LukeFRC

He’s got a 4 ply one too

I like red basses... and your house looks massive!

He’s not, it’s a really high end preamp, it’s done properly.

live near a shop with Dingwalls - go and try some. Try the stuff you are interested in too. decide for yourself after playing it. Maybe they are right, but if they aren't I doubt they will complain if you go "I tried them, the Stingray 5 was way better, then I found this one secondhand" or something. If they do have problem with that, then maybe they aren't that great ppl to be in a band with.

having read the thread... Did they sit you down and tell you "you need to buy this Dingwall" Or did one of you start a conversation about upgrading the bass you've got and the inner gear nerds in your band thought that some cool Dingwall would be a good idea?

the venue's PA team is more than ok with you lugging in your old amp and 8*10... before taking the DI from your bass, sending to the digital desk through CAT5 cables and then sending it to a rack of class D amps powering Neo loaded arrays/self powered Neo loaded arrays....

What I was going to say

End of 2019 I see a bass advertised that looks nice but discount it as it’s a 5 string. It’s also in the next village from where I work. So my first 5 string. Was really struggling with the preamp (to the point I was going to sell the bass) but liked it enough to try switching in a East Uni pre which transformed it. It just sounds great and for the same level as my Sadowsky metro sounds a lot louder - big wide warm low mids with a lot of harmonic richness coming from the bartolini pickups

Si that gold 44-94 is a thing of beauty

SH Sadowsky metro tend to be cheaper than SH US Lakland (in most all but one case!)

Similar. Sold off all but one other since getting my metro. And that only stayed as it was a 5 string and a very different sound

Yes

Zikinf, Bassic.de ....

erm what are you trying to work out? We've been using 4 a side headstocks since the early 50's - it's hardly new unproven tech

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where we're going we don't need Galileo - we're onto string theory

I think you had it right when you said that 3+2 was best cos it's balanced. We all agree with you - It's why 4 on a line headstocks don't work and never have. To be honest with you I think the only mistake in your theory is 5 string basses - surely we should scrap them and play 3+3 6 strings? Or Ned Steinburger influenced headless.

clicking through musician's social media... this looks cool https://musicstreet.co.uk/products/ernie-ball-music-man-cliff-williams-signature-bass-guitar-sunburst if not the price!!

sooo... I really dislike that fin ish on the stingray special or 5 ... but it looks nice on the bongo - it seems to burst to brown on the edge - whereas the rays burst to black on further in. But hey ho - we don't all need to like thee same thing do we?

this?