StingRay HH or Bongo HS

[Grand Wazoo]

I prefer the sounds from the HH pickups over the HS configuration.

Apparently, according the this poll http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-basses/37831-musicman-bongo-poll-who-has-what-here.html

The Bongo 4 HH seems to be the most popular choice of Bongo pickup combination (based on votes given by the forum members, of course) closely followed by the Bongo 5 HH

 

[Powman]

I'm working those now.

Yes, that Low Mid knob. And da Bass Knob..

That'd be the sauce.

I don't touch the Treble...1. I've got major hearing loss, If I HEAR the high end..I'm shearing off peoples eyebrows in the front.

Here I go on my hearing protection rant again. I can't help myself...I am an Audiologist in real life.

Have you considered Musicians Ear Plugs to preserve the hearing you have left? See this link: Etymotic Research, Inc. - Musicians Earplugs.

 

[MK Bass Weed]

Here I go on my hearing protection rant again. I can't help myself...I am an Audiologist in real life.

Have you considered Musicians Ear Plugs to preserve the hearing you have left? See this link: Etymotic Research, Inc. - Musicians Earplugs.

Sir, I'm on your side. Wear the plugs..trained as a "hearing aid specialist" for a year..program them..wear them. Most of my loss was in my 20s. I'm just holding on to what little nerves I have left in my battered cochlea.

This current iPod gen is headed your way. Everyone's gonna be sporting 'hearing help'..unless...they start Regenerating the nerves! Can't wait for that pill to come out.


and I'm DID go back to Just Playing with the BLEND KNOB!

 

[Powman]

Sir, I'm on your side. Wear the plugs..trained as a "hearing aid specialist" for a year..program them..wear them. Most of my loss was in my 20s. I'm just holding on to what little nerves I have left in my battered cochlea.

This current iPod gen is headed your way. Everyone's gonna be sporting 'hearing help'..unless...they start Regenerating the nerves! Can't wait for that pill to come out.


and I'm DID go back to Just Playing with the BLEND KNOB!

Too late for the pill for me. I am on a Cochlear Implant now...

I am glad to hear (pun intended) that you are protecting your ears.

By the way, if you are using "hearing help", you could use an FM system attached to the PA as a means of giving yourself wireless monitors. That's what I do. I have a two channel transmitter attached to the PA. The line out from the Markbass head is split into two signals. One goes into the PA and the second goes into channel one on the transmitter.

So channel one = bass.
Channel 2 = rest of the band from the PA.

I have a blend knob to set how much band and how much bass I want. Then it transmits to the receivers built into my Cochlear Implant and hearing aid. Voila, a wireless monitoring system!

 

[adouglas]

Apparently, according the this poll http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-basses/37831-musicman-bongo-poll-who-has-what-here.html

The Bongo 4 HH seems to be the most popular choice of Bongo pickup combination (based on votes given by the forum members, of course) closely followed by the Bongo 5 HH

That probably has more to do with what dealers ordered than anything else. I don't think Guitar Center (in terms of public contact, I believe to be by far the largest MM dealer) stocks Bongos in their stores anymore, but when they did all they ever had were HHs. You can still get them from the GC website, but only in HH.

Naturally they'll order anything you ask for, but people are much more likely to buy what's on the floor than they are to order and wait months.

So it's the old self-fulfilling prophecy... HHs are most popular because that's what's in the shop, and it's what's in the shop because that's what people buy.

Same phenomenon that for years kept the cool hatchback cars that Europeans have had access to all along out of the US market. "Americans don't buy hatchbacks," they'd say. Well, I WOULD have if they offered me one, those pillocks!

 

[Grand Wazoo]

That probably has more to do with what dealers ordered than anything else. I don't think Guitar Center (in terms of public contact, I believe to be by far the largest MM dealer) stocks Bongos in their stores anymore, but when they did all they ever had were HHs. You can still get them from the GC website, but only in HH.

Naturally they'll order anything you ask for, but people are much more likely to buy what's on the floor than they are to order and wait months.

