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crgaston
Member Username: crgaston
Post Number: 77 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:06 pm: | |
Does anyone have any idea exactly what all those knobs do on Phil Lesh's "Big Brown" bass (aka "The Godfather")? |
keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin
Post Number: 670 Registered: 12-2002
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:36 pm: | |
I know some of those knobs were some 'super filters' and it is a quadrophonic stereo bass & it has some super sonic low freq's that could rumble your balls!!!.... |
keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin
Post Number: 671 Registered: 12-2002
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:37 pm: | |
I know some of those knobs were some 'super filters' and it is a quadrophonic stereo bass & it has some super sonic low freq's that could rumble your balls!!!.... |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 3204 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:40 pm: | |
I can't recall if that topic has been discussed before. My guess is that it's a couple of superfilters, similar to an SF-2, with maybe a pickup selector and some other routing choices. But I'm just guessing. |
serialnumber12
Advanced Member Username: serialnumber12
Post Number: 363 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:41 pm: | |
It's one of the first "SUPER ALEMBICS"!..... |
lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq
Post Number: 974 Registered: 7-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 8:23 pm: | |
Wasn't Lesh's quad bass the Alembic with the pots arranged around 2 or three star shapes, rather than the moded Guild Starfire, above? Bill, tgo |
grateful
Intermediate Member Username: grateful
Post Number: 125 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 7:52 am: | |
Hey Bill, They are/were (the Osage Orange is no more) both quad basses. Phil says in his book he never figured out what all the knobs did on the Godfather. Mark, ago |
crgaston
Member Username: crgaston
Post Number: 78 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 8:23 am: | |
What happened to the Osage Orange? |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 3214 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 8:26 am: | |
Charles; I believe it's been mentioned in other threads that the bass became a test bed. |