Alembic Sighting

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Author Message crobbins Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 585 Registered: 6-2004 Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 8:37 pm:    Whats with this geetar? http://www.thededicatedmaniacs.com/live/ I edited out the pic so the copywrite police wont get us. (Message edited by CRobbins on April 25, 2010) crobbins Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 586 Registered: 6-2004 Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 8:54 pm:    Oops double post. WTF? (Message edited by CRobbins on April 24, 2010) crobbins Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 587 Registered: 6-2004 Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 8:54 pm:    Looks like two, 1/4" jacks. No series? edwin Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 595 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 9:42 pm:    My guess (especially given the photographer), is that it's an effects loop setup as designed by Jerry Garcia. The Tribute and Further both feature such loops. The basic idea is to put the effects before the volume control on the guitar so that they see the full level of the guitar and don't act inconsistently, especially envelope filters. So, one jack is the 1/4" output and the other is a TRS send/return. jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1922 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 1:22 am:    Nice picture and I checked out the video too and it sounds great and good to see/hear an alembic guitar played live rather than just people playing at home on youtube. it looks very much like an electum body but I'm not sure about the electronics. It looks like a switch is in the setup so thats probably a pickup selector , bridge, both and neck positions then the knobs could be two volumes and two filters or maybe volume, bass and treble and the last knob maybe something to do with the effects loop or a dimmer for led's? Nice guitar nonetheless. jazzyvee crobbins Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 588 Registered: 6-2004 Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 8:37 am:    Edwin, you must be right. I don't know why I didnt relize that, and I even own a Tribute, duh...Lol mc500 New Username: mc500 Post Number: 7 Registered: 11-2009 Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 2:07 pm:    Man - that's a great looking guitar. mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 6725 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 1:36 pm:    I'm pretty sure that was an Electrum guitar that we made for a little shop in CT. They ordered three Electrums, one was Wengé with the polyurethane finish we used on the original Epics. Neato! davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 9255 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 1:49 pm:    Nice guitar!!