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Aria Sinsonido Club

#21
On the train Bassiten??? Thats great!!!

I dont think your tone knob is not working. It's the nature of the beast. Tapewounds should help. I never used them but mine has flats on it now and it helped reducing the trebly sound at least when I used it with an amp. With headphones there is no way to escape from the trebly sound. However it gets a better sound with a set of Seinheisser (the kind that plug into your ear) than with the stock headphone which are not very good.

Mine also eats batteries like crazy. Whats your experience about this Osprey?
 
#22
Setebos said:
On the train Bassiten??? Thats great!!!
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Yeah, I get some funny looks, but it's great to use the transit-time for something useful, besides preparing lectures on the laptop.


Setebos said:
I dont think your tone knob is not working. It's the nature of the beast. Tapewounds should help. I never used them but mine has flats on it now and it helped reducing the trebly sound at least when I used it with an amp.
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I have flats on it as well, still treblish... :bawl: Piezo's have always been amplifying the treble side of bass playing, guess I just have to live with it.


Setebos said:
With headphones there is no way to escape from the trebly sound. However it gets a better sound with a set of Seinheisser (the kind that plug into your ear) than with the stock headphone which are not very good.
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I use a good pair of Sony headphones, Invalid Link Removed, so I guess I should be ok there.
 
#24
That seems a nice headphone set Bassiten. I use the small Seinheisser just because the are easier to carry around or drop into the gig bag.

Embrace the treble force my son!!!! hahahaha


In reference to VS's (welcome to the conversation by the way and sorry for your loses) comments, for the first time ever I tried the metal/rubber frame. Its makes a big difference in stability and hence it improves the playability. So much that I drop them into the gigbag. I hate the look of them but I will give try them I bit more I think.
 
#25
Setebos said:
Mine also eats batteries like crazy. Whats your experience about this Osprey?
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Mine has been very easy on batteries. A thing you may not have spotted: while the jackplug is in the headphone or amp socket the battery is being used..pull it out when you aren't playing and I expect you'll get much better mile per gallon.
 
#28
Regarding the preamp...

I don't know if I'll spend an hour of repair on the preamp as it is right now. Too much treble, even though I can live with it.

The new models seem to have a stacked bass/treble pot which I would very much like to have. I've written Aria UK an email and asked them if it's possible to buy a new one from them.

Is it so that the new models have a seperate headphone output which features mini-jack?
 
#29
Bassiten, my bass has 1/4 input jack for connection to an amp and a separate mini jack for headphones.
It also has an input to connect a 9volt transformer. However I tried it with a generic transformer and it didnt work ok.
The tone knob, as soon as it goes up 1 tenth you can hear the difference. I gets trebly. I always have it rolled off.
 
#30
Setebos said:
Bassiten, my bass has 1/4 input jack for connection to an amp and a separate mini jack for headphones.
It also has an input to connect a 9volt transformer. However I tried it with a generic transformer and it didnt work ok.
The tone knob, as soon as it goes up 1 tenth you can hear the difference. I gets trebly. I always have it rolled off.
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Well, question is if I should get mine fixed or buy a brand new preamp and convert into min-jack headphone output + 1/4" jack output.
 
#31
Not sure what to say Bassiten.
I thought a couple of times to change the preamp and add may be one with 2 EQ but that will be major surgery in my book and for the time being I can use it as it is.
Lets see what Aria UK tells you. I forgot to mention that right after I bought my bass I wrote them to ask what was the stock strings gauge. 7 months later I still havent got any reply. Hope you are more lucky than me.
 
#32
Had the bass for 5 days and I already love it. I've been practicing a lot on the train and that suits me fine. :bassist:

The plastic bit of the battery connector was broken when I got it. The seller included a new bat. connector and I fixed it tonight.

Still my tone control does not work, I'm getting used to the treble inferno, but I think I'll get somebody to take a look at it in a couple of weeks.
 
