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According to Tony Bacon and Barry Moorhouse, it was Alembic that started the trend of high-quality, high-price bass guitars. [ 2 ] : 35ff In 1974, Matthews left the company. The recording studio had been sold, as was a retail store in San Francisco where they had sold high-end audio equipment besides their own electronics and instruments.
Entwistle collaborated with bass guitar manufacturers such as Alembic, Warwick, and Status Graphite. [62] [63] His bass solo on the "My Generation" single was a Fender Jazz Bass [64] with stock tapewound strings. [65] Entwistle's collection of guitars and basses was auctioned at Sotheby's in May 2003. [66]
Alembic is an interchangeable computer graphics file format developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was announced at SIGGRAPH 2011, [ 1 ] and has been widely adopted across the industry by visual effects and animation professionals.
Schematic drawing of the Grateful Dead's wall of sound. Stanley and Dan Healy and Mark Raizene of the Grateful Dead's sound crew, in collaboration with Ron Wickersham, Rick Turner, and John Curl of Alembic designed the sound reinforcement system in an effort to deliver high-quality sound to attendees of Grateful Dead concerts, which were drawing crowds of 100,000 or more at the time.
The Ibanez Ashula bass guitar, though having seven strings, would also not be considered as an extended-range bass because the first four strings - G D A (low)E - lie over a section of the fretboard that has frets whereas the last three strings - a lower G, D and A - lie over a fretless part of the same fretboard.
Modulus Graphite (formerly, Modulus Guitars) is an American manufacturer of musical instruments best known for building bass guitars with carbon fiber necks. The company, originally called Modulus Graphite, was founded in part by Geoff Gould, a bassist who also worked for an aerospace company in Palo Alto, California, and coworker Jerry Dorsch.
Alembic may also refer to: Alembic (computer graphics), a computer graphics file format; Alembic (computer software), a lightweight database migration tool for use with SQLAlchemy; Alembic, a British poetry magazine; Alembic, Michigan; Alembic Inc, an American manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps
Tobias Guitars was established in Orlando, Florida in April 1977. The vast majority of Tobias instruments are of neck-through construction, a style of neck-body assembly where the neck of the instrument is a single piece of wood that extends through the body and had the sides of the bass glued to it rather than being bolted on.