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  1. Hellzero
    Done!
  2. Hellzero
    Let's call it 10 for 10.
  3. Hellzero
    That said, if we all put another tenner in the kitty, we'll reach another level. Who's in ?
  4. Hellzero
    Just saw the non original Bartolini preamp in your other thread...
  5. Hellzero
    Yours is a bit older (2002) than announced and the 9 Volts preamp seems totally correct (I had a few over the years and the early ones were always in 9 Volts). 😉 Check this: https://reverb.com/item/40680229 Or this: https://reverb.com/item/14878269
  6. Hellzero
    We can't always have the same opinion Chris, it would be so boring. 😉 Cheers, mate and hope you're doing well.
  7. Hellzero
    Maybe worth asking your daughter what colour she wants... Stacked knobs are not that easy to use especially in this PJ configuration and will cost you a lot more than a conventional Volume, Volume, Tone standard configuration. You'll also have to spend (more) money on a PJ pickguard. If you can use a soldering iron and read a wiring diagram, you'll spare a lot of money. Check this wiring bible, it's in German, but the diagrams don't speak any language: http://www.ak-line.com/medium/Bassschaltungen.pdf And don't forget to (copper) shield your bass, or it will become a terrible humming machine...
  8. Hellzero
    Maybe worth asking your daughter what colour she wants... Stacked knobs are not that easy to use especially in this PJ configuration and will cost you a lot more than a conventional Volume, Volume, Tone standard configuration. You'll also have to spend (more) money on a PJ pickguard. If you can use a soldering iron and read a wiring diagram, you'll spare a lot of money. Check this wiring bible, it's in German, but the diagrams don't speak any language: http://www.ak-line.com/medium/Bassschaltungen.pdf
  9. Hellzero
    After searching again, I can confirm it's a factory early fretless Passion II (introduced in 1985) with a graphite neck and a phenolic fingerboard as, like all the early ones, it has a real bone nut, no dots on the front and white fret lines when the fretted versions of that period had no front dots too and a zero fret, so a converted one would still have it or something even weird(er) with a huge nut... Check this review (by the great Tony Bacon) from ... 1985, everything matches: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/vigier-passion-bass/11761 Remember that the Passion (introduced in 1983) came after the Arpège (introduced in 1980) and was thought differently, but here is the rare beast @itu, a 1983 Passion I fretless with a Delta Metal fingerboard and a graphite neck without truss rod, of course: https://www.basscentre.com.au/products/vigier-passion-fretless-1983 You can even compare this Passion II fretless with its fretted sibling here: https://www.leboncoin.fr/vi/2887220561.htm#xtor=ES-3999-[MYSRCH] Hope all this helps. 😉 GLWYS!
  10. Hellzero
    The bridge will need a massive realignment @TheJay...
  11. Hellzero
    This is the new version of the Sterling by Music Man SB14 @Sweenyrod, not a Joe Dart signature. 😉 Nice bass, and for those wanting one there are still a few available online in the Netherlands and France too.
  12. Hellzero
    Two years too late. 😉
  13. Hellzero
    *Derail ON* My Arpège bears serial number 005, is from February 1981 and I even have the original invoice of the first owner (I was the second owner) who bought it brand new on the 2nd of September 1981... What does the dating website says: Try to find mine! @itu *Derail OFF*
  14. Hellzero
    The Vigier website is too often totally wrong, that's quite amazing to have put that online without really double checking all these serial numbers recouping themselves and their correct item designation being completely wrong. 🤦 First generation fretless Delta Metal are almost as rare as hence teeth and most of them if not all were Arpège, I owned one and it took me years to find it, but a very good friend of mine wanted it so badly that I sold it to him...
  15. Hellzero
    End of derailing @Steve1967 😉 GLWYS.
  16. Hellzero
    @ped @Kev @Cat Burrito ... Could someone please move this to the right place?
  17. Hellzero
    By the way, will you receive 1 or 3 PCB's (after 21 days) and is the shipping fee included in the $7.60 USD asked as their website isn't that clear about all this? When you get to the checkout, it's either free or $20 USD for the shipping and 3 PCB's in the basket by default ... for $7.60 USD.
  18. Hellzero
    Will try to remember. 😉
  19. Hellzero
    Calling @tauzero !
  20. 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.
  21. Hellzero
    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. 😢
  22. Hellzero
    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.
  23. Hellzero
    Monk Montgomery was the first professional user of the then new electric bass. 😉
  24. Hellzero
    Or a new approach to your slap technique @Bass Wielder ...
  25. Hellzero
    The Bugera Veyron Mosfet is the only bass amp close to that requirement: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/bugera-veyron-mosfet-eq-analysis.1459228/
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