Product: Wal Pro Bass v 1
Price Paid: US $900 used
Submitted
03/30/2005
at
08:59am
by
Thomas
Email: none
Features
:
10
Run of the mill (for a Wal):
4-string fretless, small markers on the side of the neck, fret markers.
Body Made of heavy laminated (light brown) wood with a very nice and durable transparent finish.
Black plastic pickguard with two humbuckers.
Knobs - Master volume, two volume, two tone. And they go to 11 (no kidding)
A little switch for each pickup (should be series/parallel, is gorgeus/wow).
Pickup selector.
Passive electronics (I think... must be solar powered though then... I haven't had to change any batteries yet), one mono jack output.
No spots of bad workmanship or skimping.
Sound
:
10
You can make your Mick Karn thing, if you want (he'd probably advise you to try playing something of your own instead).
I use it for home recording, so I haven't tried it much with amps. I wouldn't worry if I had to though. It can do anything.
Otherwise, I find it sounds very good when DI'd with no additional processing. A (real bassist) friend watched in awe when I showed him my bass over the studio monitors. He had a hard time accepting there was no compressors/limiters or EQ on.
If they made good studio fretless bass sound on a tin, it would be labelled Wal.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
I bought it used, but it is rather old and still in very good shape.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
If I lost it, I'd definitely get another one if I could afford it. If it got stolen, I'd hunt the %?% down and shoot him like a dog. Twice.
