Dingwall Owners Club

[EMoneySC2]

Thanks, I can see how you would use the cab sim for that. I don’t really play with dirt. I’m happy with a little sponge, a little natural breakup. Still playing pretty clean.

Sounds like you are building a massive rig! I had a pair of 15/6/1’s. That’s a fEarsome rig. I ended up downsizing to a pair of 12/6 cubes. I sure like building those cabs. Fun projects. And great sounding cabs.

The alpha omega is still tempting. I had the b3k for a while, but moved it along.
I’ll wait till the buzz dies down and pluck a used AO from the Talkbass used pedal river. Until then I’ll keep messing around with the dirt in the Zoom B3. Maybe experiment a bit more with the cab sims.

The Alpha Omega is a fun pedal, and with the EQ, Alpha/Omega side dirt, and bite/growl switches you can really cover a lot of territory with it! I've got the Darkglass Alpha Omicron, Reiner Gasoline, Damnation MBD-1, and Darkglass B7K Ultra all on my pedalboard...all unique and usable. I've played around with different modulation and time effects, and none of those really jived with me on bass...so I'm all about the dirt!

 

[EMoneySC2]

Thanks, I can see how you would use the cab sim for that. I don’t really play with dirt. I’m happy with a little sponge, a little natural breakup. Still playing pretty clean.

Sounds like you are building a massive rig! I had a pair of 15/6/1’s. That’s a fEarsome rig. I ended up downsizing to a pair of 12/6 cubes. I sure like building those cabs. Fun projects. And great sounding cabs.

The alpha omega is still tempting. I had the b3k for a while, but moved it along.
I’ll wait till the buzz dies down and pluck a used AO from the Talkbass used pedal river. Until then I’ll keep messing around with the dirt in the Zoom B3. Maybe experiment a bit more with the cab sims.

Another note on the OmniCabSim...using an analog cab sim pedal is really fun with a fEARful rig, which honestly reproduces what you put in to them. I set my cab sim to something that suits my DI practicing at home or recording, but when I get to band practice I can "tune" my cabs to suite my exact needs in just a few seconds. It's a really powerful tool once you get familiar with it.

 

[NaH]

Was at a reception tonight where some school kids were playing background music for. Kid on bass couldn't have been more than 13. Would've run circles around me. Time for some practice.

 

[xnewyorka]

My ABZ came with only the small dot position markers on the fretboard, and I knew I would have wanted Speedo bars or something bigger like that so that I could see where I was on the neck. I found the dots just too small for my aging eyes, and they are sort of blocked by the strings anyway. I found these stick on mock inlay blocks on Amazon for about $10, and they are fantastic. They are made of some sort of aluminum foil with an adhesive that is reasonably strong, but totally removable. I am delighted with the results - reminds me of Eddie Murphy at the beginning of the movie Trading Places -- "I can see! I can see!"

I wanted to cut them on an angle to make them look like the factory ones, but that would have made them so narrow as to look very silly because of the steep angle on the lower notes, so I opted to just leave them uncut, figuring if they looked horrible, I could just toss them in the trash and get another set. But they're actually decent like this. I lined up the edge of the sticker exactly with the edge of each dot to cover it. Had to get a little fancy on the octaves (double dots) by cutting the stickers in half. Not winning any awards for aesthetics, but it gets the job done, and will allow me to enjoy this bass a lot more.

 

[Subscript]

Does anyone know what the wait times are like on Canadian builds these days?

 

[Matt Dean]

Very interesting! Did you experiment with putting the compressor before the alpha omega and find it sounded better after it? I just assumed it should go before, and never even tried testing with it after before assembling my pedalboard. Now you've got me wondering if I should rip it apart and experiment some more.

And how do you find the MDB-1 compared to the AO?

I too would like to hear a response to this @Matt Dean

I’ve tried the Cali CB on both ends of my signal chain and find I like my dirt better without additional compression, and I've found that I like the CB better at the end where it takes what ever I’m feeding it and magic sauces it. Regarding the AO and MBD-1, they’re completely different animals. While they are both full range dirt pedals (low OD to higher gain distortions) the MBD-1 is more about thickness and the OA is more about notchedness.

 

[been_effected]

Regarding the AO and MBD-1, they’re completely different animals. While they are both full range dirt pedals (low OD to higher gain distortions) the MBD-1 is more about thickness and the OA is more about notchedness.

It's interesting you say that re: thickness - I've been finding with my AO that it retains that low end so much better than any other drive pedal I've had. Definitely making me curious about the MBD-1 then *shuffles pedalboard around yet again*

 

[Matt Dean]

It's interesting you say that re: thickness - I've been finding with my AO that it retains that low end so much better than any other drive pedal I've had. Definitely making me curious about the MBD-1 then *shuffles pedalboard around yet again*

The MBD-1 sets the bar for retaining thick-A low end. There is nothing else like it. The AO also has great low end retention and I love the DG EQ. But, the AO frequencies are notched to give it its signature flavor.

