Alembic Bass
Owsley Stanley founded Alembic Bass in the Grateful Dead’s practice area with one goal in mind: authenticity. With an eye and an ear for refining every component of the signal route, from instruments to the PA, Ron Wickersham, Rick Tuner, and Bob Matthews founded Alembic, and the first instrument was made for Jack Casady.
Specially designed low-impedance pickups were combined with the first active onboard preamp in a bass or guitar, resulting in incredibly broad bandwidth and astounding sonics matched only by the painstaking craftsmanship and finishing for which Alembic basses are known.
We’ve been producing Series I basses for longer than any other model in our lineup. We were really creating them before we had model names or a catalog. The Series I is still as powerful now as it was in 1972, and nothing short of a Series II comes close.
The pickups and electronics are at the heart of the Series I bass. We don’t conceive of pickups and electronics as separate entities; they function together as a system, a whole notion. The mechanical string action is faithfully reproduced by electronics. The combination of single coil pickups and low-pass filter tone settings provides versatility, control, and ownership of your own tone.
Series I basses have been played by a wide range of performers, including Stanley Clarke, John McVie, and John Entwistle, and you could never mistake one’s tone for another because the Series I produces a natural sound that is a true expression of the emotion the player puts into the song. The player is heard, not the bass.
Without the gorgeous forests, Alembic would not be Alembic. While they seem nice, take in mind that varied combinations will affect how the string acts, impacting the tone. The sound is dominated by the neck woods. We can assist you in selecting the appropriate woods for your bespoke bass.
The Alembic Bass For Sale comes in a number of body shapes. Some are tied to the length of the scale, some to tradition, and yet others to personal preference.
We’ve decided to retain our model names related to the electronics rather than the shape or scale length, so you’ll find some short scale Series Stanley Clarke Alembic Bass with the default Small Standard form and others with the Standard Omega shape.
Standard Point and Balance K Omega forms are available in long scale variants. Other versions exist and will be made in the future, but they will all be Alembic Bass Guitars.
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Alembic Bass
Owsley Stanley founded Alembic Bass in the Grateful Dead’s practice area with one goal in mind: authenticity. With an eye and an ear for refining every component of the signal route, from instruments to the PA, Ron Wickersham, Rick Tuner, and Bob Matthews founded Alembic, and the first instrument was made for Jack Casady.
Specially designed low-impedance pickups were combined with the first active onboard preamp in a bass or guitar, resulting in incredibly broad bandwidth and astounding sonics matched only by the painstaking craftsmanship and finishing for which Alembic basses are known.
We’ve been producing Series I basses for longer than any other model in our lineup. We were really creating them before we had model names or a catalog. The Series I is still as powerful now as it was in 1972, and nothing short of a Series II comes close.
The pickups and electronics are at the heart of the Series I bass. We don’t conceive of pickups and electronics as separate entities; they function together as a system, a whole notion. The mechanical string action is faithfully reproduced by electronics. The combination of single coil pickups and low-pass filter tone settings provides versatility, control, and ownership of your own tone.
Series I basses have been played by a wide range of performers, including Stanley Clarke, John McVie, and John Entwistle, and you could never mistake one’s tone for another because the Series I produces a natural sound that is a true expression of the emotion the player puts into the song. The player is heard, not the bass.
Without the gorgeous forests, Alembic would not be Alembic. While they seem nice, take in mind that varied combinations will affect how the string acts, impacting the tone. The sound is dominated by the neck woods. We can assist you in selecting the appropriate woods for your bespoke bass.
The Alembic Bass For Sale comes in a number of body shapes. Some are tied to the length of the scale, some to tradition, and yet others to personal preference.
We’ve decided to retain our model names related to the electronics rather than the shape or scale length, so you’ll find some short scale Series Stanley Clarke Alembic Bass with the default Small Standard form and others with the Standard Omega shape.
Standard Point and Balance K Omega forms are available in long scale variants. Other versions exist and will be made in the future, but they will all be Alembic Bass Guitars.