New Custom Dingwall bass day - Afterburner 6 w/wenge neck and eyeball-frying finish

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Nolly

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Hey dudes,

I just got back from tour to find a lovely package from Dingwall, containing my new custom Afterburner 6-string. It has the triple pickup "ABXXX" layout, alder body with a wenge neck. Strung with Circle K Strings .175 set, from a high G to a low F#. Haven't been able to plug it in just yet but acoustically it sounds amazing, the setup is spot on, and that low F# rings out incredibly well unplugged so everything bodes well for us to be onto a winner :)

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So beautiful...

Do you plan on using that F# a lot for the 8-string material or play an octave up?(or mix it up?)
 
Congratulations to your great bass guitar! What do you think about Circle K strings, those are steel and nickel hybrids right? Did you also try them on guitar? Also how well does the Neutrik jack work?
 
that yellow isn't my favorite color but it fits the overall look quite well,
and it really suits the style of the "scarlet" video ;)

thanks for the info about the lens - really loving your photos!
 
Cheers guys!

Fbarre said:
Congratulations to your great bass guitar! What do you think about Circle K strings, those are steel and nickel hybrids right? Did you also try them on guitar? Also how well does the Neutrik jack work?
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I love Circle K strings - I use them on my other Dingwalls and find them to sound and feel great. They're also the only viable option when dealing with longer scale lengths and large gauges. I've not tried the guitar strings yet.
Locking Neutrik jacks are great, there's always a few times you'll try to pull the jack out and get frustrated but pushing the button becomes second nature very quickly.

StefTD said:
that yellow isn't my favorite color but it fits the overall look quite well,
and it really suits the style of the "scarlet" video ;)

thanks for the info about the lens - really loving your photos!
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Thanks, and yeah nice how that colour ties in eh ;)
 
Here's a DI clip to demonstrate the F#. The pickup setting is the bridge and middle coils in series for a fat, punchy tone. I recorded direct through my Audient MiCO preamp with some light compression. No further processing was done to the DI. All parts played with fingers.
The second half is me jamming on Karnivool's "Simple Boy", all credit to them for that.

 
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Cheers! Colonel, it's a 33.25 - 37" fan. Nut width and string spacing in general is a fair bit narrower than most basses, the nut in particular is about the width of most 5-strings.
 
Nolly said:
[...]the nut in particular is about the width of most 5-strings.
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yeah, I thought it looks very narrow (which I quite like actually).
is this your first fanned fret? I tried a DIngwall in a store once and found it suprisingly easy to get around the fretboard.

what's the body wood?
 
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