Laser LED's

[erwin]

Hello folks from the Alembic forum! I have a simple question but it doesn?t go about Alembic at all haha. Well, maybe a little...I have send the neck from my Dingwall bass to the SimS shop to retro fit Laser LED?s in it. But the thing is, i haven't seen those LED?s before so i don?t really know what to expect. So i want to ask you guys, what is the big diffrence between Laser LED?s and the \normal\ ones. I mean, you can see that the LED?s on Mark King?s Status basses are really bright. Even on pictures! But the Alembic basses he plays on, who are fitted with the Laser LED?s, aren?t so bright at all on the pictures! But i think there is a really big diffrence between those two! I do know that the price is 500 more on the custom quote from Alembic... I hope you guys can give me a clear answer and maybe a good picture. Greetings from the Netherlands, Erwin Visser

[jacko]

Hi Erwin and welcome to the club. I'm pretty certain that the front LEDs on Marks' Alembics would just be the standard LEDs. Laser LEDs (on Alembics) are very bright indeed.
 
Graeme

[jorge_s]

I don't know about all basses with laser LEDs but at least mine has a knob to adjust the brightness.  I very seldom turn it all the way up since they are very very bright.

[keith_h]

Isn't an intensity control available for the Laser LED's? That might be why you see a difference in the brightness. Some LED's can be very directional so a photo taken off to the side would not appear as intense as one taken straight on.  
 
Keith

[muller1007]

Mark King definately has the laser leds on his Series 2 basses! It's just a matter of lighting if they seem less bright.  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyqumNSuXA8
 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_Z5lrOIfY

[mele_aloha]

I have been informed by the staff that the front laser led's offered by Alembic are not real laser's but in fact just super brighter led's than the side ones that they install.
 
Yes they do offer dimmers as well as switches as I have them ordered on my Series II.
 
Paul

[mele_aloha]

Thanks for the MK U-tube threads. Is Mark King's group a religious band Muller?

[adriaan]

Paul, what makes you think that?
 
There may be the odd reference here and there, but they're definitely not the worship type of band.
 
(Message edited by adriaan on January 11, 2007)

[mele_aloha]

No I didn't notice anything except they mentioned a few words in the one song I listened to but I couldn't tell. It would have been fine with me anyway. I think it was just kind of spiritually uplifting so to speak.

[mele_aloha]

Hey adriaan,
 
While I got ya, if your still there, I've been reading this other thread, Shims build thread and they have been talking alot about the  
Q switch. I must be under the wrong impression. Can you explain to me what a Q switch does?

[mele_aloha]

Ya Adriaan, now I see, I listened to the other songs. I just listened to that song Lesson in Love, and with the stage setting and everything that's what gave me the slight impression. But now after seeing the other songs, Nevermind. haha Awesome group though. Is he in any other bands that are on utube?

[muller1007]

The track lessons in love I posted was actually played for an audience including Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. It was at a fund raising concert called the Prince's Trust in 1989. Level 42 performed with the City of Birmingham Orchestra and were the main band that evening, playing with lots and lots of big artists.  
 
Duncan

[cozmik_cowboy]

Paul, the Q switch works in conjunction with the filter.  The filter knob selects a frequency (between 300Hz & 6KHz) above which response is rolled off at (I believe) 12dB/octave.  The Q adds a boost to a narrow band around the filter frequency.  There's a detailed discussion here
 
Peter

[mele_aloha]

Thank you Peter. And Muller thanks, that was cool!

[erwin]

I will ask it again on the forum from Status i think...