Alembic style design, nordstrand big splits pickups, acg eq02 preamp, ets bridge south austin guitar repair. They use obscure exotic woods in their search for high quality tone. I havent built anything from near scratch in a long time. Learn about alembic instruments and the people who craft them. This was the beginning of what was and continues to be a life long relationship with one of the quintessential bassist in the world. Shop a wide range of vintage, new, and used bass guitars at, the marketplace for musicians. Can emit alter statements to a database in order to change the structure of tables and other constructs. Alembic is the only brand i offer as the first company to combine such advanced design elements as neckthrubody construction, lowimpedance pickups, onboard preamps, active tonal circuitry, exotic woods and brass hardware along with total instrument customizing alembic not only invented the genre of the handcrafted, highperformance electric solidbody guitar and bass, but has. The omega carving at the bottom of the bass is first cut by bandsaw, then tony at alembic carves the wood to form the omega. Alembic guitars offer the same unequalled craftsmanship and tonal versatility as their famous basses. Alembic series i 5string quilted maple w balanced k. Alembic epic 6 6 string bass the alembic epic is the perfect balance of price plus performance. My name is tony cimperman, and im the owner of planet bass, a high end bass guitar shop in maple grove, minnesota.
We cater to players seeking high end, boutique basses with a major focus on instruments and gear. An alembic is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling. Its one of the things im able to do that defines me. Share pictures of your personal collection with the club. Rest assured, the epic is not some cheap knockoff this is the real thing. Aaron green classical guitar label aaron green abasi logo. Alembic active electronics are intended to subtract out the parts of the tone that are undesirable, instead of adding in more of the desired sounds. That logo belongs to one of the sweetest 6string basses weve made. Alembic jazz custom 4 string bass the bass has a thru neck construction with the q electronics and jazz body shape. The small piece of maple is actually part of the neck.
Alembic guitars, alembic basses, alembic, jerry garcia guitar. I play rock and blues, but i dj essay on the pop and jazz, has spent much trs. The kit comes with a 50k reverse log taper potentiometer for the best volume control rotation we could find. Oct 19, 2015 the headstock looks very small compared to the real thing, also the back laminates look nothing like alembic. Alembic active electronics are intended to subtract out the parts of the tone that are undesirable, instead. Stanley clark playing the alembic bass guitar at the cork jazz festival 2018 at the everyman in cork ireland the alembic. Jan 22, 2015 did a solo at sam ash open mic using an alembic 4 string bass. Find and buy basses 4 string basses 4 string alembic. Were a small music store in beautiful mandarin, florida. Still a highend bass in its own right with little change in the build process, the spoilers, initially released in 1981, featured simplified electronicsa fourway pickup selector. Alembic is an open computer graphics interchange framework. The companys first instrument was a bass guitar, made in 1972 for jack casady. Alembic custom stanley clarke essence short scale bass stunning with case.
Alembic design consultants works for organisations of any size undergoing development and change, offering new products or services, or wanting to better manage presentation. The upper levels of the boost has some very nice jfet distortion. The company was founded by owsley stanley as a workshop in the rehearsal room of the grateful dead in novato, california, near san. Alembic bass for sale in uk 45 secondhand alembic bass.
Overall, the precision of mdiums and treble is the hallmark of these basses. Vintage, rare and handbuilt basses 4 string basses 4 string alembic for sale on. Alembic epic 1996 5 string left handed bass guitar natural. Make offer alembic epic 5 1995 natural w hardshell case. Start with a list of the individual symbols that comprise our logo. Alembic clone rackmount power supply 4 bass guitar handmade active 5 pin cable. Youll find combined in the epic the highest quality and a remarkably low price. Which would suggest that, for this model at least, they dont hold their resale. If you own an alembic bass you already know its a great instrument. Alembic metalwork in the staircase at the chemical faculty of gdansk university of technology, 1904 an alembic. Alembic is an american manufacturer of highend electric basses, guitars and preamps. Some of our premium woods, ready for your custom alembic bass or guitar. Alder creek guitars alembic guitars and basses logo. Go to the home page to find the time we last updated this site.
