Author Topic: Excel 5 string (Read 92 times)

breen_gurdy · « **on:** November 12, 2008, 05:07:21 PM »

What does anyone think of an Excel 5 string w/ dual fatboys, flame maple top under deep purple almost black finish with new fretfx leds in red. w/case.

2400wattman · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2008, 09:39:11 PM »

Breen, That is of course one of Danno's custom jobs. His price is killer, waaay beyond fair since he paid top dollar for it and he has an excellent reputation on this forum. I also would assume that he takes excellent care of his basses, so it's just a win win situation.
Excel's, Epic's and Orion's(which I own one) are all set neck basses(not neck through) and typicaly have the vol.,balance,treble,bass preamp with stacked-humbucking AXY or MXY pickups. This has the Volume, p/up selector switch(very very cool), low pass filter and Q switch(even cooler)! Fatboys from my understanding are still stacked humbucking(like the AXY or MXY) but they are wound on the same type of coils that the Series p/ups(which are HUGE single coils) are wound on. So in effect they give you a fatter sound? I have'nt heard them so the only knowledge I have is what I've read on them.
This is an all around excellent package deal and if I had the bread I would'nt be typing this but playing that bass!
GET DOWN!

breen_gurdy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2008, 11:49:15 AM »

Thanks a lot sounds good to me... But who is this Danno? (in case you didnt know im new here)

2400wattman · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2008, 12:26:33 PM »

Danno's the guy that's selling the bass in question. Also, welcome to the club.

breen_gurdy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 17, 2008, 04:04:12 PM »

Oh ok sorry misunderstanding thanks for the welcome!

breen_gurdy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2008, 01:22:01 PM »

what exactly is the q switch?

mike1762 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2008, 02:23:04 PM »

Welcome Breen. I struggled with the Q switch concept as well. Most Alembics don't have tone controls per se. They have a knob that adjusts the frequency setting for a low-pass filter. The selected filter frequency rolls off at about 12 dB per octave. They also have a Q switch that will add a narrow Q of boost to the roll off frequency. This low-pass filter allows the PUP to look at a specific part of the frequency spectrum and thus emulate any PUP you can name. Therefore, you can make an Alembic sound like virtually any other bass with a similar construction (neck-through sounds very different from bolt-on) and wood recipe (mahogany sounds different from ash). A Fender always sounds like a Fender no matter what you do with the tone controls, but by altering the input you can get some radically different (yet usable) tones from an Alembic. I hope I explained that correctly!!!

(Message edited by mike1762 on November 18, 2008)