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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: roughlight on January 17, 2013, 09:34:44 AM

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: roughlight on January 17, 2013, 09:34:44 AM

I'm doing the front end for my bass amp.  Does (my) Epic have a capacitor coupled output? What sort of impedance/drive does it have?  Can I get a drawing maybe?  Anybody?  Gracias.

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: adriaan on January 17, 2013, 10:09:00 AM

Until one of the tech heads joins in, here's my layman's insight.
 
If the bass has the original Alembic electronics, on a regular bass amp they sound best through the Active, lo-impedence, input. They drive the average Passive input just fine too, but it will sound a little muffled.

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: roughlight on January 17, 2013, 11:56:16 AM

It's got the stock Epic electronics package which I like very much.  I'm guessing 500-1000 ohms (and maybe 10-50pF) to ground is good at the amp input but I'll go lower if I can.

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: oujeebass on January 26, 2013, 10:33:24 AM

This applies to plugging straight into the amp but what happens when you plug into a pedal for instance?

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: terryc on January 27, 2013, 04:36:51 AM

Just plug it it in and adjust the pre gain..can it be any simpler???

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: oujeebass on January 27, 2013, 07:45:52 AM

good answer..I was just checking, keeping everyone on their toes.

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: roughlight on January 27, 2013, 10:30:13 AM

Forget it.  I'll just measure it myself.

Title: Epic electronics
Post by: oujeebass on January 27, 2013, 10:49:02 AM

Roughlight - Yeah sorry about screwing up your thread. It becomes an ego fest on this board very quickly.