Grand Wazoo

Lovely bass and congratulations, but please explain what is that strat type switch by the lower horn purpose if you have 2 individual volume what would be the point of a 3 position switch unless it is there to perform other electric trickery such as in / out phase / passive / active / series / parallel?

I think I will hold on to my original Promethean combo 500W with grahic EQ for ever, I can't fault it and it is a truly great sounding amp specially when connected to the extention neodyimium cab.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1328129616' post='1522464'] You had me wondering for a minute. Not like you to slip like that GW. BP paid a Polish builder to spike your water supply ??? [/quote] haha no BP too busy with his pins on my voodoo doll

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1328129308' post='1522452'] I thought the bridge hardware was hipshot??? [/quote] Yesss! My bad I meant hipshot and wrote Gotoh SORRRYYYY I'll go and edit my post. dayum!

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1328127274' post='1522396'] Yeah, why not available in left hand? [/quote] Well mainly the reason for these basses not being available left handed is that it would be extremely costly to produce them in response to an already minimal demand for them, assuming a ratio of 1 to a 1000 possibly. Items like the neck & fretboard but in particular things like the bridge they need to be machined purposedly for the left hand. While you can reverse the saddle position on any standard bass brdige and get away with it, a left handed HIPSHOT (Edit: Not Gotoh) made Dingall bridge would need to be rebuilt from scratch. Body blanks and pickups also need to be redesigned in reverse (needing new CNC implementations) In conclusion, for what I have read on the Dingwall forum it appears that a leftie Dingwall is something that we won't see for a long time yet. Harsh but true.

Well done, I have always loved the look and sound of Pedulla basses and Mark Egan (formerly bass player with Pat Metheny) was a great ambassador of them, sadly I have never yet touched one with my own hands, as you said they are very hard to come by and I've never seen one in store.

and ...... [url="http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/01/30/top-10-the-most-popular-namm-gear-announcements-videos-lessons-and-features-of-the-week/"]http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/01/30/top-10-the-most-popular-namm-gear-announcements-videos-lessons-and-features-of-the-week/[/url]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1327933403' post='1518974'] Yeah link is dead. [/quote] Call Mark he is a really great geezer and I am sure he will give you a price indication Cheers

it was in this post but... the link he inclued then its not active anymore [b][b][url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/161404-dingwall-super-p-prototype/page__view__findpost__p__1494167"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/161404-dingwall-super-p-prototype/page__view__findpost__p__1494167[/url][/b][/b]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1327932488' post='1518960'] Anyone know what these are going to retail at???? [/quote] If I remember rightly a few pages or posts ago Mark Stickley of Bass Direct did give some indication of the prices of the two models, both the active one with John East preamp and the Z passive model. I just don't remember how much it was

I quite like the cream one

There is a market for every pocket. No luthier should be feeling guilty for producing high end instrument which are made with the most refined material just as McLaren shouldn't be feeling guilty about building their high quality sport cars. At the end of the day is down to how deep is your pocket and how much YOU can afford

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1327496101' post='1512235'] I want a video diary of Wayne playing the Dingwalls! There will be that point where he either loves it or doesn't get on with it. I'm betting he might be quite taken with it, but not 100%.... Looking forward to this [/quote] Gareth, I know this much, whether he will like the basses or not, Wayne and I will become best of friends after that evening. I'll guarantee it.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1327485287' post='1511914'] I'll take you up on that and please don't think I've demonized I realise some people don't get my humour so I'm sorry if offence is taken. [/quote] Trust me I never took any offence. I'll let you have my address by pm as soon as my house is finished

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1327443687' post='1511465'] I personally think it's a fad but I've been proved wrong before. [/quote] Wayne I respect your opinion, if we all liked he same thing, it would be a boring bland life. If it is any help, despite the fact that in some of your previous posts some months ago, you have demonized me because of my choice of basses, I haven't taken any offence, and as a human gesture of reconciliation, I invite you to come and spend a few hours at mine to try these basses and then be in a position to expressed an opinion on something you have actually tried. Faversham is not too far from South East London (Greenwich area) coffees and teas will be on the ready and if you're lucky a few biscuits will be thrown in the bargain. Say 3 weeks from now when my house renovatiing works will be fully completed. After that, you can still leave my place disliking the Dingwall basses, but if you do, at least I can respect the fact that you have tried them and they weren't for you, rather than diss them as a fad without first hand experience.

