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#36,401
Blues Cat said:
Always get a string set designed for Fanned Fret Basses when you can. As Sheldon stated, you get uneven tone and tension when using a string set designed for parallel Basses. Hard to set your bass up properly if some of the strings are causing a twist in your neck. You can also get note choke on the larger strings with too much tension (string designs in a parallel set).

A LOT more goes into a Fanned Fret Bass String Set than just extending or shortening some of the string’s outer winding.

Use a parallel string set to get yourself out of an emergency jam. Life’s too to short to settle.
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The medium scale Dingwalls may be a bit different in this regard. As an example, my go-to strings for Jazz basses are GHS Balanced Nickels. I did the math on tension using these strings on my upcoming Super J and was very pleased with the results. You can see that math below and just how well the tension was balanced across the strings. The most even option was a parallel fret bass using the light gauge variant, but the medium scale fanned fret with the medium gauge strings worked out very well.

silky smoove said:
Not sure anyone else will be interested in this, but I did the math so I figured I might as well post it here.

My go-to strings for roundwound applications are GHS Balanced Nickels, typically in the medium gauge set (106-44). I was curious as to the tension result from using them on my upcoming Super J (i.e. 34.25" to 32" versus a single 34" scale), so I jumped over to GHS's tension chart and used their formula to calculate the resultant tensions of these particular strings on Dingwall's medium scale basses. I compared the medium and light gauge sets. The results (below) are very encouraging. A complaint I have on most basses is that the G string, for me, tends to be a little overly present compared to the other strings. I realize the D string is the commonly "over-tensioned" string on a single 34" scale bass, but the G always pops out a little too much to my ears. Looking at the chart below, especially for the medium gauge set, I'm very excited about the increased tension balance from string-to-string that I'm seeing for my bass. I was worried that I'd have to stop using these wonderful strings when my Dingwall arrives, but it looks like they'll work extremely well.

T = (UW x (2 x L x F)^2) / 386.4

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#36,406
I've been using nickels for years now, but I've always been curious about what other tones I could get with different strings. Gonna be doing lots of shootouts with these!

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#36,413
Finally took the 6 string to rehearsal ..

Interesting experience with the glockenklang preamp, I ended up running it with the mids fully boosted, the b7k really likes them.
Which I knew already, but didn't expect it to be that extreme.
Bass stayed flat (the 2x12 has tons of them already) and highs were set pretty high too, that was interesting also, I didn't expect it to have such an influence since the frequency is super high afaik ? Yet it really helped keeping a good definition of the attack of the notes despite the distortion pedal.
So yeah, I didn't exactly fall in love with that preamp but it is very effective and useful, I cannot deny that.
However it is very difficult to do much sound design in the context of a live metal band, so I reserve judgment until I can play with it more.

Now the instrument itself, wow, fantastic really.
I cannot find anything negative to say about it no matter how hard I search. It's the best bass I have had, period.
Also 6 now feels more natural to me than 5, which sucks since most of my basses are 5ers.
 
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#36,415
TI jazz flats. Only issue might be getting the untapered .136 B string low enough at the bridge. I bought a dozen of the stainless cap head saddle screws in a short length at my local hardware.

I’ve used them any time my saddle screws were bottoming out on the bridge. This gives me more string choices.

The standard TI jazz flats five string set fits the Super series. I liked the TI’s E-C even more.
 
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#36,416
Digity said:
Where are the Dingwall owners in Canada getting their non Dingwall strings? Just looked up shipping from Kalium and it's absolutely nuts.
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Look up! See those lovely payson packages right above your question.

great strings. CAD sucks so they are a bit more costly but..... great strings.

Great guy and company to deal with too. Perhaps reach out to any other local Dingwall players and see if you guys can do a bulk order to disperse the shipping amongst you.
 
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#36,418
ThisYouCanTrust said:
Finally took the 6 string to rehearsal ..

Interesting experience with the glockenklang preamp, I ended up running it with the mids fully boosted, the b7k really likes them.
Which I knew already, but didn't expect it to be that extreme.
Bass stayed flat (the 2x12 has tons of them already) and highs were set pretty high too, that was interesting also, I didn't expect it to have such an influence since the frequency is super high afaik ? Yet it really helped keeping a good definition of the attack of the notes despite the distortion pedal.
So yeah, I didn't exactly fall in love with that preamp but it is very effective and useful, I cannot deny that.
However it is very difficult to do much sound design in the context of a live metal band, so I reserve judgment until I can play with it more.

Now the instrument itself, wow, fantastic really.
I cannot find anything negative to say about it no matter how hard I search. It's the best bass I have had, period.
Also 6 now feels more natural to me than 5, which sucks since most of my basses are 5ers.
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I can relate on the 6 neck familiarity.

I never used any distortion with the glock so cannot relate on that but I did mostly utilize the MM switch position with my mods around 8ish and highs similarly postitioned in my metal band and it was glorious through my old amped beast.
What pick up selection did you utilize?
 
#36,419
AB Nate said:
Look up! See those lovely payson packages right above your question.

great strings. CAD sucks so they are a bit more costly but..... great strings.

Great guy and company to deal with too. Perhaps reach out to any other local Dingwall players and see if you guys can do a bulk order to disperse the shipping amongst you.
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Unfortunately Payson doesn't have any flats for the Super J series
 
#36,420
Randy W Lopez said:
Unfortunately Payson doesn't have any flats for the Super J series
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Indeed. That was in reference to the question of strings in Canada not Super flats.

I don’t have any experience on that. I tried DR BBs on my SJ at one point but never flats. @whirledpeas had a nice slinky set I tried once. Probably TIs

I wonder if Payson will ever enter the medium scale realm?

are you thinking of putting them on that lovely exotic that’s for sale?
 

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