Alembic preamps are made to the same exacting quality standard as Alembic stringed instruments. The classic stereo F-2B remains largely unchanged after 30 years of continuous production. The Alembic F-1X is the mono version of the classic Alembic F-2B with some extra featuers like a direct output and a built in effects loop.
| Alembic F-1X | Retail: $1,000.00 | Planet Bass Pricing: $749.00 |
The Alembic F-1X is the mono version of the F-2B preamp. Alembic kept the same tone section and added a few goodies like a direct output, built in effects loop and crossover. You can still use it in a simple set up since the F-1X also includes a standard full range output
Tube warmth??? It's in there, and with an easy interface of Bass, Mids, Treble, you'll be hard pressed to make an undesireable sound. Maybe that's why Bass Player Magazine gave the F-1X its highest rating!!
| Alembic F-2B | Retail: $1,100.00 | Planet Bass Pricing: $825.00 |
The Alembic F-2B was the very first product to bear the Alembic name. About the only thing that has changed in the 30 years since the first F-2B is the chassis. What is it about the F-2B that's made it a classic? A simple to use Bass, Mids, Treble interface for each channel makes your perfect tone easy to find today, and to find again tomorrow. Its warm tube sound is musically useful not only to bass, but many customers use it for guitar and violin too. For fun try cascading from channel A to channel B with your bass and discover a wonderful clear distortion. The F-2B contains two independent preamp/tone control sections. The amplification is entirely vaccum tube driven. Outputs are on the back panel: channel A out, channel B out, and a mono output that combines both channels.
| Alembic SF-2 | Retail: $1,000.00 | Planet Bass Pricing: $749.00 |
The Alembic SF-2 Supferfilter is a bit unusual. Around here we call it the Swiss army knife of tone. And we don't protect you, with a Superfilter, you're going to find some weird and amazing sounds. It is designed primarily as a tone processor, but Alembic provides a front input jack so you can experiment without adding coloration from a preamp.