UPDATE! "Rosewood Bongo sound"

[strummer]

Couldn't resist...

Anyway, here it is, since I've played the rosewood a lot. Now I've played it through my normal amp and also through a Radial Bassbone into the foh, and I restrung my green bongo for comparison.

So compared to the green HH, the rosewood is a little more open, less compressed, and it also speaks with greater authority (or at least better definition) when plucked really soft, and even though the pick up heights are alike the rosewood is plenty louder than both my other Bongos. The Low range has better definition. while there is also more meat in the higher register.
But apart from these easily identified differences, there is also a complexity to the tone that reminds me of playing the 20th, and I think that someone with a more developed technique and finer touch would be able to coax even more out of this amazing instrument.

Anyway, while I'll surely continue to use the green Bongo live (along with the new black one of course) the rosewood will most definitely be the bass used for recording.

And I won't put flats on it, you hear?

 

[Big Poppa]

thank god strummer is going to continue to use the manly string choice

 

[markbass99]

All things being equal (between bongos), my rosewood HS sounds like a rickenbacker- that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Might as well pile up my 73 ricks this weekend a have a bonfire (not).

 

[MingusBASS]

... my rosewood HS sounds like a rickenbacker- that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

 

[five7]

Thanks for the gass! And I agree with the BIG MAN!

 

[fidooda]

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

he's got a busted hearing from all those years listening to those Ricks

 

[MrMusashi]

And I won't put flats on it, you hear?

you dont know what youre missing

MrM

 

[strummer]

you dont know what youre missing

MrM

Bah, I got the blue Bongo that jack welded flats to, so I'm set in the flats department too