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Wal Bass Club.

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I use mine with neck tone set at 8 and bridge tone set about 7 to 7.5. All knobs clicked down as these settings give me all the top end grit I want...any click up, and I get way to clickety in the mix.
J, you can adjust the intensity of the pick-attack via the trim pot inside the back.
 
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zazz said:
I stand to be corrected but the passive pros are like playing the customs with the pull knobs in the down position and selecting just one pickup.... I guess this all depends on the down position being passive ....I have a feeling somebody here will tell me otherwise but It sure feels that way whenever I have done a comparison.
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zazz said:
Interesting you should say this.....what setting is the passive sound of a wal? Probably none according to casa.... But I'm suprised this wasn't an option.
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Zazz just to be clear, Wal's in general are all active. Bass with preamp = active bass.

what you speak of are settings to "sound like a passive bass". :rollno:which you can probably do with any active bass, but by definition, passive basses do not require a battery since the circuitry only deals with in most cases a single capacitor and pots to vary impedance to cut/adjust tone/volume.

active basses are more robust and hotter (as far as signals go) since they have a preamp. A preamp also allows the feature of cutting or boosting frequencies and typically more tone adjustments; bass, treble, mids, etc. So just like an outboard preamp, if you lose electricity in your house you get no sound. so if you got a dead battery you get no sound as well. basses with the option of going passive/active, they typically have a switch that bypasses the preamp and uses a "basic" circuity for tone/volume. Wal basses do not utilize this and so don't confuse the push/pull knobs as a passive/active switch :rollno:
Quoting Wal's site:
Pulling-up the knob produces a quasi-parametric boost of about 10dB to the harmonics which lie at or near the roll-off frequency set by the rotary position.

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with all this being said, yes in general Wal's are all active unless you have a Pro I, Pro II or if you have one of the few passive Mark custom series passive

Hope this clears all future confusion :bassist:
 

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kulit17 said:
Zazz just to be clear, Wal's in general are all active. Bass with preamp = active bass.

what you speak of are settings to "sound like a passive bass". :rollno:which you can probably do with any active bass, but by definition, passive basses do not require a battery since the circuitry only deals with in most cases a single capacitor and pots to vary impedance to cut/adjust tone/volume.

active basses are more robust and hotter (as far as signals go) since they have a preamp. A preamp also allows the feature of cutting or boosting frequencies and typically more tone adjustments; bass, treble, mids, etc. So just like an outboard preamp, if you lose electricity in your house you get no sound. so if you got a dead battery you get no sound as well. basses with the option of going passive/active, they typically have a switch that bypasses the preamp and uses a "basic" circuity for tone/volume. Wal basses do not utilize this and so don't confuse the push/pull knobs as a passive/active switch :rollno:
Quoting Wal's site:
Pulling-up the knob produces a quasi-parametric boost of about 10dB to the harmonics which lie at or near the roll-off frequency set by the rotary position.

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with all this being said, yes in general Wal's are all active unless you have a Pro I, Pro II or if you have one of the few passive Mark custom series passive

Hope this clears all future confusion :bassist:
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Thanks for that kulit:....so in effect what your telling me is that the wal doesn't have a pseudo bypass knob combination setting...how do you know this? I wouldn't be at all surprised if setting the tone to max and all knobs depressed gave you the true unbiased sound of the pickups..
 
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zazz said:
the wal doesn't have a pseudo bypass knob combination setting...how do you know this? I wouldn't be at all surprised if setting the tone to max and all knobs depressed gave you the true unbiased sound of the pickups..
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zazz said:
Yep....I heard that one before.....I did say pseudo......
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please enlighten us to your definition of passive/active basses. since it seems its all semantics at this point.

tonally, sure, like i mentioned before, you can probably get a "passive" sound out of any active bass, but it doesn't mean its a passive bass.

to everyone's own - sound is subjective so one setting for one guy can be completely different from the other. if guys want to sound like Flea cool, but there not Flea. You want to get a passive sound out of you bass... cool, but by definition, again ...not a passive bass.
 
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kulit17 said:
please enlighten us to your definition of passive/active basses. since it seems its all semantics at this point.

tonally, sure, like i mentioned before, you can probably get a "passive" sound out of any active bass, but it doesn't mean its a passive bass.

to everyone's own - sound is subjective so one setting for one guy can be completely different from the other. if guys want to sound like Flea cool, but there not Flea. You want to get a passive sound out of you bass... cool, but by definition, again ...not a passive bass.
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It's ok kulit ....I was half expecting some detailed response regarding the wal preamp ...and maybe some surprising subtleties on its character.....but it's ok...really ..... Your response dare I say it is condescending ....maybe my questions seem naive and stupid but you can just ignore me ....a lot of people do.
 
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zazz said:
It's ok kulit ....I was half expecting some detailed response regarding the wal preamp ...and maybe some surprising subtleties on its character.....but it's ok...really ..... Your response dare I say it is condescending .....
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sorry if i came of as condescending, which wasn't what i was going for, just wanted to give an example.

if we're talking about tone characteristic like J said, instead of saying passive, lets say flat.

i find it to be a HUGE disservice to people to give wrong info, so saying a Wal is passive is quite the contrary (unless you have the aforementioned types).
 
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kulit17 said:
i find it to be a HUGE disservice to people to give wrong info, so saying a Wal is passive is quite the contrary (unless you have the aforementioned types).
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No worries..... I never stated wals were passive .....I was merely enquiring as to the possibility that they might exhibit a passive character at a certain setting.... ie tone 10. A lot of peddles have what they call a pseudo bypass where they mimic true bypass but cease to work when you pull out the batteries.....I assumed that everyone knew I meant this....I should have been more clear....sorry about that.


I just read back kernodie said as much.....thanks.
 

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