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View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Also worth following them on FaceBook because they sometimes post about their inventory there as they receive it
http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Dingwall_Combustion.html
Right now they’ve got 2 Canadian 5 stings in second hand.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
So the Combustion and NG bodies are both routed for 3 pickups underneath the pickguard. You can only buy Combustion pick guards and 3x pickguard s after market, they won’t sell you an NG2 pickguard.
You can just remove the pick guard and reposition the pickups to try the different positions out though.
The Combustion positions are a little more traditional Fender, with the neck pickup being in a kind of Precision bass position and the neck and bridge together in parallel kind of being like a fat and aggressive Jazz bass.
The NG positions sound tighter and have quite a unique midrange to them. People seem to associate the both pickups on sound with a Music Man sound but it’s nowhere near as gritty on the highs, and much more defined on the lows. It has its own thing going on, very distinctive.
Both the 2 pickup basses have the same rotary, so the options are: bridge, bridge and neck parallel, bridge and neck series, neck.
They do 2 different 4 way pickup selectors for 3 pickup basses. The 3x and the D-Bird. From my own testing the 3x switch had all of my favourite sounds, so it was a no brainier for me.
The D bird switch is geared towards tighter sounds. The NG3 comes stock with the D-Bird switch as far as I’m aware.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
The only small issue I had was I didn’t like the edges on the saddles, they were a little square for my tastes. I rounded them off with a file and sanded them up to a high grit. You basically can’t see I’ve done it unless you look super close.
It’s possible mine wasn’t typical on that front because I don’t see complaints from others, but either way it didn’t take long to fix and I didn’t want to return it because it’s otherwise totally killer. I guess I could’ve contacted support but it’s a non issue now
Or am I being a bit daft and should I just save some coin and go for the Combustion being that I am not a bassist!
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
The 4th string is 36.25” scale, so enough longer than a standard 34” scale bass to feel and hear a benefit. I also think it sounds great in E.
The 5 string version has a 37” low B which would be even nicer, but personally I prefer the feel of a 4 string bass.
So Combustion vs NG really boils down to what your favourite sound is.
If you love the Nolly kind of tone get the NG. It has the Darkglass preamp which has tighter/punchier lows and aggressively voiced upper mids. The combination of the pickup positions and Pre is very distinctive.
The EMG preamp in the Combustion is more traditional, deep voiced bass and more sparkly high end. The pickup positions end up sounding more traditional towards a Fender sound, but more modern and fatter than a Jazz bass.
In terms of pickups they’re the same, the differences are the pickguards, you can’t buy an aftermarket NG2 style pick guard to have the pickups next to each other. Both basses have the same 3 pickup routing underneath, but if you convert to 3x with their switches you will lose at least one of the sounds from the 2 pickup version. You’d have to check with BassDirecf but I think you can get a replacement Combustion guard, so if you got an NG you could more easily convert between the positions in an aesthetically pleasing way.
My favourite sound is bridge and neck combined from the Combustion, in parallel. I found the series mode a bit much. When I took the pick guard off and tried the NG positions my favourite was the bridge and middle in series. So for me doing a conversion using the 3x switch was a no brainer, I got to swap my least favourite Combustion tone for my favourite NG tone.
I do sometimes wish I had the Darkglass preamp but then I also do like the EMG Pre too.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922