Dingwall Owners Club

[BurningSkies]

What sort of flashlight is that, please? I play a lot of scenes where that'd be useful.

Charlie, it's this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075T9M46C/

I bought a few other UV LED lights and this is the best of them, even though one was more than $60. It has a usb port and rechargeable battery.

 

[Passinwind]

Charlie, it's this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075T9M46C/

I bought a few other UV LED lights and this is the best of them, even though one was more than $60. It has a usb port and rechargeable battery.

Cool, thanks. I had to build up some crazy big infrared ones for underwater night video at my old job, but not needing to have to go DIY is always fine by me these days.

Oh, and that bass came out killer!

 

[BurningSkies]

Cool, thanks. I had to build up some crazy big infrared ones for underwater night video at my old job, but not needing to have to go DIY is always fine by me these days.

Oh, and that bass came out killer!

I have a few of the super cheap 4 element LED ones (something like 3w) and they're compact but not worth much. I also have one of these, which is 6w, but more compact:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J3ZDSSD/

Also works fine, but isn't quite as powerful and with things like luminlay I think the goal is to blast it the best you can for a short while.

Yeah, Mo did a great job. He'll never take a job like this on again though.

 

[Passinwind]

Yeah, Mo did a great job. He'll never take a job like this one again though.

I've been in that movie, both directing and acting. Directing is more fun!

 

[BurningSkies]

I've been in that movie, both directing and acting. Directing is more fun!

I think neither of us knew what the job would extend to...then I threw the Piezo/electronics thing on top...which should have been straightforward had not every bit along the way needed customizing, then replacing. Mo was a gentleman and didn't back down though. Wasn't cheap, but worth it.

 

[AB Nate]

It's a black light you use to light them up, so if there is black light on stage, I am sure that will affect them and make them glow even better.

Thanks much

 

[NaH]

Been thinking I didn't give the Z neck a chance (not to mention I love mandolin frets), so I picked this up and it arrived today. Maybe not the best background for it.

This is a shot without the flash (this is what it usually looks like - wife initially thought it was black):

With flash:

 

[johnsonabq]

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That looks wild! I ordered an AB1 from Jason at Fret Nation that will have luminlay speedo bars and side dots. Looking forward to seeing how well luminlay works on stage.

Yep. Black light charges it and makes it fluoresce it’s brightest. I use a 10w led uv light to charge. Here’s mine in a lit room:
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As a pet owner I picked up one of these, hope it works as well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007SIR08C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Subscript]

On the site it says wenge necks are 5 piece laminate like their maple ones are. Is that new or has it always been like that?

"We offer a 5 piece laminated wenge neck as an option. Wenge is also very stable. A wenge neck will be roughly 50 grams heavier than maple with an open grain feel. The tone is similar to maple but with a slightly snappier response."

 

[The_Owl]

First rehearsal with the band and the new amp. We also took the time to rearrange all the instruments in the room, for better spaces physically and sonically. Needless to say, the Sunn performed beyond expectations. If there's a better bass amp in the world, I don't know what it is.

Not to jinx myself, but I think I'm finally home. May get a 610 if the opportunity arises, but for now I'm extremely content. Nickel strings should warm up the tone even further.

 

[TheLowDown33]

Heads up fellow Dingnuts, I may be posting my Combustion 6 string in the classifieds later today. The bass plays flawlessly, but the neck width is just forcing me to play with a severely bent wrist past the 5th fret to the point where I'm starting to develop pain, especially on longer gigs.

 

[BurningSkies]

Heads up fellow Dingnuts, I may be posting my Combustion 6 string in the classifieds later today. The bass plays flawlessly, but the neck width is just forcing me to play with a severely bent wrist past the 5th fret to the point where I'm starting to develop pain, especially on longer gigs.

Which preamp did you drop in? It's not the standard with those double stacks...

 

[BurningSkies]

On the site it says wenge necks are 5 piece laminate like their maple ones are. Is that new or has it always been like that?

"We offer a 5 piece laminated wenge neck as an option. Wenge is also very stable. A wenge neck will be roughly 50 grams heavier than maple with an open grain feel. The tone is similar to maple but with a slightly snappier response."

They've done different numbers of lams over the years, but 5pc has been standard for a whole bunch of years...back to the early 2000's. Some of the original ABs were one piece and my Voodoo Prima is 11pc. Often people mistake them for 3pc because you'll only see the outside two at the neck heel and the headstock.

 

[TheLowDown33]

Which preamp did you drop in? It's not the standard with those double stacks...

Audere. It only has one double stack now. Volume, Blend, Treble on Bass, High Mid, Low Mid. I also replaced the passive switch to a 3 way for the bridge and middle (bridge, series, middle) pickups which then can be blended with the neck pickup.

EDIT: I do have both the original preamp and the original D-Bird switch.

 

[BurningSkies]

So the fretless piezo/magnetic I think is a success. I've played it for about an hour and spent a fair amount of time twisting knobs, etc. It can sound just like a regular Dingwall in all that capacity or you can blend in the piezo however much you want. Down the neck it sounds a bit more 'acoustic' but it'll never fool anyone that you're playing an upright. But that wasn't the intent. I was trying to bring a bit of the intrinsic character that the bass has when playing unamplified to the table when amplified...and it now does that. Of course it'll take some time to dial that in...probably about the same amount of time it'll take me to get comfortable on fretless again.

I was really holding my breath since it showed up last night when it came to the Piezo setup. We had a few saddles fail right out of the gate and I've been concerned that they're less hardy than they should be, but all were functional.

It did take me a few moments to remember and figure out how we'd configured all the switches and such...though that sorted out quickly and makes sense.

 

[BurningSkies]

In my music room I was only using the 4’ overhead fluorescent today, and when I walked away from it to a dim corner the luminlay is still nicely visible even w/o any UV attention:

 

[tombowlus]

Yeah, I have noticed that my Luminlay dots tend to have a decent amount of luminescence, even with me not doing anything specific to charge them.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Yep. Black light charges it and makes it fluoresce it’s brightest. I use a 10w led uv light to charge. Here’s mine in a lit room:
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Nice book. I am getting mine during his book tour next week!

 

[Waltsdog]

Anyone have an Combustion/NG2 wiring diagram handy?

 

[NaH]

So when you have a reach reducing pin, should you use the strap as normal or should you flip the strap connector that goes in there? I'm thinking I need to flip it, but I was curious how it was designed.