Im not sure why its upside down. Its the right way up on my phone.

Let me help you with that, Jazzy--here's a couple bro-in-law Tom put up on FB today. He called you Thunder Thumbs.

Thunder Thumbs!   

I thought that was reserved for Louis Johnson. Im certainly not anywhere near that league. Buti did have a quick chat with Tom before the gig started.

Me and "Little Acer" (Acer is the Latin genus for maple) playing the melody and solo for Goodbye Porkpie Hat...love that tune.

Lookin' good Rob!  And... excellent choice of tune.

Nice!

Thanks, guys

Yes, Pork Pie Hat is a wonderful tune.  And a nice picture of the instrument and musician.

A shot from the gig last night. I was using my Burl Redwood Series I Europa 5 string bass and my barefaced cabs and SF-2 as pre-amp.

Nice Jazzyvee, that burl one is a beautiful bass.   I'm going to have to try the SF-2 as a Stand alone preamp.

The SF-2 as a pre-amp works well for me but using it is not as straight forward as I hoped it would be. I think it's harder to use as a standalone than in the send return look. Here is my take on it in my use and I accept I may be wrong in what I'm hearing compared to how it's supposed to sound. Firstly I only use it as a standalone pre-amp when playing reggae and I've not tried gigging it with other genre's because I found it too hard to make tone changes at the bass on the fly as the SF-2 seems to be the filter that is taking charge so I can't really hear it much.
For reggae I'm only generally dealing with the frequencies below the bass guitar filter cut off point so around 200 to 100hz that enables me to get some more heft and I keep the filtered signal about half the level of the unfiltered signal so that I can hear some of the upper frequencies to help with hearing my pitch clearly.

When I use it in the send/return loop of my F1-x for other gigs it is much less bossy with the sound and I can much more easily set it up in a way that allows me to control the sound more from the bass than having to make changes from the SF/2 or F1-z.
A superb piece of kit though but you can easily ruin a speaker that can't take a lot of bottom end with it. Don't ask me how I know that... :-)

Thanks for the feedback.  Based on your description I think I'll stay with it running through an F-1X.  And yes, a fantastic filter!

One of the forum members Will Gunn uses his as a preamp for his series bass. However he has no filters on his bass and so sets all his tone using the SF-2. I would suggest getting in touch with him as he is extremely helpful and knowledgeable on this and all things alembic. I have had hugely beneficial chats with him on line over the years.
http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/fc_refinement.html

here is another pic from my second gig with my classico. im not sure why its upside down.