Dingwall: More than Metal

[SpectorDetector]

What's the best Sklar for metal?

You must find the metal within yourself...

 

[Dr. Cheese]

It's in Wilmington on College Road.

Thanks!

 

[MDBass]

That's the part that made me chuckle a bit; all over youtube that brand has a "metal bass" image. Kind of like Ibanez guitars.

And yet on the website Leland Sklar is the only artist who has a signature series, and he's not metal.

Ah, you're right. I stand corrected.

The Hellboy is Rob van der Loo’s signature model as well

 

[krfoss]

It hasn't been mentioned, but Stefan lessard from Dave Matthews band has been playing dingwalls lately, and I think Dave Matthews is as far from metal as one can get. Of course lessard is a huge metalhead, so it makes sense that he's playing a dingwall and darkglass amp, but he plays clean 95% of the time.

 

[MDBass]

No offense, but I don't think any metal bassists use those beyond Nolly fanboys.

Respectfully, that shows you aren’t very familiar with the genre or the basses.

The NG is just a Combustion with a different preamp and pickguard: the bodies are universally routed, so you can easily set up a Combustion with the NG pickup configuration or vice versa.

The bassists from Spiritbox, Bad Wolves, Volumes, Devin Townsend, and a bunch of other big metal bands use NG’s.

 

[MDBass]

It hasn't been mentioned, but Stefan lessard from Dave Matthews band has been playing dingwalls lately, and I think Dave Matthews is as far from metal as one can get. Of course lessard is a huge metalhead, so it makes sense that he's playing a dingwall and darkglass amp, but he plays clean 95% of the time.

Will Shively from Boyz II Men as well…though he’s much less of a metal head than Stefan

 

[JimmyM]

I don’t know who came up with the idea that instruments are genre specific, but it’s a really shallow and dumb idea that has to be the creation of internet nitwits.

 

[definenredefine]

Thanks!

Sure thing!

 

[Razman]

I don’t know who came up with the idea that instruments are genre specific, but it’s a really shallow and dumb idea that has to be the creation of internet nitwits.

Must have been the creator of the Jazz bass?

 

[definenredefine]

Lol..."more than metal"

My first Dingwall in 2003 was my workhorse covering jazz combos to P&W to pit orchestras to post hardcore. My main these days holds it down for disco, funk, R&B, acoustic singer/songwriters, indie rock... Quite literally whatever's paying this week.

Next we'll see a video about how P basses are for "more than Motown"

To be fair, I would argue that the P bass tone is pretty classic for punk rock...

 

[JimmyM]

Must have been the creator of the Jazz bass?

So what did he do as soon as it came out? Give one to Joe Osborn, who was playing with Ricky Nelson at the time

 

[JimmyM]

To be fair, I would argue that the P bass tone is pretty classic for punk rock...

It’s pretty classic for anything.

 

[definenredefine]

It’s pretty classic for anything.

Fair.

 

[davio]

To be fair, I would argue that the P bass tone is pretty classic for punk rock...

See? We're off to a good start. A couple more and we'll have enough for a video!

 

[VoodooJazz]

I think the metal tone comes from the Darkglass preamps. My go-to is an early 90’s pre-fire Voodoo 5. It has Bartolini pickups (with Bartolini covers) and a (probably) Bartolini preamp. It has a big, even, warm, wonderful set of tones that are good for just about any type of music. I’ve also played a Z model with the Glockenklang preamp and it’s also quite nice, and not metal-y.

YMMV of course, but they are a joy to play and sound wonderful.

I find the D-Roc very attractive, but the Darkglass preamp is a non-starter for my tastes. Probably the only reason I don’t have one.

 

[MDBass]

I think the metal tone comes from the Darkglass preamps. My go-to is an early 90’s pre-fire Voodoo 5. It has Bartolini pickups (with Bartolini covers) and a (probably) Bartolini preamp. It has a big, even, warm, wonderful set of tones that are good for just about any type of music. I’ve also played a Z model with the Glockenklang preamp and it’s also quite nice, and not metal-y.

YMMV of course, but they are a joy to play and sound wonderful.

I find the D-Roc very attractive, but the Darkglass preamp is a non-starter for my tastes. Probably the only reason I don’t have one.

The D-Roc is fully passive, no preamp at all.

 

[Ethereal Thorn]

No offense, but I don't think any metal bassists use those beyond Nolly fanboys.

There are tons

 

[cnltb]

Of course dingwall is good for things other than metal.

No news there.

...as goes for the assumption that they may work without darkglass pedals or preamps/amps.

 

[tvbop]

Lee Sklar has a Signature Dingwall model. What does that tell you?

Nothing really. From when I first heard it back in 74 that tone he gets on "Your Smilin face" is his plain ole P bass.....incredible tone. I suspect he plays the DWall more for feel than tone.

 

[Ethereal Thorn]

If you are looking into trying a Dingwall and dont want to play metal I recommend trying to find a model other then the Ng series with the darkglass preamp unless you've already tried a bass with that preamp and like it enough to play non metal based music. That preamp is a big part of that type of sound