Hey,
 
I've just finished laying down all my tracks on my band's upcoming cd and my Alembic performed like a true champion.  My original idea was to use all of my basses (Sadowsky, Lakland, Stingray fretless along with my Alembic), but once I got a listen to the Series I electronics in this environment, it made no sense to use anything but the Alembic.  I'm going straight from the DS-5R into two tracks in the board and the engineer was very pleased with the tone I achieved.  I'm very excited to hear what final product ends up sounding like.
 
Bones

It could be cool if you post some drum n' bass tracks here for our enjoyment.

Sounds great Bones! If it ain't broken....
 
Alemboid

I agree. You should see the smile on the engineer's face when I gave him the signal out of the Orion through Demeter tube pre. He just managed to mumble beautifull.
 
Jure

I've recorded in the past by running a Series I out of a DS-5 in stereo using a countryman direct box for each pickup output directly into the board.  It was a really nice experience.  My bass sounded awesome.
 
Guitar setup and check - 30 minutes
Drums setup and check - 3 hours
Bass setup and check -  about 2 minutes
 

See?  If you spend enough time in the studio, an Alembic pays for itself.  Another excuse for me to keep buying them...

I was curious if any Alembic owner uses an Alembic pre-amp also with recording. I was planning to do so very soon in order to get the full sound features of the tubes as well as the SF-2.  
 
Or is that a redundant approach for recording? Please, let me know what you think.
 
Hartmut

I don't think it is redundant.  I used my F-1X with my SF-2 on my band's recent demo recordings.

These basses seem to be the greatest direct recording instruments on the planet...we got usable bass sounds so easily in minutes with my buddy's setup.  Most remarkable.