| Author | Message | ||
| fmm
Junior Username: fmm Post Number: 17 Registered: 6-2002 |
My first Alembic. Picked it up on Saturday:  (Message edited by fmm on September 15, 2003) | ||
| fmm
Junior Username: fmm Post Number: 18 Registered: 6-2002 |
Perhaps more pics later...  | ||
| elzie
Advanced Member Username: elzie Post Number: 208 Registered: 8-2002 |
Oooh! That is nice! Those two little burls on either side of the neck pickup look like eyes.... You must be very happy! Paul TGO | ||
| mattheus
Junior Username: mattheus Post Number: 48 Registered: 5-2003 |
Just wondering: Why call this a 'spoiler'.. Great bass, I enjoy my Spoiler every day. Mattheus tDo | ||
| stoney
Advanced Member Username: stoney Post Number: 211 Registered: 7-2002 |
You're gonna love that bass and the endless tone possibilities she will present. Congrats. Stoney | ||
| fmm
Junior Username: fmm Post Number: 19 Registered: 6-2002 |
So far it's been great. I brought it home Saturday. It had been hanging in a store in Golden Valley MN for over a year. I went in to look at it at least twice a month. The store dropped the price, and I got a raise at work, so I decided to take the plunge. I teach bass out of my home, and all of my students want a chance to play it. I think this week’s lessons will be on the construction details of superior basses. I think it’s time to retire the Yamaha BX-1. | ||
| jet_powers
Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 65 Registered: 2-2003 |
Congrats on your pick up! It's a beauty. I think it's called a Spoiler because once you've played it it spoils your appetite for any other manufacturer's basses! BTW, my Persuader has the same body and neck. Can anyone tell me what differentiates a Spoiler from a Persuader? Is it the electronics? John Paul | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 176 Registered: 7-2002 |
You got it. The difference is in the electronics, Spoilers like yours, have two soapbar pickups, Persuaders sport a jazz/pbass style pickup combination. The controls are a bit different too, I believe the Persuader has volume, filter & pan, the Spoiler has volume, filter w /q switch, and pickup selector. Both are generally medium scale. Valentino | ||
| davehouck
Intermediate Member Username: davehouck Post Number: 145 Registered: 5-2002 |
Val and John Paul, yesterday I was wondering about Persuader controls and ran a search finding the following thread. http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/1126.html In the thread Mica describes a Persuader as: "essentially Spoilers with our Activator electronics. Most of the Persuaders we made did not have the Q switch. There were one and two pickup versions, some with AXYs, others with P or JZ pickups." The thread is quite interesting. The bass that is the subject of the thread has the P and JZ pickups and the controls are volume, volume, and filter. Mica says of this setup: "The P pickup is one of our loudest pickups, and the JZ is one of the softest. Add that to the positioning with the poor skinny JZ pickup back where the string doesn't move much, and without a separate preamp for each pickup, there will always be a volume difference between the two." In the thread Mica makes some suggestions for hot-rodding Persuader electronics. Interesting read. | ||
| stoney
Advanced Member Username: stoney Post Number: 214 Registered: 7-2002 |
Here's a nice example of a Persuader. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2557609570&category=4713 | ||
| jet_powers
Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 66 Registered: 2-2003 |
Guys, thanks for the responses... That is a nice example of a Persuader. Mine's nicer though, it has strings! I'll try to get some pics posted in the not too distant future. JP | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 606 Registered: 9-2002 |
What all reminds me that I still have an Alembic PB/JB PU combination somewhere in a drawer!!! It came with volume, pan, filter and Q switch. My friend Koen once build it in his Fender "light" fretless ...o-oh!!! Anyway ...I have plans with those kids ...you'll see! Maybe next year I'll be pregnant too from myself (huh ...euh ....bôf ...that doesn't sound right but anayway ...you'll be surprised! Paul the bad one | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 177 Registered: 7-2002 |
Thanks for the correction Dave, I had one of the volumes on the Persuader confused with a pan. Valentino | ||
| fmm
Junior Username: fmm Post Number: 20 Registered: 6-2002 |
By golly, it is medium scale. I would never have known if I didn't measure it. | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 115 Registered: 6-2002 |
oops (Message edited by fmm on January 17, 2006) | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 116 Registered: 6-2002 |
I'll be selling the Spoiler to help finance this:  | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 117 Registered: 6-2002 |
It's on the way! | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 522 Registered: 6-2002 |
Congtraulations Michael, Going from one maple beauty to another - very cool. I keep waiting for a lotto winner (or at least a raise) to make my move to Series brotherhood. Mike | ||
| fmm
Intermediate Member Username: fmm Post Number: 119 Registered: 6-2002 |
it's here. holy crap! more later. | ||
| jlpicard
Advanced Member Username: jlpicard Post Number: 341 Registered: 7-2002 |
Enjoy! You'll be in hibernation for quite some time with your new baby I'd imagine! | ||
| fmm
Advanced Member Username: fmm Post Number: 253 Registered: 6-2002 |
Happy Birthday! My bass turns 24 today. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 7461 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice to revisit this thread and these pics! | ||
| crobbins
Advanced Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 216 Registered: 6-2004 |
Nice geetar. Enjoy..... | ||
| edwardofhuncote
Intermediate Member Username: edwardofhuncote Post Number: 156 Registered: 6-2014 |
Wondering where this Spoiler 89S5560USA is now? After tracking down this old serial number request thread, http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/4692.html I believe she is the "twin sister" to my Persuader 89P5559USA. And in looking closely at the figuring in the quilted top, I think they may even have been cut from the same board. Those same little "eyes" also appear on mine, but in a flip matched position. I won't hijack the thread, but here is the thread where I was restoring her, in case someone's looking. http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/193837.html?1410204563 (Message edited by edwardofhuncote on January 04, 2015) (Message edited by edwardofhuncote on January 04, 2015) (Message edited by edwardofhuncote on January 04, 2015) | ||
| spumoni
New Username: spumoni Post Number: 1 Registered: 1-2015 |
No way! Hey fmm and edwardofhuncote! For some reason, I had the urge today to do some research on my 1989 Spoiler. I googled the serial number which led me to this thread; that's the pic of it! When I got to the end, boom!, there was your msg edward with the serial number! So you decide to post a note on a thread from 6 yrs ago, then I randomly decide to do some research 3 weeks later. How weird is that? Anyway, yep, I have your bass's "sister" here near Chicago. So how did I get it? It was a gift for my 50th birthday back in 2011! My family (about 20 people) all kicked in to buy this bass that my brother found online. Totally stunned. Needless to say, the best present ever. :-) I signed up for this forum today just to respond because it was so coincidental. Ha, ha! Happy playing! | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 727 Registered: 8-2002 |
Wow the universe aligns itself to produce a episode of Kismet slawie | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1420 Registered: 6-2006 |
Hey Joe, If we ever pull together another Chicago Alembic Gathering you are most certainly invited. Maybe the kismet here will create superficiality momentum to make a second Chicago Gathering happen. Here's a link to the last one we had (pics are far down the page) - it was an epic event! http://alembic.com/club/messages/65124/38384.html?1317081984 | ||
| edwardofhuncote
New Username: edwardofhuncote Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2015 |
Welcome to the forum Joe, pleased to meet you! What a very cool coincidence you found my post in such a timely way, but if you hang around here a while, you'll see things like that happen a lot. I'm glad to see my Persuader's "sister" went to a good home where she's getting played. We should get them together for a photo-op one day. |
