Bongo Pickup Selector

[Straight UP]

Well ERRR..
Thanks for the insight to coil switching on a Bongo.
I'm sure I will be able to use this information against you sooner than later..{

So I'll have to dream about that to I suppose (coil switching) since EBMM dose not provide it. Darn would sure be a nice added feature...
Later boys
Keep the groove.

 

[strummer]

Well ERRR..
Thanks for the insight to coil switching on a Bongo.
I'm sure I will be able to use this information against you sooner than later..{

So I'll have to dream about that to I suppose (coil switching) since EBMM dose not provide it. Darn would sure be a nice added feature...
Later boys
Keep the groove.

Serious, if you want it, it's not a hard thing to do.
I think the reason they don't have it on the Bongo is that there'd be too many things to fiddle about with, and most players won't use it anyway.

 

[MingusBASS]

I'd rather have the pickup pan than the coil switch. Or as I like to call it, the bad ass variety knob.

 

[oddjob]

Serious, if you want it, it's not a hard thing to do.
I think the reason they don't have it on the Bongo is that there'd be too many things to fiddle about with, and most players won't use it anyway.

Think you are right on that one - I remember the prototype with 7 knobs and BP said it was just too much for most.

 

[strummer]

Think you are right on that one - I remember the prototype with 7 knobs and BP said it was just too much for most.

Yeah, but the body on that one: RADICAL!

 

[strummer]

I'd rather have the pickup pan than the coil switch. Or as I like to call it, the bad ass variety knob.

You mean the annoying "whatever happened to my sound" knob, don't you

Ok, so I'm stupid, I always leave all knobs at center, except the one closest to the front of the bass which I for some reason like to dime.

 

[PocketGroove82]

Even though I don't own a bongo yet, and I think I've only played two in my whole life for about 1 minute each...(since I was a "WTF is that?" kinda guy when they 1st came out, although they have since grown on me!).
oh crap. Having said that, I feel my bongo opinion is pretty worthless.
I will venture to say that on a bongo, the pan nob fits the look, while a selector switch would look kinda corney.

As far as effects go, I own a PodXT and a Mutron, but for some reason they never get used and I just plug directly into my combo

ok, and since the bongo prototype was mentioned I thought I'd link them pics!

dig the sterling neck and three strap buttons!

 

[adouglas]

I'm really glad that BP tweaked the design of the Bongo to make it the way it is now. The prototype always reminded me of:

 

[Big Poppa]

it is always the distilattion of a colective set of ideas.....(heavy man)

The Bongo was about so many things. The biggest tis trying to figure out how to give you the absolute most sonic choices with the fewest controls. We split coils play ed with midi switching %20 grand down the drain.....

I will provide limitless, silent, transparent, and programmable switching before I hang it up....THat is the final final . It just ended up filtering the sound too much made too much added noise and ate batteries like jack at a cajun buffet

 

[Straight UP]

Thanks
Guys..

 

[bovinehost]

ate batteries like jack at a cajun buffet

I'll have you know, good sir, that I almost never eat batteries at a cajun buffet.

 

[oddjob]

I'll have you know, good sir, that I almost never eat batteries at a cajun buffet.

key words being "almost never"

 

[adouglas]

Lead acid -- sweet, because of th e lead, but they give you heartburn
Nickel-metal hydride -- sharp, metallic taste
Lithium-ion -- Lighter than the others, therefore low-calorie. Also used to treat mental illness.

 

[smallequestrian]

Well ERRR..
Thanks for the insight to coil switching on a Bongo.
I'm sure I will be able to use this information against you sooner than later..{

So I'll have to dream about that to I suppose (coil switching) since EBMM dose not provide it. Darn would sure be a nice added feature...
Later boys
Keep the groove.

I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that the Bongo pickups were not wired to have individually selectable coils. I don't think this mod is possible with the current pickups.

 

[adouglas]

I don't think this mod is possible with the current pickups.

Possible? Sure it's possible.

Splitting coils ain't so hard....

 

[jongitarz]

Jack, has anyone told you that your writing is similar to that of Douglas Adams'?

Freakin' hilarious.

I see a bit of Dave Barry every once in a while

 

[MingusBASS]

I see a bit of Truman Capote.