So it's the old self-fulfilling prophecy... HHs are most popular because that's what's in the shop, and it's what's in the shop because that's what people buy.

Same phenomenon that for years kept the cool hatchback cars that Europeans have had access to all along out of the US market. "Americans don't buy hatchbacks," they'd say. Well, I WOULD have if they offered me one, those pillocks!

I can follow what you say there, young man but I can't believe that all those people who bought an HH did that solely because that's what was in the shops and that's what they HAD to get, surely a great part of them have tried them up against other options elsewhere or heard them played somewhere else. I don't think they are all bah bah sheep. but thanks for the parallel insight.

 

[markbass99]

Well after finally getting to play some Bongos I like the HH way better than the HS, so I just bought this one (from the MM online store).

Initially I thought I liked the HH better but after I got a BFR in HS and then a Dargie in HS I've really come to enjoy the enhanced/different midrange they have. You can't go wrong with any combo though, I think it was an evil plot by BP and Co. to make us buy at least one of each. Very smart!

 

[MK Bass Weed]

I can follow what you say there, young man but I can't believe that all those people who bought an HH did that solely because that's what was in the shops and that's what they HAD to get, surely a great part of them have tried them up against other options elsewhere or heard them played somewhere else. I don't think they are all bah bah sheep. but thanks for the parallel insight.

I don't know, I think what AD says make some sense..The H came later did it not?

Anyways, this argument as to 'which PU combo is best or pop' is kinda like sayin: CHARLIES ANGLES: Which one (don't talk about the TV show, we all know who that was..) or..MARYANN OR GINGER...

and to be politically correct: Clooney or Pitt...

You know

 

[adouglas]

GW, don't read too much into it. I never said that people buy HHs because they have to or because they're sheep. I said that HHs are what's most widely available, so it's not surprising that more of them get sold. Which sets up a feedback loop.

Look, if you went into a shop and were given the choice of walking out the door with a bass you could actually try, or waiting several months for a configuration you've neither seen nor heard to be built for you, which would you choose?

As a knucklehead, you may well go for the order. But the average person will go for what's in their hand. Don't forget that we're not representative of the majority.

 

[Grand Wazoo]

yes adouglas you are right, don't worry I see your point. Cheers

 

[Manfloozy]

GW, don't read too much into it. I never said that people buy HHs because they have to or because they're sheep. I said that HHs are what's most widely available, so it's not surprising that more of them get sold. Which sets up a feedback loop.

Look, if you went into a shop and were given the choice of walking out the door with a bass you could actually try, or waiting several months for a configuration you've neither seen nor heard to be built for you, which would you choose?

As a knucklehead, you may well go for the order. But the average person will go for what's in their hand. Don't forget that we're not representative of the majority.

And if the person is comparing an HH Bongo or Ray to other brands (instead of an HS)... It is going to be an easy decision... The HH sounds darn good! I am still sure some would choose an HH over an HS head to head but an HH vs. "Brand X" is gonna win almost every time (there are some illogical beings still out there).

 

[fly]

STERLING HS........




........sorry........did i say that out loud?........

 

[Powman]

STERLING HS........




........sorry........did i say that out loud?........

Yeah, the poll should have included that as well

 

[fly]

quite a different beast it is..........the Sterling


but yet again,i bet the bongoloids prevail.......

 

[Bulltrout]

STERLING HS........




........sorry........did i say that out loud?........

Yup, you did. I miss my sterling HS. Currently I have a SRHH and Bongo HH but that HS combo is nice regardless of whether it's in a Stingray, Sterling or Bongo.

 

[sitonmybass]

I sold my original Bongo 5 HH and then replaced it with another. Retailers don't seem to carry as many of the Bongo 5 single H models even though on the EBMM web-site the single H is listed as standard whereas the HH and HS models are considered optional. The first Bongo 5 single H that I had ever seen in person was mine when it arrived so I had never had the opportunity to try one first so I purchased it completely influenced by the testimonials on this forum.