Played My First Bongo Today

[RobertB]

That's a tough call, eh? I feel your pain, Roberto.

Now add a 30th SR5 and it gets even more difficult to decide....not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Jack

Well, it helps make the call when said 30th has 2 major chips/dings, which I found when I spent a little more time with it lastnight. I guess there's a high likelihood that's the case with all the ones GC has these days, since they've been on the floor since '06. Apparently none of the stores has one in a box anymore.

So ... back today to get to know the Bongos a little better!

 

[Jimmyb]

I haven't played a Bongo.




yet.....

 

[Raimond S]

Still GASing for the yellow bumblebee bongo here. (Norpoint)

 

[MrMusashi]

rlb: if you got 2 sr4's already the desicion shouldnt be that hard

get the bongo!!!!!

i had a chuckle when watching the bongo demo clip on guitarcentre's pages... try that on your ****** bass kids!
Basses - Guitar Center

MrM

 

[RobertB]

rlb: if you got 2 sr4's already the desicion shouldnt be that hard

I hear where you're coming from on that MrM, but have you held & heard a 30th? It's about the mahogany.

Robert

 

[oli@bass]

MrM just recently received 2 (in words "two") 30ths. The Fretted & Frettess Twins.
I'm dargie green in envy...

 

[DTG]

i love my Bongo,i really didn't think i would love it as much as i do.

its a perfect bass.

 

[Old_Guy]

Bongo HH vs HS?

Well, there's the link of the man himself demoing some of his babies.

I don't know of any videos of A/B/C comparisons. Maybe YouTube?

Sir, I notice you have a Bongo HH and HS - I have the opportunity to nab an HS, but it'll be sight unseen/without hearing. Can you tell me what you like about the HS config? I think I'd be partial to the HS tonal options, and the smaller footprint..?

 

[vcs700s]

I Really Bought One!

Well it took exactly 2 months and 1 week for me to get my Bongo.

My Stealth Bongo 4HH arrived on March 11.

I love this bass! Plays like butter and has great tone.

I couldn't be happier. And yes here is a link to the pic:

http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd222/vcs700s/?action=view&current=CIMG0024_edited.jpg:D

 

[Ole Man Blues]

You've been Bongoed, you're dead meat.........you'll never be the same until you have one in your house.......

OMB

 

[buzzbass]

yeah me too, today to be exact.

I bought mic cables at Guitar Center this afternoon. I had my wife and kids waiting in the car, I mean, I was only going to be a minute...then I saw this gold flash from the bass section...they had replenished the MM stock. Yipes...one 4 string and two 5 string bongos, including one of the stealthy ones.

I've been itching to try one, and AnthonyD's Christmas toy post, you know, the Red Bongo in the Santa Hat, made me really itchy.

The 4 string was set up for Archery, so I adjusted the truss with my swiss army knife screw driver tool...love that wheel.

My big 'fear" with the Bongo is the 24 frets. I've tried to make the 24 fret transition for the entire 90s, which also happended to be a six string bass. You remember the early 90s?, 'everyone' was playing one, and there was even an article, 'is the 4 string doomed" Bass Player. Yeah...I'm back to a 4 string Ray now....whew..but I digress.

On the 24 fret neck, I usually found myself grabbing one fret too high. Which meant I had to constantly check myself on the neck. It was always a relief to come back 'home' to a 22 fret (or less), and find the notes right where they should be.

But today...I went back and forth between a Bongo and MM Sting Ray, and the difference didn't seem that great as compared to what was happening to me before.

Looking at all those frets above the 12 did seem like looking into a piano, alot more notes...but I don't know, did the Bongo makers, movers and shakers figure a way out of this....or am I just looking for a way to squeek one into my gig bag.

I also noticed that the radius on the fret board was flatter, but it did still feel like home to me.

Any of you Bongo lovers find any transition issues with a 24 fret neck?

MJK

I switch back and forth between 35" & 34" scales and necks from 21 to 26 frets, I don't notice a difference at all....weird huh ?

 

[philthygeezer]

After noodling on the Bongo H for a few hours, I pick up the other basses I own and they sound kind of monochrome; two dimensional.