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Dingwall Owners Club
- Thread starter FroggyOne2
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You have great taste my friend.
I can't recall. Is the Z a maple or wenge neck?
Ah yes. I looked a little closer....phone screen scrolling.
I'm excited to get my wenge necked Z. Is it perfection?! Can you snap a couple shots of the backs and necks of your basses sometime?
Wenge = Chocolaty, silky, sonic bliss. Back shots to follow, but here are a couple side shots to hold you over. Top is the Z3 & the bottom is the SJ5.
This... I’ve been a four banger for over 40 years. I recently picked up a SP 5 and have not looked back. That low B is monstrous.
@AB Nate - ask and you shall recieve. A couple of neck shots of my Z3. What other woods did choose for yours?
That neck wood looks like jatoba with the super straight consistent grain. I have an ‘05 ABII with a jatoba neck, love it.
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Yea, it was pretty amazing as I had played 5's before but gave up on them a long time ago to play 4's for so freakin long, and I still will, but I am slowly getting to where the 5 is comfortable enough that I can practice with it. Since I play a lot by ear, I just never heard a completely articulate low B until I played the Dingwall. It's funny, I guess I inherited a small part of the playing by ear from my grandmother; she could have somebody hum a tune then she could play it on the piano. Or if she heard it one time. And had no knowledge of notes or chords. If I were a 1/100 that good on playing bass by ear man it would be something. But if I can't hear clear articulation and and don't feel it, I cant play it. I can feel it with the low B on these basses.
Sounds like my grandmother... she play piano in silent movie theaters - by ear.
My grandmother used to play piano accompaniment to silent films also. A cool era which also included showboats - they docked at the town where she lived.
According to the neuroscientists, musical proclivity is genetic. It would be interesting to start a thread on TB to share our musical ancestral lineages.My grandmother used to play piano accompaniment to silent films also. A cool era which also included showboats - they docked at the town where she lived.
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OK... getting used to the new Combustion!
I notice that the first two frets on the B and E strings (C, C#, F, F#) are extremely sharp (especially first-fret F on the E string). Is that a fanned fret thing? Both strings are tuned solid to B and E, and octave intonation is good. A, D, G strings OK.
I notice that the first two frets on the B and E strings (C, C#, F, F#) are extremely sharp (especially first-fret F on the E string). Is that a fanned fret thing? Both strings are tuned solid to B and E, and octave intonation is good. A, D, G strings OK.
Are you going by what a tuner says or what you're hearing?
I ask as my Korg pitchblack constantly had issues with my combustion (not with my ABZ though), got fed up with it misbehaving and swapped it for a Turbo Tuner.
While playing a low C maj scale, the E-string F just sounded wrong. That's why I got the tuner out to confirm. The E string F sounded sharp to me, and the tuner confirmed it. The B-string C is sharp, too, but not as much. It's all OK once it reaches the third fret.
I was watching demo's on YT of the NG2, and it looked like the neck twisted back a little near the headstock.
Was I just seeing things or does the neck actually twist back?
Was I just seeing things or does the neck actually twist back?
The nut might be a tad high, or the Pu might be too close to the strings on the lower strings causing the string to “pull” sharp because the magnet is too close. It’ll only take a 1/4 to 1/2 a turn on the Pu shell on the bass side to rule this out.
No, Dingwall necks don't have any twist to them. Little Guitar Works is the only company I know of that makes literally twisted necks, and they call it the "Torzal Natural Twist" .
I thought the same thing from this photo:
It's an optical illusion caused by the fanned frets!
