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[quote name='Passinwind' timestamp='1415470490' post='2600733'] '77 Travis Bean Fretless: [/quote] Instant early Mick Karn sound!

[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1414806100' post='2593612'] My Sterling Ray34CAFL just came in Thursday. It plays great. [/quote] Beautiful! I wonder if they make a fretless 5 too.

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1409727125' post='2542579'] My warmoth, I rather like it. Looks a bit like chocolate! [URL=http://s34.photobucket.com/user/gafbass02/media/2333D65E-CCC0-4460-BC81-38CF3D13F144.jpg.html][IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/2333D65E-CCC0-4460-BC81-38CF3D13F144.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/quote] Beauty!

No problem at all

I can't remember - I recorded them several years ago in a semi-pro studio while recording my ex-band's album. All I can tell is that it went through an Aguilar Tonehammer preamp and there was no compression. Can't remember if an Aguilar amp and cab I borrowed from a shop I worked in at the time were used for the clips (they were used for recording the bass for the album though). This is how the bass sounds in the mix (there's a small solo when the bass is the most audible instrument): [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5H6A4J_49o"]https://www.youtube....h?v=H5H6A4J_49o[/url] And me failing to reproduce the same line at home (did that in a hurry, about a month after leaving the band), plugged into an el crappo Line6 combo (I hate it, with hatred): [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZl1eBsmdM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=2xZl1eBsmdM[/url]

Here are some sound clips of my Essence 5. Not very proffessional but might get you some picture. Empty stings and filter rolling off and on: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/alembic-1 Fingerstyle - both pickups: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/al-2 Fingerstyle - bridge pickup: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/alembic-3 Fingerstyle - neck pickup: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/alembic-4 Pick - both pickups: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/alembic-5 Slapping - both pickups: https://soundcloud.com/dreamdigger/alembic-6

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1305911431' post='1238502'] From L-R: Superheadless Thunder II fretless Thunder IA Thunder III [attachment=80480:P1011703.JPG] [/quote] LOVELY! Especially the Super Headless and the fretless Thunder II. DO WANT!

[quote name='busccini' timestamp='1403954219' post='2487994'] [url="http://s1285.photobucket.com/user/busccini/media/IMG_8115_zpsedf7e615.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1285.photobucket.com/user/busccini/media/IMG_8121_zps42324594.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1285.photobucket.com/user/busccini/media/IMG_8130_zps70d38930.jpg.html"][/url] i sold my babe recently i gona mise u ..... [/quote] I absolutely love those Antiguas! Anyway, here's my P-Bass - not a Fender but it definitely can compete head to head(stock) with the "real" stuff: An '80 Fernandes. Those lawsuit-era Japanese basses were really great - I'm GASsing for a Greco Rickenbacker atm.

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1408532072' post='2531057'] Had a lot of fretless basses the past years but recently sold my fretless Wal because this 400 euros second-hand Kawai just blew me away... Best fretless I have ever had, something about the very fast neck, the nylon strings and the electronics (a switch with three presets, very useable). Had never played one before so just gave it a lucky shot when I saw this second hand and I'm very glad I followed my intuition Looks great too imo (mixture of Alembic, Wal, Jaydee, I don't know) [url="http://s162.photobucket.com/user/wombatboter/media/k_zps85c7c143.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s162.photobucket.com/user/wombatboter/media/fre_zpsb39b7083.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] YOU DID WHAT??? And I didn't know?! That Wal was the best sounding fretless bass I've ever heard, period! If I'd known you were selling it I'd have mortgaged my flat to get it!

Yes - when it's hot and humid, the treble side of the neck bends backwards.

[quote name='zomnius' timestamp='1403364699' post='2482156'] hi jazzyvee, is there a chronologic story somewhere of alembic models etc regarding your remark of 'post-facelift' ? cheers Zom. [/quote] I think a picture will explain it most accurately: Left - a "pre-facelift" version, as far as I remember, '92. Right - a "post-facelift" version, '00, in this case, mine [quote name='zomnius' timestamp='1404027618' post='2488542'] matching table haha great [/quote] I took the "matching table" picture at a place I used to work back then

Beautiful! I happen to know Piotr Zakrzewski personally (I used to work for him when he ran a bass-oriented store called "Bassment") and he's a very cool, helpful and honest guy. The basses he makes (with his accomplice Brunon) are top-notch!

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1393113080' post='2376423'] I bought this from Rumour6 and stupidly sold it. An early 80s Fernandes Jazz with EMGs [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/Fernandes%20Fretless/DSC08795Large.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] [quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1393113510' post='2376432'] Harmony Gibson grabber maple fretless copy [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/Various/DSC03259MediumLarge.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] I know this may be a bit off topic, but those lawsuit-era Japanese copies of Fender and Gibson basses were killer! I've just bought an '80 Fernandes P-bass, black/maple (I love that combo), and it can compete with almost any Fender out there. Sure, it's not as good as many of those vintage P-basses sold for thousands (and more) but it can give any modern Fender a run for the money.

It's beautiful!

Pino, Mick Karn, John Giblin. These three. A huge inspiration, especially MK in his Japan years. Absolutely unique playing. Unmistakable and irreplaceable.