FDC484950

1x Dingwall FDV neck pickup and 1x bridge pickup. Currently set up in series with green a black wires soldered together but will support parallel, series, or a bass with series/parallel switches. Suitable for any Dingwall 37” scale 5 string. As new, came out of my brand new ABZ.

£120 posted to mainland UK.

Dingwall gigbag, I believe this is sold with the import models. Nicely padded all round and a very solid feel. As new, postage in a bass box. £75 to mainland UK.

I have a TGI Extreme Bass gig bag for sale, complete with heavy duty bass box and packing material.

The gig bag is basically as new, purchased but not used and stored indoors. It’s well padded but roomy enough to take even longer scale basses like a Dingwall.

Given the volumetric weight of the box, shipping is not cheap (£22 was the cheapest I could find). Bearing that in mind and the packaging supplied, it is £47 posted to mainland UK.

Yes, these are great straps. I’m only selling as I realised I had 3 short and 3 long straps and only one bass 🤣

Comfort Strapp - Long. Home use only, excellent used condition with no damage.

Comfort Strapp - Short. Home use only, excellent used condition with no damage.

Each strap is £20 inclusive of mainland UK postage.

I have a TGI Extreme Bass gig bag for sale with a bass box in which to ship them. Home use only and superb condition.

Postage is included or you’re welcome to collect the gig bag without the box.

It’s this one: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/tgi-gigbag-bass-guitar-extreme-series/

No longer available.

7 sets still available.

3 sets have been sold. 7 sets left.

I no longer play bass and have found some Dingwall Nickel 6-string sets in a drawer. These are for the 37” scale basses: Combustion, NG3 or Canadian ABZ/AB1/AB2/Z/Prima.

10 sets available. New and unused.

• £70 for 3 sets
• £85 for 4 sets
• £100 for 5 sets
• £180 for all 10 sets

It’s not economical with postage for me to sell less than 3 sets at a time. Pm if interested as I don’t log in here often anymore.

…and I sold the Dingwall to Dave just prior to this. Lovely bloke and a great player. Sad you weren’t able to keep it long as it is a killer bass

This is pretty much my favourite bass of all time - light, perfect balance, monster B string, great variety of tones from the 3 pickups and 3-band Glockenklang EQ and it just feels “alive”, without being twangy, more so than any other Dingwall I’ve owned. Only selling as I no longer have any time to learn or play bass.
 

Specs:

Alder body with lovely, lightly sparkly candy apple red

5-piece maple neck

Maple 24- fret board, 34”-37”

3x FD3 Neodymium pickups

4-position pickup selector (pull passive)

3-band Glockenklang EQ (treble becomes passive tone when EQ is bypassed)

Dingwall bridge and Hipshot Ultralite tuners (Dingwall makes them lighter than stock)

Dingwall/Music Area Pro gigbag and Accessory bag

Weight: 3.7Kg.
 

It’s as new with no marks or scratches and the gigbag and accessory bag are similar condition.

This bass now costs £4,499 to buy new, so sensibly priced at £2,450. I have the original box and packing so can ship fully insured for £70 to mainland UK. For the asking price I’ll throw in 3 sets of new Dingwall nickel strings.

Sale only, no trades thank you.

Thanks for looking!

Fair enough. Thank goodness for the ignore option. 

L’OreWal - because you’re not worth it.

Dingwall strings are great and have quickly become my favourites. Never had a dud string and great tone.BD don’t always have lots in stock so I also order from Thomann - last autumn I ordered 16 sets and they were in stock and delivered within 5 days so no problems with stock.

On 10/01/2023 at 10:09, Newfoundfreedom said:

Can't help you I'm afraid. 

 

Everything I've ever heard Jaco play sounds like a bunch of random notes with zero musicality to me. 

You trot this out every time Jaco is mentioned. Maybe just move along and resist the temptation to hit reply, it’s not like it’s adding anything to the question the OP asked. And you’re wrong.

12 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

I am not sure why it is an issue - if you have £12k for a wal, buy it, you aren't hurting anyone, you aren't forcing other people to pay more for something. It is a crazy price to pay for something like that, but so are vintage fenders etc, all the time people buy them they will go up. 

Isn’t this the point of a forum - to discuss stuff? It’s a perfectly valid topic. Wal basses are not (by and large) vintage in the traditional sense, they’re still being manufactured (although cannot currently be ordered). The current prices neither reflect the value they were going for until relatively recently, nor the price to buy one new (if you’re currently waiting for one to be finished). I’m a former owner and am as baffled as others on here why they’re held in higher regard when there are alternatives out there. Much is made of their electronics but they are subtle at best and personally i much prefer a regular EQ. If I wanted that sort of tech, IMHO ACG does it much better. Construction wise their somewhat old hat, with a chunky, somewhat clumsy bolt on neck. The 3 Wals I had were all very heavy and not much fun on a gig, and I gather not much has changed in that regard. 

