Aria TS 600 Tri Sound
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This is a video of my latest restoration project, the highly versatile Aria Pro II Tri-Sound. It is a three piece maple thru neck with ash wings and was made in Japan in 1980 by the Matsumoku company. It can play a very wide variety of sounds due to the pickup switching and phase options and has a built in 'tube drive' pre-amp.
These are the pickups used: www.irongear.co...
I love these guitars. I have a TS-800 from 1979 that's awesome to play on.
Hi Tom. Great video. Do you have a wiring diagram for the TS 600, as I have one to restore. Thanks.
I BOUGHT THIS GUITAR NEW IN 83.i refinished it in tung oil and rounded all the edges off shaved neck a lil thinner (had very thick finish)the pickups for me to weak and thin put a dimarzio heavy blues single coil in neck and d-activator in bridge had to rewire also put a mod board in sweepable mid boost/wah circut love this guitar now
Hi Paul, The pickups are modern, they are Irongear Tesla Sharks....Having tried a number of Strat variant pickups in this body during the rebuild these gave a very nice sound indeed (and I mean VERY) - see link posted in description. They are 4 wire and the switch combinations can phase out, reverse and isolate depending upon the combination...and can stack singles and humbuckers as well (not an original feature but when I was wiring it up I thought..."what the hell?"....
...the electronics started off as a a handbuilt clone of the original boost circuit but then I got carried away a bit...and improvised...so the actual circuit design is shrouded in mystery...to me as well!...but it sounds quite cool!
hi Paul, the guitar was a wreck when i got hold of it and all of its electrics had been removed. I built a boost/distortion circuit from scratch which has two modes depending upon whether you pull the pot out or push it in. i put it together to answer a challenge to see if you could produce a guitar that could sound like most classic sounds without the need for a pedal board full of effects. The boost is nice and pushy but I think I might have over done the distortion a bit, going for Brian May
Yours seems to get the bluesy wobble nicely in your vibrato. The miniswitches in the stock models actually change the humbuckers between parallel/series modes (as I understand it), which mimic the effect of cutting to a single coil, but actually maintains the humbucking signal. Some luthiers don't know how to wire these humbuckers right (per original design). Did you choose older or modern pickups? Assuming they are 4 wire. Do you have a phase-out/reverse on the middle miniswitch?
Now I'm curious what pickups and other electronics you used. These guitars are a little trebly, which is the thing that needs to be tamed the most. I like that the set bridge gives a little more bite than a strat bridge, but the notes still seem to have the "elastic" quality after the initial attack that are strat-like.
Dear Mr. Tom Hockeystrom. I own this guitar from 1983 (TS600 in blue with the two-sided headstock).
Now I think the time has come, to try to restore-modify this old lady. I 'll be obliged if you could share any information, the wiring, personal notes etc, from your own restoration that could be helpful about the TS 600-500.
Thank you in advance. Kaltsounis Filimon.
what did you restore/replace on this? I thought these models had a boost circuit from what I've read, but having played the 500 and 400 it seems to has more gain/effect than I would expect from a simple boost. Did you find a pre-amp circuit when you opened it up?