In this interview with Guitar.com (from November 2014), he says he runs both his upright and Alembic(s) through the EBS Microbass, so he can A/B through separate rigs:
https://www.guitar.com/articles/stanley-clarke-interview-school-days-revisited-bass-legend This interview with Bass Player (from March, 2015) includes a complete list of his equipment. It's where I discovered that we both use Thomastik Spirocore strings on string bass, despite the fact that he never asked my opinion :
http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/stanley-clarke-reflections-of-a-root-revolutionary/51275 This topic is of vital interest to me because I have disc disease and have to lighten my load (I blame the Ampeg SVT I insisted on hauling around for years, instead of following everyone's advice to install an engine and wheels and just drive the damn thing to gigs). My Scottish father-in-law warned me that marrying a Scot could result in a little loss of spine, though, but I wasn't expecting this.
The worst case scenario is that I'll wind up in a wheelchair, which should make playing my long-scale Series 1 interesting (it's 148, I think). But I'll do it anyway, if I have to fret it with my toes. After playing bass for 49 years, I'm finally learning how to play the damn thing. No sense quitting now, right?
On the upside, I'll soon get to have a Da Vinci robot fire a laser beam at my spine - honest - and I'm just enough of a geek to look forward to it, but not so much that I'd wear a costume to a Comic-con (the Foghorn says I look enough like a Klingon as it is).
While I appreciate your endorsement of the whatever floats your boat approach, the Foghorn is a rabid JT fan and we've seen him approximately umpteen times (I've managed to talk her out of throwing her underwear so far, on the basis that maybe he doesn't need a spare car cover) so if I told her; well, James Taylor's bassist (no, not the one who looks like Gandalf) said I simply MUST have the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator ... that'd be enough to pry the checkbook from her iron grip.
Like Stanley Clarke and James Jameson, upright is my first love (I like to slap it, too. Yeah, I said it) so the rig I've worked out over the years is amenable to both upright and Alembic, biamped high/low so I can just A/B between them. (With a nifty Paula Abdul-like dance move to switch instruments.)
So far, the power amp/F-1X(EBS?) combination sounds promising, as does using the Cletus method to saw two or three feet off the neck of my Alembic, if worse comes to WAY worse.
Either way, I've got some downtime coming up to think about it. Thank you for your help.
