| Author | Message | ||
| threality
New Username: threality Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2008 |
Just looking for a little clarification on the controls for my custom rogue 5 string...I am starting to work with a new sound guy and he asked about the controls. I cannot find any documentation on them... This is what I have: Pickups: Alembic MXY56 Controls: volume, pan, filter, Q, bass cut/flat/boost switch, treble cut/flat/boost switch Obviously the volume and pan are no problem...but what can I print out to give him that explains the rest of the controls and what they directly affect and do? Thanks in advance... | ||
| tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1179 Registered: 11-2004 |
Here is a link for the flat/boost/cut switches: http://alembic.com/club/messages/16271/16370.html?1107721317 Here is a pretty extensive discussion of the filters/Q and how they work: http://alembic.com/club/messages/16271/16376.html?1206759755 | ||
| threality
New Username: threality Post Number: 3 Registered: 2-2008 |
thanks!!! | ||
| souza_lima
New Username: souza_lima Post Number: 7 Registered: 2-2003 |
You really need sometime to get used to the Filter's concept, but it is totaly ingenious. You can even simulate others PUs character with it. I adjust my Tone mainly balancing between PUs and use Filter just to sculpt how much "growl", "bite" or "air" I need (depending on where I will put its cut off's frequency center). | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1393 Registered: 9-2002 |
It's an intuitive thing once you wrap your head around the filter concept. Of course, another feature unique to ALEMBIC is that with the filter off, you have active electronics without boost/cut as you'd see with virtually anyone else's tone network. Very clean, deceptively so, usually the reason you hear some non-informed two-centers talk about ALEMBICs not sounding very 'bassy'. And of course with the filters and the blend you can get everything from very lumpy organ-pedals tone, to clavinets on steroids. From just a few knobs and a few switches. Amazing. Like the man said, there's those who know, and those who think they know ! J o e y |
