Author Topic: Blackened, Elan 5 Custom 10H14105 (Read 4509 times)

tbrannon · « **Reply #60 on:** May 20, 2012, 10:19:08 AM »

I've seen Metallica live a couple times and I gotta say- you guys did them justice (Damaged justice?

). The crowd sure seemed to be enjoying the show.

The bass cuts through nicely in the mix.

FC Bass · « **Reply #61 on:** May 20, 2012, 10:44:45 AM »

Thanx!

We did a gig last Thursday, open air +/-800 audience. So I brought my Bass 400 and Strategy with a 2x10 and 2x15 combi.
Worked very well (obviously) but I had to crank up the Strategy (feeding the 1x15's)
Friday we had a huge (for our standards) gig, about 1500 audience. (the gig from the vids) So I brought the whole stack, same as above with a second 2x10. (aka Wall of deaf mkI)
I forgot to turn the Strategy down (feeding two 2x10 cabs now) As you can hear in the vid, it was kinda loud :-)
There was little drums on the monitors in the beginning + all Mesa's (Mesa MkIII and MkIV for guitars) were relocating a fair amount of air, so there are some timing issues in the beginning...
We did changeover in about 10 minutes (tight schedule, 25 min gig) The band before us used our drumkit, so that bought us some time :-)
No line check, no soundcheck...
But I couldn't get myself to turn it down, sounded too awesome! :-) (though I did back up the treble a bit about half way)
To my surprise, I got lots of compliments from the foh guys and stage manager.

Production was awesome indeed, the lights guy must have been a bit familiar with 'tallica :-)

Edit: Merged the two vids into one: Youtube link
and here's another vid from last thursday: yep, another youtube link :-)

(Message edited by fc_spoiler on May 20, 2012)

FC Bass · « **Reply #62 on:** June 09, 2014, 06:43:32 PM »

Here's a nice picture from last weeks gig, on the large version (click picture) you can read the serial # (sharp shot from that distance!)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #63 on:** June 10, 2014, 03:12:37 AM »

Great action shot FC, If that were my picture I would photoshop out the flowery looking lights on the left it kind draws your eye away from the action.

Do you have the bass on a fixed setting or are you a tweaker?

FC Bass · « **Reply #64 on:** June 11, 2014, 09:34:10 AM »

Thanx Jazzy! :-)

I'm still in the experimentation phase with these controls, though I don't change too much during a gig. Live I always have all 3 pickups on, the P adds lot of midrange and make it cut through the mix easier. The filter setting of the P is the most dominant in the overall tone (seems regardless of the P pickup gain setting)

For this gig I had the P Pickup and neck pickup with the filter about halfway and the Q-switch on 2, the bridge pickup filter is about 3/4 open with the Q-switch on 3.
The real experimenting will come in the studio, I can see myself using other pickupcombi's (J/J-J/P-P-P/J-J/P/J) the sky is the limit :-)

I think I will sit down with this bass and the fretless (signature electronics) and explore the tonal possibilities with these multi filter setups in a vid, I will play them through my SWR Basic black combo. (the difference in the settings seem to come out a bit more clear through the SWR compared to the full tube Mesa rig) Stay tuned!

tbrannon · « **Reply #65 on:** June 11, 2014, 02:22:40 PM »

Flip,

Great photo- looking forward to that video!!

Have you gotten used to the 'springy pickups' with the J/P/J setup? I had gotten so used to the locked down traditional Alembic mounting system that it took me awhile to get used to the P/J setup on the custom Elan I had built.

FC Bass · « **Reply #66 on:** July 12, 2014, 11:59:49 AM »

Sorry Toby, somehow missed yer comment....

Thanx!

I prefer the traditional mounting system because of the solid anchor function, I only play with a pick on this bass so it doesn't bother me too much.

FC Bass · « **Reply #67 on:** April 14, 2015, 06:13:44 AM »

Here's the Elan in our promo: Youtube link

This will also be deleted when the final version is done.
I will post a new link below.

FC Bass · « **Reply #68 on:** April 26, 2015, 10:54:20 AM »

Hey, hey... Who's that with my bass??

It's Jazzy! Second Eurolympic meeting this month :-)

Report + more pics of the meetings will be in the meetings section later this week. Must rest now and prepare for the incoming Series I now (will pick it up Wednesday) :-)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #69 on:** April 26, 2015, 02:41:46 PM »

Hey Flip it was good to meet you after all these years of communicating on the forum. Your bass is great and maybe next time i can try your bass at your soundcheck. Just a pity the time was so short. My girlfriend thinks we should come to one of your Metallica tribute gigs. So hope one day to do that.

Enzo · « **Reply #70 on:** April 26, 2015, 02:56:32 PM »

Now that's officially an Alembic friendly coffee shop!
So nice when you get to meet people in person after being in contact online. Still remember the Alembic gathering in Chicago like a dream, so many nice people all together, did it really happened?

mtjam · « **Reply #71 on:** April 26, 2015, 05:18:31 PM »

Great to see you guys having fun across the pond! I hope to gather one day with more people from the Club!

FC Bass · « **Reply #72 on:** May 21, 2015, 03:12:33 PM »

Here are some pics from my birthday gig last week (was also the drummers birthday (!)) :-)

FC Bass · « **Reply #73 on:** July 19, 2015, 07:29:08 AM »

Last week in Dordrecht:

sonicus · « **Reply #74 on:** July 19, 2015, 07:44:31 AM »

Great Pic ! Alembic Thunder________!