Rich

That happened to me with a Russian Big Muff pedal.

I bought a cab once, heard a bit of a rattle and when I opened it up I found Glenn Miller & Shergar in there. [quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='429949' date='Mar 9 2009, 11:01 PM']That'll be the 2001 upgrade he's had fitted. I hope you paid extra for that. I was thinking of getting that done on mine but couldn't justify the expense. Some people insist you can't hear the difference.[/quote] It's also important to make sure the 5p coin is shiny.

Whereas I suffer from CGMS... that's Cash/GAS Mismatch Syndrome

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39330"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39330[/url] If you really don't want a P, it makes sense to get the cheapest playable P copy you can find. If you really want it active, chuck in an Artec 2-band eq.

[quote name='Russ' post='430071' date='Mar 10 2009, 02:08 AM']I remember going to the Bass Centre back in the late '90s, and Wals were about the least fashionable bass in the world at the time - they used to have trouble shifting them.[/quote] Damn. Bet I could have picked one up for a song.

[quote name='subaudio' post='424102' date='Mar 3 2009, 01:42 PM']I saw that guy with Chick Corea too, playing the heck out of a 6 string Smith, I figured it was for cooling and to stop blisters ?[/quote] I've found to my cost in the past that if I get my plucking fingers wet it softens the callouses, which then wear away and I get blisters. Licking them is absolutely the last thing I'd do!

[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.