Just looking for a little clarification on the controls for my custom rogue 5 string...I am starting to work with a new sound guy and he asked about the controls. I cannot find any documentation on them...
This is what I have:
Pickups: Alembic MXY56
Controls: volume, pan, filter, Q, bass cut/flat/boost switch, treble cut/flat/boost switch
Obviously the volume and pan are no problem...but what can I print out to give him that explains the rest of the controls and what they directly affect and do?
Thanks in advance...
Here is a link for the flat/boost/cut switches: http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/16271/16370.html?1107721317 (http://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=238)
Here is a pretty extensive discussion of the filters/Q and how they work: http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/16271/16376.html?1206759755 (http://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=308)
thanks!!!
You really need sometime to get used to the Filter's concept, but it is totaly ingenious. You can even simulate others PUs character with it.
I adjust my Tone mainly balancing between PUs and use Filter just to sculpt how much growl, bite or air I need (depending on where I will put its cut off's frequency center).
It's an intuitive thing once you wrap your head around the filter concept. Of course, another feature unique to ALEMBIC is that with the filter off, you have active electronics without boost/cut as you'd see with virtually anyone else's tone network. Very clean, deceptively so, usually the reason you hear some non-informed two-centers talk about ALEMBICs not sounding very 'bassy'.
And of course with the filters and the blend you can get everything from very lumpy organ-pedals tone, to clavinets on steroids. From just a few knobs and a few switches. Amazing.
Like the man said, there's those who know, and those who think they know !
J o e y