Audere Preamps
Posted: December 2nd, 2021, 9:09 pm
Hi All,
I'd often wondered about dropping in an Audere preamp into various Jazz basses over the years, specifically the "all in one" complete drop-in, as sometimes I'm feeling lazy and can't be assed to wire all the bits in
, and there's always chatter about them on the forums.
Here's what I'm talking about, in case you are not familiar:
https://www.audereaudio.com/
As I'm not one of those folks who can mentally cope with my knobs going the opposite way to what I'm expecting, I figured I'd reach out to them to see if it would be possible to get one with lefty (reverse audio taper) pots. Here's the answer I received:
"Jazzes are all built on printed circuit boards so it would take a different set circuit boards – we already have 9 different circuit boards to build the Jazz type preamps. And we have to custom order pots in 1000s with long lead times etc..
I know a different company that built a set of 10 left hand units once. He built a simpler preamp at a 2-3x higher price point and orders pots in units of 100 for the high volume versions so he must pay a lot for the pots. He has to outsource production so I do not see how it economically work for him in any case. It took him at least 3 years to sell the 10th unit. FYI – most Left handed basses are wired with a linear volume pot so manufactures do not have to purchase non-standard pots.
We have no desire to go down this path…"
Perhaps not surprising for a smaller company, especially as they use a fixed PCB setup. I wanted to see if I could give them some business, as they are based in Oregon, and so have I been for the last 15 or so years (before the current Taiwan adventure). Looks like I will keep buying my CTS lefty pots and doing it myself
Side note- when I was fixing up my Warwick Fortress, I went for a bundle with Nordstrand Pickups and preamp, and they were very helpful - configured my wiring exactly as I wanted it (vol/vol/bass/treble) with lefty pots. I'm sure the Audere would be great if you don't mind the knobs going the other way...
Cheers!
I'd often wondered about dropping in an Audere preamp into various Jazz basses over the years, specifically the "all in one" complete drop-in, as sometimes I'm feeling lazy and can't be assed to wire all the bits in
, and there's always chatter about them on the forums.Here's what I'm talking about, in case you are not familiar:
https://www.audereaudio.com/
As I'm not one of those folks who can mentally cope with my knobs going the opposite way to what I'm expecting, I figured I'd reach out to them to see if it would be possible to get one with lefty (reverse audio taper) pots. Here's the answer I received:
"Jazzes are all built on printed circuit boards so it would take a different set circuit boards – we already have 9 different circuit boards to build the Jazz type preamps. And we have to custom order pots in 1000s with long lead times etc..
I know a different company that built a set of 10 left hand units once. He built a simpler preamp at a 2-3x higher price point and orders pots in units of 100 for the high volume versions so he must pay a lot for the pots. He has to outsource production so I do not see how it economically work for him in any case. It took him at least 3 years to sell the 10th unit. FYI – most Left handed basses are wired with a linear volume pot so manufactures do not have to purchase non-standard pots.
We have no desire to go down this path…"
Perhaps not surprising for a smaller company, especially as they use a fixed PCB setup. I wanted to see if I could give them some business, as they are based in Oregon, and so have I been for the last 15 or so years (before the current Taiwan adventure). Looks like I will keep buying my CTS lefty pots and doing it myself
Side note- when I was fixing up my Warwick Fortress, I went for a bundle with Nordstrand Pickups and preamp, and they were very helpful - configured my wiring exactly as I wanted it (vol/vol/bass/treble) with lefty pots. I'm sure the Audere would be great if you don't mind the knobs going the other way...
Cheers!
