Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: lbpesq on November 07, 2014, 08:19:51 AM
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Check out the logo on this one.
'81 Spoiler (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/msg/4749347257.html)
Bill, tgo
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One of those with a decal. I have seen a few of those .
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I am a bit doubtful of the provenance given in the description - otherwise Phil's current 6-string wouldn't count as his first 100% Alembic instrument
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The Phil connection seems rather dubious to say the least. Nice l'il bass though
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Not sure how Phil's mid-70s Mission Control Osage Orange bass doesn't count as 100% Alembic.
I also doubt the Spoiler ever belonged to Phil and it seems a bit overpriced, too. I would think that if Alembic made a bass for Phil it would have a proper logo not a sticker.
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Phil's Osage Orange was wired with George Mundy's filter circuit . George lived down the street from me and he also rewired wired my old Guild bass that had trapezoidal Alembic pickups and buffer preamps and Alembic bridge & tailpiece. He wired in his Pluto Filters. I saw in front of me and still have pictures of the OSAGE ORANGE Bass on Georges work bench during the wiring process . My old bass can be seen here ;
http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/2792.html?1262960781 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8984)
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Pluto Filters . . . . I have no idea what the hell these do, but that name just sounds SO trippy, I can smell patchouli while I'm reaching for my Whole Earth Catalog. Wolf, what exactly did they do?
I saw a 'Decal Spoiler' at GC once, and Susan was right, Alembics don't need decals.
J o e y
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Isn't it obvious? They keep ex-planets from interfering with your signal!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Wow, hadn't thought of the Whole Earth Catalog in many years. Tie- Dye and Thai Stick.
Bill, tgo
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Joey ____, Pluto Filters were just basically a circuit that were based on State Variable Filters, There was LOW PASS BAND PASS & HIGH PASS . George also made an external version that was controlled by a double action foot controller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_variable_filter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_variable_filter)
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To my ears and from actual application and musicality , the Alembic SF-2 takes first place in any active filter product that I have tried for musical performance implementation.