Dingwall Owners Club

[packrat]

Is that the 6er with the maple contrast layer.......
I’m too lazy to go look.

That's the one. That's the only Z they have for the moment. Those seem to fly off the racks.

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[IvanBassist]

Newer Canadian basses (And before that some relatively recent Zs) have a flush-mounted dunlop straplock socket on the back, just next to the battery compartment. If you hook your strap there, vs the base pin ,it moves the nut (and hence fingerboard generally) a bit closer to you.

See here:
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I need to test that on my SJ

 

[AB Nate]

Not in Europe, but any Peterson dealers there? This is the one I'd grab now if I didn't have a few others...

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Thanks a lot......

I have one inbound....

Cuz that’s what I needed to do.

For any of our Canadian brethren here. This is a Canadian dealer that has 3-4 in stock still and I made an offer..... it was accepted. I’m surprised he had offers as an option. Including free shipping.

Edit: in stock On Reverb

 

[Peter Lufrano]

Newer Canadian basses (And before that some relatively recent Zs) have a flush-mounted dunlop straplock socket on the back, just next to the battery compartment. If you hook your strap there, vs the base pin ,it moves the nut (and hence fingerboard generally) a bit closer to you.

See here:
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Ah ha! Thank you!

 

[Wyvern]

That's the one. That's the only Z they have for the moment. Those seem to fly off the racks.

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By far one of my favorite basses out there, on my bucket list.

 

[Selta]

Well, I've been mailing back and forth with the guy in Japan that has that blue Z3 on eBay. Waiting on a few more photos, but, the price is pretty decent. We'll see if anything comes of it

 

[Selta]

Oof. That went south quickly. The bass is suddenly "packed up" and they "can't take additional photos or provide any more information". Hard pass on that one for me.
This one, in case any one wants to look at the one photo, and also avoid buying it: DINGWALL Z3 5st Indigo Burst | eBay

 

[AB Nate]

Oof. That went south quickly. The bass is suddenly "packed up" and they "can't take additional photos or provide any more information". Hard pass on that one for me.
This one, in case any one wants to look at the one photo, and also avoid buying it: DINGWALL Z3 5st Indigo Burst | eBay

Too bad though. Nice looking.

 

[packrat]

That's been lurking around on reverb for a while, too.

 

[Selta]

That's been lurking around on reverb for a while, too.

Has it? I don't see it on there presently, and I get emailed on new Dingwall listings (have had that setup for a couple of years).

 

[Wyvern]

Oof. That went south quickly. The bass is suddenly "packed up" and they "can't take additional photos or provide any more information". Hard pass on that one for me.
This one, in case any one wants to look at the one photo, and also avoid buying it: DINGWALL Z3 5st Indigo Burst | eBay

Japan sellers are frauds- the feedback is made up and fraudulent.

What they do- best case scenario, is get pictures from a bass on a store on their side of the pond, if you buy it, and it's available, they take your money, buy the bass from the other shop and then ship it to you, pocketing the up-charge.
Typically, what happens, is they take your money, say it's not available and offer to give you a different instrument.
Worst case scenario, they take your money and ship you the wrong instrument or you get nothing at all.

I saw a few B1005 Ms's on ebay, what I did is offer a stupid amount of money and BOOP! the listing is gone

I've been using Ebay as a 9 year old kid in 1999, I have seen the scams, and been bitten before, buying and selling, Right now Ebay is almost unusable, the sellers are frauds and the buyers are even worse- always claiming it's not as described, attempt to buy from foreign countries and have their "bro's" ship it to them from the US (such a common stupid scam), and the newest trend, get exactly what they want and then leave you negative just to be the wicked little people they are.

Biggest problem as a seller- you CAN NOT LEAVE THEM NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.

Dealing with eBay personnel is infuriating, they always side with the buyer, and many are not native English speaking.

I reported a scam from something I was selling, called eBay, told them to look out for this guy, and what happens? THEY LOCK MY ACCOUNT! I never even replied to the person attempting to scam me outside of eBay.

So yeah, eBay is the last place I buy or sell anything.

Vent over, Carry on.

 

[packrat]

Has it? I don't see it on there presently, and I get emailed on new Dingwall listings (have had that setup for a couple of years).

I'd been ignoring it, or somethign very like it, for a while. And now poof it has gone. Possibly it didn't ship over your way?

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[brandon.miller]

Has anyone ever put a active pre in a D-bird? I'm looking into it and was just curious if anyone had. Hoping to find a 2 knob pre with a stacked pot so I can keep the blend knob. Ideally a Vol/pickup sel/stacked bass&treble kind of set up.

