Dingwall Owners Club

[dirkhh]

I don’t understand.

why only have one bass? Your stand even agrees!!!!

Well...

Ibanez SR655E & Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

• dirkhh
• Feb 6, 2021
• dingwall z1 ibanez sr655

Ibanez SR655E and Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

I didn't want to distract. And yes, it's ONLY ONE Dingwall. And there is space for a third bass there...

congrats Dirk and welcome to the club!

Thanks - people have been super nice here to the complete noob... I feel very welcome.

Question to other owners of Dingwall Z Series basses with the cello hip... what are you doing for cables? Because if I try to put mine in the stand, its weight rests on the cable (actually, the plug) if I leave that plugged in. Do you always unplug? Do you have a 90° connector? Is your stand taller / further away from the floor?

 

[Waltsdog]

Don’t leave it plugged in you’ll drain the battery. This goes for pretty much every active bass.

 

[AB Nate]

Well...

Ibanez SR655E & Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

• dirkhh
• Feb 6, 2021
• dingwall z1 ibanez sr655

Ibanez SR655E and Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

I didn't want to distract. And yes, it's ONLY ONE Dingwall. And there is space for a third bass there...

Thanks - people have been super nice here to the complete noob... I feel very welcome.

Question to other owners of Dingwall Z Series basses with the cello hip... what are you doing for cables? Because if I try to put mine in the stand, its weight rests on the cable (actually, the plug) if I leave that plugged in. Do you always unplug? Do you have a 90° connector? Is your stand taller / further away from the floor?

I do use a 90. I prefer it on all my basses which is a peeve I have with the combustion jack. Just personal preference.
That said..... always unplug... always. Unplug and mute.
Trip on a cable.
Get caught up doing something else and drain battery.

just a good practice.

 

[BurningSkies]

Was it supposed to be a similar color to your “muscle car green” super? I would have preferred that as well, honestly.

I don't think so...I think it's a color of it's own. Some people assumed after hearing that it was "black forest green" that it would be the same. But in all honesty, they've done the candy dark green on a bunch of shop-built basses, I can see going for something different on the production basses.

 

[dirkhh]

Pointless observations by a noob about Dingwall build quality (?).
So my < 1 y/o Ibanez SR655E will sit here in my climate controlled room and I have to tune it pretty much every day when I start playing it.
The 20 y/o Dingwall Z1 Voodoo on the other hand spent the last 8 days in various trucks and warehouses on the way from the East Coast to the West Coast, got shaken, rattled, experienced temperature swings and who knowns what abuse. I unpacked, played a little and attached my tuner. Perfectly in tune.

 

[AB Nate]

Pointless observations by a noob about Dingwall build quality (?).
So my < 1 y/o Ibanez SR655E will sit here in my climate controlled room and I have to tune it pretty much every day when I start playing it.
The 20 y/o Dingwall Z1 Voodoo on the other hand spent the last 8 days in various trucks and warehouses on the way from the East Coast to the West Coast, got shaken, rattled, experienced temperature swings and who knowns what abuse. I unpacked, played a little and attached my tuner. Perfectly in tune.

a big build factor Sheldon incorporated into his construction is stability. Build to handle Canadian climates. And the rest of the world!!!

 

[AB Nate]

This beast needed a bath and some new strings. Oh yeah!

 

[hbabels]

I do use a 90. I prefer it on all my basses which is a peeve I have with the combustion jack. Just personal preference.
That said..... always unplug... always. Unplug and mute.
Trip on a cable.
Get caught up doing something else and drain battery.

just a good practice.

Agree about the right angle jack thing with Combustion basses. They’re my preference as well they’re not good fit with that particular bass :-( might be the only thing I don’t like about it.
some day I must get around to making an adaptor cable for it.

 

[dirkhh]

This beast needed a bath and some new strings. Oh yeah!

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That picture... that's... oh... wow.

I need to upgrade the mood lighting around here, I'm afraid.

 

[AB Nate]

That picture... that's... oh... wow.

