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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Fun Stories => Topic started by: anthenium on December 07, 2007, 12:14:42 PM
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Okay, I'm a G.A.S-oholic! This last week I've aquired 3 basses. 1st was a USA Fender P-Bass with Sadowsky pickup & pre-amp, including the VTC, Vintage Tone Circut. This is a Very sweet bass! Next is a Yamaha TRB-4II 35 scale, with an upgraded Bartolini pre-amp. A Very Big Monster of a Bass. And lastly I FINALLY have a G&L El Toro!!! One of my 4 Dream Basses. (Simple tastes, I know...)
Last night I played roughly an hour on each of these, and I was getting tired, and decided to put my New Toys away when I saw my Epic's case sitting in the corner. Hmmm. I guess another hour wouldn't kill me!
Once I plugged this Bubingan-Beauty in I had to wonder why I even bothered with those Lesser basses! None have the tonal variation, the ease of play, or the Mojo that this old Epic has. So I played the Epic for about 90 minutes, and called it a night. I was now Truly tired. I think I was just Bored before hand...
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same happened to me when i sent wolf back for repairs, i picked up 6 basses. nothing sounded close. so i changed like every week, once wolf came back i sold all but 1
addicted alembaholics we are
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As much as I love my alembics, I was having a play on my 1992 Fender Strat Ultra today which I haven't done for quite a while, and it still sounds absolutely fantastic. A different sound to my Orion obviously but it has an incredible sound that I'd find hard to do without.
Jazzyvee
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GAS is re appearing with me again,, fancy another amp, nothing huge, no stacks, something with a bit of punch..will see how much money I have left over after all the Xmas gigs.
I have absolutely no inclination to buy another bass unless it was another Alembic. I went into a small guitar shop in the summer, they had a few basses, the usual stuff, an assistant asked me if I was interested in anything, I said I have a bass by the best bass builder in the world. when I told him he had never heard of them. I guess even after 30 odd years they are still so exclusive as not to be common knowledge.
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MMMmmmm ...gas... this is a smelly area!
Love it!
Paul the bad one