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Dingwall Owners Club

#53,563
Nuage420 said:
Gotta make moves my man. There was an MTD involved in this trade. There was the sale of about 10 basses that went into the MTD. Took some time buying, selling, and trading to land on what I got.
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Buying a Dingwall these days is like buying a house!! You have to keep flipping lesser houses to get the oceanfront view. :cool:
 
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Hey Choir! I'm super happy with this bass and even though I'm going to change the preamp and install the series parallel switch I have I'm incredibly impressed with the versatility. I've been jamming today on everything from Dua Lipa, to Juvenile, to The Police, all the way to metal from Nu to Classics and it's able to quickly and easily dial in a tone that works. I see how this becomes a one stop shop for some many gigging bassists.
 
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Had ABZ6 for a couple of days, helped my friend with tuning and set up. Man, I want 6 string now. So easy to play unexpectedly! And its wenge neck has tons of growl vs my ABZ5 with maple one. Here they are on the photo. Mine is 5 string.
 

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anton72 said:
Had ABZ6 for a couple of days, helped my friend with tuning and set up. Man, I want 6 string now. So easy to play unexpectedly! And its wenge neck has tons of growl vs my ABZ5 with maple one. Here they are on the photo. Mine is 5 string.
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Anton, that looked like a perfectly matched pair! I love the wenge neck on the ABZ4 I have. I had an all passive ABZ4 for a while as well with a solid maple neck/board. Both basses sounded quite similar (w my white one in passive mode). I had to sell one at the time as I'd bought a number of things (wish I had kept that second ABZ), but I'll say I kept the white one w the wenge more for the feel of the wenge neck than a perceived tonal change. Granted, that 5 and 6 seemed like a perfect pair to compare the neck in how it affects the tone!

Hope you are doing well my friend. You come to mind often as news reports out of your part of the world can be so troubling. Hope you and your family are doing well.
 
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Got this Dingwall a couple months ago…one of the most amazing, playing and sounding instruments I have owned. However, does the Glockenklang pre at “flat” have an already bright treble? I wouldn’t say it’s bright in a bad way but can definitely be unforgiving with fretting noise. Lol Forces one to improve technique, I guess. I can solve it, of course, by cutting the treble but was curious if this is common among Dingwalls.
 
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huebass said:
Got this Dingwall a couple months ago…one of the most amazing, playing and sounding instruments I have owned. However, does the Glockenklang pre at “flat” have an already bright treble? I wouldn’t say it’s bright in a bad way but can definitely be unforgiving with fretting noise. Lol Forces one to improve technique, I guess. I can solve it, of course, by cutting the treble but was curious if this is common among Dingwalls.
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Uhh, that is a Dingwall model that I’m not familiar with.
 
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huebass said:
Got this Dingwall a couple months ago…one of the most amazing, playing and sounding instruments I have owned. However, does the Glockenklang pre at “flat” have an already bright treble? I wouldn’t say it’s bright in a bad way but can definitely be unforgiving with fretting noise. Lol Forces one to improve technique, I guess. I can solve it, of course, by cutting the treble but was curious if this is common among Dingwalls.
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They are pretty "hifi" sounding basses. The Glockenlang preamp can be set to passive by pulling up the volume control, and you'll find that the pre doesn't add treble when set to the detent position. It does act as a buffer which, along with the added clarity afforded by the extended scale length, does bring out more of the inefficiencies in ones' technique.

Which pickups the bass has also impacts the natural treble. FD3 pickups are a lot brighter than FDVs.
 
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huebass said:
Got this Dingwall a couple months ago…one of the most amazing, playing and sounding instruments I have owned. However, does the Glockenklang pre at “flat” have an already bright treble? I wouldn’t say it’s bright in a bad way but can definitely be unforgiving with fretting noise. Lol Forces one to improve technique, I guess. I can solve it, of course, by cutting the treble but was curious if this is common among Dingwalls.
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It's only one of the reasons I like Dingwalls. The tonal palette is brighter than most basses. Yes, they will bring out the sloppiness in your technique, but when you get it right, it sounds glorious. :cool:
 
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J Posega said:
They are pretty "hifi" sounding basses. The Glockenlang preamp can be set to passive by pulling up the volume control, and you'll find that the pre doesn't add treble when set to the detent position. It does act as a buffer which, along with the added clarity afforded by the extended scale length, does bring out more of the inefficiencies in ones' technique.

Which pickups the bass has also impacts the natural treble. FD3 pickups are a lot brighter than FDVs.
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You’re right, hifi they are. I can dial in some awesome tones (to my taste) by cutting some highs or going passive into my noble. I am just surprised how bell-like clear the instrument is in “flat” settings, and that’s considering it has banjo frets and SF2 pickups.
 
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Two gigs with my Z2.5 today.

At the first show, the headliner’s bassist asked “is that a Dingwall?” and I said “hell yeah!” and handed it to him.

He played it for a couple seconds then handed it back: “I think the muscle memory would mess with me”

After our set, he said “OK, I need one of those because that bass sounded FANTASTIC”

When ya know, you KNOW
 

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huebass said:
Got this Dingwall a couple months ago…one of the most amazing, playing and sounding instruments I have owned. However, does the Glockenklang pre at “flat” have an already bright treble? I wouldn’t say it’s bright in a bad way but can definitely be unforgiving with fretting noise. Lol Forces one to improve technique, I guess. I can solve it, of course, by cutting the treble but was curious if this is common among Dingwalls.
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I find the Glockenklang to be a bit bright too, and cutting treble gets closer to the passive tone.
 
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