If Alembic made a stomp box, what would it do?

[gtrguy]

If Alembic made a stomp box, what would it do? A tone shaper, an effects box, distortion, Stratoblaster, or? What would be the most interesting?

[edwardofhuncote]

I got a buddy over on TalkBass who took the old electronics from his Spoiler Exploiter and made them into a stand-alone effect, even rigged them up to run on a 9v power supply. Called it the "Ron-O-Tone". (he's a RIC guy...) Basically it functioned as a low-pass filter + preamp for his Rickenbacker 4004's.

(The Exploiter got new Essence type electronics, FWIW.

I don't know if it's really something Mica & Co. would want to develop and bring to market though... but if so, I'd buy one in less than a heartbeat. It'd save me having to mod a Starfire bass or two. 

[StephenR]

For preamp with a low-pass filter option (and a whole lot more) to use with non-Alembic or Alembic instruments you can't do better than the SF-2. Okay, it is rack mounted not a stomp box but even if they could fit the guts of a Superfilter in a stomp box there are already options for low-pass and high-pass filtering in a stomp box format from other manufacturers which come in at a much lower price point than the SF-2 so I am not sure if the effort would be worthwhile from a marketing perspective even if the product was more robust.

[rv_bass]

Greg, plug the Starfire into a SF-2 and you’re done

Oops, I see Stephen kind of said that already.

[elwoodblue]

It'd have to include the starved voltage fuzz option,
...that sound 

[hieronymous]

I asked Mica & Ron once about the possibility of an SF-1 stomp box with expression pedal so that you could change the filter frequency while playing. I was picturing using it to have a thumpy, old-school tone while playing bass, then get a sound with more high-frequency information for soloing.

Ron asked what kind of pedal I thought would be good and I was stumped and that was as far as it got!

[pauldo]

It'd have to include the starved voltage fuzz option,
...that sound 

Yes! That ^^^.

Seriously.

Put me down for two... one for me and I would love to surprise my son with one.

[edwardofhuncote]

Greg, plug the Starfire into a SF-2 and you’re done

Oops, I see Stephen kind of said that already.

Yeah... I know that's the self-evident conclusion I'll end up with anyway, not just for the Starfires, but the other Alembics too.

The Broughton LPF pedal I had made up a while back gets the [filtering] job done for now, but neither the Westerly, nor the new issue Guild Bisonics sound like Alembic pickups do... they don't sound bad. Those new Guild p'ups are pretty sweet actually, and an SF-2 would probably do some magic to it. I'm still looking forward to putting some activators in that DeArmond. Projects, projects...

To the spirit of Dave's thread - it's bigger than a stompbox or pedal, but one product that was in the pipeline was this 2-channel standalone preamp in a smaller chassis. I'd love to have one. In fact, if there is a list, put me on it. 

http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=425.0

Here's my Broughton Filter pedal... like I said, it gets the job done. Was telling one of the guys in the band last week, it won't make the the Starfire sound like an Alembic, but it does make it behave like an Alembic bass does, at least in the sonic frequency spectrum. 

[mavnet]

Two more of those for me, also, please. Seems like it could be a mod for a power supply for the series basses - has anyone toyed around with that?

It'd have to include the starved voltage fuzz option,
...that sound 

Yes! That ^^^.

Seriously.

Put me down for two... one for me and I would love to surprise my son with one.

[elwoodblue]

 Mavnet, I'm reminded of your recent notch filter mod,
that'd be nice in a stomp box (could be named Freq-Out  ).

[jalevinemd]

I've always wanted a floor version of the SF-2. I don't have a rack.

[mavnet]

Love the name!
It's a pretty cool thing, very helpful in rooms with bizarre resonances, and with backline amps that come with the venue.

Mavnet, I'm reminded of your recent notch filter mod,
that'd be nice in a stomp box (could be named Freq-Out  ).

[Picure]

F1X, F2B, and SF2 in stomp box config would be awesome!

[jazzyvee]

All I would want is a footswitch option for my SF-2 so that I can preset a tone on one or both channels and switch them in and out when needed.

[cozmik_cowboy]

All I would want is a footswitch option for my SF-2 so that I can preset a tone on one or both channels and switch them in and out when needed.

Effects loop out>SF2>volume pedal>effects loop in, maybe?

Peter