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Here is the closest your going to get. Mids and highs are a bit more tin sounding than the Wal but are close. Unfortunately the E string does not have the Wal "growl" that is VERY present in all Tool recording using the Wal. You can also hear the "growl" im talking about in most of the songs on RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magik [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/remiiiiiii#p/u/11/mzQPru77h-U"]Wal Copy that is pretty close on mids and highs[/url]

[quote name='blind pilot' post='979243' date='Oct 6 2010, 06:20 AM']46&2 was just unreal, everyone commented on how much I have nailed the tone.[/quote] Thats pretty funny considering thats an EBMM tone that you "nailed" and not the Wal that was used to record 46&2 I have played a gazillion basses and NOTHING comes close to the UNIQUE sound of the Wal. Some of the mids and highs of other basses can sound a little like it but the low end there is nothing. Here is proof!....If you dont have a vid or audio file to post to compare to disagree with my comment dont bother wasting your time replying. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYHdOR6TvU"]Wal MKI DEMO[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtM-rKr-ueI"]Wal MKII DEMO[/url]

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='675471' date='Dec 6 2009, 05:05 AM']+1 Looking at the OP's original question 'Wal bass are they really worth the premium?' is interesting.. To me it implies that there is a premium added to the cost of buying a Wal just because of the brand/name, which is a fair question. But having thought about it, I personally don't think that's the case at all. To work out how a Wal bass is priced you would have to take into account the cost of the build materials, the considerable labour involved in making each bass, the general overheads of running a small company with a limited production run each year and of course, whatever it actually cost to buy the 'Wal' name and set up again from scratch as Paul Herman has recently done.. Given all of those factors I would say that, on balance, I don't think there's a 'premium' involved. Unlike larger companies like Fender, Warwick, Yamaha for example, Wal can only make a small number of basses each month so their income levels are obviously restricted by the quantity they produce. And in order to stay true to the original vision of the company and the expectations of their customers, they can't simply up their production numbers to bring prices down. After that, it's simply down to what a customer is prepared to pay, isn't it? As someone's already said, there's a big difference between the 'price' and the 'value' of something. For me, the price of any bass that I want to buy isn't what determines whether I'll buy it or not; it's the value I place upon it that drives me to buy it. And whilst upwards of £3200 is a lot of money to me and probably most people on here, to someone who can afford it, it's probably not going to seem like a lot of money to them in order to buy the bass they want![/quote] +1 very well put and i agree! I think mine is worth every penny, and would love to own a new Wal. Especially being in a Tool Tribute i wouldnt play anything else but [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtM-rKr-ueI"]Tool-Vicarious cover on the MKII[/url]