Rich

[quote name='ARGH' post='429586' date='Mar 9 2009, 05:52 PM']He means crap[/quote] No, he doesn't

Me too. I'd love to have a bash at Kiss Like Judas (or, being really adventurous, Old Man & The Angel!).

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='429464' date='Mar 9 2009, 03:31 PM']Whereas my GBs *know* your Wal looks ugly.[/quote] Nah, they're just insecure.

[quote name='chris_b' post='429443' date='Mar 9 2009, 03:13 PM']If Fender is [i]your[/i] sound and the only sound you like, then don't get a Wal, it won't even come close. But, Wals are beautifully made, with low production runs to predominantly customer orders, with many "name" players and a great sound (it's in there, [b]you've just got to be good enough to find it[/b]). It’s enough to make Wals sought after, expensive and loved.[/quote] I'd have said 'patient' rather than 'good'... but apart from that, hear hear.

+ the 1. I'd always regarded the pricetags on the Celinder Js with some disbelief, until I tried the CKJ at a Bash... I couldn't put it down.

[quote name='XB26354' post='429295' date='Mar 9 2009, 12:57 PM']Don't like Alembics and have no experience of ACG - two small manufacturers is hardly conclusive proof that a filter/sweep preamp works on bass though is it? If you record in a studio any software or hardware eq unit, or decent effects box will be more versatile anyway, and having boomy/mushy tones available to hand isn't very useful live. If I had £20K I wouldn't fart in the general direction of a Wal, having given them a chance a number of times - the last one I owned - mk III 5-string - had a naff boomy bottom B and tipped the scales at just over 12lbs. Still at least I got it cheap and made a small profit [/quote] Fairy nuff. It's horses for course really at the end of the day. You don't like 'em, but enough people [i]do[/i] like them enough to make them valuable enough to draw big prices (and yes I am fully aware of the appalling 'enough' abuse in that sentence ). Personally I struggle to understand £1k+ price tags on Stingrays, but there y'go. I reckon Alembic would be probably be quite amused that after 40 years of instrument manufacture and customisation, they are still a "small manufacturer"

[quote name='greyparrot' post='429020' date='Mar 9 2009, 07:39 AM']I have seen lots of walscoming up for sale and going for £2500+ with no questions. Well i was in BM the other day, and they had in a wal bass. (now sold i think) It was very well made, and looked good. Anyway i was playing it, and although the electronics were very advanced, it seems to have a lot of sounds that were honky or that i would not use, and compared to a warwick or good jazz, it seemed had a fairly weedy slap sound. It seemed to me that you had to work the tone controls to get a good sound, where as a fender jazz, plug in and away you go! It was very mid to top. It is a great bass dont get me wrong but why so expensive? Is it cos they are rare like the old fenders? If it was between a warwick fender jazz or the wal of the same price, to me the fender would win hands down closely followed by the warwick. Dont mean to belittle, just cant see what makes them so expensive. Any of you guys tried them? what do you think?[/quote] If a Warwick or Fender was handbuilt to the same extent as a Wal -- i.e. completely -- they'd be just as expensive, probably more so. OK so yes, I'm a Wal owner and a tad biased -- but if it was my choice between a Warwick, a Fender J and a Wal at the same price I wouldn't even fart in the general direction of the first two. Yes, you have to work at the tone controls. No, it's definitely not plug and play like a J bass. But the rewards are there to be had, and how. If the filter preamp was such a bad idea, the same basic idea wouldn't also have been used by Alembic or ACG for theirs, true? [quote name='EBS_freak' post='429137' date='Mar 9 2009, 10:44 AM']Ha ha. I find Wals a bit ugh. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. I think the 5ers looks pretty good... but the 4s just look ugly - especially with that spade of a headstock. God only knows why Enfield decided to draw inspiration from them.[/quote] My Wal thinks your GBs look ugly too

Now the top photo in that review is a case in point for me. Cover up the headstock with your hand and have a look at the rest of the bass. It looks damn nice, I mean really very foxy. Now uncover the headstock and... oh dear. If that had a nicely shaped 2+2 (although the ergonomic thingy wouldn't be so easy then I guess) or a slimmer 4-in-line (the T-Bass managed it, why can't this?), it'd be great. As it is, nah. Yes it's shallow, but the ergonomics are important.

