Top laminate bird's-eye maple, bocate, bubinga, flame maple, lacewood, walnut, vermilion, zebrawood
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
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

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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