jazzyvee

Wow great project, i'll be watching for progress updates. Is it going to be made from bricks and block or wood?

Not cheap but Harvest make good quality bass bags.

I remember trying out a used one of those Genz Benz heads through a couple of 12" Aguillar cabs a few years ago when I was looking for a lightweight bass rig and loved the sound. 🙂

I've been to a couple of George's gigs and he is a superb bass player. Hope to get to a gig where he is playing his classico.

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A bit late posting but my Friday might gig went well. It was a fusion of jazz/funk/reggae. Went down really well. I hate untidy stages but we had PA issues which ate into our allocated time so we had to start on time without chance to move out bags and cases

Only if you want to.

They have a formula that works, and I suppose they only change things when there is an actual need to or if some of the "long in the tooth" parts are no longer available. 🙂🤣

I've been my SC Acoustic pre-amp using this at rehearsals with a couple of bands and feeding it into the return socket on the bass amps and it sounds superb. Nice clear and hi-fi sounding. I have a gig Friday where i'm playing both bass guitar and my EUB so I plan to use it for my EUB through to the PA.

I'm no expert on the electronics or magnets, coli etc, but my understanding from what i have read on the alembic site is that the resonant frequency of their pickups is outside the frequency range of the bass so no bass frequencies are enhanced or subdued. Most other pickups by other makers are wound to give some kind of baked in sound influence over certain frequencies. For example to make them more bassy, punchy, high output ir vintage sounding etc. etc. The low pass filters then allow you to attenuate frequencies above the filter setting and apply a lift to the cut off frequency. This affects mainly the attack of the note rather than the whole sustaining note.

Stanley Clarke does the same thing with a fender guitar amp fed from the high frequency crossover output on one of his preamps. i hope one day to get to do a suitable gig with bi-amp setup. Each pickup to a separate cab and my roland jc120 on the hf out from the bridge pickup.

What do you mean by ex alembic player, have you sold it or planning to sell yours? what model is it?

Interesting question, though one i can't answer from personal practical experience. From my understanding, one of the differences between alembic pickups and most other pickups is they are designed to only pick up what the strings are doing instead of being wound to emphasise or impart a particular tonal character. So since the SF-2 is more versatile in tone shaping than alembic basses generally have on board, my assumption would be that the rig would give you the same way of tone shaping but not the same tone.

Sort of but only for series basses, gives the choice of individual pickup out or single mono out.

Hahaha, well i am an alembic nerd so here goes. No, i don't need the SF-2 for most things, so generally it is in passthrough with the filter gain off. The alembic onboard low pass filters have an operating range of 350hz to 3khz. So once you set your frequency on either of the filters, everything above is filtered out at 12db/octave and below is untouched. So for reggae, even with the filter closed down, that bass is so bright the sound can be twangy a can't take control of the lower frequencies i want to emphasise. So that is where the SF-2 comes in, i can pick the punch frequency which for me is around 80 to 110hz depending on the room, then i can raise everything from that frequency and below with the filter gain and using the reciprocal damping knob i can emphasise the punch frequency. That gives me overall a clean articulate heavy and punchy bass sounds without the mud. For non reggae it's hardly used but sometimes i have used it in a low volume gig just to increase the low end density I suppose i could use a regular bass amp. 🤫😉 The top unit is the mains external power supply for my series bass. They connect via 5 pin neutrix connectors which send 36vdc to power the bass and returns individual pickup outs which go to your pre amp or the two rear out jacks can go to another stereo or mono bass rig. Btw, series basses also have 2x9v batteries inside for backup or if you prefer to use a standard jack lead.

Last night's gig rig. Alembic F1-X and SF-2 into a Synq 1K0 power amp and Barefaced Big Twin II

Had a good gig last night at a 70's/80's event last night in Brean. No photos of it yet but I did take a shot of my rig, which actually is better looking than me anyway. DI & mic'd cab meant some heavy reggae bass was felt last night.

Those cables are for use with passive instruments so no use on alembics which are all active unless modded post build. A link to alembic's info on it. https://alembic.stores.yahoo.net/activecable.html

Any pointers to a luminay supplier in the UK? I havent found any on my searches.

That is exactly why i don't use bridge mode. But i felt the need to ask just to rule that option out.👍

Unlikely to have any of those objects in the cab and I did take the speaker out to have a look inside and there was nothing in there that shouldn't be there. My bass has an external 36vdc power supply so no issue with loss of power to the bass and I have the internal trip pots set at the lower end of the range as I know they are really hot on full power. I have a couple of mates with a rehearsal studio so I will try your suggestion of loud music there to avoid annoying my neighbours.

Interesting, as the most of the cracking sound appears when the tweeter is on and less so when it's off.

hmm, well my two main amps that I use for most gig are a Synq 1K0, https://synq-audio.com/digit-1k0 and my Crown XLS1502 both run at 300w into 8 ohms should I try them in bridge mode with this cab, not at full volume but to see if I get a better performance of them with less risk of distorting?

Firstly i must emphasise that this is not a complaint about Barefaced cabs it's me trying to understand how i should expect a speaker to behave under differing conditions. I have only previously owned mesa boogie ph cabs so no real diverse experience of much else. So just trying to understand if what i am hearing is normal, am i giving the cab too much bottom end at any wattage or anything else. I do have an issue with what i am hearing through one of my 1x12 cabs and BF been quick in sending me a new speaker, but before i start to test it on my rig i just want to know what is normal and what is not. if i have any bass cab rated at 800w or 600w at 8ohms and a bass amp that will deliver below that wattage into an 8 ohm cab: what are the circumstances that would make the speaker fart out? When is it right for me to expect the speaker to farting out do because i am asking too much. what circumstances is it wrong for the speaker to fart out and what does that sound like. how do i test my tweeter to find out if that is ok. My intended use of the BBII has always been for smaller gigs using 5 and 4 string basses Eub covering predominantly jazz based music and reggae. All was fine until i paused gigging during lockdown and the cab was not used, then when i started using the cab again last year the issue became evident. Again can i stress this is not a barefaced bashing thread as i have three more of their cabs which all work perfectly and i am completely happy with. So i am surprised that this situation. . I plan to call BF on monday also for advice.