 

[yaksonator]

Does anyone else turn the treble completely off on their NG2's? I do and I love it.

 

[AB Nate]

Does anyone know what the wait times are like on Canadian builds these days?

I think the last anyone said anything it was about 18 months

 

[Energy]

My ABZ came with only the small dot position markers on the fretboard, and I knew I would have wanted Speedo bars or something bigger like that so that I could see where I was on the neck. I found the dots just too small for my aging eyes, and they are sort of blocked by the strings anyway. I found these stick on mock inlay blocks on Amazon for about $10, and they are fantastic. They are made of some sort of aluminum foil with an adhesive that is reasonably strong, but totally removable. I am delighted with the results - reminds me of Eddie Murphy at the beginning of the movie Trading Places -- "I can see! I can see!"

I wanted to cut them on an angle to make them look like the factory ones, but that would have made them so narrow as to look very silly because of the steep angle on the lower notes, so I opted to just leave them uncut, figuring if they looked horrible, I could just toss them in the trash and get another set. But they're actually decent like this. I lined up the edge of the sticker exactly with the edge of each dot to cover it. Had to get a little fancy on the octaves (double dots) by cutting the stickers in half. Not winning any awards for aesthetics, but it gets the job done, and will allow me to enjoy this bass a lot more.

You should've cut the edges to be parallel to the edges of the fretboard.

 

[Musicman1901]

It's interesting you say that re: thickness - I've been finding with my AO that it retains that low end so much better than any other drive pedal I've had. Definitely making me curious about the MBD-1 then *shuffles pedalboard around yet again*

I have not tried the A/O yet but I’ll say the MBD-1 is insanely thick. The bottom end is crazy

 

[Musicman1901]

I think the last anyone said anything it was about 18 months

That is painful, maybe I’m just impatient. I’d almost rather just compromise a little on what I wanted and scoop something from the classifieds. That’s just such a long wait!

 

[packrat]

Did the early super Ps come with a basic tone rather than tone fusion and are they retrofittable?

Thanks

 

[xnewyorka]

You should've cut the edges to be parallel to the edges of the fretboard.

I did originally plan to do that. But then when I tested that idea using plain white paper, the wide ones ended up being EXTREMELY short, and I thought it looked very silly. So I decided to leave them full size in order to get more of a visual effect of having them there. It does look very silly in the photo, but I can assure you that while I am playing the bass and looking down at it, it looks fine. And for me, it makes the bass 100 times easier to play, so I am happy with it. Nobody else has to see it but me.

I would have preferred to have them like the ones in this photo, but then I thought that having the bars PLUS the dots would look even more silly.

 

[Energy]

And for me, it makes the bass 100 times easier to play, so I am happy with it.

That's all that matters!

 

[BurningSkies]

#me too!
I can’t go back and I’m down to one SP5 too... I’m also down with the ocean of pedals.

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Since we're pulling apart your pedal board...question for you. I have and IE/XD and while I have no trouble hitting it with some fuzz or overdrive in the 4-pole setting and getting some crazy stuff, but I can't seem to get it to work clean, especially in the 2-pole for straight up funk style stuff. Any thoughts on that and what you're doing to hit it to work for such things? The envelope just ends up sounding weak and wimpy and not really triggering much action. There's a great video on YT with a Dingwall AB into it in 2 pole and it sounds fantastic for straight up clean funkiness, but with similar bass and similar setup I get no love.

 

[Musicman1901]

Since we're pulling apart your pedal board...question for you. I have and IE/XD and while I have no trouble hitting it with some fuzz or overdrive in the 4-pole setting and getting some crazy stuff, but I can't seem to get it to work clean, especially in the 2-pole for straight up funk style stuff. Any thoughts on that and what you're doing to hit it to work for such things? The envelope just ends up sounding weak and wimpy and not really triggering much action. There's a great video on YT with a Dingwall AB into it in 2 pole and it sounds fantastic for straight up clean funkiness, but with similar bass and similar setup I get no love.

I found myself having similar problems when I had that filter. It has killer tone but I found it difficult to use in a lot of ways, especially in a live setting. The slightest tweak to any knob, volume, or technique would alter it so drastically.

 

[Flabzilla]

Since we're pulling apart your pedal board...question for you. I have and IE/XD and while I have no trouble hitting it with some fuzz or overdrive in the 4-pole setting and getting some crazy stuff, but I can't seem to get it to work clean, especially in the 2-pole for straight up funk style stuff. Any thoughts on that and what you're doing to hit it to work for such things? The envelope just ends up sounding weak and wimpy and not really triggering much action. There's a great video on YT with a Dingwall AB into it in 2 pole and it sounds fantastic for straight up clean funkiness, but with similar bass and similar setup I get no love.

I recently bought a Xerograph Deluxe; I found I couldn’t get the envelope to open unless I put a boost before it. Annoying.

 

[Musicman1901]

I recently bought a Xerograph Deluxe; I found I couldn’t get the envelope to open unless I put a boost before it. Annoying.

I found it to be a very annoying pedal in a lot of ways but god it sounded so good