phatduckk
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So, my punk band is finally practicing again (drummer was in a motorcycle wreck a while ago) and coincidentally i just got a Big AL... so, it only made sense to bring the AL along to see how it sounds in a loud band situation.
To summarize: it's awesome.
First the feel: there's a Sterling neck - so, i'm right at home on it. no problems there; zero adjustment required... just pick it up and play.
The sound. well, really, the question is "which sound?". The bass can cover a LOT of ground. I didn't play in passive much b/c i like preamps... but i did switch between various pickup combos.
The secret position with the 2 bridge side coils in series is monsterous. pretty fricking huge. loved it. If you wanna tone it down a hair the same pickups in parallel are damn nice as well.
For a while i played with the bridge single too. It was a nice cutting tone... super fun. upped the bass knob a bit there and it killed again.
the neck pickup's pretty great. I used that with treble rolled off and boosted low mids for some slower songs. again, awesome.
anyways - i tried a lot of settings and there's about 864 options at your fingertips and they all sound great.
The lack of "click" sound when switching pups is pretty awesome and makes mid song switching really nice.
i dunno - there's a lot to the bass and all of it's damn nice.
One main observation is that it does a good at giving you a huge low end on the E etc while allowing the thin strings to cut thru when i play higher not fills n such.
bottom line its dope. im very happy that I got one. I gotta play a Sterling soon before they get scared and feel like their getting replaced. The AL is that good
To summarize: it's awesome.
First the feel: there's a Sterling neck - so, i'm right at home on it. no problems there; zero adjustment required... just pick it up and play.
The sound. well, really, the question is "which sound?". The bass can cover a LOT of ground. I didn't play in passive much b/c i like preamps... but i did switch between various pickup combos.
The secret position with the 2 bridge side coils in series is monsterous. pretty fricking huge. loved it. If you wanna tone it down a hair the same pickups in parallel are damn nice as well.
For a while i played with the bridge single too. It was a nice cutting tone... super fun. upped the bass knob a bit there and it killed again.
the neck pickup's pretty great. I used that with treble rolled off and boosted low mids for some slower songs. again, awesome.
anyways - i tried a lot of settings and there's about 864 options at your fingertips and they all sound great.
The lack of "click" sound when switching pups is pretty awesome and makes mid song switching really nice.
i dunno - there's a lot to the bass and all of it's damn nice.
One main observation is that it does a good at giving you a huge low end on the E etc while allowing the thin strings to cut thru when i play higher not fills n such.
bottom line its dope. im very happy that I got one. I gotta play a Sterling soon before they get scared and feel like their getting replaced. The AL is that good
