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04-24-2009, 05:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Love that Roscoe tone live!
(Okay, disclaimer. This thread is more self-serving than anything.)
The one thing that drew me to the Roscoe, aside from the ultra-low action playability and versatility, was its tonal ability to be the "Jekyll and Hyde" in a mix. A big, pillowy P-like bottom end, and some signature warm, round, compressed growly in-your-face mids up on the fretboard for fills.
I've had this LG for a few months now, but up until last night, I haven't had a chance to hear it "out in the audience": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjRUHMhBCQ4
(Excuse the crappy playing. The video is of a teacher-student funk/r&b band I do at the high school in which I teach.)
Damn! That's exactly what the doctor ordered! A lil' bit of Funk Machine, with a dose of Smith gospel "hey, listen to me!" mids.
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04-24-2009, 07:47 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: OOOOSA! | | | Cool- sounds great. What amp setup are you running that through?
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04-24-2009, 12:10 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | YES! Sounds awesome....thanks so much for sharing this. SMOKIN' band (love the drummer!) and a wicked cool arrangement. Your playing is outstanding, and the bass sounds FANTASTIC. Thanks again... |
04-24-2009, 12:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Nice.. |
04-24-2009, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Sweet stuff. 
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04-24-2009, 12:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A Whale's Vag!na, CA | | | Dude this video is awesome! Nicely done! |
04-25-2009, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Thanks guys.
Rig is a MarkBass LMII through an Epifani UL2-110 and 112 micro-stack.
That's a teacher/student r&b/soul band I do at the high school in which I teach photo and film/tv production. The video crew was also group of students doing a live broadcast production for my class. So it goes without saying, I love my job. |
04-25-2009, 10:26 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Man! High School wasn't like that when I went!
Nice video Dave! Nice playing & I really dig your drummer's playing too! |
04-25-2009, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Thanks, Joe. We're lucky to have a drummer like him... It's hard to find students at that age not hung up on rocking out with Neil Peart chops and more interested in playing the pocket. In Toronto, we don't have as large a base of gospel-bred groove musicians as you seem to have in the US.
Makes the bass player sound a lot better too. |
04-25-2009, 11:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Very cool!
I have over a dozen basses including high end Warwick, Dingwall, MTD and EBMM. I am likely going to sell a bunch of them as they just aren't getting played.
My Roscoe SKB 5er and 6er are being played on 100% of my gigs these days and as a complete gear whore that tends to play a different bass on every gig, this is an amazing thing for me.
Not just being a brown-noser, but I have owned lots of high end basses... Roscoes are the real deal and Kill in the mix. If I could get a Jazz bass slap tone out of one, I likely wouldn't own a bass other than a Roscoe.
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04-25-2009, 04:58 PM
|  | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Get some Nord big singles and you will have a jazz on steroids. Quote:
Originally Posted by Baird6869  Very cool!
I have over a dozen basses including high end Warwick, Dingwall, MTD and EBMM. I am likely going to sell a bunch of them as they just aren't getting played.
My Roscoe SKB 5er and 6er are being played on 100% of my gigs these days and as a complete gear whore that tends to play a different bass on every gig, this is an amazing thing for me.
Not just being a brown-noser, but I have owned lots of high end basses... Roscoes are the real deal and Kill in the mix. If I could get a Jazz bass slap tone out of one, I likely wouldn't own a bass other than a Roscoe. | |
04-25-2009, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by CrashClint Get some Nord big singles and you will have a jazz on steroids. | The heck with that .......Get this from Greg at Rocket Music:
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04-25-2009, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: OOOOSA! | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashClint Get some Nord big singles and you will have a jazz on steroids. | Actually, I've gotta say that although my LG3005+DC5s is indeed like a jazz on steroids, my EBMM SR5 is like a turbo-jazz on megadose steroids.
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04-25-2009, 08:48 PM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 The heck with that .......Get this from Greg at Rocket Music: | I got to see that bass in person, that oil finish is killer!!! Ask Data to see the pictures of us with the hammer and chisel with that bass. |
04-25-2009, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashClint I got to see that bass in person, that oil finish is killer!!! Ask Data to see the pictures of us hand carving that bass with the hammer and chisel. | Fixed!
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04-26-2009, 09:45 AM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashClint I got to see that bass in person, that oil finish is killer!!! Ask Data to see the pictures of us hand carving that bass with the hammer and chisel.. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike Fixed! | I stand corrected! |
04-26-2009, 12:08 PM
|  | I've got to admit it's getting better | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Duluth, Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 The heck with that .......Get this from Greg at Rocket Music: | Great video Dave! But this pic has given me the worst gas I've had in a long long time! A Roscoe with single coils? Is the end-of-days near? 
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04-27-2009, 12:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cerritos, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 The heck with that .......Get this from Greg at Rocket Music: | What in the world! When did they start doing their rendition of the J? I actually sold off my Roscoe to get my hands on a J-bass too!!
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04-27-2009, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by xkimsungminx What in the world! When did they start doing their rendition of the J? I actually sold off my Roscoe to get my hands on a J-bass too!! | Just about now.
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04-27-2009, 10:42 AM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | The finish on Greg's Roscoe was like going back in time and seeing one of the original Tobias basses (have to give Tobias his props, he did some beautiful work on those basses), my jaw just dropped. For me it is the first Roscoe I have ever seen with this type of finish. It definitely has a wow factor of 10.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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