Dingwall Owners Club

[Ewo]

Pretty sure the board on your Super P is Pau Ferro. Compared to my Wenge necked Afterburner, I found the tone on that P bass to be round and soft. The Wenge is difficult for me to describe, sometimes I think it's scooped sometimes it's mid forward. Always clear and precise though, and dark or ominous too. Like an iron fist in a velvet glove, a very thin glove. Where the super p had some boxing gloves on. The Wenge is grindy too. As far as feel goes, I love the wenge. I've often thought about un-bolting the neck and just taking a swing at something with it!
For your build you could get wenge on the Super J and swap necks. I'd love to hear that P with an all wenge neck, I wonder why we don't see that more often?

Ah, OK--poked around in the classifieds and saw where it changed hands before me. (An unusual spec: J neck, blocks, painted headstock, Hipshot detuner on the E string. Suits my needs perfectly, actually.) Yeah, prolly the one I have, and it says the board is pau ferro. You had played it?

 

[Thumper]

FWIW, if light weight is a goal (it was on my SJ5XXX) all maple is lighter.

 

[Selta]

Pretty rough mix on this track... it's something I recorded the bass track to a few months ago. This was Pi - blue AB1 w/ P-tone in neck + Glock 2 band, running through a fairly simple preset on my Axe-Fx II:



Video game nerds should enjoy it.

 

[imdkoz]

Just curious if anyone else that plays a lot of shows had this experience. I've used quite a few different basses live over the last 4 years. 12 total I think. I get complimented on my tone every once in a while, not a lot of bass love out there usually. But these first 2 shows with my NG-2 it was like everyone I talked to said great tone.

 

[Thumper]

My SJ5XXX was a big hit from the first gig. Interestingly enough, at several gigs, women have come up and asked to see it up close.

 

[Dave W]

Just curious if anyone else that plays a lot of shows had this experience. I've used quite a few different basses live over the last 4 years. 12 total I think. I get complimented on my tone every once in a while, not a lot of bass love out there usually. But these first 2 shows with my NG-2 it was like everyone I talked to said great tone.

Most of the musicians in my crowds will point and stare at them. The last gig one of the busier bassists in the area came over to shoot the **** with me and mentioned that I play a Dingwall (I had my SJ5), so I told him he could check it out if he wanted. He did and he thought it was freaking cool...

A touring guitarist that sits in on guitar or bass with us refuses to even try to play it. He's a great player but he's intimidated by it for some reason.

 

[evilgus]

My SJ5XXX was a big hit from the first gig. Interestingly enough, at several gigs, women have come up and asked to see it up close.

The bass?

EG

 

[ustabawannab]

thanks to all for the comments on wenge necks as an alternative to maple. please keep 'em coming, whoever might be in a position to compare.

i'm pondering the spec for a super J build, so that's why i've asked. i owned an MTD 535 with a wenge neck for a while, and didn't care for the feel of the neck under my thumb. the grain felt very pronounced--but of course i'm used to the smooth feel of poly or nitro on maple.

at the risk of over-thinking it...that super P, the one i mentioned above, seems to have a wenge board. (mistook it for morado at first glance, but later compared it to another bass i know has morado.) it's very smooth and silky...so i was wondering if the _back_ of the Dingwall wenge neck would feel like that, too.

thanks in advance for any comments.

Most folks have better ears than me I guess, but in the heat of battle (on stage at a gig), I can't hear the tone difference between my ABZ 3x with the all wenge neck versus my ABZ 3x with the maple neck and pau ferro fretboard. When I'm in pickup Position 3 and 4, I bet you a-buck-two-eighty 99.99% of the audience couldn't either. The big tone difference between the two basses is the wenge ABZ3x has a P-Tone in the neck position and all pup poles wired in series and the maple pau ferro ABZ 3x has serial/parallel switches for all three FD3 pickups.

That being said I can feel a difference between the necks. The all wenge feels more comfortable to me for some reason. Also the contrast of the dark wood and luminlay side dots is much easier to see when I'm jumping around rather than the maple wood & Luminlays. The dots get lost between the dark FB and the light neck.

 

[Thumper]

The bass?

EG

Sadly, yes

 

[singlemalt]

Yes indeed. I hit a whole new level with the Dingwalls. People noticed the look and the sound.

More than once I've had people tell me it's the best bass sound they have heard. And that was before I built the fEarfuls.

With the fEarfuls, people really notice.

 

[BuffaloBob4343]

I find the wenge neck is pretty satiny smooth when the thumb is traveling axially along the neck, and just a tiny bit of grain feel when traveling perpendicularly along the width. I find this to be just as comfy as the glassy smooth maple, but in a different way. I guess I like that the wenge is still smooth, but offers this slight tactile feel of wood. To me, it feels so organic and makes me more in touch with the instrument.

 

[ustabawannab]

. To me, it feels so organic and makes me more in touch with the instrument.

Well said. Plus I think all wenge looks cool.

 

[BuffaloBob4343]

Well said. Plus I think all wenge looks cool.

Yes! Wenge is beautiful as well!! Another plus for sure.

 

[bebass]

Well said. Plus I think all wenge looks cool.

I agree - it looks really great. I am getting a wenge/wenge neck on Flame Maple body of the very first production bass of the new Solid Maple ABHS.

 

[NaH]

I agree - it looks really great. I am getting a wenge/wenge neck on Flame Maple body of the very first production bass of the new Solid Maple ABHS.

Is it really a solid maple ABHS if the neck is wenge?

 

[Selta]

Is it really a solid maple ABHS if the neck is wenge?

I believe so. I can't really think of a reason why not. Were previous ABHSs all one species of wood?

 

[boamedt]

Excuse the dingwall nuberie, whats a abhs?

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

I believe so. I can't really think of a reason why not. Were previous ABHSs all one species of wood?

There is a local cat with an ABHS. I thought his was walnut with bubinga or wenge but I may be wrong, it may be one wood type.

Exchse the dingwall nuberie, whats a abhs?

Afterburner, heavy and solid. They weigh 10+ pounds. Some folks prefer the weight for tone. That is why the one cat I know who has one went with the ABHS.

 

[NaH]

Is it really a solid maple ABHS if the neck is wenge?

I believe so. I can't really think of a reason why not. Were previous ABHSs all one species of wood?

I was saying if you REALLY wanted a SOLID maple ABHS, it would be Maple body, maple neck, maple fretboard.

 

[bebass]

Is it really a solid maple ABHS if the neck is wenge?

Body solid Maple, neck wenge/wenge. But one could get a neck of maple/maple. I preferred the look and feel of the wenge for this one. Stock would be solid maple body, maple neck/wenge fretboard.

I believe so. I can't really think of a reason why not. Were previous ABHSs all one species of wood?

Excuse the dingwall nuberie, whats a abhs?

There is a local cat with an ABHS. I thought his was walnut with bubinga or wenge but I may be wrong, it may be one wood type.

Afterburner, heavy and solid. They weigh 10+ pounds. Some folks prefer the weight for tone. That is why the one cat I know who has one went with the ABHS.

The previous year's model was bubinga and was fairly heavy. This newly released model, this being the first one, has a maple that is a bit less dense and should come in with an estimate of a little over 9 lbs. Exciting to see this upgrade.