I'm ready to talk about my piezo

[Joe Nerve]

My bongo 5 is piezo equipped, and with the volume of the drummers I play with up until now I thought the added electronics were a bell and/or whistle that, well... didn't make all that much of a difference lest I was playing acoustically or with a quiet drummer. To be honest I couldn't tell all that much whether or not it was dialed in with the other 2 pickups once cymbals started bashing. Until yesterday...

!!!MY FIRST BONGO RECORDING SESSION!!!

Dang gosh darnitt ah hell that little added machinery made all the difference in the world. Made my bass sound as though I were slamming away at piano strings. Since I was doing the recording for someone else I also let them have their way (to a certain degree) with my bass settings. Used only the bridge pickup with the rest of the bass set pretty flat lest the treble which was rolled off to about 3 or 4. This is all rather pointless without soundclips. I will post as soon as it's possible.

I am falling even more deeply in love with my Bongo.

Ahhhhhhhh......

 

[shamus63]

Kind of like rediscovering your wife/girlfriend/whatever...

 

[Figjam]

Mmm i wish the HH sr5's had a piezo option. Thatd be a crazy amt of knobs though, heh.

 

[OldSchool Noob]

Mmm i wish the HH sr5's had a piezo option. Thatd be a crazy amt of knobs though, heh.

No Joke -

I have had my Bongo for less than a week and I will tell ya -- that IS a lot of knobs. (Although its actually cool to be able to shape the tone so much.)

 

[bovinehost]

Kind of like rediscovering your wife/girlfriend

Joe's girlfriend?

Okay, I'm in.

 

[Figjam]

Funny thing about me is i dont even use 'tone shaping' stuff. Once i get my tone, i leave it.

 

[Joe Nerve]

Mmm i wish the HH sr5's had a piezo option. Thatd be a crazy amt of knobs though, heh.

Gotta admit it took a little getting used to. I still have to be on guard for oopses, didn't mean to do THAT. It's a control freaks dream come true though.

 

[OldSchool Noob]

It's a control freaks dream come true though.

ExactaMUNDO!

 

[shamus63]

Joe's girlfriend?

Okay, I'm in.

I guess I did set that plate wrong...

 

[OldSchool Noob]

Hey Shamus ...

Shamus -

What happened to the "little shorty" that was your Avatar last year?

AND ... is that a "Chebornek" thing happening in your signature?

 

[shamus63]

Shamus -

What happened to the "little shorty" that was your Avatar last year?

AND ... is that a "Chebornek" thing happening in your signature?

I had to bring Jed back into the fold, but I've saved 'Baby Jaymes' for future use...you should see my Pit Av!

The sig is a cross between 'Apocolypse Now', and my own warped sense of humor!

 

[maddog]

I had to bring Jed back into the fold, but I've saved 'Baby Jaymes' for future use...you should see my Pit Av!

The sig is a cross between 'Apocolypse Now', and my own warped sense of humor!

"The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory."

I could never get into Joseph Conrad's writing but what a powerful movie.

 

[shamus63]

"The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory."

I could never get into Joseph Conrad's writing but what a powerful movie.

I've seen that movie probably all of three times in my life, but that line has got to be one of the Top Ten quotes in pop culture. A classic!

 

[basserfire17]

OK this may be ignorant, but can you get a piezo installed (is that what we are talking about?) on a piezo-less bass, oh lets say a Buttercream HS sterling? just curious.

Also on a semi unrelated note I think I'm gonna get a bridge mute installed. Anybody have experience with these. I like what I've played so far.

 

[maddog]

I've seen that movie probably all of three times in my life, but that line has got to be one of the Top Ten quotes in pop culture. A classic!

I have the "Redux" version on DVD. I've watched it waaay too much.

"The horror. The horror."

Mr. Nerve has brought up another dilemma. Piezo or no Piezo on my soon-to-be-ordered Bongo5H. So back to a 4 band eq. with Piezo tonal options or keep it simple?

Anybody with experience on both of these setups?

 

[Figjam]

OK this may be ignorant, but can you get a piezo installed (is that what we are talking about?) on a piezo-less bass, oh lets say a Buttercream HS sterling? just curious.

Also on a semi unrelated note I think I'm gonna get a bridge mute installed. Anybody have experience with these. I like what I've played so far.

I wouldnt go through the trouble of doing that. Your bass will kick ass as it is, dont worry.

 

[shamus63]

Mr. Nerve has brought up another dilemma. Piezo or no Piezo on my soon-to-be-ordered Bongo5H. So back to a 4 band eq. with Piezo tonal options or keep it simple?

I'm debating the Piezo > no Piezo option myself.

 

[Alvabass]

Mr. Nerve has brought up another dilemma. Piezo or no Piezo on my soon-to-be-ordered Bongo5H. So back to a 4 band eq. with Piezo tonal options or keep it simple?

Anybody with experience on both of these setups?

Something I've offered before: I'm the happy owner of a Bongo HHP and just after I received it I recorded different samples trying the different combinations. If someone's interested, just let me know your e-mail address and I'll gladly send them to you.

 

[stretch80]

I thought the piezo was also helpful in getting an old-school p-bass tone: neck pu plus some piezo... I liked it.

this is just playing one in a store (which I wish I could have bought..)

 

[adouglas]

Yeh, from time to time I try turning my pee-ay-zoe down to see what a pee-ay-zoe-less Bongo sounds like and I always wind up turning it back up again. I can't quite describe what it does, but it does something good.

I usually have it somewhere between 25 and 50% P in the mix.