So, no issue if you can afford one and want it, like anything else, but still worthy of discussion.

The important missing bit is that there are very, very few people making their living from playing bass (or music with instruments for that matter) and it’s only going to decline further. Nowadays I wonder why being “professional” really matters? By all means play as well as you can, but forget about being professional - unless you love being skint, want to teach, or you have some kind of social media presence you can monetize above the ton of dross content that floods most channels, you’re almost certainly better off earning a liveable wage and being an enthusiastic “amateur”.

Fingerboard Harmony is an interesting book. It’s a shame all the examples are drum machine and sampled bass instead of being played by him as they’d sound much better (apart from the excerpt of a real track he played on at the end). I gave it a good shot over a few months and it didn’t really do much for my musical sense to be honest. I feel it’s just a bit dry and academic for me.
 

Something as simple as the continuous scale exercise and some of the sequence exercises and examples in the Jazz Theory Book brought my playing on much more. On a side note, The Necessary Blonde by Tribal Tech is a song penned by Willis and it’s a great tune with an excellent bass solo (and even better piano solo) - learning and transcribing/being able to play/solo over that tune might be a good challenge after the fingerboard harmony book!

I plan to do more transcription work this year and hence more keyboard playing, I’m hoping my bass playing will keep up but after just coming up to 37 years on bass I’m not sure I have any goals that really want to make me practice - the curse of having “enough” technical ability

The person the the video is just playing the notes as @chris_b said. She’s not tapping her foot/leg/head in time with the beat and in my previous life teaching students that could do this and listened (the other issue on the vid) could grove with a track just fine. Of course I don’t know for sure but I suspect she may struggle with this and therefore playing many lines in time. Playing the right notes in the right order isn’t enough. I’m always surprised how many musicians really don’t listen to the music they’re playing and just hammer out their part…

I’ve had three US models: a Standard 5 HH with rosewood board, Deluxe 5 HH with maple board and Deluxe 5 HH with rosewood board.

They don’t sound like a P or a J… or a MM. I think Fender were trying a Stingray type setup but with their own pickups and not placed in the classic SR position. Tonally they’re very versatile but they can be a touch anonymous. The low B wasn’t  great on any of them (high mass thick bridge makes stringing a non tapered B a pain), the balance isn’t great due to a short top horn and the looks are a bit marmite. However as a 4 I imagine they'd be an excellent, versatile and quiet bass as in the Deluxe all 5 positions on the pickup selector are humbucking. My personal preference for this type of bass before discovering Dingwall was an MM Sterling 5HH, but IMHO the Dimension neck pickup is much more usable than the Sterling.

It’s an Afterburner 1, not a 2. The 2 is semi hollow with a walnut body. This is alder with family maple top.

I’ve had a few dealings with them and they’ve been reasonable at best. One bass I purchased had no gig bag and was tossed in a cardboard box with a tiny bit of polystyrene and a bit of plastic sheeting. The bass arrived in the outer box - they hadn’t bothered to tape up the inner box so it fell apart in transit - so goodness only knows how it turned up undamaged. I also asked them to weigh a bass and was told “it’s in the warehouse, they’re all the same weight anyway”. It turned up and went straight back as it was 5.5Kg! It took just under 4 weeks to get refunded. As for photos or anything else exotic, forget it. I suppose they’re too busy for such nonsense. I much prefer GuitarGuitar for major brand purchases, who pack well, have excellent comms and a fast no quibble return policy. 

7 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

Help me out here folks my head is done in!  I can't believe you'd chop back/forwards with the tuners like that, yet some of you are telling me it is genuine?  

Yes, it is. I’ve played a couple with this setup. There was some debate about it making the B string feel better. As you say it makes no logical sense as generally what happens past the nut (assuming a decent break angle, which Fodera already has due to an angled headstock) has pretty much zero effect on the string itself. Having spent decades in pursuit of a low B that sounds and feels like a good E string, a tapered string, bigger diameter and/or longer scale length are what really make the difference across the whole string length - assuming a decent break angle at nut and bridge, good strings and no twisting of the string).
For ref the Fodera I tried first with this setup had a dull, poor sounding B, and the strings were new

I’ve played a few and come close to buying a couple of times. Very solid and high quality manufacture. Tim Landers was hardly a shabby player so not bad as a signature model and pretty subtle  (no massive logo all over the headstock). They go pretty cheaply nowadays in spite of being rare. I would snap one up if I see one - remind me a bit of first edition Yamaha TRBs, minus the piezo. I believe this was the precursor to the Cirrus line?