Author Topic: 89 Spoiler (Read 1944 times)

fmm · « **on:** September 15, 2003, 06:05:53 AM »

My first Alembic. Picked it up on Saturday:

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fmm · « **Reply #1 on:** September 15, 2003, 06:15:16 AM »

Perhaps more pics later...

elzie · « **Reply #2 on:** September 15, 2003, 01:24:48 PM »

Oooh! That is nice! Those two little burls on either side of the neck pickup look like eyes....

You must be very happy!

Paul TGO

mattheus · « **Reply #3 on:** September 15, 2003, 02:09:08 PM »

Just wondering:
Why call this a 'spoiler'..

Great bass, I enjoy my Spoiler every day.

Mattheus tDo

stoney · « **Reply #4 on:** September 15, 2003, 04:40:57 PM »

You're gonna love that bass and the endless tone possibilities she will present. Congrats.

Stoney

fmm · « **Reply #5 on:** September 15, 2003, 05:24:17 PM »

So far it's been great. I brought it home Saturday. It had been hanging in a store in Golden Valley MN for over a year. I went in to look at it at least twice a month. The store dropped the price, and I got a raise at work, so I decided to take the plunge.

I teach bass out of my home, and all of my students want a chance to play it. I think this week?s lessons will be on the construction details of superior basses.

I think it?s time to retire the Yamaha BX-1.

jet_powers · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2003, 06:23:47 AM »

Congrats on your pick up! It's a beauty.

I think it's called a Spoiler because once you've played it it spoils your appetite for any other manufacturer's basses!

BTW, my Persuader has the same body and neck. Can anyone tell me what differentiates a Spoiler from a Persuader? Is it the electronics?

John Paul

valvil · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2003, 02:30:06 AM »

You got it. The difference is in the electronics, Spoilers like yours, have two soapbar pickups, Persuaders sport a jazz/pbass style pickup combination. The controls are a bit different too, I believe the Persuader has volume, filter & pan, the Spoiler has volume, filter w /q switch, and pickup selector. Both are generally medium scale.

Valentino

David Houck · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2003, 07:22:01 AM »

Val and John Paul, yesterday I was wondering about Persuader controls and ran a search finding the following thread.

http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/1126.html

In the thread Mica describes a Persuader as:
essentially Spoilers with our Activator electronics. Most of the Persuaders we made did not have the Q switch. There were one and two pickup versions, some with AXYs, others with P or JZ pickups.

The thread is quite interesting. The bass that is the subject of the thread has the P and JZ pickups and the controls are volume, volume, and filter. Mica says of this setup:
The P pickup is one of our loudest pickups, and the JZ is one of the softest. Add that to the positioning with the poor skinny JZ pickup back where the string doesn't move much, and without a separate preamp for each pickup, there will always be a volume difference between the two.

In the thread Mica makes some suggestions for hot-rodding Persuader electronics. Interesting read.

stoney · « **Reply #9 on:** September 17, 2003, 10:59:38 AM »

Here's a nice example of a Persuader.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2557609570&category=4713

jet_powers · « **Reply #10 on:** September 17, 2003, 12:37:28 PM »

Guys, thanks for the responses...

That is a nice example of a Persuader. Mine's nicer though, it has strings!

I'll try to get some pics posted in the not too distant future.

JP

palembic · « **Reply #11 on:** September 17, 2003, 02:41:41 PM »

What all reminds me that I still have an Alembic PB/JB PU combination somewhere in a drawer!!! It came with volume, pan, filter and Q switch. My friend Koen once build it in his Fender light fretless ...o-oh!!!

Anyway ...I have plans with those kids ...you'll see! Maybe next year I'll be pregnant too from myself (huh ...euh ....b?f ...that doesn't sound right but anayway ...you'll be surprised!

Paul the bad one

valvil · « **Reply #12 on:** September 17, 2003, 03:25:07 PM »

Thanks for the correction Dave, I had one of the volumes on the Persuader confused with a pan.

Valentino

fmm · « **Reply #13 on:** September 17, 2003, 04:13:55 PM »

By golly, it is medium scale. I would never have known if I didn't measure it.

fmm · « **Reply #14 on:** January 17, 2006, 09:06:47 AM »

oops

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