Roscoe baited the line, now I'm hooked...

[fretno]

working towards 3,4,5,&6 bangers

 

[Jeff Elkins]

I tried it on Chrome, IE, and my Android...text white on all yesterday. I see it fine today though!

Yeah, I meant what TB platform/overly you were using--the new system allows these "Retro" and other overlays. Apparently it has an impact.
I can read it too, now!

 

[mmbongo]

Yeah, I meant what TB platform/overly you were using--the new system allows these "Retro" and other overlays. Apparently it has an impact.
I can read it too, now!

I think I use the Retro one. No matter. Back to the Roscoe drooling!

 

[songwriter21]

Like I said on another thread, you can't have just one. Two in a week is not unheard of though. You need to get a fretless. I have barely touched my fretted since my fretless showed up.

The tone and B string of my fretless is amazing. Maybe it's the mahogany body. It's definitely different from my ash bodied fretted. I suppose that means I need a mahogany bodied fretted.

See...that's how it goes. Nice that you found used basses. I seem to be stuck with needing things a certain way so I have to buy new.

Ohhhh, don't get me started there. Bass Northwest has two absoutely GORGEOUS fretlesses, and one has built-in LED's!! My cards have no more room right now! Ugh.

 

[songwriter21]

Also, you mentioned mahogany sounding very different from ash...good to hear. I'm used to the authority that hog has, whereas this first Roscoe might be my first ash bass to memory. I definitely think ash is more tame than hog, as the same thing happened when a/b'ing two Ibanez PB775's, with one in ash, and one in hog, and they were neck-thru's, too!

This second one is cedar, which Keith says sounds like hog.

 

[songwriter21]

Lastly, to those of you whom it may interest or concern, I am now going to start the amp/cab-less route, where they'll be my backup rig (even though I just got a new Schroeder cab). I love my GK head, but this'll be the FOURTH time taking it for repair. I can't leave it for dead, either, or else the previous repairs will be a waste (along with the cab), and everything except the DI (the culprit) has basically been rebuilt by a master tech around here. Anyway, I just ordered a Zoom pedal, that'll go into a Neve RNDI...that's it. Check out the link to the Zoom, as it looks damned promising:

Zoom MS-60B Multistomp Bass Effects Pedal | Sweetwater.com

 

[SteveC]

I am amp less at church.

Roscoe --> TU-2 --> MXR M87--> JDI --> FOH

Comes back to me via Rolls PM50S --> Westone UM-2 buds

I may try a Tone Hammer DI for a little more "character" but what I have now seems to work just fine.

Works great. The church has a new space/system with flown FOH and stereo pairs of 18" subs. drool

There are a few threads about ampless/PA cab use for a stage amp/monitor. I may try that again. I love how I sound via FOH/full range speakers so maybe a powered "PA" type cab is worth a try for practice at home and those small. non-PA supported gigs.

 

[blowinblue]

Always been drawn to the Century 5-string. Maybe someday...when my wife is looking the other way. Nice bass you've got there.

M. M.