Machines Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 A long time coming - looks great and has given me more GAS . [url="http://www.music-man.com"]http://www.music-man.com[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s_u_y_* Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 It was a long time coming! Looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 still seems to have a few glitches in it unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Doesn't do anything for me, sorry. When I visit a guitar website, I want to see saucy pictures of the guitars reclining on silk sheets (well, you know what I mean), not planks of wood ('The Process') in a Flash presentation that is too big for my display (my screen resolution is 1024x768)...I can see wood going through surface planers on the Discovery Channel any hour of the day. Having a quick look at the Bongo pages, I'm still a little staggered that a company of this size doesn't actually have some well photographed images of the actual model in all the available colours, with the actual hardware/scratchplate options, rather than some quick and nasty rollovers that display other models. If it's an available option, then they must have a demo model that can be photographed to serve the purpose. At the very least, do a job of it in Photoshop. While writing this epistle, I remembered looking at the site Nissan set up for the Qashqai car...this was some time ago (they've changed it since, but this is still way better). That's how options should be shown. [url="http://tinyurl.com/4ly3pq"]Nissan Site[/url] First impressions are it's a bit of a cut and paste job. Horrible. P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='185030' date='Apr 25 2008, 07:53 AM']While writing this epistle, I remembered looking at the site Nissan set up for the Qashqai car...this was some time ago (they've changed it since, but this is still way better). That's how options should be shown. [url="http://tinyurl.com/4ly3pq"]Nissan Site[/url][/quote] Didn't show up within ten seconds. I left. The disparity between form and function will only continue to increase as web "designers" insist on using Flash more and more, and people using them are taken in more and more by the glitz and ignore the functionality and search optimisation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='185030' date='Apr 25 2008, 07:53 AM']While writing this epistle, I remembered looking at the site Nissan set up for the Qashqai car...this was some time ago (they've changed it since, but this is still way better). That's how options should be shown. [url="http://tinyurl.com/4ly3pq"]Nissan Site[/url][/quote] Websites are very expensive to develop - and you can almost guarantee Nissan have an in-house team to do it all for them. Musicman are a relatively small company in the grand scheme of things, even Fender (biggest guitar company in the world ?) don't have every colour combination on their site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm underwhelmed too. I agree with NJ, should be much more seductive IMO, it's sterile looking and still a bit clunky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lfalex v1.1 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Presentation style notwithstanding, I like the look of the all-black "Stealth" style Bongo IV H/S. (Can I admit to liking Bongos in public?) Out of curiousity, I Wiki'd Bongo, and uncovered; [b]Operation Bongo II[/b]- [i]a controversial experiment in which 1,253 sonic booms were unleashed on Oklahoma City, Oklahoma over a period of six months in 1964 [/i] Maybe that's why it's called "Bongo"?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burpster Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm surprised they still haven't done a Steve Irwin tribute Stingray........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WithoutRisk_BassPlayer Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 When did the standard Ray get the pickup switching...? Website looks way better than before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Dave Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 The history tells us the 'new' Stingray was around in 1976. Which fits perfectly well with my understanding. Then goes on to tell us the first Stingrays were introduced in 1984. In fact it tells us that twice. There's probably more mistakes but the whole site looks like a 6th formers exercise so I shut it down and wonlt be back in a hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quatschmacher Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 It's a shame they've not included the "Instrument Builder" tool which they had on the old site - that was such a cool feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty589 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Perhaps while they're revamping their site they might also work out how cut the nut on the Stingray 5 so the G doesn't fall off the fingerboard! Where's the Bongo 6 btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh3184 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 [url="http://www.music-man.com/instruments/bongo6.php"]http://www.music-man.com/instruments/bongo6.php[/url] here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty589 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Oops, missed that! The C is still going to fall off the edge of the fingerboard. And that bottom horn will dig into your leg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 [quote name='matty589' post='186904' date='Apr 27 2008, 11:56 PM']Oops, missed that! The C is still going to fall off the edge of the fingerboard. And that bottom horn will dig into your leg![/quote] Join a band and play standing up . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 well i dont know much about stingrays and sterlings and the like but that site has told me nothing. can you only get 2 pick up stingrays now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 You can get Stingrays as standard H, but now also HH and HS. Same applies to the SR5, Bongo and Sterling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 [quote name='LukeFRC' post='186958' date='Apr 28 2008, 06:52 AM']well i dont know much about stingrays and sterlings and the like but that site has told me nothing.[/quote] So far, Sterling Ball's [url="http://www.music-man.com/bsj"]blog[/url] is fun, with a few interesting stories about his dad, Ernie. I didn't know that the company really got going with Slinky strings, which were basically re-packaged Fender strings, while Ernie was also teaching. He did so much sheet music piracy that he endorsed Xerox copiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Agreed bout the C falling off... The B also looks to be in danger... Has anyone here played the 6 bongo yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Only John Myung and people at NAMM I reckon. I don't think they're in production just yet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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