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Top laminate |
bird's-eye maple, bocate, bubinga, flame maple, lacewood, walnut, vermilion, zebrawood |
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Finish |
CLEAR: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Amethyst, Carribean Blue, Almost Black
OPAQUE: Black, White, Red, Blue, Green, Purple |
Tremolo |
Schaller or Floyd Rose |
Orientation |
right or left handed |
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6-string |
6-string baritone |
12-string |
Scale length |
25.75 |
28.00 |
25.75 |
Thru body neck |
3 maple + 2 purple heart laminates |
3 maple + 2 purple heart laminates |
3 maple + 2 purple heart laminates |
Fingerboard |
ebony |
ebony |
ebony |
Nut width |
insert |
insert |
insert |
24th fret width |
insert |
insert |
insert |
Truss rods |
dual, body adjust |
dual, body adjust |
dual, body adjust |
Body material |
mahogany |
mahogany |
mahogany |
Body depth |
1.50 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
Finish |
high gloss polyester |
high gloss polyester |
high gloss polyester |
Pickups |
2 STR 1 HG |
2 STR 1 HG |
2 STR 1 HG |
Controls |
vol, pan, low-pass filter with q switch, 5-way pickup selector |
vol, pan, low-pass filter with q switch, 5-way pickup selector |
vol, pan, low-pass filter with q switch, 5-way pickup selector |
Tailpiece |
fixed solid brass, bird |
fixed solid brass, bird |
fixed solid brass, bird |
Machine heads |
Gold Alembic-Gotoh |
Gold Alembic-Gotoh |
Gold Alembic-Gotoh |
100% Made in Santa Rosa, CA USA |
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The Spectrum is the "sister" to the Europa bass. The body is contured not only
for its beauty, but also to offer a wonderfully natural fit to your own. You
shouldn't merely wear a guitar, it should be an extension of yourself. Don't play
a guitar with someone else's voice, rather, select the perfect guitar for
expressing your own musical voice.
Clean, clear electronics allow your musical ideas to translate from thought into
reality. With the Spectrum's low-pass filter, you can find warm, broad sounds
right through to strong, bright sounds. A small turn of the tone knob has a wild
effect. This is not the guitar you buy, turn the tone control full up and leave
it there. We think you might as well not have any tone control at all, since
you let someone else make all the sonic decisions for you. The flexibilty inherent
in the Alembic electronic design philosophy means that you are in control of, and
responsible for your own tone.
A bit about the Spectrum's neck: over twenty-five years of guitar building
teaches you a thing or two about neck construction. The selection of woods is
absolutely critical when building a guitar's neck. We've tried scores of woods
in combination and found that hard, clear rock maple is the most reliable wood
for better portion of the neck. The sound is consitant from neck to neck and maple
is very stable. For added rigidity, we reinforce the Spectrum's neck with two
laminates of purpleheart. You could make a neck mostly from purpleheart,
talk about heavy.
In baritone scales, the Spectrum commands attention. We've had bassists call us,
quaking in their boots that their job is on the line ever since the rhythm
guitarist got a baritone Alembic. While that is obviously not our goal (hey, we
like selling basses, too!), it does show what a vital role a well-placed baritone
can play.
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