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Any love for Rogue basses?

keiththebassist

keiththebassist

Aug 12, 2010
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Santa Rosa, California
www.booradleyshouse.com
#1
I know they are considered an entry level brand but I am really really loving my Rogue LX-406.

It's an awesome 6 stringer with single coil Jazz style pick ups with a pan pot and an active passive push pull pot, also a three band EQ. Not much for the passive tone but in active mode with a little boost to the preamp and POW! this thing has some seriously growly punch! It did need a good set up when I got it but that's to be expected.

I love that it has no markings on the front of the fretboard and it has a nice Bubinga veneer on it. I know that just a veneer is probably not going to contribute much to tone if at all, but hey at least it looks pretty.

I had never played a 6 before and wanted to get my hands on one, I think I paid like 160 for it (used), threw some new SIT strings on it and man I'm having fun.

Anyone else?
 
#7
I had to play a random person's 5 string Rogue at my last gig since unknowingly the bass I brought had wiring problems. It didn't sound too bad, but it was by far the worst playing bass I've ever played and after a few hours the tips of my fingers were black and bloody. I don't blame the bass entirely but it was a very painful experience.
 
#9
Duckwater said:
I had to play a random person's 5 string Rogue at my last gig since unknowingly the bass I brought had wiring problems. It didn't sound too bad, but it was by far the worst playing bass I've ever played and after a few hours the tips of my fingers were black and bloody. I don't blame the bass entirely but it was a very painful experience.
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That would be due to the strings and set up dude.
 
#10
I played a rogue once. It was the single worst bass playing experience of my life. neck felt like a baseball bat, pickups sounded terrible and the frets were visibly uneven and had jagged edges. I only played it for 2 minutes then gave it back to the guitarist that owns it.
 
#13
keiththebassist said:
Strange, perhaps it was the fretless element, seems like those require especially detailed builds. My fretted bass stays in tune pretty darn well and is damn quite too. hmmm...
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Well, to be fair, aside from the buzz, the bass sounded nice. Unlined fretless shouldn't be TOO detailed - as long as the dots line up with where the frets (not the space between) should be.

If you got a nice Rogue, cool. I would have loved mine had it played better. Alas, because of the cheap build quality, it was sold to GC sometime ago. They gave me $50.
 
#15
One of the local music stores in my home town offered Rogues pretty much exclusively as their beginner bass packages. I had a friend who was interested in one but didn't know a whole lot about bass at the time, so I went down with him to help him shop some.

Easily one of the strangest feeling instruments I've ever played. I feel that a lot of the cheaper basses on the market these days are starting to feel better, but the Rogue still felt really cheap to me. Limited experience with one, but I wasn't really interested in it at all. Luckily the store had a few Ibanez too, he ended up getting a GSR in the end.

Granted, as with anything I'm sure there ares ones that are better and worse than others. The one we tried out wasn't doing it for me, glad my friend didn't end up buying it.
 

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