First Look at the Amos Williams Afterburner | The Grey (Bass Playthrough)

[@JohnAldenDavis]

Reading the specs for the bass, I’m not surprised Amos went with those choices. His journey to find the most suitable instrument for his ideal sound in TesseracT is a pretty well-documented one. I truly find it pleasing to see how many companies have wanted to work with him over this past decade, it only makes sense that he landed with Dingwall, given his tonal requirements!

[@DingwallGuitars]

We love working with Amos; he is truly an artist with a great vision.

[@benji6372]

Switching from Warwick to Kiesel to Ibanez and then to Dingwall basses. Love to see it.

[@aarongarcia5037]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@jobelewis6416]

Hopefully he stays here!

[@6sentient]

The Warwick tone was the best, it had the bite/growl and a darker subtone due to the heavy wood...Kiesel was depressingly bland, Ibanez was alright, Dingwall now is somewhat in the range of Kiesel but sliiiightly more bitey... (talking only about his bass tones throughout Tesseract discography)

[@aarongarcia5037]

@@6sentient I think that has more to do with the mixing than the actual brand of the bass itself

[@zakm0n]

​@@6sentient To my ears, this thing growls like crazy. I've got a '96 Streamer Pro M 4 string with 2pc maple body, full wenge neck with the old thin profile, MEC double jazz bucker, and the Just-A-Nut II. The Brass nut and the load of snappy wood give it this real bright and bitey growl with killer mids similar to how this recording sounds. Naturally, it can't get anywhere near as low without losing it's tight sound on account of the shorter scale length. I've even got a .130 or so top string on it for playing in B​

[@audisentor]

This is fire. The bass and the playing.

[@JDubzDrumz]

DUDE HE SO DESERVED THIS! Way to go both Amos and Dingwall!

[@DingwallGuitars]

Thanks, we love working with Amos

[@JDubzDrumz]

@@DingwallGuitars Amos is in my top 10 favorite bassists, thank you for helping him achieve his dream tones!

[@Itsmescoots]

Wow! This tone is incredible and a significant departure from the typical metal bass tone.

[@misanthroposy]

reminds me of like train of thought era by Dream Theater's John Myung.

[@raichoo]

First time I hear the SFIIs in a more prog context. Interesting composition of a bass 👍

[@DingwallGuitars]

Amos's bass lines are quite interesting

[@Sierra-xi2ty]

This NAMM 25 is going to be sick for Dingwall. So much new stuff. Excited about all of it. Although, where’s that headless prototype?

[@DingwallGuitars]

🤐

[@paularrr]

Love to see you guys having Amos on board! Great playthrough of course! ❤

[@cosmicalofficial]

Fantastic! Great song and video! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DingwallGuitars]

Thanks

[@brentheathersimons7042]

Amos is such a cool cat! 😀

[@Dimitrivsky]

Gnarly tone!🤘

[@sheshsheshshesh]

One of my all time favorite Bassists One of my all time least favorite Humans

[@paniccleo]

Least dingwally sounding dingwall I've heard! Interesting.

[@barbwirebush]

Is this strung Bb,Eb,Bb,Eb? Strings look like the low 4 from a 5 string? If so will it be sold in that configuration?

[@warrenoids]

Bb, F, Bb, Eb

[@noyd4172]

I think it's Bb F Bb Eb since the second and fourth string from the bottom aren't an octave pair (you can tell by watching his left hand), and that's the tuning he's used on the 4-string in the past afaik, pulling from Amos' notes on the Juno playthrough video.

[@drphalanges1520]

Are those flats? Why have I never considered flats on a Dingwall before?

[@Hiei999]

LOL dude, what was that combo/hybrid picking!? Brain does not compute, want to learn how to do that....

[@bassdeaf2935]

it's just slap with a pick do the same thing as you would slapping using a pick for the kick mutes for snare plucks for hi hat

[@Hiei999]

@ thanks I will try that out

[@DingwallGuitars]

😆

[@elireardon]

Cat mug goes crazy

[@DIEGO192cane]

we need a baritone 4 string😭

[@lucmichel7588]

👍💪👌

[@xRyuzakii]

por dios

[@b0000kify]

cats ARE cool

[@szalame631]

To be honest his ibanez was perfect, imo it sounded and looked way better. It suited him more.

[@m.boroova]

Another bass demo with guitars being louder :|

[@slapphomet4U]

mix seems bass forward to me listening on studio monitors

[@noyd4172]

Amos is very much a supportive bass player so sometimes in the loud sections you think you can't hear him but his sound just sits right under the guitars where it reads as adding weight to the chord movements; kind of a "you'd notice if it weren't there" type of trick. He's not trying to be a lead instrument. His approach is more akin to how Lee Sklar sounds using his Dingwall (which makes sense since they both use the SFII pickups) where the Dingwall is favored for stability over aggression.

[@n00dl3]

Nah it's definitely loud in the mix. It's just not as cutting in the highs as other Dingwall basses. That said, we could have done with the rest of the mix being dropped out for 10s just to hear the bass in isolation.