| Author | Message | ||
| wishbass
Advanced Member Username: wishbass Post Number: 202 Registered: 5-2011 |
I know some of our members are very knowledgable in regards to electronics, so I thought I'd throw this out there.One of the things I love about my MM Stingray HH is that I have a 5 position coil splitter.It really does make for a wide variety of tone w/the double humbuckers being able to split them,and mix and match.Given Alembics superior tone, I would think a coil splitter would be great addition.Has anyone approached the Mothership w/this idea,or had a custom made w/this feature?Or perhaps it would be incompatable or redundant(I have yet to be in the presence of a Series 1 or 2).Just a thought. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1198 Registered: 10-2006 |
Alembic p/ups are single-coil, and thus unsplittable (or maybe perma-split?) Peter | ||
| wishbass
Advanced Member Username: wishbass Post Number: 203 Registered: 5-2011 |
Major oversight on my part.I was thinking about the larger pups,but forgot about them being single,thus the dummy pups on Series.Duh.That's what I get for getting up at 3am! Still, if Alembic did have a humbucker.......... | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2202 Registered: 10-2003 |
You could probably get the mothership to take an approach others have taken, to essentially install two p-bass type pickups (side-by-side humbucking coils) in a single fat housing, with the option to select an combination of the three. It's a useful, flexible idea and would essentially be adding a third pickup with, possibly, a shared filter.. | ||
| wishbass
Advanced Member Username: wishbass Post Number: 204 Registered: 5-2011 |
Thanks John! THAT is interesting.I would never come up with that on my own....I'm all big ideas,terrible w/the details.You guys are all rocket scientists! I always come away feeling ordinary.That's why this forum is so great!I wonder if anyone has done this,or inquired about it? | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2204 Registered: 10-2003 |
My Lakland has this setup and I use it all the time. I figured that being so close together the timbre wouldn't be all that different from coil to coil, but it is. Of course, Alembic can build it anyway you like. John | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 7687 Registered: 6-2000 |
We did make a pickup like this before for sonofalembic. It was like a regular AXY but you could add in the aperture of what eventually became the FatBoy pickup. We never developed it as a product because the people that tried it only used the wide aperture setting after a very short time. | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 838 Registered: 4-2004 |
lol...... I love the fatboys on my 6 string, but I always wonder what the narrow aperture would sound like in my bridge position.... I was thinking the other day about an in/out phase switch for the Series electronics~ probably wouldnt be possible w/ the shared HX coil, but with 2 dummy coils, is it do-able?? |
