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billostech

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Ebay: Alembic AXY Activator pickup assembly
« on: February 25, 2011, 06:47:46 AM »
My co-worker sent me a link to the Gear Page Forum of a guy selling an Alembic AXY Activator pickup assembly on Ebay. Here is his thread:
 
 
 
A complete Alembic AXY Activator pickup assembly
 
This is on ebay now, but I may give a discount to a gearpager if asked.  
Item number:180631446435
A complete Alembic AXY Activator pickup assembly (two pick ups, some controls, battery pack, ?? jack and screws, etc.) rescued from the depths of the wayback-vault where they have been for about 20 years. I bought this pickup assembly to put in a guitar back in the day and never got around to it. These are pretty rare.  
 
I think the controls are volume, tone, blend and a switch to change between active and passive modes of operation. I will verify this tomorrow.
 
Although it is still available, the assembly now goes for $1100.00 on the Alembic website.
http://alembic.stores.yahoo.net/axybtacpic.html
These pickups are in excellent ?next to new? condition with some very minor surface scratching from being in a box with other stuff for years. Both pups read a healthy 9.5K ohms guaranteed no DOA. The pictures show the lead wires with no connectors. However, I have since sent this assembly to Alembic and they added some connectors and gave this set-up a clean bill of health.
 
Thanks for looking.

tmoney61092

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Ebay: Alembic AXY Activator pickup assembly
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2011, 02:01:00 PM »
if they aren't Alembic electronics it won't sound as good. i ran a couple Alembic pickups passive just to see how it'd sound and did not like the sound. but judging from having 3 pots and a switch i'm going to say the controls(if Alembic) are: volume, pan, filter, and q-switch
 
~Taylor