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Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: gerarddem on December 12, 2009, 09:46:12 AM

I can only use the 1/4 jack and it seems that only the top 2 positions are working (working from highest switch position facing neck, then turning counter-clockwise).
 
What are the first 2 positions (the ones facing down)? Aren't they supposed to work too, even with the 1/4 jack?
 
It seems that they might correspond to the bridge pickup because the bottom volume & tone knobs also don't work. Help!  9-)
 
Photo below shows the switch.
 
Could anyone hit me back ASAP!
 
Thank you!,
g
 
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Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: gerarddem on December 12, 2009, 09:58:21 AM

stereo jack perhaps??

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: elwoodblue on December 12, 2009, 10:08:00 AM

Exactly...the preamp is powerful enough to drive headphones and you should be able to hear one pickup in each ear.
 Some members without the DS-5 have used a splitter cable.
  This (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=275) will help explain .
 
Kris

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: elwoodblue on December 12, 2009, 10:14:45 AM

...and one of the switch positions turns both pickups off , so silence in that position is expected.

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: hieronymous on December 12, 2009, 10:28:03 AM

And don't forget this FAQ on the Series I controls (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=271).

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: lbpesq on December 12, 2009, 10:36:59 AM

Gerard:
 
The pickup selector switch has 4 positions: Neck pickup/both pickups/bridge pickup/mute.  The earlier Series instruments are all set up to run with one pickup only when using the 1/4 jack.    Both pickups will work when using the 5 pin connector and the power supply.  These can easily be modified to run both pickups with the 1/4 plug.  (A search around the site should find this.  It has been posted several times - later model Series run both pickups through the 1/4 jack).  However, you will soon discover that Series instruments, when run using the 1/4 jack, have a healthy appetite for batteries.  Most people use the power supply.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: pace on December 12, 2009, 07:23:10 PM

Gerard,  
 
Your guitar is seriously broken. Cancel your sale, and sell it to me cheap....
 
 
-Mike

Title: Help! Can someone tell me exactly what the 4-position switch does on my 1980 Clembic Series I guitar??
Post by: gerarddem on December 13, 2009, 10:03:45 AM

lol.. too late Mike ...sold!  I actually did get both pickups to work out of the 1/4... it's a stereo jack... duh! lol It's been awhile (29 years to be exact) since I plugged in Dark Baby... Thanks again everyone!  g