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smallequestrian

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So I promised pics in another thread a couple weeks ago, but when somebody photographs for free, its hard to complain about timeliness. This was my first gig with the Big Al. We had a good size turn out even though we were playing early (7:30). This was a makeup gig to us from the bookers, because originally we were suppose to play another venue at a better time with bands that were a better match for us, but they double booked, so they made it up to us by giving us a gig the next week. Also a cool venue, but opening for some touring bands that weren't really in our genre.

Loving the Big Al, I am almost exclusively playing it in passive mode. The only time I am flipping it to active is when soloing the bridge pickup so I can dial in a little extra bass. In a 45 minute set I am using 5 different pickup settings although the majority is either the middle pickup solo'd or the bridge and middle in series. I'm not going to say the bass is perfect (no bass is) but there isn't really one thing that I could say, "well, I wish X was different."

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five7

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Cool, the big al looks to be the ultimate rock axe!
 

shakinbacon

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the big al looks really good hanging on the musician

Kinda like the Bongo to me - it looks much better in action

Thanks for the pics
 

Ranger

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Well, I'd have to say the people who design basses at EBMM know what they're doing, because I agree-
The BIG AL looks absolutely smashing when it's doing what it was designed to do-

PERFORM!

(Great; now I gotta figure out how to fit one in the budget...)
 
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