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Okay, neck's better, intonation improved. String height numbers on the ebmm web site seem kinda high. Anyone get them significantly lower?
Your argument is invalid, because Big Poppa likes them best.
BONGO 4HH POLICE !
I warned you!
That set you're using, seems like a pretty thick gauge(s).
There's an abundance of good choices. I generally go 40-100, (light, for my touch) but the Skjold Balanced set, wow-Highly recommended especially IMO for a Hi-Fi bass like Bongo.
You might want to give them a look-see when that set gets old.
Niiiiiiiiiixe. So glad to finally see a Firemist Purple Bongo outside of a stock photo. And this is configured exactly the way I'd want one
I dont beleieve this is Firemist Purple. Guitar Center ordered a dozen based on a NAMM bass.
<looks again> I suppose it could be firemist, or a prototype for the color prior to production, but it does look like a different shade to me. There is a color reference to "Bartolo" on the p.o. but I cant be certain
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Hmmm well I thought it seemed like a darker color but I figured maybe it's just the lighting. Anyone know what color this is?
I miss my Bingo 4HH. Music Go Round gave me more than I played so it was easy and o my had to put minimal out of pocket for my Modulus Q5 SS.
I'm thinking a 5HH or 6HH are in my future.
Purple is my fave, so you have me drooling over here.
Honestly miss my Bongo so deeply.
Congrats
I'm thinking a 5HH or 6HH are in my future.
Purple is my fave, so you have me drooling over here.
Honestly miss my Bongo so deeply.
Congrats
I played a few Bongo's at NAMM one year what really sticks in my memory about them was how long it took me to explore how many different tones they could get! 
H, HH — can’t we all just get along?
OP: Beautiful bass my friend. One advantage of the roasted maple neck (and the rosewood necks, too) is you won’t suffer the ubiquitous headstock paint chip that nearly every painted-neck Bongo acquires in time.
OP: Beautiful bass my friend. One advantage of the roasted maple neck (and the rosewood necks, too) is you won’t suffer the ubiquitous headstock paint chip that nearly every painted-neck Bongo acquires in time.
I played a few Bongo's at NAMM one year what really sticks in my memory about them was how long it took me to explore how many different tones they could get!
I hear you, I pretty much bought an entire new rig when I purchased mine... it was a journey for sure.
I really liked the HH configuration and honestly I almost always left it centered or favored the neck pickup, never had a neck pickup be so juicy yet clean.
Beastly, I will have another. Just gotta wait for the right one.
Sure, when the secret-club handshake boyz at the Single-H Farm admit to their "HH-Envy" issues!
