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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: bassvibes on April 24, 2021, 06:11:50 AM
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I have a Alembic Spoiler on route to me from USA so just want some info on it before it arrives!
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I've had it a couple of weeks now and after working out issue with electronics I love this bass - the playability, balance, neck, and unique sound are faultless. My only other active I've owned previously was a Ray which I really didn't like. But this is a keeper for sure.
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Great looking bass. I've always liked the Spoiler. Would be fun to see a 40th Ann. reissue. ;D
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Here's what I found in the instrument file:
Top: Koa
body: Mahogany
neck: 3-piece Maple
scale: 32" medium
fingerboard: Ebony
ovals: pearloid (plastic) ovals
pickups: AXY4
controls: "Spoiler" volume, filter, Q-switch, 4-position rotary pickup selector switch, mono output
originally made for: Guitar Center Hollywood, CA
birthday: July 18, 1984
It was living in Texas in 2010 when the electronics were sent in for an RF upgrade.
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Thank you. Being a relative Alembic newbie what is an RF upgrade?
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Being an electrical dunce but unable to shut my pie hole….
I am rather certain the RF upgrade is some magic they do that stops the pickups from receiving Radio Frequencies.
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Yes, it's to protect against high frequency noise that had proliferated the environment since 1984. It also increases the gain from the original. No change in tone.