Maria Benet? Absent… the alchemist has been gone for a month or so. In other Alembic news:

High impedance pickups have limited bandwidth. My father designed our pickups to be low impedance to increase the bandwidth. This also made the pickups low output and so he had to design an active onboard preamp to boost the signal. They were, in fact, the first active electric guitar electronics ever.

- Mica Wickersham