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Sometimes Im sorry I picked up a Dingwall
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Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
“Sometimes Im sorry I picked up a Dingwall”
Just think of how you made so many of us glad we haven’t picked one up (yet).
I don’t know any bassists or other musician who hasn’t abandoned their old instrument after getting a new one. I also don’t know many of them who haven’t gravitated back to the old one eventually. Those that sold their old #1, 2, or 3 often regretted it later.
What I don’t quite understand is buying a Dingwall, liking it, and then buying a half dozen more Dingwalls. Does the first one and each subsequent bass begin getting ignored with the purchase of each new one, or is each successive new Dingwall drastically different from the previous one? Is it just rebuilding a variety of different tone multi-scale basses like you previously had with single-scale basses or does the first Dingwall trigger a compulsion to buy multiple identical basses?
I’m just trying to prepare for the worst (best?) if I decide to try one out…
I've kinda had the opposite experience. Got my first 37" multi scale a couple weeks ago. (LTD B1005SE-MS) Have been playing it a lot. Lovin' it.
Picked up my 34" P Bass and it feels like a short scale now. Lovin' that too.
I guess I need to play my upright more consistently to make all my electrics feel like toys.
Picked up my 34" P Bass and it feels like a short scale now. Lovin' that too.
I guess I need to play my upright more consistently to make all my electrics feel like toys.
I was on a cruise last week and the bass player for the jazz band had a NG3 5 with the 6 way rotary switch installed. He played through a little GK Fusion 2X10 cab and that bass sounded amazing. That low B was a thing of beauty and sounded so ‘natural’ compared to the other strings. I’m trying to scheme a way to add one to the fold someday.
For me it's been pretty easy. I'm also adapting to playing more 5 string and I would say that's a bigger challenge than the fanned frets. Going back and forth is no problem so far, but if you played only FF for years I can see you might tend to overshoot on a 34".
Try out an Ibanez BTB 605 or 805 MS. Since I got my 605 I tend to pick it up before the others. Plus it just sounds meaner. You can find them used for well under a grand. But you're not going to get those 37" strings at the Dollar General.
Very easy. Feels natural. And I don't have large hands.
The first frets on the B-String are a bit of a stretch though and the higher registers can be confusion geometrically. But the transition back and forth is no concern.
Trigger a compulsion? YES“Sometimes Im sorry I picked up a Dingwall”
Just think of how you made so many of us glad we haven’t picked one up (yet).
I don’t know any bassists or other musician who hasn’t abandoned their old instrument after getting a new one. I also don’t know many of them who haven’t gravitated back to the old one eventually. Those that sold their old #1, 2, or 3 often regretted it later.
What I don’t quite understand is buying a Dingwall, liking it, and then buying a half dozen more Dingwalls. Does the first one and each subsequent bass begin getting ignored with the purchase of each new one, or is each successive new Dingwall drastically different from the previous one? Is it just rebuilding a variety of different tone multi-scale basses like you previously had with single-scale basses or does the first Dingwall trigger a compulsion to buy multiple identical basses?
I’m just trying to prepare for the worst (best?) if I decide to try one out…
I bought a budget fan fret 5-string, a Harley Benton. I am kinda glad I did as the thing that happens up in the higher register. I am not comparing the quality of the Dingwall to the Harley Benton, although I thought the Harley Benton quality was very good for that price point 
It just that angle of the frets up there and that would not change for me on a Dingwall regardless of the improved quality and higher price I think
Perhaps over time if I get that higher register thing under my fingers better, I may reconsider
The cat likes it!
It just that angle of the frets up there and that would not change for me on a Dingwall regardless of the improved quality and higher price I think
Perhaps over time if I get that higher register thing under my fingers better, I may reconsider
The cat likes it!
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Well... No worries about that, far as I'm concerned. I'm Glad I picked up that lefty Dingwall at the Sweetwater campus, 15 months ago. Because, now I know that I don't want one. I had been wondering about fan-fretted instruments until that moment of epiphany; but, now I'm sure that they are not for me...
Looks like it’s all fan fret unless they custom build something.
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