Schatten Design MicroPre Preamp One Channel

Bonne solution pour rendre l'impédance d'un capteur piezo compatible avec un ou des pickups magnétiques. Très petit, simple à monter. Il faudra tout de même sortir le fer à souder et lui adjoindre une prise pour pile 9v afin de l'alimenter et de remplacer la sortie jack mono par une stéréo qui fera office d'interrupteur pour le préampli, selon que la guitare ou la basse soit ou non branchée.

My 40 year old preamp in my Ovation 1618 12 string had gone bad. I found the original Ovation replacement part to be ridiculous expensive. The MicroPre in combination with a stacked potentiometer is a very cost effective alternative, provided you are not scared using a soldering iron.

Installation: instructions are available online. For me a huge plus, cause it allows you to assess it pre-purchase. Diagrams are well documented and showing different installation options (volume only, volume + tone control). If you know how to solder, you can install it. Only downside is that the instructions don not include the tech specs for the volume/tone potentiometers and tone capacitor. Based on the pots sold by Schatten seperately I figured out that both volume and tone pot need to be 500K Ohm log versions. The tone capacitor needs to be 47nF.

Sound: Sounds good to me for live playing. I could not notice a significant difference between the original one and this one.