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05-28-2007, 12:28 PM
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id really like to know what pickups Justin uses....ive noticed that Darkstars look kinda close but deff. not correct....any help?
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05-28-2007, 12:29 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | The pickups that come stock in Wal basses. To remove them would be heresy. |
05-28-2007, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Trenton, Texas | | | well yeah, i knew they were stock on Wal's.....i was just wondering their actual name and if you can buy em by themselves.
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05-28-2007, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by codyAllen191  well yeah, i knew they were stock on Wal's.....i was just wondering their actual name and if you can buy em by themselves. | They are Wal pickups and not available anywhere except in a Wal bass. 
Jim |
05-28-2007, 01:03 PM
| | | | Wal pickups and electronics are not available apart from a Wal bass. To my knowledge, the only time that Pete deviated from this was to supply the guts for a single Sei Flamboyant fretless. There is also a beautiful Fodera-Wal out there, but the guts for that one were actually taken from an existing Wal that had seen better days.
You may want to check into the John East pre-amp being offered through AC Guitars. Conceptually, it's rather Wal-ish.
Good luck,
Erik |
05-28-2007, 01:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | Pete is so anal about those pickups and preamps, that he refused to sell the guy who ended up with the aforementioned Wal body the replacement pickup and preamp set, poor guy!!
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05-28-2007, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Trenton, Texas | | | hmm, poo....well thanks for the knowledge anyway, i guess ill have to research more into darkstar pickups then
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05-28-2007, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by walwear Wal pickups and electronics are not available apart from a Wal bass. To my knowledge, the only time that Pete deviated from this was to supply the guts for a single Sei Flamboyant fretless. There is also a beautiful Fodera-Wal out there, but the guts for that one were actually taken from an existing Wal that had seen better days.
You may want to check into the John East pre-amp being offered through AC Guitars. Conceptually, it's rather Wal-ish.
Good luck,
Erik | I owned that Sei for a while.  Lovely bass.
From what I understand, the Wal pickups are fairly standard wide-aperture humbuckers, not a million miles away from MM pickups. You could probably get Aaron Armstrong to make you a pair - they wouldn't be identical, but they'd be close enough to approximate the tone, if paired with the right preamp (the aforementioned AGC/E-Pro circuit's probably the nearest there is). |
05-28-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Chainsaw I owned that Sei for a while. Lovely bass. | Do you have any pictures of it sitting around? |
05-28-2007, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Do you have any pictures of it sitting around? | Yep... here it is.
The other specs were, maple body with ebony facing, maple and ebony neck with thick unlined ebony fingerboard, 18mm string spacing, black hardware... lots of ebony, basically. |
05-28-2007, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bristol, England | | | wow i want that bass |
05-28-2007, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Chainsaw Yep... here it is.
The other specs were, maple body with ebony facing, maple and ebony neck with thick unlined ebony fingerboard, 18mm string spacing, black hardware... lots of ebony, basically. | Wow, that thing is incredible!  |
05-28-2007, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Wow, that thing is incredible! | Yep, it was lovely... I had to "trim the herd" before I moved to the US a couple of years back though, and it was the first one to go, as I wasn't playing a lot of fretless back then. I sold it to a guy in Japan.
I miss it.  |
05-28-2007, 03:54 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Well, thats one we'll probably never see again! Still, at least someone somehwere has a very nice bass! Still, I'd rather have a Wal, but I know how you love your Sei basses! |
05-28-2007, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Well, thats one we'll probably never see again! Still, at least someone somehwere has a very nice bass! Still, I'd rather have a Wal, but I know how you love your Sei basses! | Well, I'm putting down a deposit on a new one in July... |
05-28-2007, 04:03 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Nice, care to share the specs for the new one? I have been seriously digging 7 String's new one... |
05-28-2007, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 Nice, care to share the specs for the new one? I have been seriously digging 7 String's new one... | It's going to be a complete change for me... a Sei Jazz! Imagine a Sei version of a Geddy Lee Jazz with one extra string, 24 frets and a transparent black finish over a nice quilt top... not sure on the electronics yet (might go for the full Sadowsky setup). |
05-28-2007, 04:18 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Sounds like it should be a cool bass! Oh, to be in your shoes...I'd be on the phone to Status for a Kingbass Artist, and I'd maybe go and personally hunt down Pete Stevens and have him make me a Wal! |
12-18-2007, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by walwear Wal pickups and electronics are not available apart from a Wal bass. To my knowledge, the only time that Pete deviated from this was to supply the guts for a single Sei Flamboyant fretless. There is also a beautiful Fodera-Wal out there, but the guts for that one were actually taken from an existing Wal that had seen better days.
You may want to check into the John East pre-amp being offered through AC Guitars. Conceptually, it's rather Wal-ish.
Good luck,
Erik | doesnt les claypool have a carl thompson bass with wal electrics?
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12-18-2007, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by tdogg doesnt les claypool have a carl thompson bass with wal electrics? | No.
I've seen a couple of CTs with wide-apperature humbuckers that had exposed polepieces which I think were Dimarzio Model Ones (see http://images.miretail.com/products/...6022806290.jpg ), but the only descriptions or pics I see of Claypools' CTs on http://www.ctbasses.com/les.html show EMGs.
Mike
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