And you will notice that in the above post I never once mentioned the fanned fret thing, well there is a reason for it... nothing to mention about when it comes to put your fingers on the bass, its just point and click, very small learning curve on the first 3 or 4 fret but for the rest of the fretboard you'll hardly notice any difference whatsoever, hence nothing to wax lyrical about them, you'll just get on with them as if it was just an ordinary bass. Guaranteed!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, no one's ever influenced me towards the Dingwall experience, I was totally oblivious of them and whenever I saw one advertised in a mag, I too thought it was a gimmick or some fancy pants boy's toy. Never bothered to find out more about them as I was happy with my Music Man basses, until one day I was in the Bass Gallery to buy a compressor pedal, and Alex asked me what bass I wanted to try the pedal and I've said I mostly own MusicMan basses so anything by Ernie Ball will do and I tried the pedal with a Stingray 5... all good I must admit, average! Then I turned around and saw a Dingwall ABZ 5, I asked Alex if I could have a go cause chances are I might never see one again in the flesh and you haven't lived until you've tried everything. He said sure Fran have a go, you'll like it. After 5 minutes I was immediately impressed and comparing the ABZ with the Stingray gave me a shock to the system as to how simply a passive bass can sound so much better and be so much easier to play, and experiencing that infectious low B was an immediate addition. Paid for it in cash there and then and took it home together the compressor pedal. Got home and within 3 weeks all my EBMM's were dissipated through ebay and this forum, bye bye Bongo 5, Big Al 5, Stingray 5 and 25th Anniversary 5 all gone in 3 weeks! Bosh! The ABZ replaced them all, then along came the ABII with the active Glockenklang and last was the Super J / P and I've never looked back, never missed those I sold for these ones. Happy as a pig in the proverbial. Of course I am not a die-hard Dingwall fan with blinkers because I still keep my traditional bass passion and in between those 3 Dingwalls I have bought 2 x Fender American Standard a Jazz and a Precision, a Kubicki Ex Factor and nearly bought a Sandberg until I saw the Super P prototype and though better. Now I can't wait for mine to be built.

If it's any help in italian Palissandro translate as Rosewood [url="http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT#it|en|palissandro"]http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT#it|en|palissandro[/url]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1327222840' post='1507864'] The narrower neck of the Jazz bass was in order to attract more guitarists to electric bass playing. BTW, the Precision Bass is not at all a one trick pony. [/quote] Absolutey, I didn't mean that badly for one second I love a passive P bass me, all I meant is that it doesn't have the extra versatility of a 2 pickup bass and it stands in that same frequency response for ever and ever amen, although its a great sound, I would add that it's THE right sound for many styles of music but thats all it does sonically compared to multy p/up basses.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1327241273' post='1508155'] Don't like it I think they look ridiculous, but don't take it personally it just a bit of wood with some metal nailed on. [/quote] I see, in that case you won't be interested in borrowing mine when I get it, then?

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1327226070' post='1507901'] That Fiesta Red one is absolutely stunning. My evil side wants it to have a relic job and be advertised as a 1962 Dingwall... muhahahaha. Any soundclips of the P anywhere Wazoo ? [/quote] Man I can consider myself lucky to have been invited in by the legendary Dave Swift and allowed to play his bass, I would never have dreamt to make him feel uneasy in his own home by photographing and recording him? Nah...unfortunately what I've heard and seen was for my eyes and ears only. And faith had it that I couldn't even use my Canon camera because I'd left the memory card in the pc slot DOH! hence the iphone sh|tty resolution shots.

