Especially like those Diesel 15's. Something about Alembics through Mesa-Boogie cabs just sounds right. (I have searched high and low for a Diesel 210 to complete my setup...) This place ruint me! 🤣

I had 3 powerhouse cabs at one time. 1x15, which hardly got used, 4x12 used the most and a 2x10 which was my first. Great cabs that have a real punchy tone.

Nice collection of equipment!

Thanx!
The Mesa rig in action:

From where in the chain is the direct signal coming?

This is: DS-5R - Lehle P split Stereo - Lexicon MX400 - Radial JDI   (very light compression from the Lexicon)

And Shure SM57 in front of upper cab, Mesa gets signal from the thru out of the JDI.

Thanks!

:-) Note: this is also the brightest setting of the bass, somehow the CVQ's are both maxed out. (with both filters full open) Normally I have CVQ's set at about 1/4 :-)

Sorry to spam this four times, but I wanted it on the page for all 4 basses :-)

Metallica's Four Horsemen on four Alembics

Attack of the killer B! :-)

35 years ago today, my first irl encounter with Metallica and Alembic 😎🤘🤘🤘
 First bass onstage: Series II Europa 5 :-)

First time I saw them was in Zwolle in 1990. And justice for all tour. Back when I was still a metal head. 

Quote from: FC Bass on Yesterday at 11:19:03 AM35 years ago today, my first irl encounter with Metallica and Alembic 😎🤘🤘🤘
 First bass onstage: Series II Europa 5 :-)

Would you say this was the defining moment when you made the jump and decided you were going to play that music with an Alembic bass? Or did it take a while?

I can't honestly remember. I remember the first Alembic I played hooked me, and I wanted one from that moment, but it took 20 more years to realize my own. (of course you remember how that first experience went...)  🙄😉

I really had no practical application for an Alembic for many years, but the time was finally right and the gig I had was just the thing that allowed it. I finally got one. Mica says that was the kernel. I'm always interested in what pushed other players over that line. If you get it, then it's hard to live without.

I too had no real application for alembic either when I bought my first one. I was a guitarist who always loved the sound of alembic basses in the hands of Stanley. it took me ages to understand how to get my tones but now I can't imagine me wanting to play/gig anything else.
Although I don't know any Metallica music, but I do enjoy the energy of rock music and  i hope one day to catch one of FC Bass's gigs.

I was aware of the brand when School Days came out and played that LP to death! (I was 16)  First saw / held a Series I in 1977 at my local music store and was blown away by the neck LED's.  I was transitioning from an interest in becoming a full time musician to a more stable career that involved a lot of world travel and humping a bass guitar around the world wasn't an option.
Fast forward to 1993 and in a Balkan / Greek Band and wanted the extended range of a 6-string bass.  I was sitting in BassNW in Seattle with Evan.  On the stands was the Essence 6 and a Yamaha 6.  The Yamaha was cheaper but I couldn't stop looking at the Essence... So the Essence came home and I spent the next three months exploring the tonal pallet.  There was no looking back.... Same band in 1998 when I first toured the Mothership looking to commission a Classico 6.  Wouldn't ya know it... there was a used one in the loading dock.  Brought that home.  New band in 1999.  Celtic Rock band.  Bought the Orion fretless as it had the same feel as the Essence neck so transitioning to fretless was easy.  The Spyders just "found me."  For the next 20 years I thought I was done until the Doublenecks appeared.  Totally not practical but I was hovering around "medicare" in my life and thought Why Not?  There is possibly another one in the works this week but that is totally up to the Mothership to clear it for a trip! 

No one gets out of here alive and you can't take it with you so enjoy the things that bring you pleasure.