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Wal Bass Club.

#84
I appreciate it, but I have read through that before and it does not explicitly state if the two tone knobs are 1 for each pickup or if they both effect both...

When it states that you can use the pan as a sort of master tone control, it leads me to believe that it is indeed 1 tone control per pickup, but I was hoping one of you fellows who owns one of them could confirm that.

Thanks though.
 
#87
It's great to see SOME Wal activity, as there hasn't been much to report lately. Congrats on your new bass, ANOINTD! Please be sure to post a report once you've spent some time with your new bass.

The "attack" function is activated by pulling up on the volume knob. There is a tone control, actually a low pass filter, for each pickup. When you pull up on these it activates a 10db boost to the harmonics at the notch. Enjoy!
 
#90
oh, and this is the '83 mk1...
on the second picture you can see the sauron eye...:hiding:
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#91
DigthemLows said:
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This is my favourite Wal ever.
 
#92
Ok, so I just got my Wal today, and I have to say that it is in worse shape than I had imagined. The story of this bass according to the seller is that his friend came home to his apartment and smelled smoke coming from a room. When he went to check it out, there was a fire ablaze. So he got the bass out of the room and just left the building, losing most of what he had in there. The guy I got it from told me that despite the fire the Wal was in "excellent cosmetic and electronic condition." The pics he gave me were a bit blurry and I figured, hell, for $650 a bit of a burn mark ain't so bad! Well....they ain't so good either :hmm: The neck has absolutely no finish on it, and the laminates are a bit separated at the headstock. The fingerboard has some sort of finish (superglue I think) on it and the side markers are gone and instead are filled with some weird gold-yellow paint. The metal dots that indicate the position for the knobs were melted in the fire, so there are little flat blobs where they used to be :( And finally, the back has some wood missing...about 3/4" around the belly cut.
Ok, after all this though, can you guess what? I am in love with this thing! :rolleyes: The neck feels awesome. The bass plays super comfortably (and is somewhat light to boot...about 8.5lbs.). And the electronics DO WORK...sounds freaking HUGE!!! I guess $650 isn't so bad in the long run. I get a great 4-banger that has MOJO ;):bassist:
and the pics: check below V
 

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