Bill's Custom Brown Bass

[bassman10096]

Yeah.  We're busy making friends.  Thanks

[guitarbeau]

Congratulations Bill. That Brown is a beauty.

[bassman10096]

Finally quit playing long enough to take a couple of pix.  I am just marvelling at how well the fingerboard dimensions (a combination of standard and custom), vintage sized frets, scale fit me.  I've never played a bass that felt this much like it was tailored to fit.  





 



  (Message edited by bassman10096 on April 18, 2008)

[David Houck]

Nice pics!  I like the effect the top has in the top left picture.

[bassman10096]

Thanks, Dave.  I'm going to have to get some non-flash pix in natural light - the flame is much more pronounced than these pictures show.  Mica told me the top and back had been sitting in a pile for years, probably because they looked plain.  Ironic.

[rraymond]

Congratulations Bill. That's a beautiful bass with an amazing grain pattern. Enjoy!

[3rd_ray]

Very nice! I like the myrtle core, it goes great with the other woods. Makes me want to get one, very tempting!

[bassman10096]

The myrtle was the biggest surprise.  It's got a lot of wild grain, coloring and burls.

[georgie_boy]

Beautiful bass Bill!!
Does it sound like Stanley's brown bass??
Albeit different amps/settings  can change the sound dramatically--still you have what looks like a SF2, so that should make it sound like any bass you want.
Enjoy her----------she's the bizz
 
George

[bassman10096]

Thanks George:  I don't play enough like Stanley (not even remotely) to say for certain, but the bass has much of the tone capability of a Series bass (this I can say from experience) given separate filters and Q switches for each channel.  Suffice it to say I've found a lot of sounds I like that really fit what I play.  
 
The really cool things about it are the feel (very comfortable, easy to reach the whole neck, vintage Fender-sized frets) and the clarity of every note.  The latter has been a characteristic of every Alembic I've played and is a mixed blessing -- On one hand, this clarity begs me to articulate more of the details I often think, but don't play (because who'd be able to hear them)...But, mistakes get heard - including little parts of grooves I never realized were not harmonically correct (Ouch).
 
I'm loving it.
 
Bill (the other one)

[dadabass2001]

Congrats again, Bill
A beatiful bass once again. I'm a real sucker for walnut, so I'm jealous as heck. A brown bass is somewhere in my future.
 
Mike

[jalevinemd]

Bill,
 
Another very tasty wood combination. Such a classic looking Alembic. Congrats.

[bassman10096]

The wood choice was Mica's alone.  She outdid herself.  I'm stunned and can't thank Mica, Susan and the Alembic folks enough for this bass.
 
Bill (the other one)
 
(Message edited by bassman10096 on April 21, 2008)

[bkbass]

Hey Bill, how do you like the 2460 cab? I love my Alembics through a lot of different cabs but the 2460 really allows the nuances to shine through. Hooked up to an IFRA sub as well?

[bassman10096]

I've been using the Dr Bass 2460 for about 3 years now and haven't looked back yet.  It's a super-rugged, high powered cab that handles a broad spectrum of frequencies without undue coloration.  Paired with the ELF sub, you get very clean, present lows and ultra lows - kinda what I was always looking for when I put a 115 under a cab full of 10s (only much better).  The hoot about the ELF/INFRA technology is that it's not heavy (118 is about 60 lb), is smaller than conventional subs, and is pretty easy to run.  It does require a dedicated power amp channel to run the rackmount integrator, but the 18 only takes about 450 watts to run.