The hardware is a dead giveaway also, though these can be purchased at alembic. Bass number 32 alembic epic 5string bass 101 basses. The first bass bearing the alembic logo was made for casady in 1971. Alembic muziekinstrumenten metadata this file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try. We distil raw information and brand essence to create valuable, effective communications. I subsequently met john diggins at his workshop in brighton road, moseley through someone we both knew in 1993. The alembic pickups are extremely rich in all the frequencies that matter, and to get a particular sound one basically eliminates the unwanted frequencies. Alembic drawings appear in works of cleopatra the alchemist, synesius, and zosimos of panopolis.
After the pencil, we take to the computer and mica makes a vector art file. Alembic utilizes all available materials and in their quest to learn, focuses their efforts in their factory and produces the purest of electric guitars and basses available. For later chemists it denotes various parts of crude distillation devices. Alembics dealer discount is shorter than most guitar companies.
Jan 25, 2011 stanley clarke got his first alembic bass in 1972. Alembic is a database migrations tool written by the author of sqlalchemy. Software plugin provider, exocortex, has also introduced a suite of alembic based plugins for all of autodesks major content creation tools. The alembic store is open, with new tshirts and patches. Modulus bass past, present, and future owners, and those who are just curious as to whats up with modulus. Alembic stanley clarke standard 4 chocolate quilted maple neu. Stanley clark playing the alembic bass guitar at the cork jazz festival 2018 at the everyman in cork ireland 19th century illustration of a distilling apparatus. Alembic jerry garcia tribute wolf and further guitars. This was the year that rolling stone did a special insert on pro audio gear in one of the issues. See our selection of basses now in stock or coming soon, which are available at current pricing. The logo was designed bear and painted by robert thomas in 1969. The best selection of royalty free bass guitar vector art, graphics and stock illustrations. Basses 4 string basses 4 string alembic for sale on. A migrations tool offers the following functionality.
Most brands of instruments are built with passive non active electronics, though some of them are active, battery powered. Alembic orion 4 string bass california walnut showroom. Secure transactions and shipping protection dedicated team of gear experts. Mar 04, 2014 were a small music store in beautiful mandarin, florida. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled gnu free documentation license. Another one of my first basses was a jaydee supernatural roadie 2a bass. Available in many body styles and exotic woods, the alembic guitar has a combination of beauty and playability that is unique in the guitar world. Leading the way since 1969, we build the finest american made basses, guitars, preamps, pickups and accessories. New listing alembic custom 5 string bass balance k mark king body style 2007 europa birdseye. Alembic was started by owsley stanley in the grateful deads rehearsal space with one focus fidelity. Alembic distills complex, animated scenes into a nonprocedural, applicationindependent set of baked geometric results.
There were alembics with two dibikos and three tribikos. Planet bass high end bass guitar gear thats outta this. The bass are pchus and clean, rglages can achieve any kind of sound. Find your vintagehand built basses 4 string basses 4 string alembic today. This alembic stratoblaster replica is an excellent booster that will give your guitar signal a nice fat sound, along with a good volume boost. Provides a system whereby migration scripts may be constructed. The spoiler bass, like the one featured here, was one of the many instruments released throughout the 80s to shave off the price of alembics top models.
This distillation of scenes into baked geometry is exactly analogous to the distillation of lighting and rendering scenes into rendered image data. Alembic pioneered the multi laminated neck through body design that is favored by todays top bass builders, myself included. I plug the bass on a hartke 3500 and a case hartke 4 10 inches, was killed. Founded in 1969, they began manufacturing preamps before building complete instruments. Bass central owned by beaver felton, electric bass, guitars. Lovely 1993 alembic essence 5string in excellent condition used only a few times very small amount of wear. Make offer phil lesh photo taken in the 80s with alembic 4 string bass rare shot. The neck is a 7piece lamination of maple and ebony, the combination of which produces unrivaled sustain. Published in the practical magazine, an illustrated cyclopedia of industrial news, inventions an 19th century illustration of a distilling apparatus. With any bass, or guitar for that matter, you should always use a stand and never lean it against your amp. Alembic 240 classic ct, rohnert park, california 94928 rated 4. Permission is granted to copy, distribute andor modify this document under the terms of the gnu free documentation license, version 1. Alembic series ii 4string buckeye burl w balanced kbody showroom. Wouldnt worry too much about someone slapping on a logo and sell this as the real thing, so i dont expect any action from the wickershams.
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