Cosmo Valdemar

Update - it's going back! I initially took the valves out and popped them back in again, which seemed to help. I discovered an odd feature - if the mid and bass control are turned right down, the signal becomes very weak - that faint fuzzy sound I described in an earlier post. This surprised me as I had read that the pedal was based on an old Marshall, where the mid and bass are essentially 'flat' when turned right down. But I persevered as the tone with the knobs dialled up was really quite splendid. Sadly the pedal was plagued with an intermittent background static-type sound that was starting to give me the hump. I decided against opening it up and tinkering with it's innards and it's now being returned. Hey ho!

Fantastic album!

What's McCartney done wrong now? 😆

Here's mine. There are some differences, notably the shape of the headstock and the control panel placement. Yours seems to have a slimmer body too but that might be camera angle. Mine is a few years old and a quick Google suggests there is some variation in the headstock and control panel. However the logo on yours does strike me as a bit odd. The most worrying thing has to be the strings though - these basses love flats! 😁

That fan fret EB is amazing!

I had one of these for a while. Can't fault it for the price.

I don't but it's there on Google. It was up for sale recently.

OHMSS. The main title theme. Just sublime. Great bass too!

I'm quietly terrified of the day the Wickershams call it a day at Alembic. I read an interview with Ron a few years ago that suggested it would be a real possibilty when retirement comes. Admittedly the likelihood of me having the means to order a custom Alembic is very low, but it would be very sad if Alembic shut up shop.

Reasonable questions IMHO. Hardly idiotic time wasting. I've had far, far worse 😆

For a while that was an 'always there' for me as well, but only because my iPod had had a bit of a turn and I couldn't take it off 🤣 Fantastic album though so I didn't really mind.

I don't remember the thread coming to a definite end - has it been scrapped? I thought there were some nice ideas being thrown around.

I've had a bass posted to me wrapped in bin bags before...

That figures. I thought it sounded a bit too bright and growly for a Tbird pickup! I was thinking of getting one and popping in a Thunderbucker but going by your video I don't think I'd need to. Although the chrome would look better!

Is that really a standard Gibson Thunderbird pickup? It sounds great!

Corrected for you ;)

What help do you need? Overdrive is such a personal thing. One man's meat and all that!

I managed half an hour before my freeview box starting glitching. Quite a hair-raising story so far! One for iPlayer tonight I think.

The Yes Album Sabotage (Black Sabbath) All Beatles

Is that Mark? I like him but he always has to demo an extreme fuzz pedal at the end, just to throw in a few Sleep riffs. His Alembic video was cool though.

Excellent. I want one.

Of the standard production models, the bolt-ons had the usual Warwick headstock. The through necks had a compact version of the beak headstock.

Tom Petersson's Hamer Thunderbird?