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Dingwall Owners Club
- Thread starter FroggyOne2
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Over the weekend I watched a series on Hulu called "Say Nothing". About half way through it I realized that I'm watching a show about the IRA for St Patrick's Day. Can I be any more unintentionally stereotypical? But it was actually a good series and I need to get my Shamrock Shake from McDonalds.
Nice green bass!!
Nice green bass!!
Good lord! Fantastic green bass. If I was ever to own a 6 string, I would like it to be just like yours.
A bit late for this side of the world, but for the rest of you...
I appreciate that all the ball ends are apparently lined up to point the same direction
I often do the same thing haha.
Haha - I don't remember if that was on purpose or whether the design of the bridge makes it automatic.I appreciate that all the ball ends are apparently lined up to point the same direction
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Does anyone know if there’s a reason dingwall doesn’t offer true single coil pickups? My super PJ does a really nice classic P sound with the P pickup soloed, lm just curious if anyone would know why they don’t have a single coil. Offering one would allow the super J to get closer to vintage tones.
Likely to avoid buzzing with the 4 way rotary in certain positions. But yeah, something with a little more zing would be nice in a Super J.
I've been pretty vocal about the fact that the Super J doesn't really sound much like a Jazz bass. The pickups are a large part of that. I agree with you that true single coils would get it closer to Jazz bass territory, but aside from the single coil hum issue mentioned by @MultiScaleMale , I suspect Sheldon doesn't really care to try and do a true recreation of a classic Jazz tone. He seems much more aligned with the desire to simply sound like a Dingwall. I've seen images of people who put a Nordstrand Big Single in Nordstrand's Dingwall shaped pickup casing, so the aftermarket option is there if it's desirable to the owner of an SJ. Of course, if you go that route you'd lose the Dingwall'ness of it all.
After being perplexed by the same question, that was my conclusion, too.
A P-Sound with a modern multiscale-touch is possible with the awesome p-tone pick-up, a singelcoil sound not so much.
As a consequence, I can treat my SJ as if it were a SP. All that matters ist the medium scale. If I want a SP I can just use a p-tone pick-up. No need to buy another bass.
Similar arguments could be conjured for the "MusicMan" position with the 3 pick-up Dingwalls. It doesn't really sound like a MM. It can't. It sounds like a DIngwall.
And what is wrong with the fact that a Dingwall sound like a DIngwall and not like a Fender? Nothing
It makes life easier and cheaper. 2 Dingwalls with the right choice of pick-ups and preamps and you're all set.
I have a slightly different take on that one. A Stingray is two coils in parallel. When you put bridge and middle in parallel on my SJ it doesn't sound anything like a Stingray. In fact it sounds much closer to a Jazz than the bridge and neck in parallel setting. Somewhat counterintuitively, if you put the bridge and middle in series with each other I find that it does a very convincing Stingray sound. This might be due to the SF2 pickups and Glock preamp on my bass, but regardless; Bridge and middle in series with some treble boost on the Glock and I can instantly get my Tony Levin on
I don't know why they wouldn't just give you the option with the switches? My bass got a single/serial/parallel switch. Likely they need to expose another wire from the pickup, but technically it should be easy.
Because Dingwall pickups aren‘t humbuckers; they‘re splitcoils.
Assuming the matte finish of the D-Roc is the same one they use for the ABZ. I did see one review that mentioned that it was turning a bit gloss, but only around the strap locks.
Wherever your arm rubs against will get this a bit. Happens with basically every company's matte/satin finish from what I've heard
Makes sense. I’m really happy with all of my dingwalls (AB2, Super PJ, two ABZs). I’m toying around with the idea of getting into recording and online session work (not even to make money, just to get more experience), and I think I could use my dingwalls to cover everything except someone asking for that classic J tone. If that pops up frequently for whatever reason maybe I’ll just look into getting a classic J bass just for that. But I’ll be sticking with my FD3s or FDVs for live.After being perplexed by the same question, that was my conclusion, too.
A P-Sound with a modern multiscale-touch is possible with the awesome p-tone pick-up, a singelcoil sound not so much.
As a consequence, I can treat my SJ as if it were a SP. All that matters ist the medium scale. If I want a SP I can just use a p-tone pick-up. No need to buy another bass.
Similar arguments could be conjured for the "MusicMan" position with the 3 pick-up Dingwalls. It doesn't really sound like a MM. It can't. It sounds like a DIngwall.
And what is wrong with the fact that a Dingwall sound like a DIngwall and not like a Fender? Nothing
It makes life easier and cheaper. 2 Dingwalls with the right choice of pick-ups and preamps and you're all set.
