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More than happy to help. Hope it all went well!
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I can't belive this. I'm waiting for Dingwall to build and send my bass on to the UK and in the meantime I'm without a 5 string fretted bass - it's what I play almost exclusively now. Mike very kindly loaned me a Yamaha 5 string for the duration and heroically found me in Cobham services car park! An absolute hero and gentleman and I can't thank him enough. May have do to a video call with him when I can take him through my box of treasure/junk to see if I can pay him back with any prime bits I'm not using but really he's helped me out a huge amount.
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But they only work with Orange amps.
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You see now you've piqued my interest...
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Is that an AI page translation or are the marketing team stoned?
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It’s real.
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Didn't seem like you had much to change from the way you sounded. The last few frets on the E and B string can take a bit of getting used to but as you and I have small hands we both have to pivot anyway so it's just a matter of calibration more than anything.
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I had a USA Pro Jazz that was absolutely amazing except it had terrible dead spots. That was really frustrating as it played like a dream, sounded epic, looked amazing - a really special instrument, but the dead spots were not niggles but huge issues.
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I watched the Philippine McKnight reviews on YouTube and he felt that the the Fender Standard Tele was okay for the money, basically a bit of a premium for the brand but probably not unreasonable at $499 though he’d personally go for a new Squier or used MIM at the price. The Strat, however, at $650 was poor value and not worth the money for the quality of the guitar.
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Yep. Fender reissue 70s USA Jazz in natural. I’ve always loved thise early 1970s models, and I got a really good discount buying direct from fender and it was the most disappointing bass I’ve ever had. Fit and finish were bad and the E string was anaemic and weedy. The vintage case was absolutely awful too, felt cheap and tacky. After that I never bought another high end Fender.
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Dave just bought my Dingwall. Absolutely perfect transaction and a very nice guy. Good grief, he's a helluva player though! My bass has never been played that well up until now - to say it's going to a good home would be an understatement! Anyway, thanks for buying, hope you enjoy it. Kim
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Looks like the universe has different plans. Someone wants to buy it and it may be gone within a week. Which will leave me without a Dingwall for a couple of months which will make me sad.
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I'm VERY glad I've not sold my Combustion yet!!!
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To be fair, the SimS pickups may be able to do what they say, but they'll always be compromised by the positioning and the preamp. If the pickup is located to do the P-bass thing it won't QUITE get the J-bass single coil sound, though it'll do the job. I think there are those Fishmans that use modelling to get specific sounds, though that doesn't appeal to me for some reason.
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If only they'd known about NAMM and Christmas and stuff before quoting a build time, these things are so unpredictable...
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I do think people get too hung up on wanting a bass that sounds like specific other basses though. You can do a lot of clever stuff with pickups and preamps but for a bass to sound like a precision it really speaking I think it will have to have a split-coil pickup in the right place and for a bass to sound like a 'Ray the humbucker needs to be a certain distance from the bridge and the preamp must be just so. What you CAN do though is get a bass to do the job of a P-bass or 'Ray but in its own way. That's just my opinion.
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You do see the odd Yamaha BB435 come up at good prices. My old bass teacher had one and it was a proper gigging workhorse for him. Sounded lovely too.
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I tried one in The Bass Gallery and I really didn’t get on with it. Absolutely gorgeous but I just didn’t like the painted neck and I don’t know if the strings were dead or the amp was rubbish but I didn’t dig the sound at all. Incredible build quality and look though.
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Bums. Just had an update that the team is focussed upon n NAMM and delivery date is three months away. Boo!!!
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I just wanna say I LOVE PLAYING BASS!!!!
kwmlondon replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
Terrific!!! -
I just wanna say I LOVE PLAYING BASS!!!!
kwmlondon replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
I may have been a bit excited at nailing an arpeggio run when I wrote that. I wasn’t drunk… -
I just wanna say I LOVE PLAYING BASS!!!!
kwmlondon replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
What kind of squirrel? And what LP bass? -
that's all
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Having 3 pickups it’s just too much of a temptation to see what you can achieve. Me? I prefer just 4 selections otherwise I’ll get obsessed messing around with configuring!