Alembic Guitars Club
Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: drewphishes on December 24, 2018, 02:20:40 PM
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Can I use alembic pickups with other electronics that aren't alembic preamp?
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There are players who have done that and over the years we have seen alembic basses on ebay with non alembic electronics. I tried doing it once but found a lot of things lacking in my sound so put the alembic electronics back in my bass. I won’t do that again.
If you plan to do that just remember these pickups are low impedance and designed for alembic electronics so at a minimum you would require active electronics to acheive any decent kind of performance. In my view the alembic sound includes the whole electronics package. But you may want a different experience. Experiment and feed back how you get on.
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I agree with Jazzy. I ran some Series pickups passively and then with a different preamp for a while and it was always a compromise. Once the right electronics came together, the sound was at a whole other level.