I heard back from Dingwall on this one... It's a 2.5 year wait to get right now and will cost ball park $6000 CDN... I'll just admire it on my computer. 😥
Are all your tuning pegs tight? Tried lubing the nut yet? Are you trying to tune with new or old string? If the strings are new, have you stretched them already?
I've found that anytime I get a muddy/dark sound from my EMG's that it's because they aren't close enough to the strings. I set all my guitars with EMG's so that the pickups are as close to the strings as possible without touching and it's always kept them crisp and clear.
Do you have a noise gate? If not, put one in your pedal chain right after your tuner to get rid of the single coil noise. I do that with my Strat and Talman and I get zero noise from the singles. Cheaper than buying new pickups too!
Between my Strat with a 9 something radius, and my Extura with probably a 12 radius, I can't feel a difference when I swap between them. The neck width differences matter more IMO than the radius. I find I can bend notes equally between the two and not worry about fretting out.
Don't worry...
This weekend I swapped my 81X and 85X from the standard 81 bridge/85 and damn! It's an amazing set up now with the 85X in the bridge and 81X in the neck. The rhythm tones from the 85X are thick and tight and the neck tones from the 81X are clear and full of sustain. I think it was...
Not as far as I'm aware. I have a 1x12 Hughes and Kettner "extension" cab and it works great with my heads. I think they're mostly marketed as extension cabs because they're a way to "add onto" any cab config you already have.
Just make sure the cab matches your heads impedance rating and...
I played the Ernie Ball Prodigy 1.5mm picks for a a while but they're just too pointed for my playing. I've swapped to the red Jazz III's and love them.