I need to upgrade the mood lighting around here, I'm afraid.

my son moved out.....
Reclaimed real estate!

the new spare room doubles as a music room.

 

[Jack Deth]

my son moved out.....
Reclaimed real estate!

the new spare room doubles as a music room.

Lucky.

 

[AmazingMumford]

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Door hanger. Natch.

 

[AB Nate]

Lucky.

Lol. Yes. But I miss the little(6’3”) guy.

 

[AB Nate]

Door hanger. Natch.

remember this one.....

The antler stand

 

[ThisYouCanTrust]

That's a large antler ..

 

[BurningSkies]

Well...

Ibanez SR655E & Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

• dirkhh
• Feb 6, 2021
• dingwall z1 ibanez sr655

Ibanez SR655E and Dingwall Z1 Voodoo

I didn't want to distract. And yes, it's ONLY ONE Dingwall. And there is space for a third bass there...

Thanks - people have been super nice here to the complete noob... I feel very welcome.

Question to other owners of Dingwall Z Series basses with the cello hip... what are you doing for cables? Because if I try to put mine in the stand, its weight rests on the cable (actually, the plug) if I leave that plugged in. Do you always unplug? Do you have a 90° connector? Is your stand taller / further away from the floor?

At home I have 3 wall hanging bass holders (the nicer of the Hercules ones) and one of those 5 slot stands, though I can often fit 6 on it.

On stage I have several of the Hercules single stands that are set up tall enough that the bass is at least a few inches off the ground. I also have one of their double stands if I need.

GS414B PLUS

Pointless observations by a noob about Dingwall build quality (?).
So my < 1 y/o Ibanez SR655E will sit here in my climate controlled room and I have to tune it pretty much every day when I start playing it.
The 20 y/o Dingwall Z1 Voodoo on the other hand spent the last 8 days in various trucks and warehouses on the way from the East Coast to the West Coast, got shaken, rattled, experienced temperature swings and who knowns what abuse. I unpacked, played a little and attached my tuner. Perfectly in tune.

Part of that is indeed the multi-lam neck construction. By taking a blank, ripping it down the middle, then flipping one of the pieces you get wood that pulls in each direction and does it fairly evenly since it's the same wood with the same grain characteristics. Most of the post fire Voodoo, Z and Afterburner necks are 5pc and many out there also have graphite reinforcement as well, though I can't tell you where and when that phased in on different models. My Voodoo Prima is 11pc laminate. There used to be a piece on the website about the trussrod installation under high pressure and that too may be a part of the overall stability.

Though also, don't under-estimate how a neck that's aged for a few decades is also helping it stay stable. I've always found that older basses where the wood has really had time to dry and 'set' often are very stable with only a single piece.

 

[geggy spoiger]

Id love to see the gluing of the truss rod under ‘almost 1000 lbs. of pressure’ in a short vid. Sounds really interesting!

 

[lowphatbass]

Pointless observations by a noob about Dingwall build quality (?).
So my < 1 y/o Ibanez SR655E will sit here in my climate controlled room and I have to tune it pretty much every day when I start playing it.
The 20 y/o Dingwall Z1 Voodoo on the other hand spent the last 8 days in various trucks and warehouses on the way from the East Coast to the West Coast, got shaken, rattled, experienced temperature swings and who knowns what abuse. I unpacked, played a little and attached my tuner. Perfectly in tune.

 

[gidbass]

We need to hear that !

Sorry it took so long but here they are. Basically all 4 settings on the switch (neck, series, parallel, bridge) and the preamp set to center detent, both bass and treble set to 75%, then 100%.

Not much below low E in Maiden, so I added B, C and D ringing out at the end for kicks.

All clips played finger style over the bridge pickup with 1 month old Payson SS roundwound strings with about 15 hours of playing time on them. Recorded into a behringer interface into garage band with nothing added to it.

 

[BassBH]

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I’d like to reiterate, that’s -average-. They can’t get through winter without a week or two where they see lots of -40. Even their day today is outside the shown band of temps.

I’m telling ya, crazy in these here parts.