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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: fivestringdan on February 13, 2023, 06:09:39 PM

Title: Series I on talkbass
Post by: fivestringdan on February 13, 2023, 06:09:39 PM
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/1983-alembic-series-1.1596293/
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: hdfixer on February 13, 2023, 06:56:45 PM
This listing sure seems fake or for a stolen instrument.  Seems they are calling the 1/4" jack a missing knob??
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: hdfixer on February 13, 2023, 06:58:50 PM
and someone's Talkbass account got compromised to post the listing?
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: rv_bass on February 13, 2023, 07:19:34 PM
That was owned by someone here at the Club recently.  There was a discussion about that toggle switch near the tailpiece under either the trouble shooting or owning an Alembic threads.
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: adriaan on February 13, 2023, 10:26:23 PM
Not sure about any of those points. The selector switch was moved first to the location above the volumes, which the owner felt got in the way, so the selector was moved once more to be in line with the Q switches, and a dummy pot with a small knob was installed in the vacated hole. The original poster is responding with all the right types of answers, so I doubt his account was hacked.
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: pauldo on February 14, 2023, 04:46:17 AM
Olympic! Is that an inside joke on Talkbass?

This was talked about here.
https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=27049.0
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: adriaan on February 14, 2023, 10:00:38 AM
Olympic! Is that an inside joke on Talkbass?

This was talked about here.
https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=27049.0
The same bass, likely, but before the pickup selector was moved.
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: gearhed289 on February 15, 2023, 08:05:33 AM
Olympic! Is that an inside joke on Talkbass?

I've actually heard people pronounce it that way quite a bit. (Not while looking at the spelling, but rather in conversation) I would not be surprised if these instruments hailed from Mount Olympus.  ;D
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: edwardofhuncote on February 15, 2023, 01:46:32 PM
My phone has yet to correctly spell Alembic from speech-to-text.
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: rv_bass on February 15, 2023, 05:42:57 PM
Speech detection still has trouble with the Boston accent.  :)
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: BeenDown139 on February 16, 2023, 06:31:43 AM
as  35-year veteran of the software engineering profession i will not willingly speak or converse with a computer.  ever.  especially google "assistant".  🤖
Title: Re: Series I on talkbass
Post by: jazzyvee on February 16, 2023, 09:45:03 AM
I also have been in software for about 30 years and refuse to converse with a computer. The only exception is if i'm driving and want to call someone, i use Siri. Other than that NO!