Experimental Prototype bass... I hope
"Boredom is the mother of invention"
I have been bored. very very bored.
So i started thinking about the next Bass build, and thinking turned to planning and planning turned into scheming. Ive had a couple of bass playing friends reach out to me and ask in the past if id ever build a bass for them, and ive always said no. essentially i just never felt qualified to build something to a standard that i would want to charge someone for it, and ive always liked my bass builds to be suitabl
To answer your question @mhoss32 I've only played the old Alembic's with the Q switch. That said the continuously variable Q is certainly working even better...
And most of the Alembic's are clear sounding because they are using single coil pickups with a dummy coil (like my favourite basses which are the Leduc's) to cancel almost any unwanted parasite noise. The single coil pickups also have to advantage of sensing the string at only one point avoiding the typical (light) phase cancellatio
