As I'm coming up on two years here, just wanted to say
Thanks Again, to all the members of this Board, and especially the staff at Alembic.
It was two years ago tomorrow I got my first Alembic, only to find all it's original electronics were gone.
http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=601.0 Not long after that realization, club member fc_spoiler (the original do-it-yourself Alembic guy!) sent me here from another forum. After a short phone call with Mica, there was no second-guessing that a restoration was coming. Said she wanted my first Alembic experience to be a positive one, and it surely has been, starting with that phone call. Wasn't very long before plans for a fretless mate to my restored Persuader were made, and sure enough a year later the custom order was placed. (it's on the workbench now...
) In the meantime, a beautiful old Distillate came along, so in just under two years, mine has become a 3-Alembic stable. Each weekend I look forward to playing them out and about, the only hard part is deciding which one. (more often than not, it's
both)
Hanging around here has broadened my understanding of
why these things sound like they do, and
why that's important, far beyond just plugging a bass into an amp and thinking "well okay, that sounds pretty good." Undeniably, that understanding has helped me grow as a musician. Now I can appreciate that a full spectrum of sound is available if you have an instrument capable of producing it.
You guys are the best! Carry on...
