Where is all the Dingwall love? Been kind of quite around here the last couple of weeks. Are we all just jaded owners now? LOL
Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Dingwall Owners Club
- Thread starter FroggyOne2
- Start date
Your photo looks better than his - congratulations on the new member of the family
Not so much without photos
Not so much without photos
The you go Nate. I was actually waiting for my custom guitar storage cabinet to get done to upload the photos but the things not even close to getting done. It's 5 month late.
The Z3 is one phenomenal bass. It really does everything. A gigging musician interested in expanding his/her technical horizon wouldn't need anything more. It's really the terminus of some sort. Some would disagree with what I am about to write, but the evolution has reached to a point that from here on, it would "devolve'' into something seeking more specific if you tweaked it up. The full spectrum is so wide, I have a feeling only a handful of people can utilize the full potential of the Z3.
Dingwalls are great basses. As a company it seems like they're making instruments that strive to be the final answer beyond the Fender J and P. It's not a copy of the Fender. They took that terminus that Fender put on the map that satisfies many if not most and found that there was another final station.
Many companies are trying to do this, which is why there are so many copies of the Jazz and Precision, but only a few have a clear vision of what they want to do. Dingwall is one of the few that gets it right. It's easy to tell that they aren't in the business because that's the only thing Sheldon can do. If Sheldon starting making bagels, he would make excellent bagels and become successful selling them all around the world. He has a clear vision and is a good businessman and as simple as it sounds, it's not that easy.
Anyway there you go, my Dingwalls. Some of the greatest basses ever made!!
The Z3 is one phenomenal bass. It really does everything. A gigging musician interested in expanding his/her technical horizon wouldn't need anything more. It's really the terminus of some sort. Some would disagree with what I am about to write, but the evolution has reached to a point that from here on, it would "devolve'' into something seeking more specific if you tweaked it up. The full spectrum is so wide, I have a feeling only a handful of people can utilize the full potential of the Z3.
Dingwalls are great basses. As a company it seems like they're making instruments that strive to be the final answer beyond the Fender J and P. It's not a copy of the Fender. They took that terminus that Fender put on the map that satisfies many if not most and found that there was another final station.
Many companies are trying to do this, which is why there are so many copies of the Jazz and Precision, but only a few have a clear vision of what they want to do. Dingwall is one of the few that gets it right. It's easy to tell that they aren't in the business because that's the only thing Sheldon can do. If Sheldon starting making bagels, he would make excellent bagels and become successful selling them all around the world. He has a clear vision and is a good businessman and as simple as it sounds, it's not that easy.
Anyway there you go, my Dingwalls. Some of the greatest basses ever made!!
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
I believe it's and ash/alder body with ash top and maple neck with wenge board. Color is green burst and I mounted the extender on the B string. It was so long ago, I kind of forgot the specs...... Sorry about that.
Well if you're in Kiev Ukraine, you're more than welcome to come try it out.
Like others, after 2 years, I never tire of my Dingwall SJ5XXX, but at practice for the last 3 weeks I've been getting into the sweet parallel tone of my SPJ5. Makes it easy to not have any gear lust even for other Dingwalls, I'm so lucky and happy with these 2 world leading class basses.
Has anyone tried both a FD3 and FDV bridge pickup in a Super PJ 5? Which did you prefer and how would you describe the difference?
Now I want a 3X Prima Artist bagel......
IvanBassist
Commercial User
- Jun 8, 2008
- 3,747
- 11,134
- Disclosures
- Content Manager at Darkglass Electronics, Dingwall Guitars Artist
I've weighed in on this before, but to summarize, of course IMO, the FD3 are wide range PUPs which work well in the non-bridge position. In the bridge, the bass tone is muted, the treble is emphasized, which is not a useful tone for my personal taste, but does add sparkle to the tone, useful for recording, but useless live, again my opinion.
The FDV has a strong mid range tone, but without serious tone sculpting is not useful solo'd in the bridge. What it does do, is add more presence to the bridge position, which is more pleasing to me, making the parallel setting more useful, and in fact I am using it as much as the P PUP solo'd, or series in my SPJ5, so it gives me 3 very useful and pleasing tones, without it I had 2.
A realistic answer, I have a feeling the Prima has two pickups at the optimal position with their build and setup.
Personally I think a Prima with 3x would be a very fancy version of the Z3. Having both, the Prima almost sound European, (for a lack of term). It is totally different. The usual term like piano like clarity but has warmth and fatness apply to this bass. While the Z3 can mimic a lot of different basses the Prima is in a tone category of it's own.
The Prima is very well thought out. I have a feeling they made a lot of prototypes to dial in the pickup and positions. It's complete in itself. As all you owners know, you don't have to tweak the preamp on Dingwalls. This is especially true for the Prima. I just change the selector and keep the preamp on default middle setting. It's got a lot of nobs but interestingly, you don't need them.
Thank you sir!!! What a beautiful collection and well stated. I couldn’t agree more. The sad thing is, as much as I do want to try other luthiers masterpieces because I understand they are quality amazing instruments also I have really lost most interest in going out of my way to do so or spend any solid investment either.....
Dingwall all the time baby!!!
Does you Z have FD3s and a glockenklang? Did you buy it new and how old is she? Same questions for the prima ?
Prima is about 3.5 years old, I think. I really have no idea about the internals of the Prima. Bought brand new. I think this is the one on the Dingwall site.
The Z was ordered about mid 2016 and took about 15 months to make. For logistics reasons I couldn't get my hands on it for a good 6 months after completion. FD3 and glock. I had another Z3. A used one. It was great but I just couldn't resist getting a brand new one because I wanted a natural grain look. having no bass in green, I decided to order this in green burst.
As you mentioned there are other great luthiers but Dingwall stands out along with a handful of others because of their professionalism. Luthiers seem to be more artists than professionals and that can create problems in delivery time, consistent quality, and overall demeanor. I recommend custom Dingwall to others when they want to take all the BS out of the equation. You figure out the build, pay, and just wait. It comes perfect to your door step. This is rare when you deal with artists. Is it expensive? Depends. I personally can't deal with something needing a setup upon delivery so I don't think it's all that expensive. I just want to plug it in, tune it up and play. Dingwall checks all the boxes for me.
