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Alembic products => Showcase => Series I Basses and Guitars => Topic started by: Michael Delacerda (dela217) on November 23, 2002, 06:52:20 AM

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: Michael Delacerda (dela217) on November 23, 2002, 06:52:20 AM

Here is a very nice bass made back in 1973.  It features a nice walnut top with lots of flame.  It also has a oak core with a neck made of mostly purpleheart with maple laminates.  Check it out!
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/2436.jpg)

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: Tracey Gholson (fretted4) on November 27, 2002, 03:18:40 PM

Killer pickup covers, can alembic still make those?

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: Googe Endeveronte (goooge) on November 29, 2002, 04:54:05 AM

Tracey-
go to the alembic basses and guitars section of this board -in that folder there are 2 threads-
1) color of pickups
2) caramel pickups covers
your answers (straight from Mica) await you
(they cant make the caramel pickups anymore-and these are pickup covers-the pickups are casted into the epoxy itself)

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: keavin on May 13, 2004, 04:55:50 AM

hey mike,does all of your old alembics have the same set-up as #49,(no filters?).or did alembic just did that to just a few of them?,,,,by the way one hellof a collection!

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: dela217 on May 13, 2004, 06:54:50 AM

Keavin - Number 16 is the only one I have that has no filters.  And I have seen others like this too.  I have had the chance to play number 17, and it had no filters either.  I would think that there are not too many with this set up.  

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: effclef on May 15, 2004, 11:30:18 AM

Michael, this keeps me thinking about my custom idea of a bass with Series pickups and preamps only, no filters or controls.
 
Maybe next year!
 
EffClef

Title: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: keavin on May 17, 2004, 08:16:41 AM

Hey mike, next to stanley clarke you must have the most alembics,,,or do you have #1,(?)

Title: Re: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: OJ Dorson on May 26, 2021, 08:44:31 AM

Quote from: Michael Delacerda (dela217) on November 23, 2002, 06:52:20 AM

Here is a very nice bass made back in 1973.  It features a nice walnut top with lots of flame.  It also has a oak core with a neck made of mostly purpleheart with maple laminates.  Check it out!
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/2436.jpg)

Michael - I learned about this bass from your hurricane thread... It's really beautiful and I admire you for working to restore it. In the meantime, would you mind sharing what's going on with the electronics layout on this model? I see what I imagine are two volumes, two filters, two Q switches, and two LEDs? Is that right? What do the LEDs indicate?

Title: Re: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: mica on May 26, 2021, 03:04:42 PM

It's the same layout as the Series I electronics, but the trimpots for the gain of each pickup is mounted through the front  of the bass.

Title: Re: 1973 Serial Number 30
Post by: OJ Dorson on May 28, 2021, 10:13:25 AM

Quote from: mica on May 26, 2021, 03:04:42 PM

It's the same layout as the Series I electronics, but the trimpots for the gain of each pickup is mounted through the front  of the bass.

Oh - so those are trimpots... I get it.

Thank you, Mica!