#34
I'd like to join! I have had my fretted Sinsonido for over 6 years now and I love it. It was my only bass for 2 years. I practiced with it daily and used it for our church Praise Team band every week.

I understand what you are talking about with the Treble, and always have the tone control rolled all the way down. I chipped the edge of the nut and have it in the shop now getting that replaced. I am having them put some Fender tape wound strings to reduce the treble effect and the string sliding sound from the friction of my fingers that the acoustic pickups seem so sensitive to.

I am also having the bridge height adjustment worked on because that has always been a little "flakey".

My batteries have always lasted a long time, so that has not been an issue for me.

I always play with the "wings" on. I just like the more stable feel, and I kind of like the looks. You never know what someone will say when you pull this thing out of the bag.

I bought it originally because I travel a lot for work and wanted to take it with me to practice. It is absolutely great for that.
 
#36
Setebos said:
Lets see what Aria UK tells you. I forgot to mention that right after I bought my bass I wrote them to ask what was the stock strings gauge. 7 months later I still havent got any reply. Hope you are more lucky than me.
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Re-visiting this thread..if you are having a bad time contacting Aria it might be worth mailing the Soloette site. They licence the bass to Aria. In earlier threads people have said they got quick responses from Soloette, and and there was a discussion here that someone from the company joined in with,
 
#37
old thread, but new Aria Sinsonido owner here.

fretted (for now at least) new design. got mine for $99 because the preamp doesn't work, but otherwise new (was dead upon shipment to the dealership).

So I will mess with the preamp and see if I can fix it. If not I'll throw a pickup on this baby and add a passive volume control.

I kinda think it would be really cool with a traditional pickup somewhere on it... maybe if I can find one thin enough I can just strap it around the body and slide it forward backward to change tone like a Gibson Grabber LoL

it's a truly beautiful stick bass for sure...
 
#40
hi Sinsonido owners

i found this thread whilst looking for any info online about faults occurring with the preamp

i bought a used fretted model a few years back and gigged it with my pub band (blues, rock, soul covers) - great action and bonus of light weight (for the person who had to ship the heaviest gear! - plus the PA)

the only downside was the preamp - one control did nothing and the other only produced a musically-related sound in the centre of the control rotation - the thing also eats 9V rechargeable batteries for breakfast

since the pub band became de-funked (!) i started playing more with some guys miking up acoustic instruments & percussion and i decided to get the bass converted to fretless - i now use it as an upright bass on a stand

variation of volume & tone is now more important throughout a gig and so i started looking to see what other owners had done about what seems to be a fairly common problem

i wasn't keen to replace the preamp with another from the manufacturer, if the design is flaky, so i've looked at several designs for preamps using FETs for low-current drain, high-impedance 'valve' sound performance

i've just successfully replaced the faulty preamp with my homebrew design and i'm very pleased with the results - i now have a working volume control and a tone control which can vary the sound from a slightly boosted low-end 'thud' all the way across to a thin 'twang'

current draw has reduced from 10mA to 1mA, so i should get about 20 sessions between needing to swap the battery out for a recharge as opposed to two sessions as previously

i'm hoping to use the button below to upload a schematic and photos to help anyone who is also trying to replace a faulty preamp on their Sinsonido

in addition to the regular external Vol & Tone controls, i've added 2 preset controls: the 5K preset varies the overall gain of the preamp, the 500K preset enables the level of one pickup mike to be varied relative to the other, in case the strings at one end of the bridge are louder than than at the other end

i've re-used the original switching jack socket which acts as the power switch when you plug in the cable - i had to file out the mounting-holes slightly for the Vol & Tone controls - the green areas in the photo of the new preamp are insulating tape to prevent the conductive shielding paint in the preamp recess from interacting with the high-impedance circuit

(NB. the output is now mono only - and no longer supports headphone operation)

hope this info is of some help to a fellow Sinsonido convert

rock steady!
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