| Author | Message | ||
| saviour
New Username: saviour Post Number: 1 Registered: 9-2009 |
Hi everyone, I am new here. Firstly I wish to congratulate everyone for your great forum. I am a 47 year old bass player and have been playing the instrument since I was 16 yrs old. I currently own about 10 basses including vintage fender jazz, rickenbacker,gibson EB3, musicman, Wal and Yamaha. If I knew how good Alembics are I would have only aquired Wal and Alembic basses throughout my career as a musician.Well I owned my gorgeous Alembic Series II custom for about 2 years now.It is almost the perfect bass. Perfect in a way disimilar to most modern active basses like let say a warwick. It has a character and feel all of its own. I own half a dozen amps from Ampeg SVT to SWR and GK but unfortunately I only had time to play the alembic in mono tru a GK micro combo which I use for practice and in the studio swaping with an SWR Redhead at times. My effects rack includes Furman, tc electronic, BBE, rane,rocktron, dbx and ashley equipement. I also use monster cables and EV speakers. Sorry to bore you with all this stuff but us bass players are usually equipement addicts so I thought I include some of my equipement. I never gigged with the Alembic it sounds so good I am almost terified to gig with it but I usually take my Wal Mk II for jazz or fusion gigs. Anyway I wish to thank Mica and Susan and all the guys at alembic for their help and support and also Beaver Felton at the Bass Central (awesome bass player). Regards Saviour | ||
| elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 841 Registered: 6-2002 |
Welcome Saviour, I'd love to see some pictures of your series II, ...and look forward to seeing you around. cheers, Kris | ||
| saviour
New Username: saviour Post Number: 2 Registered: 9-2009 |
Hi Kris, Thanks for the warm welcome . I will be posting some pictures soon. Cheers | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 8703 Registered: 5-2002 |
Welcome to the board! | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1649 Registered: 6-2002 |
Yeah some pics would be great. It's almost a rite of passage to provide pictures for us to enjoy. Welcome and I hope you enjoy the friendly and informative nature of the forum. Jazzyvee | ||
| artswork99
Senior Member Username: artswork99 Post Number: 831 Registered: 7-2007 |
Welcome Saviour! Play em Healthy! Best, Art | ||
| pauldo
Advanced Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 265 Registered: 6-2006 |
Saviour - welcome aboard. Yes pictures,,, don't forget about the backside! | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2409 Registered: 10-2002 |
Welcome to the club Saviour. Like everyone else, I can't wait to see pictures. graeme | ||
| georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy Post Number: 937 Registered: 8-2005 |
We're all waiting!! | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1268 Registered: 6-2002 |
Paul likes backsides  I prefer front, neck and head shots. Show us everything. And welcome aboard, as others have already said... Hope you stay and enjoy our little crowd a long time. We're here to celebrate music and communication. Mike (Message edited by dadabass2001 on September 09, 2009) | ||
| pauldo
Advanced Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 268 Registered: 6-2006 |
I do Mike - there is something about it. You know - the front is all business, hardware, controls, figured woods, strings, frets, inlays . . . the back is stripped down plain old function, it supports the front, a behind the scenes view of the raw instrument and there is something really (dare I say) sexy about that!!! | ||
| saviour
New Username: saviour Post Number: 3 Registered: 9-2009 |
Thanks guys for the warm welcome . I will be posting some pics soon. I have to take some cool pictures of my alembic, wouldn`t want to disapoint you. | ||
| eligilam
Advanced Member Username: eligilam Post Number: 202 Registered: 2-2006 |
If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to see your Wal, too... Oh, and welcome! | ||
| jet_powers
Senior Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 471 Registered: 2-2003 |
Welcome to the club! I'll look at anything you wish to show us! -JP | ||
| saviour
New Username: saviour Post Number: 4 Registered: 9-2009 |
Ok Eligilam I will post some pics of my Wal too. For the moment all I could tell you is that it is one of the first Mk II ever built. It has wenge facings and the pickups are a little closer to the bridge slightly closer. I opted for an ebony fretboard but steve at electricwood declined as he said the neck will warp as it was too stiff . He basically took my idea and built the red Wal for geddy Lee for the Roll The Bones tour a year or so later. He later told me that he replaced the hornbeam in the neck with a softer wood in geddy`s WAL . Anyway I am glad he opted for a rosewood fingerboard at the time cause my Wal sounds great. | ||
| saviour
New Username: saviour Post Number: 5 Registered: 9-2009 |
Wal basses are great eh. The closest thing you can get to an Alembic. They used to be called the poor man`s Alembic.In my opinion they are a different beast.The lower mids are so prenounced and stable they make a bass player drool if you know what I mean just great. Very difficult to amplify live though.They sound great with GK amps but seem to match best directly through a great PA boosted at 1.3K. At least that is what I found best from my humble experience. |
