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Dingwall Owners Club

#18,861
So frickin' pretty
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Lowendtech said:
Beautiful work on that.
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Yeah, to add to the complexity, that wood is a very spalted flamed maple. So they have to impregnate it with C/A before they can work with it too.

NaH said:
I would've thought they'd be sprayed at the same time as the body. Wow.
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You'd think, but then the swamp ash wood shell bodies wouldn't get covered.
 
#18,875
AB Nate said:
Have you found them to take any wear the same as normal pickup covers?
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That's a good question and with my AB with standard FD3's I did have some string wear from playing. I ended up lowering the pickups a bit just to make sure I didn't dig into them. The finish formula is pretty darn strong...and after hundreds of shows, countless hundreds of hours of practice and all that, there' is very minimal wear that you wouldn't notice unless you were right up on it. I don't play with a pick and while my right hand has some muscle I don't ever dig in horizontally.

The back of the neck on the other hand is getting rather thin on the finish. ;) I have some Tru-Oil waiting for it, but I haven't gotten around to giving it a quick seal. I'm really surprised that my Voodoo Prima that also has literally thousands of stage hours and playing on it (not mine of course), the neck is damn near perfect.
 
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Funk said:
Now excuse my ignorance but what is the point of having the OmniCabSim and the SansAmp on your pedal board? I thought they basically did the same thing? Is the point of th you still run the pedals into a preamp out of a cab?
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No ignorance, that's a fair and valid question!
Absolutely EVERYTHING sounds better with the SansAmp BDDI in the line (and even MORE BETTER in headphones or recording), so that is just always on, and mostly "set it and forget it." The Vintage Ultra sounds way better with the SansAmp in front of it. Playing with any kind of dirt, the OmniCabSim lets you instantly dial out any harshness very easily. It is like magic.

The bass goes into the Octaver, then clockwise through everything in the physical order on the board layout, and out through the Ditto into my preamp/amp. (Referring to photo here: Dingwall Owners Club)

I laid out the board the way I did so that I can use the balanced out from the SansAmp or the OmniCabSim or both, which gives me a little added flexibility, since the Vintage Ultra and Chorus come after the SansAmp. With multiple distortions, I can actually use one, two, or all three. So for example, the Vintage Ultra is typically set very clean, no distortion just tone shaping, then the Alpha Omega is set for some natural sounding overdrive, and the Fifth Gear adds hard core harmonic rich distortion. I always keep every device at unity gain so anything can be switched on or off with no impact on volume.

For playing through an amp, depending on the amp settings, the OmniCabSim may or may not make a huge difference, though it's a nice easy way to instantly get rid of unneeded sub-bass lows and those nasty screeching highs if the cabinet has a horn tweeter for example, without having to mess with other tone controls. (In other words, it can tweak any cabinet I happen to be using to make it sound roughly the same, within the limits of physics.) But for recording, the OmniCabSim truly shines. You can just plug straight from there into the board and start recording, no muss, no fuss.

If I am lucky enough to start performing in public again, the sound guy will be able to choose which DI he prefers. He can even take two if he wants to have some fun with it. Yes both Darkglass boxes also have balanced outs. But the layout is too tight to expose those, and I can get by just fine without them I think.

The setup seems to work okay. I had my first audition in 9 years last weekend, and got the gig after apparently many others have failed. They said they really loved my sound. (ABZ-5XXX w/ DG TC & S/P.)

Someday if a miracle occurs and I have time, I will put a video together where I do some comparisons between the sound of the two DIs and compare them also against the sound of miked cabinets with various amp and cabinet combinations. I have lots of tonal variety available, and I am curious to do the side by side comparison myself to see what a difference the downstream equipment makes. I'll just record a little loop on the Ditto and repeat it, switching through the various combinations of gear. Should be a very enlightening and interesting exercise, again if time permits me to do it. (And yes, for those of you who are really paying attention, I will put the Ditto right after the bass, ahead of all the pedals so that it records only the dry bass signal.)
 
