Dingwall Owners Club

[Dr. Cheese]

I found this Combustion four string at my favorite shop after church. A local TB member is selling it. I am tempted, but I like my current basses, and I don’t know I would want to let anything go to make room for it.

It turns out this bass is the Combustion Nashville Edition. I played a long time today and I was finally shown how the electronics work. It is not as straight forward as my JT5, but I like. I think I might get rid of some stuff and take it home.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I’m kinda loving the D-ROC rotary layout. Of course I’d like to add a neck only option, but I can never be 100% happy. Heh.

 

[Fazed]

I’m kinda loving the D-ROC rotary layout. Of course I’d like to add a neck only option, but I can never be 100% happy. Heh.

Oh but you can... Do the KK3 mod like I did with mine and you'll get that neck solo as well as 7 other awesome usable combinations.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Oh but you can... Do the KK3 mod like I did with mine and you'll get that neck solo as well as 7 other awesome usable combinations.

I like Middle solo as well, I don't think you can do that with the KK3 mod?

 

[Fazed]

Not going to lie, if it wasn't for the neck + bridge combo this bass would be less flexible as an alternative / backup. But that combo with a bit of EQ work sounds good with more classic music. So I gigged it today and will again tomorrow. The exacting notes of the bass along with its mid-focused sound REALLY cut nicely through the mix. It'll never compete with my Maruszczyk for absolutely gut-thumping growl (Delano Xtender pickups are unreal) but what's important for me is that you can hear it cleanly in the mix and on the stage.

If you're not playing live, I can understand why you might have sold it. And in bridge + middle combo, it sounds hardcore metal/metallic. But even for classic rock, that tone was working for me in the mix. That sold me on this bass, it has what it needs to be successful in a band.

I do wish I had that preamp and not the darkglass, but like I said, in practice I found this bass to have a home in a live mix. In the end, for me, that's more important than my own preferences in private rehearsal. For that, I have to say that the Maruszczyk and the Warwick are killer basses with killer sound, but in a mix they take work to be discrete sounding, whereas my Spectra Pro and now the Dingwall NE being mid-focused and bright really pulls them out and puts them into defined-sounding territory without much effort.

Another Maruszczyk player here. I got mine because I didn't want to wait on the SP1 5 so I got this Elwood L5p Multi-scale as a bridge the gap and decided to keep it because, honestly, it's amazing.

 

[Fazed]

I like Middle solo as well, I don't think you can do that with the KK3 mod?

No, that is unfortunately correct.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

No, that is unfortunately correct.

I did see the video. Pretty cool!

 

[The Sandman]

I’m kinda loving the D-ROC rotary layout. Of course I’d like to add a neck only option, but I can never be 100% happy. Heh.

I like Middle solo as well, I don't think you can do that with the KK3 mod?

I’m slumming it with the Mo Mina (designed and installed) 6 way rotary on my Sklar…. but I do have both neck and middle solo.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I’m slumming it with the Mo Mina (designed and installed) 6 way rotary on my Sklar…. but I do have both neck and middle solo.

And I think there is a mod that allows installation in the thinner D-ROC.

 

[Panych]

Not going to lie, if it wasn't for the neck + bridge combo this bass would be less flexible as an alternative / backup. But that combo with a bit of EQ work sounds good with more classic music. So I gigged it today and will again tomorrow. The exacting notes of the bass along with its mid-focused sound REALLY cut nicely through the mix. It'll never compete with my Maruszczyk for absolutely gut-thumping growl (Delano Xtender pickups are unreal) but what's important for me is that you can hear it cleanly in the mix and on the stage.

If you're not playing live, I can understand why you might have sold it. And in bridge + middle combo, it sounds hardcore metal/metallic. But even for classic rock, that tone was working for me in the mix. That sold me on this bass, it has what it needs to be successful in a band.

I do wish I had that preamp and not the darkglass, but like I said, in practice I found this bass to have a home in a live mix. In the end, for me, that's more important than my own preferences in private rehearsal. For that, I have to say that the Maruszczyk and the Warwick are killer basses with killer sound, but in a mix they take work to be discrete sounding, whereas my Spectra Pro and now the Dingwall NE being mid-focused and bright really pulls them out and puts them into defined-sounding territory without much effort.

