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Alembic products => Showcase => Series I Basses and Guitars => Topic started by: rv_bass on April 03, 2017, 07:49:40 PM
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Amazing Schedua, Alembic basses are so cool! :)
http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=5695.msg64194#msg64194
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Nice! 8)
Did you adopt another one Rob? Congratulations & Compliments sir. ;)
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Thanks, Greg, Yes one more has found its way to me. :)
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Love the wood. I haven't seen a schedua topped bass as nice looking as yours in a long time. Beautiful.
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Schedua can really be a special thing!
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Thanks for the comments everyone, and thanks to everyone at Alembic for creating these fine and beautiful instruments!
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I have this bass now as of July 2019. The Cherry wood gives a tone like you'd guess, dark and sweet. The Shedua gives a zing with an incredible bass response; not sure if its the combination of Cherry that contributes to this as well. This is a keeper for me. I love a 'darker' or should I say richer tone, and I'm a total bass hog, so I definitely lucked out. I had a brass truss cover plate made for it with a rose engraving.
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That’s a nice one for sure! I had the full electronics upgrade done on it, so it should sound great for a long time to come. Beautiful job on the rose truss rod cover. I don’t see screws, how is it kept in place? Congrats! :)
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That’s a nice one for sure! I had the full electronics upgrade done on it, so it should sound great for a long time to come. Beautiful job on the rose truss rod cover. I don’t see screws, how is it kept in place? Congrats! :)
Thanks. The cover isn't on yet, and didn't want to drill any holes; maybe in the future. The only work I want done on it would be from Alembic, but I'm here in Denver. Hope you got another Series that worked out; I'm lucky to have this one for sure.
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...also, the knobs in the photos are ebony with gold wire custom made by David King in Oregon
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That’s a nice one for sure! I had the full electronics upgrade done on it, so it should sound great for a long time to come. Beautiful job on the rose truss rod cover. I don’t see screws, how is it kept in place? Congrats! :)
Thanks. The cover isn't on yet, and didn't want to drill any holes; maybe in the future. The only work I want done on it would be from Alembic, but I'm here in Denver. Hope you got another Series that worked out; I'm lucky to have this one for sure.
I like that too - classy touch. Take a look at the Showcase Thread for my Series I (#77-621)... my bass didn't come with a TRC either, but I made one, and not wanting to drill any holes in a classic, I came up with a no-mod way to mount it using some adhesive backed foam stuck to the brass piece, cut to fit snugly into the truss rod channel. (don't want to clutter up your Showcase Thread with my pics...) ;)
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Excellent thanks. I'll give that a try.
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That’s a nice one for sure! I had the full electronics upgrade done on it, so it should sound great for a long time to come. Beautiful job on the rose truss rod cover. I don’t see screws, how is it kept in place? Congrats! :)
Thanks. The cover isn't on yet, and didn't want to drill any holes; maybe in the future. The only work I want done on it would be from Alembic, but I'm here in Denver. Hope you got another Series that worked out; I'm lucky to have this one for sure.
How about epoxying a small magnet to the back of the cover so it is in proximity to the truss rod nuts?
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Tried the epoxy and superglue for the truss cover; doesn't work so well. But yeah rv_bass, those knobs are nice. Just put on some Ken Smith compressors after cleaning the fb with some lemon essential oil; super nice strings.
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Aaron,
That is a lovely looking bass. And a nice truss rod cover too, which I think that deserves to be bolted on. What you want is the threaded inserts that Alembic use - same as what you should have for your rear panels. You could probably get a few inserts with their machine screw brothers from Mica. You could even get brass headed screws if you want a close match.
Adhesive foam or double sided tape would work but you do want to have access to make adjustments every now and then. And though Gary's magnet idea sounds very slick, there are two possible issues there. One is, the pickup is a powerful magnet so I'm not sure it would work to have another magnet inside the pickup's field. Though maybe you could rig it so that the cover is powerfully ejected simply by lowering the pickup until the two magnetic poles repel each other. Slick!! The other issue is of course vibration. Anything that isn't securely bolted down will find a way to rattle at a certain pitch and that physical rattle can be passed through the pickups in an unmusical way...
Jimmy J
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Aaron,
That is a lovely looking bass. And a nice truss rod cover too, which I think that deserves to be bolted on. What you want is the threaded inserts that Alembic use - same as what you should have for your rear panels. You could probably get a few inserts with their machine screw brothers from Mica. You could even get brass headed screws if you want a close match.
Adhesive foam or double sided tape would work but you do want to have access to make adjustments every now and then. And though Gary's magnet idea sounds very slick, there are two possible issues there. One is, the pickup is a powerful magnet so I'm not sure it would work to have another magnet inside the pickup's field. Though maybe you could rig it so that the cover is powerfully ejected simply by lowering the pickup until the two magnetic poles repel each other. Slick!! The other issue is of course vibration. Anything that isn't securely bolted down will find a way to rattle at a certain pitch and that physical rattle can be passed through the pickups in an unmusical way...
Jimmy J
Thanks for the advice and info!
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https://soundcloud.com/user-598105611/97-alembic-series-i-bach-cello-suite-5-allemande
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Hey Aaron,
What a nice mellow rubato reading of that piece! Good going. (Nice 'verb too.) Gotta love the Bach pieces - the greatest and most musical "exercises" one could ever need. I have a couple that I attempt to play now and then to help keep my fingers moving. So great.
Also, this is a fine example of something that would only speak correctly on a bass like yours. Our series basses are not only capable of following your subtle dynamic intentions but have no problem clearly speaking those double and triple-stop chords - way down low in the frequency range.
Well done!
Jimmy J
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Thanks very much Jimmy!
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Sounds very nice, moody :)
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I have this 77 now and would love to know how it came to the UK. My first A but been looking for a long time. more history would be interesting, it is in great shape.
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Stan,
You found the link at the top of this thread which leads to the "build card" for this nice bass. As to how it ended up in the UK, that kind of history is hard to track. Glad you're enjoying it. No need to post the same question in two places, we watch for anything "new".
Jimmy J
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That’s a great bass, congrats! Love the Beeswing schedua :)
Looking at the dates on this thread it hasn’t been in the UK too long.
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I have this 77 now ... it is in great shape.
Congrats!
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Well, this very bass 77 744 has somehow found its way here to the UK. I found it in a shop/web site I have been checking that occasionally gets one in. The last one 2 years ago was Neil Murrays Omega which I missed on. So I was quick off the mark for this although I would have preferred a Shorty. ( I have Piriformis Syndrome) Cant complain. It's here now and done a couple of gigs. So beautifully manufactured and the neck is fab. Great set up whoever did it, I just had to higher the action which was so easy. Got roto's on at mo and sound great. I'm interested how it got here? (UK) Just cos I'm nosey !!! I guess it's had several owners over the years and been used all over the place! Well, it's been well looked after I must say. Some of my gits are in worst shape and only 10/20 years old. That's Rock'n'Roll!
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This Bass is with me now, from a shop here in UK called "Bass Direct". I see rv_bass had a full electronics upgrade in 2020, was that with the new pick ups? What else was changed? Also, darnellbass had it in 2019 with a lovely truss rod cover which isnt on it now? Not being nosey .... just wondering how it got to UK? I love history on guitars and love seeing other pics of the bass on here. If there are any pics of it being used on gigs would be great.
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I had the full upgrade done with new pickups. It’s a nice bass, enjoy :)