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12-19-2009, 02:51 PM
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I was just up at the Alembic factory and got to try out their new active cables!! They are KILLER!!! They are gonna start selling them next month! I tried one with a really crappy Epiphone es-135 copy just for grins and couldn't believe my ears! I ordered one on the spot!!!
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12-19-2009, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Coatesville, PA | | | really? What kind of price? Do they look different from traditional cables? |
12-19-2009, 03:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Monterey,Ca. | | | Not sure of the price yet.They look like regular cables except there is a little box at the amp end that holds the battery and some of the electronics! |
12-19-2009, 03:04 PM
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12-19-2009, 03:10 PM
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12-19-2009, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by chicago_mike  piccies??? | They should have pics next week! |
12-19-2009, 04:38 PM
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12-19-2009, 04:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Seattle | | | You know, if these were just down the road at Monster Cable everybody would be screaming "SNAKE OIL". |
12-19-2009, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by onlyclave You know, if these were just down the road at Monster Cable everybody would be screaming "SNAKE OIL". | my thoughts exactly |
12-19-2009, 04:49 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Northampton Mass | | | So they took a pre and hard wired cables to it.
Well,,,thats great.
until some thing breaks
Something always breaks.
Aj |
12-19-2009, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Monterey,Ca. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by onlyclave You know, if these were just down the road at Monster Cable everybody would be screaming "SNAKE OIL". | Tell me about it!! LOL
I can assure you that a cable with an Alembic pre-amp built-in is not snake oil! |
12-19-2009, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrew Jones So they took a pre and hard wired cables to it.
Well,,,thats great.
until some thing breaks
Something always breaks.
Aj | That goes for everything,not just cables.That being said,Alembic products are very well made and don't fail very often! |
12-19-2009, 05:57 PM
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12-19-2009, 06:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Pietarsaari, Finland | | | If it actually does something to your sound, then at least it's worth something compared to the monster cables that doesn't do a thing (except rob you of the cash difference between one of them and 2 Neutrik plugs and a bit of good cable)
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12-19-2009, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by eastcoasteddie Sounds like it will cost at least $150... | Alembic doesn't get out of bed for less than 5 grand. 
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12-19-2009, 08:42 PM
| | | | Not a new idea and hopefully better executed.
20 years ago this product existed and used 4 watch batteries built into a holder with a tiny preamp at the jack; there is a broken one in abox of cables in the garage
Tons of gain but not the best electronics; still not sure why this would be more useful than a boost pedal left on; also not sure why one wouldn't just buy active electronics if that was the goal |
12-19-2009, 09:55 PM
| | | | So Alembic basses have active pickups wired to an active circuit, and now they will recomend "active cables", so you will have to carry a bag of batteries. Screw that! I still have to hear an Alembic that sits in the mix as good an all-passive P bass.
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12-19-2009, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Stuggi If it actually does something to your sound, then at least it's worth something compared to the monster cables that doesn't do a thing (except rob you of the cash difference between one of them and 2 Neutrik plugs and a bit of good cable) | Um...I think you have it backwards. I don't want any product to color the sound coming from my bass.
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12-19-2009, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Cumming Georgia(yes its real) | | | yeah... I'm already confused by people that seem to have 5 different pre-amps before the bass even gets to the speaker, so this seems redundant.
My favorite are the guys that swear by the purity and simplicity of a passive fender style instrument... then have active instrument cables into a sansamp bass driver, a POD, going through an Avalon U5 into both channels of some Mesa Boogie, each being extremely EQ'd.
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