Fully agree about cutting through the mix. An NG does it easily with any pickup combinations. If you do not like a DG preamp you can always switch off it and play in passive. I usually play on my NG in passive - great tone especially with a neck pickup soloed.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

This bass has a really clean recording tone. I blew a few clams, but I think we sounded alright overall.

 

[CormacBass]

They might... I'm still figuring it out. I need to watch some videos on it to really learn how it works.

I will say that the usable sounds are great and you can definitely tell it's working. Based on volume alone I can guess what setting I'm on for some of them.

Personally for it to be perfect (for me) there would be hard start/stop positions, and the detents a little more defined (it's a very soft switch and easy to get bumped off the setting your on). Just my $.02

A hard stop would not be possible to also offer 1 to 12 positions.

You should try upping the dampening on the app to make the switch less twitchy

Download the app here

 

[CormacBass]

I wish the McGrath had four slots and you could select those with dip switches or something. I’m afraid it would be analysis paralysis for me with that many choices.

You can set it to have four position on our app.

The switch is built to unlock every usable combination of the three pickups.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

You can set it to have four position on our app.

The switch is built to unlock every usable combination of the three pickups.

When you rotate CCW / CW depending on how you look at it, when you go past the lowest or highest position does the next click in that same direction go to the lowest or highest? That's not a great description, but keep just four positions active to keep it simple, I click 4-3-2-1 - does the next click in that same direction stay on 1 or does it loop back to 4? Only increment / decrement in CW/CCW direction.

 

[Selta]

When you rotate CCW / CW depending on how you look at it, when you go past the lowest or highest position does the next click in that same direction go to the lowest or highest? That's not a great description, but keep just four positions active to keep it simple, I click 4-3-2-1 - does the next click in that same direction stay on 1 or does it loop back to 4? Only increment / decrement in CW/CCW direction.

Yeah. The simplest way to think of it would be an hour hand on a clock. When you go 4-3-2-1, then the next stop when rotating in the same direction will be 12 (assuming you have all 12 positions programmed and not set to Skipped).

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Yeah. The simplest way to think of it would be an hour hand on a clock. When you go 4-3-2-1, then the next stop when rotating in the same direction will be 12 (assuming you have all 12 positions programmed and not set to Skipped).

Wish it would only increment in one direction, decrement in the other or have the option to turn that on. My use case - I'd only use 4, maybe 5 slots. Then I could swing it 5 or more clicks in one direction and know I'm in position 1, spin the other way and I know I'm at position 5. I guess you could do the triple-click to get to a known position 1.

 

[Selta]

Wish it would only increment in one direction, decrement in the other or have the option to turn that on. My use case - I'd only use 4, maybe 5 slots. Then I could swing it 5 or more clicks in one direction and know I'm in position 1, spin the other way and I know I'm at position 5. I guess you could do the triple-click to get to a known position 1.

Ah so you basically want "no matter how much I rotate the encoder knob, stop at the end positions".
1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 ...
4 > 3 > 2 > 1 > 1 > 1 ...

If I'm understanding correctly? If so you're describing a logic clamp, which, good news, can be implemented in firmware. Probably just take me a couple nights to implement and test out...

 

[Selta]

UI only, not yet functional in firmware, but, you get the idea I'm going for.

 

[Solipsistik]

Gig #2 down for the new NG3. It really works so well in the mix, and apparently my singer really has a mancrush on it because he told me again that he wishes he was a bassist, the Dingwall looks so cool. It's a keeper. Bear in mind, I only got this bass on Thursday.

Oh, if you're looking for it, it's over by the Hammond & post. The Spectra Pro is right in front of the drums. I used mostly the NG3. These two will be gig sisters, because the Jackson has a neck & bridge single-coil pup which is the configuration I am most using with the Dingwall and the volume of the two instruments is very similar as a result. They're Nordstrand pickups in the Spectra Pro (a variation of Big Single I think).

Laura Richards with the red hair played Saxophone with us. I wish I could pay her to play every gig, but a lot of the venues we play at don't have enough room for us, much less her. I wish there were more large venues in this area to justify bringing her in all the time.

 

[gearhound22]

For those chasing more selectors a freeway LP type switch could be a good option (would have to drill a bigger hole though) this way it would give some indication of position as well.