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The new SnoGlo at SeaMonster Lounge in Seattle.

Back in March!

(Note the Ashdown in the back!)

bassduke49 wrote:Great shot, Garret. A '72, yes?

Thank you Paul! Yes '72! "LE-463".

FretlessOnly wrote:It appears to have the crushed, full-width inlays, at latest Autumn-'72 tug bar, and 1/2-inch neck PU spacing, but I can't make out checkered binding on that one. It also looks a bit like Walnut, but it's probably an FG in ~sepia-toned lighting.

All Vintage Features, including Checker-Board Binding. May, 1972. LE-463. FIre-Glo.

jps wrote:What neck pickup is in that bass, Garret, going by that photo it doesn't look like Rickenbacker made one?

The Pickups and Electronics are a complete "Alembic Dual-Filter Active System"!

heinpete wrote:...was the neck PU a Bart?

Not Bartolini.

The Pickups and Electronics are a complete "Alembic Dual-Filter Active System"!

I would love to hear that someday. My two favorite instruments makers rolled into one.

jps wrote:I would love to hear that someday. My two favorite instruments makers rolled into one.

It really is an awesome combination!
My electronics in this bass have never been more trouble free.
The original owner had already routed through the back of the body, for battery access, for
an Alembic Pre-Amp he had in it before he sold it to the store I worked at, in 1982.
So my ****-Hot Fire-Glo '72 Rick was already relegated to "Players Bass" status, before I ever owned it.
Grounding and hum issues became an issue as my original active system I had installed in 1982, when I baught it, began
to deteriorate and die on me. This was durring the Fifteen years I had my Alembic Persuader!
Those were very easy years for my '72 Fire-Glo.
But, before I sold my Persuader, a couple years ago, for Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals, I wanted my '72 Rick to be as
solid as my Alembic had always been. You could say, that's when I decided to stay with Ricks instead of doing to just Alembics.
I had really concidered it! But instead I sold my original Rick pickups, harness and a number of original goodies to Killer-Ronbo,
to be able to buy my Complete Alembic System from another forum member!
It was the most "un-eventful" install I've done.
Dropped it in, hooked it up, "No Noise", "No Buzz", just Tone From Hell, as a drummer friend of mine once said!

It's been Amazing, especially combined with my Ampeg B-15R 2-15 Stack! Wholly Metal .........................

I'll try to get something recorded soon, and share it.
Hopefully I can make the next regional confluence! I really wanted to be able to bring my '75 Azure-Glo 4080 4/6 Double-Neck to the last one.
And now it resides in Toronto Canada!

At least I'm back up to Three Ricks again!

I had a '87 Persuader in the '90s along with a '84 Exploiter. I replaced the standard preamps in those basses with VPF+Q Switch preamps. As you said, Alembic makes it easy and foolproof to made changes with their electronics. I put the Spoiler preamp that was in the Exploiter into a hobby box from Radio Shack and added two 1/4" jacks for the inputs that would have been from the pickups so I could run two different instruments and switch between them, this was very cool to use with various basses.

I had a local repair guy convert the Exploiter to fretless, and I added a TRS 1/4" jack to each bass that bypassed the internal battery and I built a power supply (PS) that fed 12V to the basses via the ring of a stereo cable, the signal from the bass fed the tip of the stereo cable back into the PS box, from there the signal went to a TS 1/4" jack to run a standard instrument cable into an amp. I don't have the basses anymore but I do still have the PS. I have been thinking of getting another Alembic, maybe someday down the road as that money just went into a 4004L Snowglo!

Priorities, you know!

I've just been reminded of my favourite pic of my FG.

Great picture, Ian!

Poster boy for Hartke! You need to add your signature like all the rest of the Hartke ads have. Then, you can stand proud with others like Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, Rex Brown, Will Lee...........

Saturday, December 7, 2013. 4001S/FL.



And for fun, 5002 mando.

byu wrote:Saturday, December 7, 2013. 4001S/FL.

LOVE that S-fretless!! What's the story on it? It seems to be a very rare instrument.