Recidivist a.k.a. new to me Bongo day

[guenter]

Very very cool, and congrats on getting a very unique tool in the arsenal

I like both the HH and H, but they are massively different.

They are very different! But in a good way. Both Bongos have their own qualities

 

[guenter]

Congrats!! That bass is a thing of beauty. Wow. I love that colour.

I'm with Oddjob in that I firmly believe more is not better. The Single H Bongo is different enough from the HH and HS Bongo that it should almost have a different model name! The tone of my Bongo 5H surprised me when I first got it and (compared to the Bongo 5HS I had previously), I agree, it doesn't have that super low Earth-Quake sound as you described it but it just sounds so rich and is super punchy. To me it's the best. And, I love how easy it is to dial in great tones.

Yesterday I tried playing with a pick for the first time since getting my Bongo 5H and....wow!! What a sound!! Best pick tone I've heard with any bass I've owned. Amazing. This bass can do no wrong.

Anyway...enjoy.

Thanks. I already enjoyed it on our rehearsal on sat. What a great tone!

 

[guenter]

Congrats Guenter, great color, nice pics as well. All the best.

I always was after a Bongo in that color from the moment I saw that blue Bongo 5 on the MM web site. Thanks.

 

[guenter]

That is sweeeeeet!!!!! I love that color combo. I think it would be a shame to change out that PG. But of course, it is yours. Just don't put them close to one another

They are hanging very close to one another at the wall in my office at home. Changing a pickguard is nothing that can't be undone.

 

[Golem]

The single H with a 3 band does not compare. Once you get use to the
double H and the 4 band there is no looking back. Maybe a single H with
piezo and 4 band would compare but I haven't been able to try one.

For a while my 5HH was known locally as "The Notorious Orange Boingo."
Ms Diva had a skitzoid love/hate thing with it. I still have it altho it may
be displaced by my recent acquisition of an SR5 HS.

Anyhoo, I know the HH reeeeeally well, and there's almost nothing thaz
beyond it's reach. OTOH, my 1H Boingo is a 4FL with PIEZO. While there
seem to be some tonal possiblities it won't tackle, that which it CAN do
it does like magic.

Being a piezo 1H it has the 4-band EQ, yet it would be the same magic
ax if it had only 3 or just 2 bands, cuz adjusting the EQ is a sort of idle
exercise in needless variations. It ALWAYS sounds great, so tweaking
the EQ is just variety for variety's sake.

There is, however, some rather significant voicing control via the fader.
I have the mag PU lowered as far as the hardware allows, and I play at
anywhere between the center detent of the fader and full piezo. To me,
the whole tone game goes on right there, in that half turn of the fader.

BTW, I'm not some newly infatuated Piezo Fanboi. I've got mag-piezo
hybrid basses from numerous builders .... 4 rather different versions of
EBMM hybrids, plus several other makes, some with the classic wooden
"acoustic" bridge and some with the typical fully adjustable metal type
which would incl the EBMM's, Warwick, and Ibnez]. Really, nothing can
touch the wooden bridge system for a really woody, acoustic-sounding
FL voice, but the Boingo is my fave among all the metal bridge piezos.
Maybe it's the basswood body ? I can't say for sure, but this 1Hp FL is
my only really KEEPER Boingo. I have ergonomic issues about sit-down
playing and the Boingo body. I parted with my fretted 4HH, and could
easily desert my 5HH .... but the 1Hp FL4 is just too cool to let go, so
I hacked it up a bit to address the ergonomics, and so now we "own"
each other, me and it.

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FWIW, my piezo MM's are:
Boingo Hp FL4
SR Hp FL5 [ceramic]
SR Hp FL4
SR Hp fretted 4.

 

[guenter]

Last saturday i took my "new" Bongo 5H to our band rehearsal. I really enjoyed its sound.
It has been said thousands of times in this forum but I still want to repeat: The Bongo 5H cuts through the music like a hot knife through butter

Now it's also clear to me that the 5H does not (neccessarily) need a 4-Band EQ. While I need especially the low-mid pot on my Bongo 5HHP to add some "growl" - the Bongo 5H has this kind of growl already in its DNA.

I played it nearly flat. Only a very little + on the bass pot.
(My amp is always set to flat)