I believe I'm just used to my higher output active jazz basses and am looking for that growly jazz sound.

 

[Waltsdog]

Has anyone ever put a active pre in a D-bird? I'm looking into it and was just curious if anyone had. Hoping to find a 2 knob pre with a stacked pot so I can keep the blend knob. Ideally a Vol/pickup sel/stacked bass&treble kind of set up.

I believe I'm just used to my higher output active jazz basses and am looking for that growly jazz sound.

I think you'll have a issue with where to put the battery, unless you're gonna do some woodwork?
Save the headache and use a preamp in your chain, or just use the preamp on your amp to dial in what you want. IMO, if you can't get the sound you want that way, adding a preamp to the bass won't get you there anyway.

 

[brandon.miller]

You're probably right. I run direct with a Darkglass X7, Sansamp and Omnicabsim in my pedal chain so I have plenty of tone shaping capability on my board. I just love the growl that comes out of my active jazz bass and wish I could get my Dbird to do the same.

 

[Selta]

I think you'll have a issue with where to put the battery, unless you're gonna do some woodwork?
Save the headache and use a preamp in your chain, or just use the preamp on your amp to dial in what you want. IMO, if you can't get the sound you want that way, adding a preamp to the bass won't get you there anyway.

Having controls on board is still good. It's not just "getting the sound you want". It's easy, on-the-fly adjustment right at your bass - not kneeling over at a board or walking back to an amp. It's having a Hi-Z, bufffered signal. It's unloaded pickups. It's (potentially) higher output. There's nothing wrong with a pre-amp on a bass, either from factory or added after the fact. Not sure why the negative attitude towards them

 

[Waltsdog]

Having controls on board is still good. It's not just "getting the sound you want". It's easy, on-the-fly adjustment right at your bass - not kneeling over at a board or walking back to an amp. It's having a Hi-Z, bufffered signal. It's unloaded pickups. It's (potentially) higher output. There's nothing wrong with a pre-amp on a bass, either from factory or added after the fact. Not sure why the negative attitude towards them

My comment was more thinking practically, I'm all for a preamp on my bass and in fact I prefer it most of the time, but I wouldn't go drilling out battery cavities when a preamp on the floor will show you very quickly if you can get what you're looking for from the bass. By the description he's looking for a one sound solution and not a knob twiddling solution.

Some people are modders (myself included, only 1 of my Dingwalls is standard) but there is a way to tell if this mod is worth it or not without going all in

 

[Selta]

My comment was more thinking practically, I'm all for a preamp on my bass and in fact I prefer it most of the time, but I wouldn't go drilling out battery cavities when a preamp on the floor will show you very quickly if you can get what you're looking for from the bass. By the description he's looking for a one sound solution and not a knob twiddling solution.

Some people are modders (myself included, only 1 of my Dingwalls is standard) but there is a way to tell if this mod is worth it or not without going all in

I hear ya there. Two of my Dingwalls are modded, two are not. The 6 string is perfect as-is, since it was built to my spec (and boy, did Sheldon and crew nail it). The Prima, of course... just can't be bettered.

 

[EMoneySC2]

Has anyone ever put a active pre in a D-bird? I'm looking into it and was just curious if anyone had. Hoping to find a 2 knob pre with a stacked pot so I can keep the blend knob. Ideally a Vol/pickup sel/stacked bass&treble kind of set up.

I believe I'm just used to my higher output active jazz basses and am looking for that growly jazz sound.

I think I commented in another post - but have you played with your D-Bird's pickup height? I have a hard time imagining a jazz bass having higher output than a 3x Dingwall, active or passive.

 

[Scottgun]

Having controls on board is still good. It's not just "getting the sound you want". It's easy, on-the-fly adjustment right at your bass - not kneeling over at a board or walking back to an amp. It's having a Hi-Z, bufffered signal. It's unloaded pickups. It's (potentially) higher output. There's nothing wrong with a pre-amp on a bass, either from factory or added after the fact. Not sure why the negative attitude towards them

I'll speculate. Part of it is surely a fogey "Jaco didn't need no onboard!" attitude. This was reinforced by the fact that in the past, getting good onboard electronics on a bass under $1000 was a trick. The range of quality tended to be from okayish to garbo. Then finally is tendency to think of onboard as a sure cure for a tone problem when there is a laundry list of troubleshooting things to try first before going onboard.