Boogieman replacement board on EBay

[elwoodblue]

hmmm...maybe there's hope for my '78 series one guitar.  
  Though I suspect at least one of the pickup coils is open, testing the card would be a huge step forward.
 I've never had the guitar working with it's original electronics and pickups.
 Thanks for the reminder Mica !

[nnek]

Mica,
As my bass has no signal at all....I'm thinking I should send you everything. what should I insure my shipment for if I send all the electronics with or without pickups? I am afraid of sending the pickups for some reason....(can't believe i never thought of sending the guts without the bass.. I was really afraid of shipping the bass coast to coast!)

[David Houck]

Elwood; you can test the pickups by simply switching the pickup leads where they plug into the card.  For the old style connectors, guidance is here.  New style is here, and remember to pull on the housing rather than the wire.
 
If the pickup selector switch is moved from the neck position to the bridge position, and you are only getting sound in one of those positions, then if you switch the leads the other selector switch position will be the one with no sound if the problem is indeed a pickup.  If you switch leads but the selector switch position with no sound stays the same, then the problem is not a pickup.

[elwoodblue]

Ahhh..hehe..well...
 I bought the guitar ten years ago on ebay
(my first Alembic purchase) and it arrived with the guts cut up and nonfunkshunning  .
 The pickup housing is broken and the coil is exposed on one pickup. There is continuity on the humcanceller and I think one pickup IIRC, it's been a while since I tested it.
 Currently the guitar has an activator in the middle and a couple passive G&L pickups at the neck and bridge just to keep her up and running.
 
  Thanks as always, I've got a blue box and cable stashed away for the day she is complete again.
 
  I only paid 900 back then and was a newbie to ebay, so I never got worked up about the sellers lack of disclosure. If she would have been fully functional I would have lost her in an emergency liquidation years back, so looking back you could say there were positives about the guts being hacked. I'm very happy to still have my first Alembic.  
  {{{{ H A P P Y  ~~~   D A N C E }}}}
 
(Message edited by elwoodblue on October 06, 2012)

[that_sustain]

Lucky you.  My first two Alembic basses are pictured on this site.  That's all I have of them.

[gtrguy]

Man, if you have the PF6 card, you are more than half way there. I think Alembic often has the molds for the pickups and can make them in the right color and they are not too horribly expensive.

[David Houck]

Elwood; yeah, I was figuring the situation was going to be something like that, but thought I'd give it a shot just in case.

[elwoodblue]

hehe...thanks Dave, I get the feeling some here are getting to know me ...that's nice  
gtrguy...it's  all there, I bet new pickups will be needed, just gotta bring the project to the front burners.