One thing we have to understand is that instruments do not play by themselves or sound automatically good. Sometimes it does not make any sense to buy an expensive instrument if you do not know what to do with it. Don?t buy an Alembic if you do not know what it does or what to expect from it.
The thing with Alembics is that if you know what you are doing you can get a lot of sounds from that instrument.
Alembic can sound as a ?normal? bass if needed, no problem. But you can also use the full range sound and cover a lot of range.
Alembic has an identified sound and character and that is a good thing! Fender Precision, Fender Jazz Bass, Music Man, Fodera, Ken Smith has it too to name a few.
The difference is however that nobody has those glassy highs that Alembic basses has or the sharp midrange or the deep low end. The electronic is very sophisticated and the high quality woods with neck through body construction gives an extremely nice sustain and a beautiful ringing sound!
Of course not everyone needs all that and that is fine too. But for us bass fanatics we need, once in a while, to use all that?... and everything that makes us sound good.
I do not think any other bass has as much presence as the Alembic basses?but there are other good basses too like Fodera... I have one that plays really well and sounds good too. I also have other basses for different use, check out
www.jostrandberg.com ?gear? ?...but Alembics are very uniq and great to use in the studio or live, very difficult to hide in the mix, but who would like to do that? Why hire a bass player if you want to hide him? Playing in the pocket with deep sound do not mean playing muddy without articulation.
But?you can sound great with a lot of different basses but by choosing the right one, the one that works the best for you??you need to worry less with the right bass??.
Good instruments like good players has an identified character (and can be hidden when needed)
