Recent content by Bassically Doug

I spoke with my luthier, Keith Roscoe. I have 6 of his basses and they are magnificent. Keith inserts graphite rods on each side of the truss rod to help add sustain. My Mahogany body bass with Hard Rock Maple neck will sustain for days, and the neck is a bolt-on. Keith said that the graphite...

For that amount of money I could buy a really great Roscoe custom-made bass. I went spend that amount on an Ibanez.

These are Roscoe Classic P/J basses. This photo was taken the day I picked mine up. Mine is the P-style body. The J-body bass was for another customer. Keith Roscoe refers to them as the Sea Foam Green cousins. They were both made at the same time, so Keith snapped a photo before I left...

Tone starts in your hands. But, I do use a Boss Bass Compressor, Boss Bass Chorus, and BBE Sonic Maximizer for bass. I run the compressor always. I use the chorus to emulate fretless when I don’t have my fretless with me. I favor the bridge pickup and pluck near the bridge. I use the BBE...

I use a BBE Sonic Maximizer to fatten the tone when I favor the bridge pickup. But, my Roscoe Classic has active or passive mode with a P/J pickup arrangement. I just set the active mode to boost lows, when I favor the bridge pickup. I play normally in passive mode. With the Roscoe Classic...

I believe it is Abraham Laboriel playing a fretless Music Man Stingray bass on the season 2 theme of CHiPs.