About the Bongo sound

[prickly_pete]

I am into a fifth High Life and thinking about the Bongo sound... Clearly the Bongo shape is never going to catch on with some people. Clearly the SR/Sterling shape is more acceptable to more people. Clearly the Bongo offers a new pleasing range of sounds. Why not offer the Bongo electronics package in a SR/Sterling styled bass? It seems that people who are gravitating towards the Bongo are doing so in spite of the styling, not because of it.

 

[Randracula]

I don't think putting the Bongo electronics in Stingray 4/5 or Sterling would equal the Bongo sound.IMO That's what makes the Bongo so interesting.New body shape, lighter materials, new electronics.The allure of the Bongo has more to it than just the electronics package. According to some people, they taste great too........

 

[shamus63]

Not to mention that you'd have to make the SR/ST bodies of basswood to equal out the balance (given the 18v electronics package) that they've achieved with the Bongo...something the purists would never hear of.

I personally was against the Bongo's shape until I finally got to play one (Open House); now I love everything about the bass!

 

[shamus63]

I don't think putting the Bongo electronics in Stingray 4/5 or Sterling would equal the Bongo sound.IMO That's what makes the Bongo so interesting.New body shape, lighter materials, new electronics.The allure of the Bongo has more to it than just the electronics package. According to some people, they taste great too........

...less filling, too!

 

[maddog]

I tried one out because of the looks. I like new and different things. After trying it out, I realized the neck was for me. I've played p's and j's and never felt comfortable on them. Then I started twiddling the knobs. Nirvana!

 

[prickly_pete]

Those are all great answers, especially the weight issue, I hadn't thought of that. The shape/style has actually really grown on me too. Besides, on the eighth day BP gave us the two pickup Stingray, and it was good!

 

[AnthonyD]

When I "found" EBMM, I spent lots of time between a Sterling and a Stingray. Bongo hung there, but I wouldn't even give it a try...

My bad...

I decided the Sterling is "it" for me and can't get enough of the Sterling neck. But since bringing a Bongo fretless home, I've all but concluded that my next bass will be a fretted Bongo.

Nothing like the Bongo tone...

 

[Rayan]

keywords = music, human, feel, hear ... ???

... the Bongo sound... the Bongo shape ... the SR/Sterling shape ... range of sounds. ... It seems that people who are gravitating towards the Bongo are doing so in spite of the styling, not because of it.

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maybe BP is just 'slightly' ahead of 'the curve'
maybe Bongo is something more than just different looking

no matter how much I resist Bongo,
she keeps calling me
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/R

 

[Randracula]

 

[bovinehost]

Why not offer the Bongo electronics package in a SR/Sterling styled bass? It seems that people who are gravitating towards the Bongo are doing so in spite of the styling, not because

This was one of The Most Asked Questions when the Bongo was first released.

All I can really remember about that period was BP saying, "Nope, not gonna happen."

There were reasons and stuff, now lost in the mists of time and fine vodka.

 

[Rayan]

&On These Happy Notes

... All I can really remember about that period was BP saying, "Nope, not gonna happen." There were reasons and stuff, now lost in the mists of time and fine vodka.

I am into a fifth High Life and thinking about the Bongo sound ...

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"I give this account at the risk of being pronounced a crazy enthusiast or visionary: but I regard that little: ...

For music is an intellectual or a sensual pleasure, according to the temperament of him who hears it. ...

The mistake of most people is to suppose that it is by the ear they communicate with music, and, therefore, that they are purely passive to its effects.

But this is not so: it is by the re-action of the mind upon the notices of the ear, (the matter coming by the senses, the form from the mind) that the pleasure is constructed: and therefore it is that people of equally good ear differ so much in this point from one another."

"... Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
... Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)"
wwwpioids.com/dequincey
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/R

 

[bovinehost]

Sometimes it's intellectual, sometimes it's sensual.

I guess I'm a switch-hitter in that regard, but, if I end up in prison with any of you, don't quote me.