Author Topic: Big Brown Knobs? (Read 204 times)

crgaston · « **on:** February 12, 2006, 06:06:27 PM »

Does anyone have any idea exactly what all those knobs do on Phil Lesh's Big Brown bass (aka The Godfather)?

keavin · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2006, 06:36:13 PM »

I know some of those knobs were some 'super filters' and it is a quadrophonic stereo bass & it has some super sonic low freq's that could rumble your balls!!!....

keavin · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2006, 06:37:08 PM »

I know some of those knobs were some 'super filters' and it is a quadrophonic stereo bass & it has some super sonic low freq's that could rumble your balls!!!....

David Houck · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2006, 06:40:27 PM »

I can't recall if that topic has been discussed before. My guess is that it's a couple of superfilters, similar to an SF-2, with maybe a pickup selector and some other routing choices. But I'm just guessing.

serialnumber12 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2006, 06:41:19 PM »

It's one of the first SUPER ALEMBICS!.....

lbpesq · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2006, 08:23:52 PM »

Wasn't Lesh's quad bass the Alembic with the pots arranged around 2 or three star shapes, rather than the moded Guild Starfire, above?

Bill, tgo

grateful · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2006, 07:52:31 AM »

Hey Bill,

They are/were (the Osage Orange is no more) both quad basses. Phil says in his book he never figured out what all the knobs did on the Godfather.

Mark, ago

crgaston · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2006, 08:23:41 AM »

What happened to the Osage Orange?

David Houck · « **Reply #8 on:** February 13, 2006, 08:26:10 AM »

Charles; I believe it's been mentioned in other threads that the bass became a test bed.