Small Body Long Scale Basses

[jazzyvee]

Are those extra switches Mellow Filters?

[mavnet]

The electronics are a channel of a standard series low-pass filter (PF6) and a channel of multi-mode filtering (FL107), both with CVQ. The switch closest to the neck switches between hi/band/lowpass filtering, then filter in/out, the order of the filters (series or parallel), then mono/stereo. The fretted bass also has a notch filter switch as part of the multimode channel that the Alembic magicians added when it went to the mothership for love, attention, the pickup + hum update, and refinishing in 2015.

[rv_bass]

Amazing circuit you have in that bass (and all done in 1977!),  must be fun to explore…beautiful bass!

[rv_bass]

I think this is another small body long scale, has the bridge and tailpiece lower down as Dela217 noted.  Another nice looking zebrawood bass

[hammer]

It’s amazing how the fretted versions of these basses don’t look that long but the fretless look EXTRA long.

[kenbass4]

@BeenDown139


Small world, as I am the current caretaker of the Fossen bass, also effectionately called the " Baaracuda Bass"
It's actually not too uncomfortable for me to play, but reaching the A and D tuners does get challenging.
I haven't actually had to adjust the truss rod since I've gotten it, as it sits pretty flat which works for me with fretless, and the sound is, of c

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[kenbass4]

Hmm maybe, cut half my post off for the Video.

Sound is great, and here I am playing it our song "Rain"

[BeenDown139]

i was always wondering where that bass wound up.  lost it in a nasty divorce.

glad to see it found a good home.

mike lull diagnosed the truss rod when i lived in seattle.  suggested i only use low tension strings on it - which i did.


cheers!

[kenbass4]

To be honest, I haven't had any issues with the neck at all, and I'm using Rotosound Jazz flats on it, which are pretty high tension strings. Neck hasn't moved at all since, what,  2007 or so?


The fingerboard is getting pretty thin though, so I have the bridge bottomed out, but a neck adjustment won't solve that. I'd just hate to replace that beautiful piece of ebony with all that history ground into it...

[BeenDown139]

https://reverb.com/item/73389960-alembic-series-i-1977-long-scale-bass

looks like a small body long scale to me.  might have some problems.  i got enuff of my owwn so i'll pass.  nicebasstho.  were i in a bass buying state of mind, etc & so forth..