I want it

The bloke down the road from me valued my Squier Jazz at £6500. But then again, he also said he was Napoleon.

I'm with Simon. That headstock is a face only a mother could love. Quite ghastly and completely spoils the aesthetics of the instrument for me.

Three of those necks are totally redundant anyway. It's got to be just a shop window marketing exercise. Load of old knob. Now this is more like it...

[u]OUT[/u] Crown power amp Zoom RFX2000 [size=1](to a twat who shortchanged me and then had the cheek to leave bad f/back... well fuk you pal, I hope it broke)[/size] SKB 6U case errm, I think that was about it..? [u]IN[/u] SWR SM-900 [i](glorious!)[/i] AKG wireless Gator 4U case Korg Pandora E-H Small Stone Digitech Bad Monkey, SFX (Silent Fly) modded Boss Bass Chorus

Sting is another prone-to-making-an-arse-of-himself-occasionally celebrity of the kind we have recently, errm, discussed but to be honest, I can forgive him absolutely anything for his wonderful bass & composition work over the years. The Police barely put a foot wrong -- Every Breath You Take, I mean it's just perfect -- and his live album 'Bring On The Night' is one of my desert island CDs.

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='424747' date='Mar 4 2009, 08:29 AM']I can concur with the above statement albeit in my very limited experience.My 2 4x10's sound better together than my 1x15-4x10.[/quote] And my pair of 1x15s sound better than my old 2x10+1x15 setup did.

And I'll put a "[color="#FF0000"]DANGER[/color] Beware Of The Alligator" sign on the gate.

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='53470' date='Aug 31 2007, 03:25 PM']Almost every theatre gig I've done has involved a contract specifying PAT testing but, as you say, pubs don't seem to bother (yet?). The going rate seems to be £3.00 - £3.50 per item. Leastways, that's what we've ended up paying. LOL I agree that most people you approach are not really geared up to be PAT testing gear for a 5 piece band and that [b]this should indeed be a pinned topic.[/b] Same comments apply to the Public Liability Insurance issue too.[/quote] There is now a pinned PAT testing topic/list. Glad to be of service I put a wee dab of threadlock on the screws of the terminals in my mains plugs. It doesn't affect the electrical contact but it helps to stop them loosening.

Damn, just too far away. If there's a similar guy in the Bristol area, I'd be very interested. If you are one or know of anyone, please shout. EDIT: now stickied.

I've got the ER20s in blue, which makes them a bit conspicuous, and I've also fitted the connecting cord which is also blue and even more conspicuous. Doesn't bother me a bit, in fact it means people are more likely to ask about them which gives me a chance to recommend them (and hearing protection in general). And the cord also stops me from losing them No earplugs? no comment!

[quote name='Rayman' post='424128' date='Mar 3 2009, 02:13 PM']It doesn't matter.........all of this................... Some music you like, some you don't, doesn't mean it's crap if you don't, it just means you don't like it. Why all the antagonism?? U2 are a good band, who 1000s of people around the world like, and 1000s of others don't. Who gives a sh*t either way??? I like cheese, but I don't like rice pudding. Does that mean all rice pudding is sh*t? Music is music, and it's diverse and fantastic, whatever the genre, and whoever made it. You might not like it, but someone else does. All music is great, that's why we're all musicians no??[/quote] I tried saying something similar about 1000 pages ago & got roundly ignored. It's getting less like a debate and more like a playground scuffle the longer it goes on. Oh, and treacle tart kicks the living sh*t out of rice pudding.

[quote name='RayFW' post='423092' date='Mar 2 2009, 12:34 PM']U2? What's that all about then?[/quote] U2? Absolutely diabolical. It was notoriously difficult to fly and land, with a very high stall speed and a need for extraordinary equipment balance, leading to many operational accidents within the first few months of its operation. Later versions have however addressed most of these early faults.

These remote control socket thingies are brilliant. I've got them on any mains sockets hidden behind furniture etc. I [url="http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/nav.jsp?forceStaticLeftNav=true&action=detail&fh_view=detail&fh_location=//catalog01/en_GB&fh_secondid=9686462"]got them from B & Q[/url] and they're good for the whole 3 kilowatts each. Using them for stage lights is a wizard idea.