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oddjob
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All Bongos here - went from 12 different brands down to 4 Bongos and couldn't be happier (well, more Bongos would but that is beside the point)
I know exactly how you feel. My first Bongo was a stealth 5 HH, I dont know what it is about the Bongo, but I fell in love with the tone, and the playability. So I had to get 2 more
AnthonyD
Well-known member
Exclusively... Absolutely!
bovinehost
Administrator
My 2005 award from Sterling and EBMM.
oddjob
Well-known member
My 2005 award from Sterling and EBMM.
...and we STILL wonder about you, Jack.
bovinehost
Administrator
Maybe new guys wonder about me, but good lord, I have 14,500 posts! Most of you old-timers don't really wonder, do you?
strummer
Enormous Member
For most things the Bongo is the obvious choice, but sometimes when recording I'll grab the 20:th, and now that Heinz is with me I play him live a lot just to show him sweden, and I do own some other basses too.
But if I had to choose just one bass model, I would play the Bongo 5 HH exclusively, yeah.
But if I had to choose just one bass model, I would play the Bongo 5 HH exclusively, yeah.
amBASSador
Member
Since getting my Bongo 4HH about four years ago, my other four basses have not been out of their cases. Guess it's high time to sell them
oddjob
Well-known member
Oh it isn't that... I was just glad that after you won the award no "Chuck-like" pictures of you showed up on the web
bongos are the weirdest looking basses ever, i dont think anythings as strange looking besides the danelectro longhorn. but they sound pretty great, i found with the stingray you need to adjust the amplifier and the bass, the bongo has such a broad range of eqs that eqing the amplifier becomes almost uneccessary. i could see someone playing them over anyhting else just on grounds of how simple they are to eq! i mean no bass is like that! but alas i love the tradition and sound of the stingray, though it doesnt have literally knobs on top of knobs(which is how i describe the bongo. every time someone asks me about the multitude of knobs on the stingray i mention the bongo, it literally has knobs on knobs!). i love the stingray just a little bit more cause its a gorgeous bass and has always been my favorite bass. and the thing looks pretty awesome too, i dont think theres a bass out there as handsome as it and i dont think anything can pull off so many good sounds. i remember only being able to get one or two good sounds out of it when i first got it, but i know the thing so well i can get a multitude of awesome sounds. and all of them just sound better than anything to me. the EBMM stuff is pretty awesome technology and i dont think ill go back to passive basses again, they're too dark sounding and dead sounding, and you have to dim them to get them to sound good
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adouglas
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Oh, I don't know about that.
I won't image link these 'cause they're not EBMM, but go ahead and click.
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/hillmans3/g77bass.jpg
http://alexplorer.net/guitar/design/rail.jpg
http://www.guitars.net/voxphbas.jpg
http://www.voxguitar.net/images/1964 Phantom III Bass Prototype - 1965 Mark IV..jpg
http://www.basslabcanada.com/review/bassinside_200208_basslab4_400x191q80.jpg
http://www.basslab.de/OCT/ENG/Instruments/Custom/Lb5g/Greenbow.jpg
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sitonmybass
QUOTE from above:
...they're too "dark" sounding...and you have to "dim" them to get them to sound good.
My response:
I think putting passive basses IN the light will make them sound better.
kevins, just having some fun. PLEASE TAKE NO OFFENSE!
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no offense taken! and those puns were quite delightful!
and those basses are quite crazy looking i think crazy looking basses have come some way, further than i thought, those made even the longhorn look sensible. my friend actually owns this gem right now
http://ktonegift.com/item/5124bk/5124bkp2.jpg
and those basses are quite crazy looking i think crazy looking basses have come some way, further than i thought, those made even the longhorn look sensible. my friend actually owns this gem right now
http://ktonegift.com/item/5124bk/5124bkp2.jpg
Duarte
Well-known member
Haha! Why!?
were in a joke band making fun of all these really really self righteous metal kids at our college, these guys go around acting like hard ass superstars, then they played a gig in my town which is 20 miles from where they normally play saying their immense fan base would show up, the poor coffee house owner i know on a personal basis and have known before he opened shop, made the event a free event because no one showed up. they still had no dent in their pride. so we created a band where we act like superstars and i play drums in it personally
