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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: Olivier Jaar (erroneus_jones) on December 10, 2002, 04:38:42 AM

Title: Anyone got a fretless essence
Post by: Olivier Jaar (erroneus_jones) on December 10, 2002, 04:38:42 AM

I'd like to know if only one filter, no Q, could get a essence (5 strings) in a slapping mode?
 
Would a Q help to simulate an accoustic sound?
 
Waiting for comments, anything would do.
 
Thx

Title: Anyone got a fretless essence
Post by: Steven Smolinski (stevens) on December 10, 2002, 02:05:29 PM

I have a fretless essence with the standard single filter control.  Through my Ashdown amp, I can get it to sound very much like a double bass by plucking with the fat part of my finger up around the 17-20th fret.  I don't know if a Q switch would help, but it's such a great sound already I'm not dying for one.
 
I don't slap much, never on fretless, so I can't speak to that question.
 
Steve