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I think I have preamp issues too
my 1977 stingray 1 is giving me uncontrollable feedback all of a sudden when I play loud at band practice. No problem at low volume,
I took the guitar to my local repair guy to check for loose wires, grounding issues, microphonic pickups, ect.
Everything checked out fine so the only thing we can think of is the preamp that is covered in black epoxy.
There has to be a mad scientist somewhere who has replicated this preamp to keep these old guitars running.
my 1977 stingray 1 is giving me uncontrollable feedback all of a sudden when I play loud at band practice. No problem at low volume,
I took the guitar to my local repair guy to check for loose wires, grounding issues, microphonic pickups, ect.
Everything checked out fine so the only thing we can think of is the preamp that is covered in black epoxy.
There has to be a mad scientist somewhere who has replicated this preamp to keep these old guitars running.
I took my Sting Ray to a luthier here in Ontario Canada - his website is freddysfrets.com - he is very talented player and incredible luthier and builds amps as well - check out his series of videos on YouTube refretting a guitar - it's from a few years back. He tried melting off the black epoxy which was also mentioned by someone else on this forum but it didn't help; he called Ernie Ball directly and spoke to people there and asked if they had schematics - just too old and nothing on file and they had nothing. Fred ended up installing an active pickup system that he purchased in the U.S.A. and although I only just recently got the guitar back and haven't had a lot of time with it I'm happy with it so far. Contact me if you would like more details.
There is a longer detailed post that outlines my fix that preceded the short one you see now but I received a notice that it won't appear until the moderator checks the content - I'm guessing it's because I mentioned that the luthier contacted the company in his hunt for a fix.
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Ernest
Awesome! Excellent! Awesome! I had taken my 6 string Musicman Sting Ray I to four different luthiers here in the Niagara Peninsula to repair the non functioning preamp on it and while the preamp did get replaced ok the guitar NEVER sounded right or close to what it was like originally UNTIL I took it to John at Beamsville Music - John took the time and effort to get the circuitry and wiring figured out and now the Stingray has a wide variety of sounds and plays great. John restored it back to the excellent guitar that it was originally! I am really amazed that my Stingray with the active pickup circuit was restored after all the previous time and effort didn't produce satisfactory results.
Awesome! Excellent! Awesome! I had taken my 6 string Musicman Sting Ray I to four different luthiers here in the Niagara Peninsula to repair the non functioning preamp on it and while the preamp did get replaced ok the guitar NEVER sounded right or close to what it was like originally UNTIL I took it to John at Beamsville Music - John took the time and effort to get the circuitry and wiring figured out and now the Stingray has a wide variety of sounds and plays great. John restored it back to the excellent guitar that it was originally! I am really amazed that my Stingray with the active pickup circuit was restored after all the previous time and effort didn't produce satisfactory results.
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