alembic mania

[Chris P.]

You mean I have to keep it? Steal it? Yeah, why not;)

I do need two dringking cannisters with straws. One of them with cognac and the other with red wine:)

[Highlander]

Those bottles (JAE's) have been up for sale forever...

[hieronymous]

I don't think Alembic lovers will like me now, but I'm reviewing a nice bass these weeks:





I guess Warwick and Alembic don't like eachother that much. Alembic makes the Tears Of John (or something) Buzzard clone and Warwicks makes the Spyder clone.

This is one hell of a bass though!!
- Mirrored active P pic ups
- 3-way EQ
- Quilted maple top
- Mahogany bodywings (Hollow!)
- Maple neck through
- Ebony fretboard
- 24 frets
- Buzzard headstock

I'm enjoying myself a lot until I have to send it back again...

I like it - what do they call that model again? Looks better with the Buzzard headstock, though it's kind of hard to see in the pic. What does that fourth knob by closer to the lower horn do?

[Chris P.]

It's called Stryker and I will post some better pics soon.

The control at the lower horn is the master volume and it's a push/pull for bypassing the active electronics. The pick ups are active, so it's never completely passive.

Then there are three other controls:

- Balance (between pick ups)
- Mid (push/pull for lo/hi mid)
- A stacked bass/treble

[hieronymous]

Cool - I think I saw one in a store in Japan right before I left to come back to the States (2006) - it had the dark wood top (zircote?) and the regular 2+2 headstock - I like the one you're playing a lot better!

[Freuds_Cat]

Looks very cool Chris but I cant help wondering why they put Split P's on it instead of Buckers like the Ox's

[Highlander]

(special order option... )

[Chris P.]

The first couple of Strykers had a 2+2 headstock, but they changed it to the Buzzard headstock. The first years you could by mahogany ones with a visible maple neck through or ones with the ziricote (indeed) top. First proto's of the reversed one for Adam Clayton head a ziricote top too and I believe he will play one next tour.. U2 tour is postponed due to back problems of Bono though...

After the humbucker loaded Alembics, JAE went to Warwick which made the 'mirrored P' Buzzards. So you can call this a bit of a hybrid between a Buzzard and an Alembic. Or the bass JAE never played...+

[Highlander]

This has the Peter Cook version he did play... (sitting in the background and throughout video - now owned by Hard Rock)

[jumbodbassman]

I miss them both !!!!!!