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bongo VS stingray

People! You don't have to choose! EBMM sets no limit on the amount or mix of EB basses you can buy!

Tell me that isn't a cool company.

Seriously, I love my Bongos and I love my Stingrays. I've even loved a Sterling or two.

Variety is the spice of life, as they say.
 
ok
as u all know i am still with out music man
the question i was really asking was wich do u think i should look into buying first. and another question, do any of u guys know of a place to get a nice musicman bass for cheap?
 
MM basses are all expensive. Your best bet is to try eBay and hope there's a good deal going on.
 
I am known to be somewhat of a Bongo supporter and in fact was playing my Desert Gold 4 banger last night.

I do usually think, though, that if you can't get it done with a Stingray, you probably shouldn't blame the bass.
 
so what ur saying is that the bongo is good for ur kind of music
but the stingray is the most versitile
 
i am haha lol;) :D jk not a big fan of the bongo personally think its ugly but u no what they say dont judge a book by its cover
 
Man you should get in a store with a brown bag (no holes) on your head and try them all. There is no such thing as "stingrays" or "bongos", every piece of bass has another sound. Really, trust nobody. The sound has to do with your hands (100 hands, 100 sounds) and with your attitude. Go and search the best bass for you, nobody can do this for you. Once I found an 150$ mexico jazz bass with an amaizing sound, way better then my 1500$ warwick I had at the moment.
 
i have to dissagree
i dont think that 100 hands could make 100 sounds that u can have 2
and get the same amount of sound as if u had 100
 
Look, follow along:

"i dont think that 100 hands could make 100 sounds"

Nothing hard about that, right? Pull your hands out and try to make 100 distinct sounds. You will fail, unless your hands are holding trumpets and sousaphones and castanets and so on, which I think would clearly be considered cheating.

"that u can have 2"

Or, alternately, that you could have 1. Or, on a good day, that you could have even three or four. You see what I'm getting at.

"..and get the same amount of sound as if u had 100."

Now we all know that "u" is a vowel, so "u" must have at least 100, from what I've heard from certain linguistic offices.

Man, you guys are DUMB sometimes.
 
jubjub721 said:
i have to dissagree
i dont think that 100 hands could make 100 sounds that u can have 2
and get the same amount of sound as if u had 100
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Man, it's easy, some have fat fingers, some guys have thin ones. Some guys have harder callus than others. Some pick harder than others. So, the sound is influenced by all this factors. I am shure that bovinehost has his own sound no matter what bass he plays. I had 16 basses until now, and I have recordings with some of them, and the sound is not that different as you expect :-) I think every bassist tend to have his own sound, and some basses help him, some don't. You must find the bass that help you.
 
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