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hifiguy

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"typical" Alembic sound on recordings
« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2013, 06:02:31 PM »
Yeppers, Norman is a freaking BEAST of a player.

musashi

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« Reply #31 on: May 30, 2013, 12:35:03 AM »
This may be an example of a more typical Alembic Series sound than the previous examples I posted:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC_D-lASrlc&list=UUVC9excTH1XCh0-q25OTDrQ&index=37
 
The bass is a 1976 short-scale with a boluca top.

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« Reply #32 on: May 30, 2013, 08:01:38 AM »
I know the OP asked for popular bands, but when my old band recorded our last album, I used my Epic, and a Warmoth fretless with Alembic pickups/electronics for all my basslines (oh, and a Godin A4 fretless on one song).  
 
I can't say if they are typical of the Alembic sounds, but you can hear what an Alembic sounds like in an everyday-type setting (i.e. local band).  
 
The band name was Left Turn at Albuquerque, and the album is up on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/album/6APdFWisBnQXv95CbjKdjm

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« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2013, 09:36:11 AM »
Ah, well...!
 
If we're posting local band stuff, too, here's a recording of my old band doing a song called Karma Time.
 
I used my Alembic Elan (with SC signature electronics) through a Trace Elliot rig.  (No DI; the cabs were mic'd.)
 
You can see the bass and the rig in the video, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZIKpbacGmo&list=PL9xd7-P7ORV8Fwv-PfqmW6SFRbAhBGlOT