Musicman666

1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:

This reads as if you're playing your bass through the monitors and recording the result (with a mic, I presume...). Is that really the case..? It's far more common to either play the bass directly into the DAW or recorder and add Fx as required, or play through an amp-cab and capture the result with a mic (very often both are done at once ...).
I'd say that it's quite unusual to use monitors as a source signal for recording bass, or anything else. Apart from not doing the monitors any good, they are not designed for that. Maybe I've mis-understood (it wouldn't be the first time ...).

I am planning to play out through my mixing desk  ...my question was are the lp-6 monitors man enough to cope with a bass guitar as a replacement for say the double four? ...if I do get the double four I would still take the di from it into the desk, I personally can’t see a huge advantage to ever miking the speaker for bass. 
 

just seems like the double four is essentially a small bookshelf monitor ...so why duplicate?

59 minutes ago, xgsjx said:

I've not used mine in anger, but I've played bassw & subby synth bass through them at a decent volume (well I do use them for recording & mixing).  They give a very clear sound & fairly uncoloured.

Encouraging ....

I was kicking around the idea of something like a pjb double four to do my garage studio practice/recording sessions because my ancient near field book shelf monitors on my recording setup were not handling the low b  ....but suddenly it dawned on me that I should just invest in better active monitors!!

so could these kali 6 monitors do what the double four does? ...I have a sansamp that could warm it up but what I am looking for is a low volume punchy bouncy bass setup that would essentially be my recording sound as well??

For some odd reason sir John Harvey Jones and Morgan cars keeps flashing across my mind whenever I look at this thread...go figure. 

2 hours ago, itu said:

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/444788-experimental-prototype-bass-i-hope/page/9/#comments

There's a cost analysis, if you want to calculate the profit. I used the minimum wages £8.91, but do you think his work is worth some more, do you?

My guess is that the personnel at WAL can live with their work, but I doubt that's a gold mine.

Let's say they (I assume there are only 2 persons, and I have excluded all outsourced work) build 4 instruments per month, around 40 per year (holidays etc.). 40 x £7 000 = £280 000.

Subtract parts that may be something like £700 / instrument, round a little in case something breaks = £30 000. We have now £250 000 left.

The very low rental of the workshop is £1 250 / month = £15 000. £235 000 left.

Because the workers need to pay pension costs (£1 200 / month / person), insurance (£3 000), update tools (£ 1 000) etc. these yearly costs could be in the ballpark of £35 000. I need to point out that this is very rough guestimation and the costs are probably substantially higher. £200 000 left.

Divide this to two, and we get £100 000 per person, which is £8 300 / month and after taxes maybe £5 500 / month. Gold diggers? I might call them hard working men.

 it makes you wonder how other companies manage to turn any kind of profit at all?

So presumably if the bass is natively set up for bead then other than a slight truss rod adjustment it should be a straight swap on a lighter string set to go to eadg?

ps ...just noticed that status use a zero fret ...so i guess thinner strings shouldn't really be an issue in this case.

Is it possible to experiment with various string gauges on a status headless bass or are you constricted by some form of nut slot size?

I was hoping a status headless bass might be a good platform in which to easily swap between bead and eadg string sets without having to get any work done on the nut. So is this the case or is there more to it than that assuming the bass would be initially set up for the wider gauge bead tuning? Thanks.

10 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Looks like there won’t be any more new orders being taken for the time being 😬

”Hi All  :Just the current status of ordering and pricing of new Wal bass

The demand for our basses continues to exceed our production capacity and our delivery time has now stretched to over four years. We cannot commit to prices that far in advance - current prices start from £6,950 + shipping. At this moment we are no longer accepting new orders until the backlog has reduced. Please let us know if you would like us to add you to our list to contact once when we are accepting orders again”.

(Taken from FB)

6950??.... I wonder what the profit margin is?  it would be good to see the company futureproof itself by delegating to a larger workforce and bringing the prices down a bit.  But having read this I'm just glad i managed to pick up a 1990 markii a few years ago. Stupidly i sold my first wal for  a few hundred quid in the late 90s because I needed the space thinking I will just pick up another later on since they are obviously not worth much, boy did I get that one wrong.