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Hailing from Dingwall's outstanding Ready to Play series, the Combustion is a high-performance 5-string electric bass with all the trappings of a custom shop instrument. Carved out of a solid slab of swamp ash with a quilted maple top, the Combustion boasts a pickguard-less design and a gloss polyester finish to accentuate the maple's eye-catching grain patterns. Its 5-piece maple neck offers incredible comfort and stability, and its 9.45-inch-radius fingerboard with 24 acoustic-sized frets is the perfect launchpad for fleet-fingered playing techniques. Add to that Novax's Fanned-Fret system, and you have an electric bass with unparalleled string-to-string consistency, spot-on intonation, and ergonomic playability that's second to none. The Combustion is equipped with three Dingwall FD3n neodymium pickups, yielding scorching-hot output and a smooth yet aggressive tone deftly bolstered by Dingwall's Quad-Tone pickup selector and an EMG B30EQ active preamp. This bass also includes industry-leading hardware, including licensed Hipshot Ultralite 20:1-ratio tuning machines and a rock-solid Dingwall bridge.





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State-of-the-art design and construction





The Combustion boasts a maple-capped swamp ash body modeled after Dingwall's Custom Shop Afterburner. You'll appreciate the compact, lightweight design of this 5-string electric bass; it's comfortable and supremely balanced when you strap it on. The Combustion features a bolt-on, 5-piece maple neck with an easy-playing Slim "C" shape. Its 9.45-inch-radius fingerboard brandishes 24 acoustic-sized frets, while Novax's Fanned-Fret system and a 34-37-inch scale spread give it ergonomic playability over two full octaves.





Cutting-edge pickups and electronics





You'll be able to coax a multitude of high-output tones out of the Dingwall Guitars Combustion, courtesy of its neodymium-loaded FD3n split-coil pickups. These pickups exhibit a chest-thumping range of smooth yet aggressive tones with enough articulation to accommodate chording, tapping, harmonics, and other next-level techniques. Beyond that, the FD3n pickups are wired to a 3-band EMG B30EQ active preamp, along with Dingwall's acclaimed 4-position Quad-Tone pickup selector, a master volume control, and an active/passive toggle switch.





Dingwall Guitars: innovative designs for innovative players





Sheldon Dingwall's affinity for crafting custom-built guitars dates back to working in his uncle's workshop during his pre-adolescent years. By age 19, he had formed a record company, after which he toured with his own band. Returning to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1987, he founded Dingwall Guitars with a specific purpose: design and build the most versatile instruments the industry has ever seen. Among the company's revered achievements are its exquisite electric bass guitars, which are replete with Novax's Fanned-Fret system, proprietary pickups, innovative electronics, and tailor-made hardware. Appropriately, Dingwall's artist roster comprises a succession of acclaimed bassists across a gamut of genres, including Leland Sklar, Adam "Nolly" Getgood, Jacob Umansky, Stefan Lessard, Tony Levin, Pete Griffin, Mason Nagy, and Jean-Michel Labadie. Here at Sweetwater, we're confident that high-caliber players searching for a high-performance axe will find their perfect match in a Dingwall Guitars instrument.





Dingwall Guitars Combustion Features:


5-string electric bass with a comfortable, balanced design


Quilted maple-capped swamp ash body modeled after Dingwall's Custom Shop Afterburner


Pickguard-less design and a gloss polyester finish to accentuate the quilted maple's eye-catching grain patterns


Bolt-on, 5-piece maple neck features an easy-playing Slim "C" shape


Lightning-fast 9.45-inch-radius fingerboard brandishes 24 acoustic-sized frets


Novax's Fanned-Fret system provides string-to-string consistency, precise intonation, and ergonomic playability


Dingwall FD3n neodymium pickups yield scorching-hot output and a smooth yet aggressive tone


EMG B30EQ active preamp includes a 3-band active EQ


4-position Quad-Tone pickup selector, a master volume control, and an active/passive toggle switch


Licensed Hipshot Ultralite 20:1-ratio tuning machines and a rock-solid Dingwall bridge