Author Topic: Model?wiring diagram? (Read 764 times)

811952 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 21, 2006, 06:54:27 PM »

Old Series II. Sweet. Correct number of neck laminates for that period, and the *standard* omega. Nice bass!

The 4-position rotary switch is off, bridge, both, neck. The pointy knobs between the volume and filter knobs are the continuously variable Q for the filter (tuneable high pass, with the Q knobs giving a mild-to-pronounced boost at whatever frequency the filter is set). Also, it looks like the bridge pickup is a replacement from the late 80s or early 90s.

John

Oops. The filters are low-pass, not high-pass!!

(Message edited by 811952 on September 22, 2006)

staan · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2006, 01:24:12 AM »

..aammmm...sorry for being a novice..but i did not understand what you mean:
Correct number of neck laminates for that period, and the *standard* omega.

....the bridge pickup is the same as the neck pickup...
it only appears different in the photo.....

Stan

staan · « **Reply #17 on:** September 22, 2006, 01:27:42 AM »

tbrannon · « **Reply #18 on:** September 22, 2006, 02:27:35 AM »

hmmm- it appears as though the neck pickup has been flipped upside down- I haven't the foggiest about why or what it might indicate, but it certainly looks as though the Alembic logo on the neck pickup is in that upper left hand corner and is upside down.

Whatever the case, it's a beautiful bass!

lbpesq · « **Reply #19 on:** September 22, 2006, 07:03:00 AM »

Stan:

Correct number of neck laminates refers to the stripes in the neck. The way the (in your case) 7 pieces of wood are glued together to make your neck. The standard omega is the round cut out below the bridge. And as for the serial number, 86 4202, the 86 means 1986, the lack of any letters following the 86 means it is a Series I or Series II, and 4202 means it is the 4202nd instrument ever built by Alembic.

Bill, tgo