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Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
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- 490
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- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
Dude you make everything sound good but damn that thing has better tone in your hands for sure! Great video and hope you enjoy her for a few.
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
question for Jaymi
In your other YT bass vids you say "we, just got this bass in"...Do you work for a music shop or something?
Are these basses for sale?
tnx
Dean
In your other YT bass vids you say "we, just got this bass in"...Do you work for a music shop or something?
Are these basses for sale?
tnx
Dean
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
Ahh was watching the 71 Pbass vid..you said "this one wont be around for long" and "we just got this in" thought it might be a store
lol
Jaymi said:
Toolmybass said:
Ya I was interested in seeing other vids but got stuck at work since the $h!t hit the fan and i'm super busy now! Got practice tonight too but not sure if I'm gonna make it now!! Oh well more OT to fuel that Wal GAS!
Jaymi if basses were women, you'd be a wicked playa!!! Lol! Cool beans man!! Cant wait to see the others!
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
There's lots to look at and I retired my "playa" status.....I have a shirt that says "love one woman, Many guitars"
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
Awesome, just ordered it!! So my next GAS bass i get I'm soooo gonna wear this for the wife! Thanks!!
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
maybe in your pocket... LOL...I say "we" because my kids get to mess around with my basses as well...(when I let them)...I get paid to play bass...that is what I do. If I was a store, this would already be on ebay...hilarious 
Hi there. I'm a new member (today) so please don't flame me if I'm posting this is the wrong forum or haven't searched properly (I've tried!).
I own a number of lovely basses, but my main gigging bass is a gorgeous Wal Custom 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wal5stringkauri.jpg)
Yesterday in rehearsal it started to distort quite badly when I plucked aggressively. Assuming a failing battery I came home with a brand new battery today and fitted it.
To my horror, the output level has dropped to almost non existent. It's there, but only just. Really.
I checked it on both pickups and with the active/passive push/pull switch in and out. No difference. Just the very faintest output level.
I tried it in a different amp. I tried different basses in the original amp...
All points to a problem inside my Custom 5.
Can anyone suggest any reason why an active bass should suddenly have such a radical drop in output? Preceded by some nasty distortion.
I'm thinking that some electronic component must have fried. One of those funny capacitor or resistor things that I simply do not understand!!
I'd love to hear some thoughts from some of you more technologically literate guys.
Thanks very much for any advice.
I own a number of lovely basses, but my main gigging bass is a gorgeous Wal Custom 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wal5stringkauri.jpg)
Yesterday in rehearsal it started to distort quite badly when I plucked aggressively. Assuming a failing battery I came home with a brand new battery today and fitted it.
To my horror, the output level has dropped to almost non existent. It's there, but only just. Really.
I checked it on both pickups and with the active/passive push/pull switch in and out. No difference. Just the very faintest output level.
I tried it in a different amp. I tried different basses in the original amp...
All points to a problem inside my Custom 5.
Can anyone suggest any reason why an active bass should suddenly have such a radical drop in output? Preceded by some nasty distortion.
I'm thinking that some electronic component must have fried. One of those funny capacitor or resistor things that I simply do not understand!!
I'd love to hear some thoughts from some of you more technologically literate guys.
Thanks very much for any advice.
Jaymi
Pink Bass Man
- Feb 11, 2008
- 6,813
- 490
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Ampeg , Jaydee, Kalium
I had a white Wal some years back that had the same issue. It was a resistor on one of the circuit boards that had fried...thankfully, there was a local 'wal-nut' who knew what to do and it was back up and rolling in no time...it required pulling the board and replacing the burnt piece...
Just to make one slight correction that may help with understanding the preamp functions: the Wal Custom does not have an active/passive switch. The preamp is always on. There is a pull switch on the volume control to activate the "pick attack" treble boost, and pull switches for the "overshoot peak" boosts on each of the individual pickup filter controls.
Zob said:
Hey Zob! Welcome to TB and the the Wal Club!
I think Mike pretty much covered what I was going to suggests as well and even more.
Caca de Kick said:
Funny thing though I JUST had the same issue with my Mk1 among other things. the volume thing really bothered me and I couldn't finding anything visually wrong. I removed the preamp (which is pretty easy to do - but like Mike mentioned, be very careful you don't snap off any of the ICs especially the caps) to get a closer look and still didn't see anything. None of the ICs looked damaged or "cooked" so I didn't believe it had anything to do with that. At wits end I remembered I had local tech Jim Mouradian near by. I called him and spoke with his son to see if they ever serviced these basses before and he said his dad knows them "intimately". Anyhu, long story short my issue it was mearly a weak solder joint for the preamp's ground. All was then copestetic. Your issue sounds very similar to mine so I would try to chase that tail. I had a short opportunity to play her yesterday night after work with my band mates and it played without fail!
If you feel the slightest uneasy about looking at the board yourself, find a tech THAT HAS EXPERIENCE with working on Wals and bring it to them. I'm very happy with my experience with Jim Mouridian and if your around the new England area I would definitely recommend him.
Zob said:
Push/pull is for "activating pick attack". Unless you have something custom made or something generally it's volume-push/pull pick attack, blend, individual tone control for each pickup. There are documents floating around explaining this better, but if you needed help I may be able to email you what I have if u PM your address.
Good luck!!!
Excellent video, great playing, and the bass sounds amazing! If you're ever inspired to make another video with one of your Wal's, could you maybe give more demonstration of the different tones you can get from the filter pre-amp, and PLEASE include a good demonstration of the pick-attack feature!
