Recent content by Bob Growler

I bought a 1997 Streamer Pro M in October for a little under $1500. (GC had a 10% off used sale, and this had been hanging for a while) The early Pro M’s came with Wenge necks and a brass JAN 1 nut, which is a big selling point. I put a broken in set of LaBella Deep Talking Gold Flat’s on the...

I have an NG3, see avatar. I prefer lighter bass strings. I have used the Payson Fanned Fret Medium Light Nickel's and like them. I got an email this morning, they are having a sale till 3/30. 20% discount with code: SPRING20. Payson Fanned Bass Strings NS Medium Light They would be...

Selling Tito's To Tourists

Geezers, I put Geezers on my 93 Fortress (passive) four string and have an old set of chromes on it. It is what I grab when a thumpy four string is needed

My #1: 2017 NG-2 upgrade to NG-3.

Started playing upright in 5th grade orchestra (1970) added electric bass in 7th grade Jazz band. First garage band 1974, high school freshman year. Stopped playing in college. Started again about ten years ago.

Over the past 3 years, I have tried several of my basses, including my EUB, playing in our local "Big Band". My fav is an old Warwick Fortress One, passive, EMG Geezer P/J pups, strung with broken in Chrome flats. Sounds great in the mix with all that brass!

I am assuming the P-Tone's are the same. After switching the positions of the original pups, the only issues we had were solved by switching the positive and negative leads on the P-Tone going to the Std 3 PU switch (not D-Bird). Works like a champ!

Cool - and nice pickguard! Did you cut it or have it made? It was made by WD Music and fitted by my Luthier, Brooks Cobb, who also installed the P-Tone. I am extremely happy with the overall upgrade and completely understand why Dingwall is simplifying the NG-2 to -3 upgrade!

We got this configuration to work after about three attempts on my 2017 NG-2 . First, switch the original bridge pu to the middle and the neck to the bridge. Wire the P-Tone in reverse to the instructions. Fixes phase issues. Good Luck!

Here is a picture of my two Sandbergs Merry Christmas!

I have Luminlays installed on two of my gigging basses. I love them even though they start fading immediately. I keep the charger in my pocket and recharge the dots between songs as needed. Will probably add them to my NG-2, although the Maple Board provides better visual contrast then...

And the finished product! Thanks to Luthier Brooks Cobb, for the install of P-Tone and custom snakeskin pick guard from WD Music. Thanks to Jeff at Dingwall support for guidance! Sounds amazing!

Here's a photo showing the strap tuck. Neck dive not an issue either way. Correcting body tilt has more to do with the size of my "beer gut" then the bass.