All videos y have seen and heard make me want it but every time I’m about to pull the trigger a little voice tells me that my sansamp programmable bass driver is enough for that “about to break up drive tone” I love on P-basses. Congrats!
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Welcome to Team Dingwall, @John_E!
Love the colour!!
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Sweeeeeeeet
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Sorry! I have misbehaved. No mayor news on the GAS Front other than a set of SIT strings on sale which have not arrived. I have never used them before.
If you consider helping me to overcome this terrible lack of GAS please tell me which (not too expensive) drive/distortion pedal you would recommend to get a very soft similar sound to the one in the video (1:00-1:48). I got the Ashdown and returned it. In conjunction with my P-bass and Mustang it went from “nothing” to harsh distortion within just a few degrees of turn on the dial and I never got it to sound similarly. I get closer to that tone between my SansAmp programmable BDDI and gain on the Amp.
I trying to have a good GAS attitude… 
Cheers!
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Congrats on your (incoming) SIT Foundations. They are really fine strings. Here’s hoping you can get yours soon. 
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Thanks, @MikeC ! Me and my stories… I was about to get a set of regular EB Slinky’s when I found the SITs for the same price, that on Amazon. Afterwards a person at a music store told me to watch out for those EBs on super sale. According to him they are often fake and really bad. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me.
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Thanks!
Question for you… Do you use Dingwall strings? If not, what do you use?
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Nice!!! Lambo green there for sure. Congrats @John_E
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Awesome score! That will be a hard wait!
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@John_E thats a beaut!
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If I’m honest, I’m not 100% sure what’s on mine. I bought it pre-loved, but I don’t think it had been played much as it was / is in near perfect condition, so I suspect Dingwall strings.
They are of a pretty thin gauge, which I really like.
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Yep, iirc it was pretty tricky to buy the right string (lengths) because of the multiscale. Maybe there are alternatives, but I really liked them so I just went with those string. They aren’t expensive either.
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Sansamp is great, I love (over)drive on amps as well.
Collecting fuzz and distortion pedals is just a hobby of mine. 
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I want these! Did anyone preorder? They sound great
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I’m still using the Dingwall nickle ones mine came with, I’ll probably put the stainless ones I’ve got on next weekend now I’ve had a chance to get used to the nickle so I can hopefully get a good comparison.
There are other brands available. I was googling this over the weekend. Here’s the list I made a note of:
DR make a nickle multi scale set:
And a Stainless Steel
D’Addario also make some:
S.I.T make ‘Dingwall style sets’
Fret nation has a couple of 5 string custom sets from Stringjoy:
And a fanned fret set from Dunlop but again a 5 string set:
I saw this brand quite well spoken on in a couple places:
https://kaliummusic.com/shop/strings/electric-guitar/multiscale-sets-electric-guitar/
And also these guys have a bunch and a good rep from what I saw:
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Hello, what is your colour of the one on the left? Dark forest green ? Thanks !
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I’ve got one on preorder. It was supposed to be here in July but has been pushed out a few times and now is October delivery. One hopes
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this
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