I've long favoured Dingwall basses, but the one I wanted wasn't really there...
My personal preferences are like this: an old school all passive bass combining P and J, with 3/4" spacing at bridge, like old four string Fenders, but with fan fret 37" - 34" scale. Dingwall don't make to these specs...
I've used Payson strings for a while, and when Payson Clarke released his new bass, well, I kind of jumped on the train and bought it unseen.
The pictures on the website were kind of low resolution and rather dull, so I really didn't know what to expect, but lo and behold!
It arrived from Texas to Sweden in under a week, well packed, in a Reunion Blues Continental case - I won't call it bag. When case was unzipped, I found a beautiful beast of a bass. Just the looks of it screamed OLD SCHOOL: the kind of oversized bakelite type knobs, the lack of bells and whistles, just a BASS.
The body shape is a mix of P and J: offset waist, but non offset "butt end" so you can put it down without tipping over. Asymmetrical neck profile and stainless frets with hidden fret ends. Minimal switching possibilities, just a toggle switch for bridge pickup series-single coil-parallel, and one for bypassing the balance pot and also switch the pickups to series for a huge tone.
It was perfectly set up. exactly to my specs, and the da*mned thing was in tune when I unpacked it...
The Payson has been my first call bass since it arrived; I took it for the first gig the same week it arrived. Well, here it is:
The diagonal stripes are reflections from the ceiling...
The very discreet fret ends...
The Nordstrand pickups...
With its brother-in-arms the Dingwall Super P5 with Thomastik flats. Payson has Payson Stainless on...
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My personal preferences are like this: an old school all passive bass combining P and J, with 3/4" spacing at bridge, like old four string Fenders, but with fan fret 37" - 34" scale. Dingwall don't make to these specs...
I've used Payson strings for a while, and when Payson Clarke released his new bass, well, I kind of jumped on the train and bought it unseen.
The pictures on the website were kind of low resolution and rather dull, so I really didn't know what to expect, but lo and behold!
It arrived from Texas to Sweden in under a week, well packed, in a Reunion Blues Continental case - I won't call it bag. When case was unzipped, I found a beautiful beast of a bass. Just the looks of it screamed OLD SCHOOL: the kind of oversized bakelite type knobs, the lack of bells and whistles, just a BASS.
The body shape is a mix of P and J: offset waist, but non offset "butt end" so you can put it down without tipping over. Asymmetrical neck profile and stainless frets with hidden fret ends. Minimal switching possibilities, just a toggle switch for bridge pickup series-single coil-parallel, and one for bypassing the balance pot and also switch the pickups to series for a huge tone.
It was perfectly set up. exactly to my specs, and the da*mned thing was in tune when I unpacked it...
The Payson has been my first call bass since it arrived; I took it for the first gig the same week it arrived. Well, here it is:
The diagonal stripes are reflections from the ceiling...
The very discreet fret ends...
The Nordstrand pickups...
With its brother-in-arms the Dingwall Super P5 with Thomastik flats. Payson has Payson Stainless on...
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