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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: threality on May 12, 2010, 08:58:43 AM

Title: Controls
Post by: threality on May 12, 2010, 08:58:43 AM

Just looking for a little clarification on the controls for my custom rogue 5 string...I am starting to work with a new sound guy and he asked about the controls. I cannot find any documentation on them...
 
This is what I have:
Pickups: Alembic MXY56
Controls: volume, pan, filter, Q, bass cut/flat/boost switch, treble cut/flat/boost switch
 
Obviously the volume and pan are no problem...but what can I print out to give him that explains the  rest of the controls and what they directly affect and do?
 
Thanks in advance...

Title: Controls
Post by: tbrannon on May 12, 2010, 10:22:58 AM

Here is a link for the flat/boost/cut switches:  http://club.alembic.com/Images/16271/16370.html?1107721317 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=238)
 
Here is a pretty extensive discussion of the filters/Q and how they work: http://club.alembic.com/Images/16271/16376.html?1206759755 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=308)

Title: Controls
Post by: threality on May 12, 2010, 12:00:02 PM

thanks!!!

Title: Controls
Post by: souza_lima on May 14, 2010, 01:13:56 PM

You really need sometime to get used to the Filter's concept, but it is totaly ingenious. You can even simulate others PUs character with it.
 
I adjust my Tone mainly balancing between PUs and use Filter just to sculpt how much growl, bite or air I need (depending on where I will put its cut off's frequency center).

Title: Controls
Post by: bigredbass on May 14, 2010, 11:34:00 PM

It's an intuitive thing once you wrap your head around the filter concept.  Of course, another feature unique to ALEMBIC is that with the filter off, you have active electronics without boost/cut as you'd see with virtually anyone else's tone network.  Very clean, deceptively so, usually the reason you hear some non-informed two-centers talk about ALEMBICs not sounding very 'bassy'.
 
And of course with the filters and the blend you can get everything from very lumpy organ-pedals tone, to clavinets on steroids.  From just a few knobs and a few switches.  Amazing.
 
Like the man said, there's those who know, and those who think they know !
 
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