Kev

7 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Of course it is the same to vintage fenders. A few years ago you couldn't give a 70s fender away, and now they go for crazy prices. There are certainly many orders of magnitudes more 70s and 80s fender basses than wals in their entire run. They can't be considered even slightly rare and you can buy a fender without waiting built the same way and save a fair bit.

 

Obviously there are changes in the last 6 years or so that have added to 50% of the price to stuff, the fact our money is worth a lot less, but there is still a false idea of rare driving those prices up.

Its honestly nothing like vintage Fenders.  Their value is wholly attributed to their age and era, neither of which has any significant impact on the price of a Wal. 

It also makes me sick as a pig that I sold my Wal for £3.6k 7 years ago (which I thought was mad at the time, easiest £1k profit I've ever made) and, if i'd have sat on it, I'd be in a rather nice position right now.

13 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

I am not sure why it is an issue - if you have £12k for a wal, buy it, you aren't hurting anyone, you aren't forcing other people to pay more for something. It is a crazy price to pay for something like that, but so are vintage fenders etc, all the time people buy them they will go up. 

It's not an "issue", its just a bizarre curiosity.  Its nothing like comparing them to vintage Fenders.  They're not rare, they're not disontinued, you can buy a Wal, built in exactly the same way, right now, and you'd save thousands.  You would just need to wait a few years.  I can't imagine being so impatient and so wasteful with money, especially in these times, but obviously some people are happy to do it.  Just so odd.

Probably the biggest reason I don't own a C4 is because I can't easily trigger it with my Quad Cortex.  This is still a faff, but if its really keenly priced, I mean realllllly keenly, it may be tempting.

Wasn't there talk of the C4 being upgrade to a full sized pedal with proper midi ports?

So they're all gone, anyone grab one?

27 minutes ago, jonno1981 said:

I thought the pnut was neck through? Maybe memory failed me. Interesting to scroll through and see the price of a thumb nt4 these days. £6k!!!! 

It is, this is the lower end bolt on version of it made in the Far East.  The German version must be around the £7k/£8k mark these days.

The Sklar is actually a Rockbass, so forget that one.  But they have a couple of those P Nuts and they look fantastic for the money, must have been around the £1600 mark when they were sold new about a decade ago.

I know they'v done this a couple of times before, but a few NOS Artist Line Warwicks have shown  up on Thomann again, at bonkers prices really for 2023!

P Nut £888: https://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_al_p_nut_4_nb_showroom.htm

Lee Sklar £979: https://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_artist_line_sklarbass_i_vsth.htm

EDIT* So the Sklar is a well disguised Rockbass so isn't actually a bargain, but the P Nut is from the old Artist series circa 2012 ish, well worth the money.

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

 

No it isn't.

 

Every bit of evasion leads to higher taxes for the rest of us. Tax rates are set in part by reference to those who will try to evade. So the rest of us are your victims.

 

Yes. It is morally and legally wrong.

True, but have you every received goods from overseas that have not attracted tax/duty fees but should have, and did you immedaitely call customs and excise to pay what you think you should owe?  I think we've all been guilty of this type of evasion at one time or another.

11 hours ago, ern500evo said:

About £50 including postage to the UK 

Crazy really, it wasn't that long ago that new non-knock off drive pedals would cost that much.

Perhaps if it was £25 and sounded half decent, or it was a clone of a £400+ pedal, but there's just not enough incentive for me to consider over the used, reliable, value retaining real thing.

How much are they?  Used Alpha Omicron must be somewhere between £110-£130 mark with almost 0% depreciation if you choose to sell again, so saving needs to be really quite decent to risk the knock off?

I'd love if you presented the comparison as a blind sound sample test; stick up three recordings of the same part, one with the Wal, one with the new neck and one with the Fender neck, and set up a poll for each track to see who thinks what is what?  

I still like Mi-Fi 

I daresay in the current market this is a bargain for a rare special bass.

27 minutes ago, TomWIC said:

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I've just got one of these on eBay and I'm wondering whether my Voodoo Pedal Power 2 Plus is going to cope okay with this. Does anyone have any experience using them together?

Its rated at 500ma and you're going to want to give it at least 400ma for it to function right (youll get away with that, dimmer leds etc), but no less.  The Voodoo can only manage 250ma which won't cut it I'm afraid, unless they do a current double cable and you can combine both of the 250ma outputs.

HiMi

As in High fidelity, but in a midi controller way.  Simple but effective.

Midi McMidiface

What made you do these modifications, and why are you now selling after all this work? 🙂

Cases don't scream MEC, they look high gloss plastic.  Unless the gloss is from heavy wear?  Which would explain why the logos are gone.

I'd wager they are the original MEC pickups if the bass makes no sound without a battery with the push-pull switch up? As there aren't many aftermarket active pickup options.

What a comedi-hen.  Looks a bit clucked to me.

That preamp sounds good!  Seems a big step forward from the ACG, which I'm not too surprised by from my experience with that pre.  Exceptionally clean and lacking in character.

I'm still truly sceptical of the impact of the new neck, but I'm definitely keen to be proven wrong!

Amazon winning out for me, NYXL set I use is £29 at the mo, which makes it a good deal, when Stringsdirect sells the same set for £40.

Also, its worth watching Amazon strings.  They walk the price down over time, before increasing it after a certainly number of sales.  The last NYXL set I bought I watched it fall to £26 before buying, next day it was up to £32.  Get them added to your basket and keep an eye on them.

4 hours ago, derekjw said:

Sold Ander a Darkglass Photon today. Went very smoothly, great communication. Enjoy!

A little off topic but nice to see you on here bud!

4 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Unless these are significantly cheaper than the 500W versions - what is the point?

 

They all have volume controls.

It doesn't look like it competes with the Trace Elliot and the like for size, and presume its still IEC powered, so I don't see any point unless its silly cheap, which I can't imagine it will be.

There was a time when Darkglass innovated and shook the market with game changing products.

Now we have releases like the B1K and this.