TheAntMan
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Jack is right.
Bongo single H is an awesome tone machine. I have my eye on one at my local shop (MAE) right now.
-- Ant
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Jack is right.
Bongo single H is an awesome tone machine. I have my eye on one at my local shop (MAE) right now.
-- Ant
strummer
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Yeah, getting your cast off, then unbolting the neck, then shipping it, right?
adouglas
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Nope.
It was one of your Presidents
I have no idea, but it sounds like the sort of thing Harry Truman might have said.
GreyDad
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Cheers BP, thanks for the input, always appreciated.
Honestly, I have been chewing it over (with a little help from my friends here of course
) and so I've asked the shop I want to deal with to come up with a price and delivery for a Cabernet Pearl HH B6. Gulp.
Yes, in this choice I was *very* heavily influenced by markbass99's thread
Neil
GreyDad
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Jack, yes I do, I really do, I am already on that slippery slope. I am lost, I tell you, I already see the absolute need to have a B5er as well as the 6, and an HS is definitely calling, so maybe the 5er should be an HS.
I want a wall of Bongo's in every colour, like a rainbow, that would look so cool and I'm sure my wife would be really impressed too
And I don't have a Sterling!! so I need to add the following to Ants wish list thread: a 25th Anniversary style 5 string Sterling, translucent body (colour? I dunno, red or green or blue) with a fretless ebony fingerboard and at least 2 pups, or better yet that crazy 3 pup configuration.
So many basses, so little time...
GreyDad
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bovinehost
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RockinRayDuke
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I can't say enough about that Secret Weapon. I used my new one last Saturday night and was absolutely thrilled (again).
All the different pickups and stuff might look and sound cool but when it comes down to cutting through the mix the single H is the king. YMMV of course.
All the different pickups and stuff might look and sound cool but when it comes down to cutting through the mix the single H is the king. YMMV of course.
Ken Baker
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Please allow me to add to your misery and remind you to not forget the piezo's!
http://www.bassesbyleo.com/images/bongo/moonstone_2.jpg
Ken...
http://www.bassesbyleo.com/images/bongo/moonstone_2.jpg
Ken...
GreyDad
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I can't say enough about that Secret Weapon. I used my new one last Saturday night and was absolutely thrilled (again).
All the different pickups and stuff might look and sound cool but when it comes down to cutting through the mix the single H is the king. YMMV of course.
But can't I get that just switching to the bridge humbucker?
Or have the Elves at SLO done something crafty? What am I missing?
bovinehost
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The "bridge" pickup on the single H Bongo is in a slightly different position than on the dual pickup models......crafty, indeed.
MingusBASS
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Grand Wazoo
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Hello GrayDad, how do you do?
Fran here from London, (I am normally in London, only I am presently sailing the english channel)
Right.... you are in the UK right? Sadly a week or so ago I've posted a reminder for UK would be Bongoloid about a deal for a Bongo 5 HS which a company called Absolute Music Solution had, it was a new ex demo Bongo discounted I think it was about £450 cheaper. Soon as I published it was gone the next day, so either someone from here got it or an unregistered lurker or some other web crawler.
Anyway you have to bookmark their site to keep an eye on these people as they always have these cracking deals. Infact right now they have a Bongo 4 H single humbucker Sapphire Black with moonstone pickguard. I know you're not after a 4 stringer but remember what BP said about the single H and their hidden magic, he knows what he's talking about, and this bass could be your missing link.
Absolute Music Solutions: Music Man Bongo Sapphire Black 4 String Bass Guitar
Other than that they also have Stingrays and Sterling on various special deals so here is the link for those if you are intersted.
Absolute Music Solutions: UK Online Store & Catalogue
Fran here from London, (I am normally in London, only I am presently sailing the english channel)
Right.... you are in the UK right? Sadly a week or so ago I've posted a reminder for UK would be Bongoloid about a deal for a Bongo 5 HS which a company called Absolute Music Solution had, it was a new ex demo Bongo discounted I think it was about £450 cheaper. Soon as I published it was gone the next day, so either someone from here got it or an unregistered lurker or some other web crawler.
