Author Topic: Hi, new Alembic owner from the UK (Read 1389 times)

vipa · « **Reply #30 on:** September 26, 2005, 08:55:50 AM »

Hi Alan

Just had a look at the website, Like the music, and nice and tight. J has an incredible voice!!

Welcome back at ya
Paul

PS the MK looks awesome :-)

crazykiwi · « **Reply #31 on:** October 29, 2005, 01:53:32 AM »

Hey Vipa, I didn't know you had an alembic . Everyone in UK, if you need a mortgage, Vipa is very helpful

Hi Karl, I've enjoyed Harambe's website for a while now, never seem to find out about your gigs until after they've happened though. Do you post the gigs up on the site regularly?

Hi Alan, stunning bass - that top really catches the light nicely.

vipa · « **Reply #32 on:** November 13, 2005, 03:10:30 PM »

Awwww Shucks.... thanks Steve (I'm blushing now!) :-)

mpisanek · « **Reply #33 on:** November 14, 2005, 01:36:47 AM »

Alan:

Welcome to the club. I am also in the UK, but live in Scotland. Youe bass is a cracker!

There are a few of us going to Bass Day UK 05 so if you want to meet us please feel free to contact me and we will meet up.

Michael.

ttwatts · « **Reply #34 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:05:06 PM »

Alan, That is a beautiful bass!!!

Welcome

ttwatts

jazzyvee · « **Reply #35 on:** November 30, 2005, 12:30:13 AM »

There are a few Alembic Owners in the Midlands too. I know of two other Alembic owners. I personally have a Stanley Clarke Deluxe and an Europa 5 and now awaiting delivery of an Orion guitar.

I too got my SC Deluxe from the Bass Centre about 3 years ago when they were selling them off cheap.... ( but not dirt cheap).

I got the Europa from a private sale off one of the forum members here. ( actually he even let me have a play on his Series II bass) now that was an amazing instrument!!! However I could imagine its very fiddly trying to dial in a specific sound very quickly.

I know it took me ages to get to grips with the tone filters on the SC but with the added CVQ and 3 position switches and all the other knobs
you could be twiddling for ages to fine tune the sound.

Both are fantastic instruments in every sense of the word and I'm looking forward to the guitar, having never even seen nor heard an alembic guitar in the flesh its gonna be an interesting experience.

I am very particular when it comes to guitars so I hope this leap of blind faith works out well for me.

I plan to take this new one on the road with me next year with my band so look out for it.

If you guys are doing any gigs around the midlands area let me know I'd love to come along and see/ hear your band sound and instruments.

jazzyvee

rimskidog · « **Reply #36 on:** May 13, 2006, 02:33:01 PM »

Hey Alan, JV and all. Another Brit here. I'm based in Birmingham but work in London 3 days a week. Just got my first Alembic after 25 years of playing (a secondhand Spyder 4 - 4/50 - thanks Senmen whereever you are!) I think I'm hooked as I've now got my eye on a Stanley Clarke in PMT. See my post about a dozen mroe recent than this one for pics of the Spyder.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #37 on:** May 21, 2006, 01:25:41 PM »

hi Rimskidog, I have had a look at that SC in PMT afew weeks ago too............ ;-)
Having played that Standard model in PMT and my SC Deluxe, I would prefer to go for the Deluxe model if I was getting another one.
All the best.
You are only the 4th person I've heard of with an alembic in Brum. I'm sure there are more but I've only ever seen mine at a live gig. so far. :-)

Jazzyvee

jacko · « **Reply #38 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:09:37 AM »

Hey Jazzy,
For what it's worth, I bought my Epic from the Bass centre in Brum when I worked in bournville in 1996. However, all the live gigs I played were out in the sticks - Ludlow, Worcester, Stourport etc.

Graeme

fender32 · « **Reply #39 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:01:15 AM »

Hey Alan!

Damn fine bass you've got there - I love the grain! The King used to have one fairly similar, I seem to recall (from a picture on the cover of Guitarist magazine, about 12 years ago).

For what it's worth, I'm a fellow southerner! Until 3 years ago, I'd lived all of my life in Luton - certainly not a town where you could ever seriously consider owning an Alembic (well, not for very long at least)! Now (thank God), I live in the wonderful city of Hannover in Germany and have consequently just accquired my first Alembic (Rogue).

I'm quite new to the forum too, but they're certainly a good crowd here.

Hope you get lots of enjoyment out of your new bass.

Andy

jazzyvee · « **Reply #40 on:** January 06, 2007, 12:11:02 PM »

I'm playing a gig in brum on the 4th February at Ipanema's on broad Street, we are on stage around 8pm so pop along if you are are near brum, the more the merrier. Musically it will be Jazz-funk stuff from the likes of GWJ, Marcus, Clarkee, Billy Cobham etc
jazzyvee

hubwolf · « **Reply #41 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:20:18 AM »

Longtime Alembic fan and player. I can't find my original intro so here's the long awaited follow-up.I finally got a pic of the cream of the crop of my basses so to speak. This part of my house is the tone lab. If the pic loads there should be (L to R) a Doug Irwin fretless, a small body medium scale series 1, a Modulus Q5 TBX, a standard point long scale series 1 and an early Q6 TBX. The stack of speakers are Alembic single 15's and a Meyer USW-1 on the right. There's also an F1X in the rack on top of the Meyer. Hey, when you play in a Dead cover band.............-hub

hubwolf · « **Reply #42 on:** January 10, 2007, 11:21:50 AM »

adriaan · « **Reply #43 on:** January 11, 2007, 05:01:59 AM »

Nice collection!

Any reason why you're not telling us about the bass that is hiding behind that Q6? Otherwise it looks as if it were a Q7.

jacko · « **Reply #44 on:** January 11, 2007, 05:55:57 AM »

looks like a shadow to me Adriaan. Still a0 very nice collection though.

graeme

Author Topic: Hi, new Alembic owner from the UK (Read 1389 times)

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