sufficient output ....
Indications are the "gain" element of the circuit is duff and any pointers from you to resolve will be much appreciated.
Fretless ( sunny Plymouth )
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NB.
All my circuits, as mentioned elsewhere, are for the Sinso version with the Vol & Tone controls below the body, near the output jack
In the Sinso with controls above (ie. not in the PCB cavity), Aria have sited the controls in a separate cavity via a small hole for their wires. I believe that access hole is too narrow to allow control connectors through, and would possibly need longer wires too - this needs to be taken into account when planning any replacement of this Sinso variant
I'd strongly recommend making initial upgrade attempts to the Sinso with controls below
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Dear Sandy
Thanks.
You have gathered I am an electrical duffer so I would be very happy to pay you for the connecting board OR have a bash at construction myself if you can supply parts ( which I am more than happy to pay for ).
Mervyn is professional electronics repair man doing tons of school repair work and very busy with more lucrative work - I am sure he would know about component ratings and types but I probably imposed on him enough ! ( he does school repair work for one of my music teacher band mates )
I am only intending to fit the ordered circuit to the "below body controls" Sinsonsido -= my other one is working fine but I suspect one day it will give up the electronics ghost - hence enough components for two linking boards.
Thanks
Patrick
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