Move over Bongo! SR5 HS is here!

[Freddy-G.]

My fellow forumites, I am pleased to announce that I have taken delivery of one 2005 Ltd. Ed. SR5 HS.

Holy dynomite! I expected ... uh.....uh ... I don't know what I expected, since I ordered this bass without playing one with dual pups. Well people, if you haven't played one ... THIS THING IS DA BOMB!

BP, Dudley and all the designers of this bass have been completely silent. They are not ones to blow their own horns. So let it be said now, my brothers — we have entered into a new era. Respectful of what has come before, but now, lets celebrate a grand new time of THE GREATEST BASSES ON EARTH!

That's all I'm gonna say. I can't wait to here comments from others.

(I think I'm ready to become a bass licker, Steve!)

 

[Dr Stankface]

SUHWEET!!!

Makes me want my dualie even more.

Andrew

 

[AnthonyD]

Congrats to my fellow Butter-creamer!

 

[midopa]

Creamy~!

 

[Butterbass]

welcome to the club, that bass is wonderful!

 

[Figjam]

Roarrrrrr, i grow more impatient for my HH

 

[Tom F]

Very nice! Mine shows up tomorrow...even more excited now, even if Steve forgot to lick mine!

 

[tkarter]

Congrats on getting the bass and heres to enjoying it a long time.

tk

 

[bovinehost]

Very, very nice.

But it will look better without the plastic over the pickguard!

Congratulations...man, that is beautiful.

Jack

 

[Freddy-G.]

But it will look better without the plastic over the pickguard!

I know I know. I'm feeling real protective of this bass for some reason. Dreading that first scratch, I guess.

Thank you Jack. And Steve, for a flawless transaction.

 

[Figjam]

Be a man take off the plastic.


Real men dont use protection.

 

[bovinehost]

Thank you Jack. And Steve, for a flawless transaction.

No way, man - thank YOU. I love dealing with you guys here - I really do. Best bunch of customers a guy could even dream of.....and friends first, way before all the sales stuff.

I don't say it often enough. I appreciate you guys even when you buy somewhere else. Seriously - I mean that.

Jack

 

[Bill]

Sweeeeeet!

 

[phatduckk]

congrats!!! looks awesome

enjoy

 

[radiotrib]

I know I know. I'm feeling real protective of this bass for some reason. Dreading that first scratch, I guess.

You see what happens when you don't let UPS deliver it .. now YOU have to worry about the FIRST scratch !!!

Nice machine .. I dunno if I'm into the buttercream colour, but the more I read and think about the Stingray's HS electronic arrangement, the more I get to wanting an SR5 HS instead of a Bongo (not that I could afford either btw).

 

[Dees]

Great looking bass

 

[Golem]

After a year with a Sabre, thinking that a neck PU was the fix for nasty tone on fretted MMs [fretlessness works the magic for single PU MMs], and finally trading the Sabre for a Bongo HH, can somebody tell me ....
Is the dual PU Ray very very different from the Sabre? Am I hearing that a neck PU actually had been the answer all along, but the Sabre was just an abnormal sociopath ?

 

[stretch80]

NICE!!! That's a

OK -- so you are now the perfect person to answer the question many of us dreamers are asking ourselves:

Is our next bass a BONGO 5 (HS, HH) OR.... a SR5 HS (or HH)

How would you describe the difference?

 

[Freddy-G.]

Is our next bass a BONGO 5 (HS, HH) OR.... a SR5 HS (or HH)

How would you describe the difference?

I could spend all day trying to describe the difference between these two basses, but in the end, when YOU pick them up and listen to them, you'll probably have a totally different opinion.

As you might expect, they do sound different. I'd say the main difference is how the tone is dialed in. With the SR5, the 5-way switch is the key. With the Bongo, the pup pan control and the low/high mid control is the key.

Also, I'd say the Bongo's 18v preamp is more powerful than the SR5's. You gotta turn the bass control on the SR5 up more. If you do this with the Bongo, you're gonna break the crystal glasses in the house.

 

[tkarter]

Also, I'd say the Bongo's 18v preamp is more powerful than the SR5's. You gotta turn the bass control on the SR5 up more. If you do this with the Bongo, you're gonna break the crystal glasses in the house.

That is an extremely accurate assesment. The main difference between the Bongo 5 H and my SR5 is that. The Bongo is like 9 volts louder.

tk