Anyway you have to bookmark their site to keep an eye on these people as they always have these cracking deals. Infact right now they have a Bongo 4 H single humbucker Sapphire Black with moonstone pickguard. I know you're not after a 4 stringer but remember what BP said about the single H and their hidden magic, he knows what he's talking about, and this bass could be your missing link.
Absolute Music Solutions: Music Man Bongo Sapphire Black 4 String Bass Guitar
Other than that they also have Stingrays and Sterling on various special deals so here is the link for those if you are intersted.
Absolute Music Solutions: UK Online Store & Catalogue
GreyDad
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You know, the internet is a wonderful thing
I started posting on this thread again this morning (and it was a beautiful sunny spring morning) at home in Somerset while I got the family ready to go away for a short holiday break over Easter. Since then I've driven 230 miles to the eastern side of the UK, while the US was waking up, checking on forum posts with my phone when we stopped for breaks.
Now this evening, I'm sitting in a pub in rural Essex, watching the sun go down over the Blackwater estuary, looking at the boats and listening to the curlews, and I'm still able to have conversations and get advice from people in California, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Sweden. And drool over pictures of Bongo's.
I did hold up one of the napkins in the pub and explain to my wife and kids it was almost exactly the same colour as the Cabernet Pearl Bongo I'm going to have one day ("see? here's the picture on my phone!") but they weren't impressed.
And now I'm conversing with CaptMoto who is on a floaty-boaty thing somewhere in the middle of the English Channel.
Amazing really, and yet we take it all for granted.
Ok, I'm a sad old git and I should be paying more attention to my family, but they seem happy enough at the moment. But I digress.
Fran, how do you do too, thanks for the links, I'll check out the website when I get back to our B&B. At the moment I don't want a 4, I could be tempted by a 5 in the future but really want the 6 so I'll stick with BP's advice and go for what I want.
BTW are you on a ship-sized boat or a saily-yot sized boat? We do saily-boats, which is partly why we are in Essex at the moment.
Cheers
Neil
I started posting on this thread again this morning (and it was a beautiful sunny spring morning) at home in Somerset while I got the family ready to go away for a short holiday break over Easter. Since then I've driven 230 miles to the eastern side of the UK, while the US was waking up, checking on forum posts with my phone when we stopped for breaks.
Now this evening, I'm sitting in a pub in rural Essex, watching the sun go down over the Blackwater estuary, looking at the boats and listening to the curlews, and I'm still able to have conversations and get advice from people in California, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Sweden. And drool over pictures of Bongo's.
I did hold up one of the napkins in the pub and explain to my wife and kids it was almost exactly the same colour as the Cabernet Pearl Bongo I'm going to have one day ("see? here's the picture on my phone!") but they weren't impressed.
And now I'm conversing with CaptMoto who is on a floaty-boaty thing somewhere in the middle of the English Channel.
Amazing really, and yet we take it all for granted.
Ok, I'm a sad old git and I should be paying more attention to my family, but they seem happy enough at the moment. But I digress.
Fran, how do you do too, thanks for the links, I'll check out the website when I get back to our B&B. At the moment I don't want a 4, I could be tempted by a 5 in the future but really want the 6 so I'll stick with BP's advice and go for what I want.
BTW are you on a ship-sized boat or a saily-yot sized boat? We do saily-boats, which is partly why we are in Essex at the moment.
Cheers
Neil
GreyDad
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The cunning devils
Another trick cynically calculated to fuel our addiction... we're doomed, doomed
GreyDad
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GreyDad
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Grand Wazoo
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Ken Baker
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I like them because they add a percussive thump and that unique piezo sizzle to the Bongo's sound. I like good presence in my tone without a bunch of zing, and a well done piezo setup offers that. The EBMM piezo bridge is an expensive option, but worth it if you value the capability that it definitely adds.
Tell me what I should know
You mean besides the fact that I'm a certifiable malcontent and that I tend to be trouble?
Ken...
GreyDad
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Umm, ok, those sorts of boats. They are the type of thing we run and hide from when we're out a-yotting...
For a while I thought you might be the bass player for the house band on a cross-channel ferry
I do have a friend who's a Master Mariner who pilots stuff like that (and bigger) all around the UK and northern Europe.
