bongo 5 HH question

[Oldtoe]

Also, make sure the battery contacts haven't become compressed inside the battery holders. Take a small screwdriver and bend them gently and slightly back toward the opening of the battery compartment to ensure all the juice is getting to the preamp. Also, make sure your instrument cable is properly contacting the appropriate surfaces in the output jack. Good luck! HH Bongos are my primary bass of choice, and have the highest output of any of my basses.

 

[tunaman4u2]

Bongo HH and Cobalts

That will wake up up

I just put Steels on my Sterling 5 HS & that is super aggressive over the top cut clarity, I'll move back to Slinkies. The Bongo does well with Cobalts or Steels

 

[bassmonkeee]

Bongo HH and Cobalts

That will wake up up

I just put Steels on my Sterling 5 HS & that is super aggressive over the top cut clarity, I'll move back to Slinkies. The Bongo does well with Cobalts or Steels

Bongo HHp plus Cobalts is it. It's not.....subtle.

 

[mynan]

IMO, the Bongo has a much smoother tone than a 'Ray. While I appreciate the Bongo low-end, I don't think it cuts through the mix as well as a 'Ray without doctoring the EQ.

 

[ZiggyDude]

The key with the Bongo is using the EQ. I know people that resist EQ changes for some reasons that never made sense to me. But, with the Bongo expect to diddle with those knobs a lot - don't be bashful. TURN IT UP!!!

 

[Golem]

However, Bongo was designed as a 2 pickup bass.And i
can use both pups dialing usefull tones.
Stingray HH has the pups way far for bridge.They didn't
want to mess with the classic bridge pup location, so
they add the other pup near the neck.
I loved the bridge soloed, but the others settings don't
work for me.Muddy tone in my ears.
I cant think any other modern 2 pup bass with the
pickups so far from bridge.

Such an example would be the Warwick Double Buck
[aka $$] PU config. It owes nothing to any precedent
so it's from a "clean slate". It's got a pair of 4-wire
humbuggers [each splittable and ser-par switchable]
very close together [about 1/2" wood between them]
with the small gap between them at approx the P-PU
spot. Pix at:

en/Warwick---Products--Instruments--Made-in-Germany--Warwick-Series--Streamer--Streamer-$$.html

The $$ bridge HB is located kinda similar to any 1H
EBMM and then the neck HB is just jammed up next
to it. If you split the neck HB it plays the neck-side
SC, so the result is pretty much like a EBMM "HS".

You can certainly rout out a EBMM HH and jam the
PUs together like that [you'll need a custom PG], or
you can just get an HS instead of an HH ;-)

I have 3 of these "$$"s and one thing they never do
is make mud, no matter how you twiddle the knobs.
Unfortunately, the split coils are NOT humbugging
[kinda like a vintage MM Sabre].


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