Lucas G
Active member
last week was my guitar player's birthday. we were having some beers, talking shop- for some reason, he seems to prefer when i play my geddy lee jazz bass. i don't know why- might be because that's what i played when we started writing, might be because when i play that bass i use my fulltone bass drive to make an otherwise 'boring' bass sound a little more palatable to my ears. so, to humor him, i took the jazz to practice the next day. whatever- no big deal, it sounded okay.
fast forward to yesterday. i picked up a second SWR goliath III cab, now i have two of them stacked up on top of each other. which is cool, because more than anything i can hear the top cab way better because it's higher. so i plugged in the jazz, played it for a little bit, then plugged in the bongo. heaven!
man, this dude is insane.
i have no idea what he could possibly be thinking to prefer anything over the bongo.
it just doesn't make any sense.
now that i have had the chance to play the bongo in front of a big wall of speakers, there is just no way i could ever want to play anything else. the bongo is just such a superior instrument in every regard. it's lighter, it feels better, and the sound is just so alive.
since i got the bongo, i haven't used any effects whatsoever, just bass>tuner>compressor>amp. maybe it's the overdrive he misses? do any of use an o/d unit with a bongo? i tried it, it just doesn't seem to make a real improvement- the only way i really like it is if the o/d is turned almost completely down, just to add a little tiny bit of 'warmth' that my SWR head doesn't really offer.
so i tried a few of my other basses. no comparison. the bongo is the sound in my head, period. not only that, but we're playing a show tomorrow. and if i'm going for the total overkill of 2 4x10 cabs, it would be just plain foolish to bring anything but an absolute tone MONSTER like the bongo. if you got it, flaunt it!
i guess this really didn't have much in the way of a point, just another in a long line of love letters to the bongo. finest bass ever made, hands down!
fast forward to yesterday. i picked up a second SWR goliath III cab, now i have two of them stacked up on top of each other. which is cool, because more than anything i can hear the top cab way better because it's higher. so i plugged in the jazz, played it for a little bit, then plugged in the bongo. heaven!
man, this dude is insane.
i have no idea what he could possibly be thinking to prefer anything over the bongo.
it just doesn't make any sense.
now that i have had the chance to play the bongo in front of a big wall of speakers, there is just no way i could ever want to play anything else. the bongo is just such a superior instrument in every regard. it's lighter, it feels better, and the sound is just so alive.
since i got the bongo, i haven't used any effects whatsoever, just bass>tuner>compressor>amp. maybe it's the overdrive he misses? do any of use an o/d unit with a bongo? i tried it, it just doesn't seem to make a real improvement- the only way i really like it is if the o/d is turned almost completely down, just to add a little tiny bit of 'warmth' that my SWR head doesn't really offer.
so i tried a few of my other basses. no comparison. the bongo is the sound in my head, period. not only that, but we're playing a show tomorrow. and if i'm going for the total overkill of 2 4x10 cabs, it would be just plain foolish to bring anything but an absolute tone MONSTER like the bongo. if you got it, flaunt it!
i guess this really didn't have much in the way of a point, just another in a long line of love letters to the bongo. finest bass ever made, hands down!
