It was cool to see the Allen-Bradley potentiometers in this bass, I have been an A-B (Rockwell) employee for 28 of their 121 years.
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
Wow! That's a long time! I worked at Daddy's Junky Music for 30 years!
@jarnoverhoeven31183 ай бұрын
The trimpots are for level setting of the pickups and hum cancelling dummy coil. Interesting to get a good look at the insides of the bass. Thanks for the video! I had a Turner Electroline 5 string fretless, fantastic instrument, very good sounding piezo pickup. Oh, and I think you are right, this is a pretty early one, complete instrument anyway, they started with adding electronics to hollowbody basses. Don't think they adopted the series 1 and 2 as well as signature nomenclature at that time yet.
@dougmaccormack94853 ай бұрын
Yes. Phil Lesh's modified Guild Starfire "Big Brown". I had a turner in the shop a couple years ago. A "Renaissance" I believe.
@chriswareham4 ай бұрын
What an incredible combination of musical instrument and work of art! I passed up on the chance to buy a black Alembic Spoiler about ten or twelve years ago, just before the prices started to climb exponentially. Still kicking myself for that decision.
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
I have a few of those regrets too. Back in the 80's you could get a Les Paul for a few hundred bucks. If I only knew.....
@bassplayersayer2 ай бұрын
Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!!! Rock on!!!!!!!!
@dougmaccormack94852 ай бұрын
Thanks! Check out the new Hofner Beatle Bass Vid!
@moontheloon19694 ай бұрын
John Entwistle loved them ,....until Live Aid 1985 30 seconds in electricals totally cut out,too be fair it was probably stereo xlr plug type circuit,but beautiful instruments
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
Interesting!
@botwinjohn86954 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video 👍
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@bradc323 ай бұрын
work of art...surprised its in for work
@dougmaccormack94853 ай бұрын
It didn't need much. Just the strap button and a general checkup, restring.
@timmotel58044 ай бұрын
Good Day. What a wonderful work of musical art. I've wondered about Alembic for years, then I found this. So interesting, educational and well presented. Thank You So Much & Best Regards. I just subscribed.
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@trevorlindsey58012 күн бұрын
My old bass. BTW it is a Series I.
@brettbunke90964 ай бұрын
Definitely a lot of drugs being consumed during the building of that bass 😆
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
LOL!
@eranzilber14 ай бұрын
I wish you could elaborate more on the built and electronics. those four micro pots in the back got me curious.
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
@dougmaccormack9485 • 1 second ago I did record more about the electronics but I accidently deleted the footage whilst clearing my phone memory. My apologies. I had to make due with what I had.
@lipptech13 ай бұрын
And as every year that passes Alembic decides to add another zero to the end of the price of the basses and guitars that they build !! By the time the founders are dead an Alembic will cost billions of dollars !
@dougmaccormack94853 ай бұрын
Right?!
@paulneeds4 ай бұрын
I do wish you’d spoken more about the instrument and spent less time putting screws in - you pointed out some trim pots, what’re they for? The noise reducing dummy coil between the pickups? Shame.
@dougmaccormack94854 ай бұрын
Yes I know. I did record more about the electronics but I accidently deleted the footage. My apologies. I had to make due with what I had.