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xnewyorka said:
No ignorance, that's a fair and valid question!
Absolutely EVERYTHING sounds better with the SansAmp BDDI in the line (and even MORE BETTER in headphones or recording), so that is just always on, and mostly "set it and forget it." The Vintage Ultra sounds way better with the SansAmp in front of it. Playing with any kind of dirt, the OmniCabSim lets you instantly dial out any harshness very easily. It is like magic.

The bass goes into the Octaver, then clockwise through everything in the physical order on the board layout, and out through the Ditto into my preamp/amp. (Referring to photo here: Dingwall Owners Club)

I laid out the board the way I did so that I can use the balanced out from the SansAmp or the OmniCabSim or both, which gives me a little added flexibility, since the Vintage Ultra and Chorus come after the SansAmp. With multiple distortions, I can actually use one, two, or all three. So for example, the Vintage Ultra is typically set very clean, no distortion just tone shaping, then the Alpha Omega is set for some natural sounding overdrive, and the Fifth Gear adds hard core harmonic rich distortion. I always keep every device at unity gain so anything can be switched on or off with no impact on volume.

For playing through an amp, depending on the amp settings, the OmniCabSim may or may not make a huge difference, though it's a nice easy way to instantly get rid of unneeded sub-bass lows and those nasty screeching highs if the cabinet has a horn tweeter for example, without having to mess with other tone controls. (In other words, it can tweak any cabinet I happen to be using to make it sound roughly the same, within the limits of physics.) But for recording, the OmniCabSim truly shines. You can just plug straight from there into the board and start recording, no muss, no fuss.

If I am lucky enough to start performing in public again, the sound guy will be able to choose which DI he prefers. He can't even take two if he wants to have some fun with it. Yes both Darkglass boxes also have balanced outs. But the layout is too tight to expose those, and I can get by just fine without them I think.

The setup seems to work okay. I had my first audition in 9 years last weekend, and got the gig after apparently many others have failed. They said they really loved my sound. (ABZ-5XXX w/ DG TC & S/P.)

Someday if a miracle occurs and I have time, I will put a video together where I do some comparisons between the sound of the two DIs and compare them also against the sound of miked cabinets with various amp and cabinet combinations. I have lots of tonal variety available, and I am curious to do the side by side comparison myself to see what a difference the downstream equipment makes. I'll just record a little loop on the Ditto and repeat it, switching through the various combinations of gear. Should be a very enlightening and interesting exercise, again if time permits me to do it. (And yes, for those of you who are really paying attention, I will put the Ditto right after the bass, ahead of all the pedals so that it records only the dry bass signal.)
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That’s a very cool description of it.
I have a kind of mini version of your board (76cb->5th gear->VTBassDI->OCSD->hpf ) and couldn’t agree more.
Thanks for that.
 
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Lowendtech said:
That’s a very cool description of it.
I have a kind of mini version of your board (76cb->5th gear->VTBassDI->OCSD->hpf ) and couldn’t agree more.
Thanks for that.
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Curious, why do you have an HPF after the OmniCab? Even at the largest cab setting, it already has a highpass around 70Hz
 
#18,879
Had a fun lightbulb moment with the NG3...

Turns out the nuts cut for BEAD take an EADG set just fine, so I brought it along with a great Jazz to a session tonight for a pop reggae tune: think "Rude" by Magic!

There was absolutely no comparison: the NG3 (in neck/bridge mode with both FDV pickups in parallel) had so much more depth and clarity than the boutique Jazz it was genuinely shocking, even for me.

The engineer couldn't stop raving about it.

Certainly didn't hurt that it hit a Cali CB, Bass Driver, OmniCabSim and Monique on the way to the desk either ;)
 
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MDBass said:
Had a fun lightbulb moment with the NG3...

Turns out the nuts cut for BEAD take an EADG set just fine, so I brought it along with a great Jazz to a session tonight for a pop reggae tune: think "Rude" by Magic!

There was absolutely no comparison: the NG3 (in neck/bridge mode with both FDV pickups in parallel) had so much more depth and clarity than the boutique Jazz it was genuinely shocking, even for me.

The engineer couldn't stop raving about it.

Certainly didn't hurt that it hit a Cali CB, Bass Driver, OmniCabSim and Monique on the way to the desk either ;)
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How did you set the Omni for that? :)
 
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