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#42,863
seedokebass said:
Woah that is weird that it's that high.. Do they have any eq charts/graphs out there for their stuff?
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Not that I’ve found but the high band extends well into the usable range for a bass so it has to be an incredibly wide Q and can’t be a shelf. Beyond that all I know is that it’s effective at adding shimmer and air without getting into any nasal or ganky frequencies in the upper mids.
 
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Jack Deth said:
My musing of the day: a multi-scale fretless bass cannot be called a fanned-fret bass (obvious). So, would it be a fanned-fretless bass? If so, what is it that is “fanned”, the intonation?
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Selta said:
Just multiscale fretless.
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I use 'multiscale' and 'fanned fretless' regularly. People understand both.
 
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Silly question because I don't know much about electronics:

Is this a ground soldered to this pot?
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I'm trying to replace the stacked treble/bass and stacked variable mid with solo bass and treble pots. The black wire is coming from the bridge pickup, and there is not a similar wire coming from the neck pickup.
 
#42,866
I’ve had Supers with the Aguilar and the Glockenlang. Both are very nice, with the Glock being my favorite. It was super clean and very responsive. I’d set a bit of bass boost and turn it off, reaching for the switch for a volume/bass boost.

95% of the time I’d run passive, and I loved the hybrid tone control in the passive mode.

Turns out I just prefer passive and all my current Dingwalls are passive.

Only active bass I have is the Cirrus. I rarely move the three band eq’s from their center detents. Mostly I roll the pickup blend a bit either way, but it’s mostly centered as well.

I haven’t had a bass with the Darkglass tone capsule. I have had a number of DG pedals come and go, and the Alpha Omega Ultra was a super cool clean eq. I still sold it on after the honeymoon.
 
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Selta said:
The glock, to me, is more "musical" in the sense that I can use it as an engineer would. Not for "tone" or for "my sound" per se - hard to describe what I'm trying to get at, but, I think @silky smoove kinda nailed it -- it's a problem solver first. The EQ points read as if they should be horrible, but, in practice, work SO DANG WELL. A little goes a really long way with each EQ point. I rarely go past a 1/4 turn on anything.
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There are a whole lot of ways of spec'ing EQ points, some of my amp builds peak at anywhere from 10K-30K at full boost but in some cases you can still hear something happening at ~2K when boost is cranked. It's been a while since I bench tested a few Glock preamps but I remember them being a bit like that. I liked them quite a bit in any case.
 
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Those of you with fretless Dingwall's, how easy or hard is it to play. I have an NG3 and found there really was no adjustment moving to fanned frets, but I don't know that the easy translation on a fretted instrument translates to an also easy transition on a fretless. How easy or hard is it to play with proper intonation as compared to regular "fretted" fretless?
 
#42,870
Passinwind said:
There are a whole lot of ways of spec'ing EQ points, some of my amp builds peak at anywhere from 10K-30K at full boost but in some cases you can still hear something happening at ~2K when boost is cranked. It's been a while since I bench tested a few Glock preamps but I remember them being a bit like that. I liked them quite a bit in any case.
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I'd love to see you put a newer 3-band Glock through it's paces!
 
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seedokebass said:
Silly question because I don't know much about electronics:

Is this a ground soldered to this pot?
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I'm trying to replace the stacked treble/bass and stacked variable mid with solo bass and treble pots. The black wire is coming from the bridge pickup, and there is not a similar wire coming from the neck pickup.
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I really shouldn’t be stabbing at this but it sure looks like a ground to me.
Where does it go?
 
#42,873
AB Nate said:
I really shouldn’t be stabbing at this but it sure looks like a ground to me.
Where does it go?
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It's coming from the bridge pickup and is soldered to the one of the pots of the Tone controls I want to replace. I had tried following the installation instructions per EMG with no luck. Which is weird, because looking at their layout vs how the bass is currently wired looks different to me.
 
#42,874
seedokebass said:
It's coming from the bridge pickup and is soldered to the one of the pots of the Tone controls I want to replace. I had tried following the installation instructions per EMG with no luck. Which is weird, because looking at their layout vs how the bass is currently wired looks different to me.
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Maybe Tech@dingwallguitars can help you out with drawing it out.

still sounds like a ground to me. What else could it be? Where on the bridge pick up is it tied in ?
 
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#42,875
Snowglo said:
FWIW, my GK Legacy 800 showed up today. Took no time at all to dial in the tone I was looking for. I can say that the over abundance of scoopness is gone. Sorry Mesa. Anyway, I now have a useable (for me) tone in both series and parallel settings. Awesome!
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I played a 400+ for a year or two with my AB1...and just never could get there with the amp...even with the combination of two channels & their tone controls and the graphic EQ...Always felt like I was spending half the set turning around to adjust the amp EQ to continue to not be happy with it.
 
#42,876
ThisYouCanTrust said:
I think the real question is, do you have to pay a novax license on a fretless multiscale ? :)
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You don't have to pay it on the fretted ones either these days. I know that Sheldon did (possibly still does, I dunno) license well after the the patent had passed away because he's like that...but not needed legally anymore.
 
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Selta said:
I'd love to see you put a newer 3-band Glock through it's paces!
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I still have one on hand that a luthier friend gave me to study, not sure how current the spec is though. Right now my computer based test gear could use a little upgrade, hoping to get that done pretty soon now that the interface I've been wanting is finally readily available.
 
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