Author Topic: Selling my Mark King Signature.. (Read 374 times)

scarbee · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2003, 11:30:14 PM »

Hey Scrub,

The Clav will be just after the Wurlitzer - it will be a nightmare though, because the output is very quiet - and noisy!

But - yes it is very sexy instrument...

Check out the demoes in the menu - lots of bass and Rhodes demoes - all done by midi.
It's fun doing bass like this - and you actually learn new stuff in a funny way.

jake · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2003, 10:20:20 AM »

it seems to me, that if you've only had the bass for 6 months, and that the neck is so f*cked up already, alembic should take it back and fix it for free.

mica · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2003, 08:11:55 PM »

Jake, I'm not sure from scarbee's posts if the bass he bought was new or used (scarbee - can you clarify?). If you check my response to his original post, you'll see where I did offer to repair his bass.

jake · « **Reply #18 on:** August 09, 2003, 04:07:46 PM »

ok, good. sorry for sounding annoyed. i didnt see.

scrub · « **Reply #19 on:** August 09, 2003, 05:01:38 PM »

You know, speaking of Hohner, I thought I would mention that my very first bass was a Hohner. Not Hofner, Hohner - as in harmonicas and Clavinets.

The bass was a true freak; the neck was a copy of a Fender Telecaster bass neck, but the body was a copy of a Telecaster guitar body! I don't mean it was a large version of a Tele guitar body, it was the same size as a Tele guitar body. Big neck, small body. I've never seen another like it.

I remember I traded an Applause guitar (plastic guitar with machined aluminum neck - HORRIBLE) and $60 and got the bass new, with a gig bag, strap and a 1/4 cable. I was 16 years old (I'm 42 now).

palembic · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2003, 12:40:37 AM »

HI there I'm back
(as i say my Alembic bass smashing through a door and grinning through the hole).
I was out to bring my daughter to Finland (Turku) where she'll finish (ha) her law-studies (well ...6 months of them).

Anyway.
About that neck thing.
When I entered this club about a year ago (I missed all the Yahoo-fun) I wrote in a thread somewhere that the thing is alive.
To be honest I have my S2 5str about 7 years now. I have to fine-tune the neck 4 times a year at least!!!!
However!!!
I admit that this happened BEFORE I read HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY. What was indicated by Brothers as Bob and Joey (mainly Joey) who has written a procedure that can be considered as a Standard Thread in how to adjust a neck. It's rfeally step-by-step.
When I started to follow that (WITH the feelers) I AGAIN made the mistake to try it QUICK.
Brother: It doesn't work quick.
Now -after doing tiny-teeny-weeny-ytsy-pytsy tweakings- an regular basis my bass is SLOWLY getting to a stable neck that feels comfortable and STAYS comfortable.
I don't blame it to Alembic.
Mica once said to : it will take some time but after some years the tree will be convinced he's a guitar now!!!
Please: be patient!
Do it slowly and gives the guitar weeks to adjust. It IS temperature/humidity sensitive and here in Europe (II passed Denmark 4 days ago) the climat is A LOT different than in that far away california. It mujst be taken in account.
So I guess it will ends up with tiny season-adjustments I guess.

Paul the bad one (also a sequel)