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Dingwall Owners Club

#40,962
Cantstandsya said:
I have a 6 way rotary that was wired and installed by Mo at Nordstrand. Nothing else was changed from stock. I trust him if he says the middle pickup is wired in parallel. I can also hear how much less output it has. Maybe Sheldon will chime in at some point and confirm or debunk my claim. I guess I’ll find out when the push/pull is installed for that pickup. I would think the NG2 would be wired the same but I honestly have no idea.
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In that case I 100% believe that your bass has a parallel middle pickup, but I still suspect the stock configuration on the NG-3 is all series.
 
#40,964
Sorry to beat a dead horse but I can't stop drooling over some of the colors the NGs come in. They are just gorgeous. I am thinking of adding an NG again. I am VERY torn between Mopar Purple, Aquamarine Sparkle, and Forest Green. I'd love to add another purple bass to complement my Amethyst C1, but somebody here said long ago (maybe @BurningSkies ) that life is too short for boring color basses. Not that any of these are, but still, SPARKLY. I should probably be working.
 
#40,966
ab2112 said:
Sorry to beat a dead horse but I can't stop drooling over some of the colors the NGs come in. They are just gorgeous. I am thinking of adding an NG again. I am VERY torn between Mopar Purple, Aquamarine Sparkle, and Forest Green. I'd love to add another purple bass to complement my Amethyst C1, but somebody here said long ago (maybe @BurningSkies ) that life is too short for boring color basses. Not that any of these are, but still, SPARKLY. I should probably be working.
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It was me. I don't ever opt for white, black or natural flavored basses. I'd like a good sparkle bass someday too. Though I think I'd like to go hot-rod with it and do baby blue with pink sparkle ghost flames.
 
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#40,967
I’ve spent hours down the YouTube rabbit hole watching metal flake painting videos. I figure I’ll build my own “flake buster” dry flake sprayer and use my Harbor freight spray gun to have at it when the weather warms up enough to spray outside.

Like I need a really toxic, super flammable, hobby. I want a bass boat sparkle gold finish on my foil board. It’s all a mish mash of parts and repaired or modified gear, it needs a bit of bling to tie it all together. The surf van’s bumper needs paint as well.

Who knows, maybe I’ll try a parts bass project or a refin on an inexpensive bass. My Dingwalls are safe.
 
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#40,968
May I join you little club? Just arrived today!

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#40,974
Snowglo said:
from Morten, yes. Ordered late last Wednesday and it arrived this morning. That’s paying for standard freight. I was figuring on a solid 2 weeks wait.
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Sweet! I should be getting my Super P soon. Yours is giving me serious GAS :woot:
 
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#40,976
LowEndLobster said:
Sort of. Here's what I did. the JE MMSR Preamp has 3 knobs, the Vol, Bass/Treb and Mid/MidFreq. They're wired closely together, so I relocated the rotary selector to the 4th knob position so that the preamp could fit. 5th knob is the tone control module (came with 0 documentation, bought form Best Bass Gear). It comes with three wires as it can be used with East preamps that take two pickups (common ground). However, the MMSR preamp is for "one" pickup (rotary switch goes into the input of the preamp), so I wired two of the 3 wires to the input of the preamp (it piggy backs on the input screw retainers, so your + will have the hot from the rotary and one of the tone knob wires, the - will have the rotary ground and the second tone knob wire). Hope that helps!
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Ah! This is where I missed/misinterpreted!

I was looking at the Uni-Pre rather than the MMSR purely due to the number of knobs, not realising you'd pulled together the rotary and tone controle modules separately.

Aside from the EQ curve difference, it seems like the 5 knob Uni-Pre would be possibly another way to approach using a John East pre, dropping out the blend pot for the rotary. Though, it's possible then that the John East would be closer in tone to an EMG (or other clean preamp of choice, like a Glock), as it's not using the MM-style EQ curve.

Decisions, decisions...

What 6-position rotary did you use?
 
#40,978
been_effected said:
Ah! This is where I missed/misinterpreted!

I was looking at the Uni-Pre rather than the MMSR purely due to the number of knobs, not realising you'd pulled together the rotary and tone controle modules separately.

Aside from the EQ curve difference, it seems like the 5 knob Uni-Pre would be possibly another way to approach using a John East pre, dropping out the blend pot for the rotary. Though, it's possible then that the John East would be closer in tone to an EMG (or other clean preamp of choice, like a Glock), as it's not using the MM-style EQ curve.

Decisions, decisions...

What 6-position rotary did you use?
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I got mine from Jason @ Fret Nation. It was pre configured for 1. D-Roc triple pickup 2. Neck pickup, 3. Neck and bridge, 4. Middle and bridge series, 5. Middle and bridge parallel, 6. Bridge.
 
#40,979
gpx1200 said:
Who has a vintage white dingwall?
I’m trying to figure which one of these pics is the actual color of the bass View attachment 4194103View attachment 4194104
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It looks slightly yellow. I have one.

I asked the dingwall folks this a year or so back.

“We have 2 "standard" options for white. The first is our vintage white, which is a solid white with a little tint of yellow, which makes it look a little more cream coloured.

The other is our Ducati Pearl White, which is a more true white with a pearl in the paint which gives it a metallic type of look. “
 
#40,980
Hey peeps I've been thinking of getting a dingwall. I love my SR1806 for warm undistorted tones and the EADGC strings sound great with my distortion but the low B string doesn't have much bite and is kind of thuddy, especially when distorted.

Does that multiscale with the 37 scale on the B string really help crisp and tighten the low be up tone wise?

And also what's the main difference between the NG-3 and the Combustion? If I decide on getting a Dingwall I'd want a 6 string 3 pickup version.
 
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