Woodinblack

Nice colour!

See I would go dingwall from the given options, if I could pick the dingwall, but I had a combustion and TBH, although the neck was lovely, the bass was not good at all - lifeless and uninteresting, almost lost a gig because of it, but luckily brought a Cricket Bass backup and redeemed it. Hated it and coudln't wait to get rid of it, traded it for my #1 ibanez which on the face of it sounds like a bad deal but was about the best deal I ever made. So I would never get another far east dingwall without playing it.

And even odder - left it tonight, loads of holiday prep to do, animals to sort out. Now I have got back to it and as my wife has gone to bed I brought it downstairs. Plugged it into my spark and my wireless to the input. Totally dead silent. No noise whatsoever. I expected more as there is a wireless dongle hanging out of the input, nada.

ok, so routing round in my spare PSU section I found a netgear 12V psu, and used that one instead. Its a lot quieter, and the buzz has gone away. I did find the 'get rid of ground buzz' setting did get rid of some of the buzz too, so it is now pretty well buzz free - its a little noisier than no effect, I don't know what that would be as a live thing (and also it is in my computer room which has a lot of noise sources). Playing around with just the effects that are set up as standard is actually pretty inspiring, they go from useful to completely unusable but interesting, very impressed with the quality and I haven't really done anything with it yet. I guess the best option is to take it to practice this week and see what it brings to the party. Once I got used to the workflow of it, I found it surprisingly easy to navigate with only 3 buttons, with its pedalboards and snapshots - I know the HXFX has that but honestly i have never used it in that way.

thanks for the link - that was the page that the photo on the quickstart guide pointed to, it didn't mention the dwarf user guide! I will try the noise things in that page, I tried to find a page like that, found threads, but didn't see that, so thanks! Not sure it is an earth loop, as that is just connected straight - but I do have a few things with DIs, so I will try that, and maybe if I have other power supplies around.

Might be short lived though - I tried it after work and plugging it in I was greeted by a nice loud buzz through everything. Same sort of buzz you get when you have a digital and analogue effect on the same power supply, the sort I used to get with various things before I got an isolated power supply. Not very promising if I get it when nothing else is plugged in. The effects that are built in seem pretty good, although plugging in the usb lead provided failed to enable me to get to any user interface - they really could think of the finishing touches couldn't they - there is a piece of paper that thanks you for getting it, and gives you a web address you can manually type in to get to a quick start guide, and when you get to that, and have scrolled down far enough it actually says how to get started, by showing you a picture of the web address you have to type in your browser to get to the device. Really smart guys - a link too tricky, or you just want to add inconvenience? So no, I did't manage to get to the gui - I guess I have to do some reading to get this to work, but then even if I do, the buzz isn't useable in an effects pedal. Somewhat dissapointed

What is this offence? who is offended? Hearing that song again in any form would have that effect on me!

and why is that relevant?

Not that ironic really, all conducted over the net as any of this sort of trasaction should be. Anyway, ordered a mod dwarf from them on thursday night, turned up just now, so good shipping, good price. Seems like the box had already been opened though, so not sure why but all there and plastic on the screen so maybe just in the shop.Still, cheaper than the thomman bstock, so no problem really, and kind of what I would expect, so assuming everything is good (have opened and looked but not tried it yet) then I am happy with that

So today I can join your club, found out that bass direct sell them so picked up one there, a bit cheaper than thomman (and most of the used ones on the net). Great size, if this does everything i think it can do I can downsize my pedalboard a bit although obviously you have to consider space for the needed footswitches to make it actually useable! Looking forward to using this tonight!

Ironically, i would say it makes it more likely to be legit - i mean if you were faking it you would never forget that bit!

It must affect the value, however minimaly.

I played one in PMT, and loved its playability, didn't have any neck dive that I noticed, also didn't seem to have a weak B string, but you don't really get to test it that much in a shop. I didn't know if the issue had been fixed or not as there was never an indication from spector it was an issue, but it clearly was for some people. I would still pick up a green one (or better, the red one) if one popped up while I had the money! Have fun with it, I really enjoyed the pickup options and basic sound (although I found it had a fundamentally good sound when off, which is always important)

Think it would have been better without the singing. I mean, not that she is a bad singer, she is great, but not for that song. As an orchestral piece it would be fine.

That bass must be an absolute dog - looks like noone ever wanted to play it!

I loved the dimension when I played it, and was all set to buy one from bass direct, as they were just about the cheapest, even though at the limit I was going to play. Unfortunately the didn't have the green one so I contacted them to ask about it, and they said the green one was going to be another £100 when it came in, so that was a bit too much. There was a s/h green one in BD recently, I was tempted but need to clear some things out first. I will get one at some point, the only thing that concerns me is the whole '5th string doesn't go over the pickup' situation as argued about a lot in 'the other place'.

eBay only now counts transactions in the last 12 months.

I tend to just use the spark app when I am playing, works out similar

I haven't used that - but what is the difference between it and Spleeter/deezer which is just an open source project you run on your own computer?

As I said, because I hadn't noticed in your posts which forum it was, and your first report landed just when I was hugely busy with work, sorry.

Out of that list I think only the bongo or some versions of dingwall would appeal, but I don't think you can get either for £1500 new, so seems like a fail! Would like a bongo, but very expensive, same as a canadian dingwall, wouldn't want a combusion. If it had to be new and it had to be up to £1500, I guess it would be an ibanez.

that is always the risk if you sell it because you didn't like it - I always think 'why did I sell that' and then remember, but when you sell something that you have to for financial reasons, its not the same. I still regret selling my ibanez 6/12 double neck, but I didn't want to be homeless!

Thats on me not keeping up with things, and not spotting what forum you were on. I looked into it, couldn't find anything. As they say in the trade, have a look again, how about now?

I remember seeing that bass at bass direct and being fairly tempted.

I don't believe he would, if he knew. But I believe it is very possible to make an authentic fake of these instruments without too much trouble. Compared to other fakable things, a solid body electric guitar / bass seems pretty simple.