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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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@fretless @Mervyn...if you're able to do a little non-critical soldering you could make an adaptor cct (7 passive components) to go between the Sinso electret bridge-mics and a commercial FET guitar preamp
member @lemmywinks has used the piezo version shown below (from eB*y, no affiliation) to repair a Sinso by using a piezo bridge instead of the original electrets
either PCB shown below (or an equivalent) should work with my adaptor shown, instead of using my JFET cct
HTH
