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#54,201
macribas said:
Hard to describe... Hear it for yourself:
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I’ve watched that a few times and it’s definitely great.. Unfortunately they stick to single pickup examples, and while I very occasionally play with the neck soloed, I’m almost always playing bridge and middle in parallel, or sometimes neck and bridge in parallel. I find the parallel combination of pickups comb filters out the stuff I don’t want and leaves what I do want in most cases, but some pickups result in an excessive midrange scoop. In my experience, wide frequency response pickups are more susceptible to this, hence my question.
 
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#54,203
mdalamond said:
Thank you, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm not as concerned with aesthetics as I am functionality.
Thank you for all the replies. I think for the time being I'm going with Wenge/Wenge.
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If I’m not mistaken, Sheldon is currently suggesting Roasted ash necks to be paired with wenge instruments of wenge/wenge, because it’s easier to get high quality ash + roasting the neck reduces the weight.

Both combinations look pretty darn similar
 
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#54,204
silky smoove said:
I’ve watched that a few times and it’s definitely great.. Unfortunately they stick to single pickup examples, and while I very occasionally play with the neck soloed, I’m almost always playing bridge and middle in parallel, or sometimes neck and bridge in parallel. I find the parallel combination of pickups comb filters out the stuff I don’t want and leaves what I do want in most cases, but some pickups result in an excessive midrange scoop. In my experience, wide frequency response pickups are more susceptible to this, hence my question.
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Did your bass come with FD3s or FDVs? My experience was that when I combined the sound of two FD3s I got these nasal upper mids that bothered me. Not the case with FDVs. But they were different basses.
 
#54,205
macribas said:
Did your bass come with FD3s or FDVs? My experience was that when I combined the sound of two FD3s I got these nasal upper mids that bothered me. Not the case with FDVs. But they were different basses.
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It’s got 3X FDVs with a 6 way switch that offers all of the pickups soloed as well as all three parallel pairs options, as well as series parallel switches for each pickup. I primarily gig with the middle and bridge in parallel setting with the switches set to series-parallel-series. I’ve been considering FD3 for the neck and bridge and then an SF2 in the middle. The thought was more sparkle from
the bridge and a fatter smoother middle would make for a nice combination.

Interesting comment on the nasal upper mids from the combined FD3s.
 
#54,207
Nuage420 said:
I think this is a result of what you said earlier about it being a harder wood..
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lol. This is getting a bit messy now. When I said “harder” I was actually referring to a previous statement made,
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And then you said, “what I said earlier” I thought you actually thought I said it ^^^ in a previous post to the one you quoted of mine as that seemed to be the logical way for my tired Brian to interpret that.

anyways, for those that don’t know, lol, wenge is harder.
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#54,209
beatdatthang said:
I think you mean Macassar Ebony, which is from Southeast Asia. Madagascar is an island off the coast of Africa, and although it does have its own ebony, it’s heavily endangered and regulated by CITES.;)
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Yes sorry it was a typo I did mean Macassar... my bad :)

These are the full specs from the factory

•Neck - Ovangkol
•Fingerboard - Macassar Ebony
•Inlays -Speedo Bars
•Body Wood - Fijian Mahogany
•Headstock - Macassar ebony laminate + custom logo

•Pickguard - Macassar Ebony
•Pickups - 2 x FDV
•Fitted Deluxe bag included
•New One Piece Bridge
•Hipshot ultralight tuners - satin black
•Dingwall passive controls, volume, pickup selector (see below), tone.

•1. bridge pickup soloed. (in parallel)
•2. Bridge Neck Parallel
•3. Bridge neck Series
•4. Neck

CORE WOOD – Fijian Mahogany ON DRoc

And the very bass can be seen on this link:
D-ROC Custom - Dingwall
 
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#54,211
silky smoove said:
I’ve watched that a few times and it’s definitely great.. Unfortunately they stick to single pickup examples, and while I very occasionally play with the neck soloed, I’m almost always playing bridge and middle in parallel, or sometimes neck and bridge in parallel. I find the parallel combination of pickups comb filters out the stuff I don’t want and leaves what I do want in most cases, but some pickups result in an excessive midrange scoop. In my experience, wide frequency response pickups are more susceptible to this, hence my question.
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There is also these comparisons that go into more detail: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/dingwall-owners-club.394482/page-2642#post-27475673
 
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#54,213
ale29 said:
Quick question for NG2 owners: is there a noticeable difference in volume between both pickups in parallel and series mode?
And how's the output of the middle or bridge pickup soloed compared to both series and both parallel?
Thanks
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speaking as the owner of an NG3, if the pickups heights are setup properly, position 1 (bridge), 3 (parallel), 4(neck) would give about the same volume.

position 2 series will definitely give a higher output volume.
 
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Derek Williams said:
There is also these comparisons that go into more detail: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/dingwall-owners-club.394482/page-2642#post-27475673
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Somehow I missed these, which is odd since I see all of John's videos in my YT feed. These are helpful. It revealed two things for me:
  1. The nasal upper midrange quality to the FD3s that @macribas mentioned previously is quite noticeable.
  2. The SF2s sound more like what I thought the FD3s would sound like based on the descriptions on Dingwall's website. The SF2s are definitely fat, but that top end is very high and clear which I was not anticipating.
 
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silky smoove said:
Somehow I missed these, which is odd since I see all of John's videos in my YT feed. These are helpful. It revealed two things for me:
  1. The nasal upper midrange quality to the FD3s that @macribas mentioned previously is quite noticeable.
  2. The SF2s sound more like what I thought the FD3s would sound like based on the descriptions on Dingwall's website. The SF2s are definitely fat, but that top end is very high and clear which I was not anticipating.
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I can agree on the weird nasal upper midrange when combining FD3s, I have been avoiding parallel mode on my setup for sometime for that reason.

Good discussion, I have a set of FDVs I want to eventually put in my Combustion so its nice to have points of comparison.
 
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