Alembic Guitars Club

Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: elwoodblue on March 23, 2008, 04:17:53 PM

Title: Stratoblaster
Post by: elwoodblue on March 23, 2008, 04:17:53 PM

This (http://cgi.ebay.com/ALEMBIC-GUITAR-PRE-AMP-preamp-Rare_W0QQitemZ300209888814QQihZ020QQcategoryZ47076QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem target=_blank) just popped up...I bet some six stringers around here might be interested.

Title: Stratoblaster
Post by: mike1762 on March 23, 2008, 08:06:34 PM

20 yrs ago I installed one of these on a Tele bass (I actually still have it!).  I thought it would turn my POS bass into an Alembic.  Didn't work out quite like that.

Title: Stratoblaster
Post by: elwoodblue on March 23, 2008, 11:21:35 PM

I put two in a row on an old ibanez strat...It's too bad at the time I didn't have any tube amps to really see what it could have done or if it was overkill at some point in the signal chain...as a hot signal into solid state is not quite the same.
 I bet some trimmer pots inbetween might have helped if there was any possibility of pleasing sounds.
 Most my guitars are passive now...
   
   How did the stratoblaster do with the lower frequencies from the bass?
 cheers

Title: Stratoblaster
Post by: mike1762 on March 24, 2008, 06:17:10 AM

I rewired the bass w/just a volume (no tone) knob. Therefore, the usual resistance of the pots was lower and the bass had an inherrantly brighter sound.  Other than boost the output a bit, it didn't do much to the tone.  Understand I had completely destroyed a vintage instrument at this point!!!  I should take it out of the bass and put it in my Strat.

Title: Stratoblaster
Post by: benson_murrensun on March 25, 2008, 09:01:56 AM

I recently put a Blaster into a new MIJ 12-string Strat. It does great things for it. More info is in another thread somewhere.