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Location: Jet City | The kid's Legend just died in the middle of him playing with the band at church. It has the single volume preamp (it's an older 1617) no tone knob.
I can't do an effective test to find out where the issue is either as the pickup is hardwired into these old preamps.
I was hoping to find a stacked knob (with tone) preamp and swap it out.
Anyone have one laying around they wanna get rid of? |
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Location: Scotland | I'm pretty certain the pickups were never hardwired to the preamps. They always connected via a 2.5mm jack. I have a vol only FET3 I don't need. |
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Location: Jet City | You need to watch those absolute terms like "always" Paul. We are talking about Ovation here.
It's hardwired, I have the whole unit out of the guitar now. I'll open it up and take a picture if you want for informational purposes. I was surprised too. Thought all had plugs too.
The volume only would be fine too, that's what was in it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Damon, is there a jack on the preamp? Possibly it was plugged originally and for some reason a PO hardwired it. |
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Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | My earliest O' a/e was originally hardwired also...I'm vouchin' for ya, Damon...no spare p/a however! Have you asked the Mother? |
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Location: Jet City | No jack. I'll take pictures.
And yep, sent a note to Kim. He responded. The have the reissues and they're a bit spendy. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Damon I sent you email |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Say, Miles, when the Mothership discovers that they no longer have a requested part in their inventory, do they call you for help? They should. |
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| (FWIW My 1624 has the mini-plug jack. It's a 1978 model.) |
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Location: Jet City | For informational purposes, here's the preamp. The guitar is a foil label 1617, 1975 maybe?
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Location: UK | Yep, and on my Country Artist. Just upgraded it and was not happy at having to cut the pickup wire to remove it. |
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WANTED! Stacked preamp