Kev

Seems fine to me, any closer my attack would be smashing the string against the magnets

[quote name='NickA' timestamp='1495139068' post='3301642'] Re price: £3000 quid cheaper than this one: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-MkII-Custom-Series-5-String-Bass-/121844263050?hash=item1c5e7be88a:g:tk4AAOSw0vBUka2f"]http://www.ebay.co.u...k4AAOSw0vBUka2f[/url] This Wal bubble must surely burst. Yes they are lovely .. but not SO much more lovely than the best of the Warwicks ... and increasingly less rare [/quote] Wals are very, very rare indeed compared to Warwicks. Only a handful are made a year and it's always been that way 🙂 Two year waiting list keeps the second hand prices high, new prices are very expensive now. Warwick new prices are insane for what is basically a machine built bass, as immaculate as they are! But even the rarest Warwicks are easy enough to find. Only custom models and perhaps elusive Ltd's like the 5th anniversary models are truly hard to get. The Dolphin Broadneck is rare because there was only one year they were built in the factory, but they have been custom orderable ever since. In the same way every Wal is a custom order.

Rare for sure, but I sold mine for £1500 last year, mint, didn't exactly fly off the shelf!

Yikes Happy Birthday!

[color=#ff0000]To state the obvious, please do not advertise any bass you may have for sale in this thread. Please contact via pm or link to a instrument you have listed in the Basschat marketplace [/color][color=#ff0000] [/color] Seems to be a few fret less basses for sale here, have you had a check through them??

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1494798251' post='3298639'] Gigs coming up in Spain....lots of grief over backline I like to take my own head to gigs. It saves me learning unfamiliar amp controls and allows me to achieve a familiar sound fairly quickly. It's a Puma 900 The tech rider asks specifically for: A bass cabinet rated at a minimum of 900W at 4ohms or 500W at 8ohms SO (after I rejected the idea of using the support band's kit) what does the Spanish promoter email me to say he has rented? A 500W 4ohm cab.... I emailed back telling him that if it blows up - and it's likely to - I am not responsible and does he really want the bass cab to go pop in the middle of the gig? HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO GET IT RIGHT? [/quote] Not hard, you wouldn't think. Although I would be amazed if your amp damages that cab. Just use your ears, you will hear a cab struggling long before any damage occurs.

Nice demo It is an amazing pedal, for sure. I haven't used the B3K channel on my amp alone since this pedal arrived...

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1494122152' post='3293442'] Did he not then check all the soldering, or fiddle with the wires more to try recreate the issue and check there isn't an internally defective wire, bad solder etc Then actually fix it. If not I wouldn't gig it. As further movement could disturb whatever it was again. Sounds like a bad solder joint or bad wire to me. From your description and of him pulling at the wires etc then it working again. It could hold in that position and be fine of course, but in transport to a gig, then being moved about playing.... Well sounds risky. Not to sound funny but the tech should of done a bit more. As there is clearly some issue there, pulling at wires isn't/wasn't a repair. Despite the instrument working. One day that's likely going to come back. And sods law at the worst possible moment. Not to sound too dramatic lol. [/quote] He messed with the wires to see if it stopped the sound, which it did not. He offered to resolder all the electrics and stick some new hardware in there just in case, but he reckoned it was a waste of time/money. It must have been shorting somewhere, I just have no idea where The tech did all I asked of him

I took the bass to my local tech yesterday, without trying it first he took the plate off and pulled at a few wires a little, plugged it in and...sound. I have no idea what he did, he doesn't know what he did (and I'm sure a tiny part of him thinks I just used a dodgy lead!) but it is now working. Took it home, and sure if with the same equipment it's working fine. Almost certainly sounds like something was grounding or shorting somewhere, can't see how it can be anything else. Do I have the confidence to gig it??!!

[quote name='Mastodon2' timestamp='1493749405' post='3290434'] Normally I'd be put off by a rosewood fingerboard, especially on an instrument of this price, as it's a budget option, but my Euro has the darkest rosewood I've seen, it's a nice thick board too. [/quote] An interesting point you raise there. Check out the cost of fingerboards from wood stockists, you will be pretty surprised at the mark up luthiers charge for a more 'exotic' fingerboard. They cost very little, so whilst a nice exotic hardwood board may be as much as double the cost of a rosewood board, in money terms you may be looking at £15/£20 odd difference

[quote name='burno70' timestamp='1493669155' post='3289889'] I know what the radius is - in terms of a bass set up. But what does it mean in terms of a new build?. [/quote] The radius is the curvature of the fretboard and this is of course determined when the neck is carved. This is not altered during a bass setup

1600 Euro for the model I would want. Not quite as cheap as I thought it would be! But still good value for a custom order

Excellent tone he had going on there

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1493650872' post='3289705'] Is their best pedal just doesn't add anything for me I don't already have. And the clean blend really needs it's own level control. Personally not sure its worth the price tag. [/quote] Wouldn't life be simple if we all liked the same things Out of interest and to bring this subject up again, what tone is it you after looking to achieve that can't be achieved with the Level and Blend control? I see this complaint quite a lot so there is clearly mileage in it. The only reason for a clean level knob that I can see for this is if you had a completely dry signal and using the pedal for its EQ only. And yes, if that is the intended use there are much cheaper pedals available to do that job!

Its great. I think it may be their greatest pedal. Has all the aggression of a b*k, with this extra low end heft and fullness, and obviously far stronger mids and much higher gain. This may be a one pedal solution for dirt, its incredbile!

You need to try them both really. The Cali is not a very transparent compressor, certainly adds something to your tone. The Super Symmetry does not do this, but it does roll of highs slightly. For me, cheap compressors are no good. Certainly these two are some of the best in the market, I preferred the Super Symmetry as I liked my tone as it was, but both are excellent.

[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1493480232' post='3288687'] Are there a pair of resistors attached to the pots, with the tip of the jack socket connected to the middle of those resistors? If not then I can see how a dodgy (earthed) pot might kill the sound. It could be that you've got a very fine strand of wire in there somewhere which is shorting out. And apologies for stating the obvious, but be careful with those headphones on and everything turned up full, just in case it starts working again as quickly as it stopped! [/quote] I'l have to check that, and yes I was prepared for sudden noise! [quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1493495870' post='3288820'] Did you try the touching thing I suggested earlier? [/quote] Sorry, yes I tried this before, there is no noise whatsoever once the cable is plugged in, whether I touch the plug or anything else inside.

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1493477732' post='3288660'] Possibly a dodgy pot If you have a soldering iron though you may want to go over the solders in case of a dry joint. [/quote] Surely it would be dodgy pots though, for it to be the same for each pickup? Which seems highly unlikely, unless an issue with one somehow has a knock on effect on another.