[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1327148838' post='1506966'] OK, so ... I would be interested in hearing the interpritation of what the Fender Jazz is tonally and its relation to other brands take on the Jazz bass especially in regards to the pickups and tone a Jazz should have. [/quote] In response to the Original Poster's question Leo Fender invented the Jazz Bass to give an alternative to electric bass players to his original design of the Precision bass. He wanted to achieve a few goals with this new bass, one was to have more tonal variety than the P bass with the focus on achiecing a more midrange and brighter sound to compete with the Rickenbacker bass introuduced in 1957 which was reknowned by being very bright. He did this by featuring two individual single coil pickups with indipendent volume and tone controls which when both on full volume would hum cancel each other by wiring them in series, and the offset body / narrower neck were borrowed by the Jazzmaster guitar, seen as the original p bass was built to match the Telecaster the Jazz bass inherited most of the look feautures of the Jazzmaster. The main features of a Jazz bass are 2 single coil pickups that could be blended together or played solo, the neck pickup sound is fairly similar to that of a P bass but the bridge pickup was the new "animal" feature of this bass, punchy, bright and full of harmonics, this pickup became Jaco's signature go to sound he used to pluck it right up the bridge with a 70% chocked tone control and fast syncopated lines to reproduce that nasal, burpy in your face sound that became immediately recognizable as the Jaco's sound in songs like Punk Jazz, Barbary Coast, Teen Town, and many other. 70's funk, soul, blues and even jazz bands all incorporated the Jazz Bass as the bass to have because of it's ability to embrace a wider sound spectrum than the P bass who in its greatness remained a one trick pony, although a great one at that. Of course other companies have "borrowed" the design and milked it to the max from Aria to Zon you can get a Jazz bass sound in a million different basses but then the choice is spoiled by exotic woods, active preamps and all other features that expanded on the original concept but sadly the more the features the less the similarity in sound with the original Fender bass which in conclusions it means if you want the real thing buy an original Fender bass or one from another company which have kept the features as close as possible to the original.

This morning I got in touch with Dave Swift and he was very kind to invite me to his place to try the Dingwall Super P prototype, he asked me to bring along my Super J to have a side to side comparison but unfortunately I couldn't because mine is locked away in Big Yellow Warehouse following my house renovation works. Would you believe I took my good camera along only to realize I had left the memory stick in my pc at home so I could only take a few crappy pics with my iphone I was so cross with myself for not checking the camera before leaving. Anyway here are some shots of the Super P This Dingwall Super P is a wonderful player, extremely well setup and with a superb resonance even unplugged, we tried it through Dave's Aguilar amp and cabs and it was total bliss, the John East P Retro really works well with this bass and Dave showed me the setup he uses with Jools Holland's band and it's a real deep thumping old school sound with plenty of dynamics and a sound that fills the room with a well defined presence. I think me trying this bass was the final deciding factor whether I would order one or not, and I am leaning 100% towards putting down my order. Sheldon managed to keep the weight below the 8lbs mark and overall body and neck are well balanced. After a brief trial with DR Strings on the D & G strings he has gone back to a full set of Super J's strings because he found it to the best set for the bass after all. There were a lot of other basses around the room including a fantastic Fodera Anthony Jackson signature model, I am not a fun of 6 strings basses but I did like that Fodera, great looking bass Anyway going back to the Super P really if you get a chance try one plugged in into a decent amp and you will be pleasantly surpirised by its tone and ease of playing.

I only went to the Bass Gallery last year to try a compressor pedal and left with a Dingwall ABZ 5 strings. My gf was still alive then, when I got home she was over the moon and pointed at the other 8 basses and said, which one is going then? Cracking sense of humour she had, God bless her for ever.

[quote name='geoffbassist' timestamp='1326060299' post='1491845'] If you do end up with a month off it will be a chance to recharge your bass playing. You will come back really fresh & hungry for it! [/quote] This is soooooo true. Happened to me before when I was away at sea for 2 months.