Arpege III bass electronics

[texangerbil]

Hi I've just acquired a beaten-up Arpege III s/n 350 (1994). Can anyone point me at a manual or description for the electronics as it's not clear to me exactly what's what. It appears to have a volume (with push-pull switch), pan, tone, 5-position preset switch and a mini-toggle. The PCB has Vigier Arpege III on it in solder and fills pretty much the whole control cavity apart from the batteries.

Also, the pots are a bit noisy. How best do I clean them given the PCB restricts access? Should I unscrew the pots from the front and take the whole lot out of the cavity in order to get at them or is there a simpler way?

All advice greatly appreciated.

[Roey Haviv]

Looks the same as some of Yossi's basses.

 

Push pull is really cool :) it makes your pickups out of phase from each other.

The memory pot has 6X2 settings, 6 with the switch up and 6 with the switch down.

The last setting (switch down and "open all the way" clockwise on the knob) is flat.

 

Last knob is a tone knob for the neck pickup.

 

I will leave the cleaning advice to the pros.

Have fun with it, It's an Awesome bass.