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The Butter Scotch will match your Mark Bass rig!!!!

[quote name='Duarte' post='790884' date='Mar 30 2010, 06:12 PM'] OTPJ, you called? Yes, Bongos are the best. Soundwise, incredible. They DO have character, but it's not aStingRay charactrer, it's a Bongo character. They are VERY distinctive in the way they sound (and of course look!) In pictures you may think they look a bit silly, but in person it is oh so right. The curves are quite beautiful, I sometimes find myself running my fingers along the wierd flat bits that feel so smooth, connecting the front and sides of the body in one lush sweep...to me other basses just feel and look like a fat old lump of boring wood. "Here you go, a big bit of wood" is what I imagine the manufacturers saying...The Bongo is sweet. So sweet it's unbelievable. The knobs, yeah there's a lot. But they are self explanatory...a few bands of EQ, volume, pickup pan...easy. Or piezo aswell if you have that option (like me) Vast array of wonderful, wonderful tones. thisnameistaken...can you honestly say that Mr Sargent in this video looks 'stupid'?[/quote] OMG!!!!!! I am so jealous of you mate!!!! How do you decide which one to play!!!!

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='790567' date='Mar 30 2010, 01:39 PM']There is a certain magic hidden in a Bongo bass, soundwise it is a killer bass. The secret is in the combination of the wood used for the body which is Basswood and the 18 Volts 4 band EQ preamp plus the Neodymium pickups. The results of all these factors makes it a bass which is difficult to fault, in both sound and playability. Definately one of the best bass of the Ernie Ball range, I repeat one of the best, not the best. Personally I thought it was THE best until I bought their 25th Anniversary HSS. The Bongo's neck is another secret weapon which is unique to the Ernie Ball range, in fact this is the only EB bass with 24 frets and a radius unique to this bass that makes it so incredibly comfortable to play that every time you picked it up after having played a different bass, you can't help go: "Oh yeah!" As mentioned the pickups are the powehouse that makes this bass break through through the muddies of band mixes. Neodymium is a new very powerful magnet, also used in new amp speakers. Very responsive and in this bass they work wonderfully. FACT: Not everyone is fond of it's shape and headstock - BUT - everyone who I know has tried one has ended up buying it or live a life of misery and GAS withering illness. Here's mine: [/quote] WOW!!!!! you seem to be using the same combo as me so I think your taste in gear is second to none!!!!!!!!!!

[quote name='Matt42uk' post='790555' date='Mar 30 2010, 01:25 PM']Fantasic instrument....looks are a personal thing, but sounds are amazing....the 4 band eq is dead powerful. It so happends i have an immaculate one for sale...if you're interested![/quote] I have seen your bongo mate and I absolutely love the thing!! My only problem like most others is I don't have £850 lying around.My only option to buy one is the 0% finance facility from the bass centre. Good luck with the sale.It really seems like one hell of alot of bass guitar for the money!!!!!!

Can anyone please give me a honest opinion about musicman bongos.There are none local to me to try,so before I make a journey your opinions would help me alot.Thanks Rob.

Funnily enough my situation was exactly the same as yours.I am 41 and started playing bass at 20.I have started having lessons with Nick Carey as well as Steve,and find it to be money well spent.I started learning from lesson 1 !!! and realised just how rubbish my technique was.Give Nick a go mate,he really is worth the money.

I've been playing bass for nearly 20 years now,and decided that I would like to achieve my grade 8.From lesson one I realized what a sloppy bass player I actually was! Nick is a very patient man who structures all his lessons around the student in a very interesting way ,and I always feel motivated to play and learn after I have sat with him.If any of you are thinking about lessons,no matter how good you are,(or in my case thought you were!) I couldn't recommend Nick highly enough.Nothing but a 10/10 for this man!!!!!!!!