I can see the ocean from my house, hearing waves of mwah on the beach
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Roscoe Club
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I can see the ocean from my house, hearing waves of mwah on the beach
Dang Scott… I’m not sure what I’d do if I was in driving distance of the shop. That would not end well for my finances
Well fortunately we are looking at houses and moving so I’ve put off any trips down to the shop and any new basses. Still waiting on my new bass I ordered in June and an LG I bought in August and brought to Keith for new electronics. Once I get those I think I’ll be good for a while. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
You got it - Marty refinished it earlier this year, couldn't be happier with the results! Extra bling for Christmas party gigs, too.
Well, I thought I found out the cure for GAS. I’ve been overseas for the past year-and-a-half without my LG3005 due to the Brazilian RW fretboard. Today was our reunion and I forgot how good it feels. I feel more musical with it and am extremely happy to play her again. My GAS was cured by something I already have but then I realized now I NEED to get another one to bring overseas. A new, more potent variant of GAS has now infected me. Such is life…
I think I'll be having the "Blues" sometime in the early New Year...
Bear with me a little. Let me run something by you all. Lately I have been favoring my Roscoe Classic P with TI flats. It's just working for much or what I do. Occasionally, I have music that requires a little more "aggressive" sound than a P with flats, although it can do more than one might think. I bought a friends Fender P5. It's a nice bass, and is OK for songs that use a low B or are better served by rounds - like our 80's tunes. However, I have been messing with my jazz bass a little (it's an import G&L JB-2) and that (even though it isn't the best jazz) sound seems to work a little better for "Kick Start My Heart", "All The Small Things", "Uptown Funk", stuff like that. I am probably going to move the P5 and was looking at a Sadowsky ME5-21 as an option for those types of songs. Now...
I have my Century Plus 5 that has been my #1 bass for years, until my wife bought me the Classic P. I have used that for those songs. It works, but it seems a little "polite" at times. I don't get that "jazz" vibe. I realize that I am using a "modern" bass with soap bar pickups. Is there something I can do with what I have (I don't want to start experimenting with preamps and pickups and all that) to get closer to that kind of sound? The Classic P is SO big and full sounding. I don't know if it's the Honey Badger pickup or what, but it just hits you in the chest. It sounds like a bass. My Century sounds amazing, but it doesn't "punch" like that. It doesn't seem as "present" as the P. That's the best I can do to describe it.
As I said, this bass has been my one and only for a while and #1 for a long time. I have some pretty deep connections to it and don't have a strong desire to move it.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
I have my Century Plus 5 that has been my #1 bass for years, until my wife bought me the Classic P. I have used that for those songs. It works, but it seems a little "polite" at times. I don't get that "jazz" vibe. I realize that I am using a "modern" bass with soap bar pickups. Is there something I can do with what I have (I don't want to start experimenting with preamps and pickups and all that) to get closer to that kind of sound? The Classic P is SO big and full sounding. I don't know if it's the Honey Badger pickup or what, but it just hits you in the chest. It sounds like a bass. My Century sounds amazing, but it doesn't "punch" like that. It doesn't seem as "present" as the P. That's the best I can do to describe it.
As I said, this bass has been my one and only for a while and #1 for a long time. I have some pretty deep connections to it and don't have a strong desire to move it.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Wire the Bartolini pickups that are in your Roscoe 5 to be parallel. It'll still be on the darker side, but will give you more bite for sure. Then you can eq from there much easier to get what you're looking for.
Edit, and get some steel wound strings
I have in the past but my old eyes may not be up to it. I may try some stings and see what happens. I used to really love the DR's. Maybe it's time to revisit them.
Steve, I know you'd posted over in the Sadowsky Club that you might be wanting to nab a 5-string jazz, but if you're looking for little more bite from the Roscoe Century 5 you already have, I'd look at a pickup swap. Specifically, some Nordstrand Big Singles or, if you like to pan and don't want the hum, maybe Big Splits. With that, I don't have experience with a pair of Big Splits, but did put one in a Fender P5 that I used to own to make it a PJ of sorts.
I do have specific experience with Big Singles in a Roscoe SKB 5 was a big fan of what it did for that bass over the Roscoe-spec Barts (Aguilar OBP-3 preamp). Because of the positioning of the pickups, you're not going to get a jazz bass tone, but punchy and present, and more open and airy with some snarl to the tone is how I'd describe the Big Singles and Aguilar OBP-3 pre in that bass. If you're sporting a Bart pre, the Big Singles would still open up the tone like you're describing, but I can't comment specifically on a Big Singles/Bart combo.
Perhaps the Sadowsky pre-amp would be an easy fix to get you where you want to go? Pick one up used here in the classifieds and if it doesn’t work you can re-sell with minimal loss. I am not certain if anyone here in the group has tried that.
I love both brands and find it easy to go back and forth in either
Or just get the pedal version, an even easier way to try it (although this is assuming the Roscoe Bart pre is flat when the knobs are at center detent).
Steve is always having that existential gear crisis
Or just get the pedal version, an even easier way to try it (although this is assuming the Roscoe Bart pre is flat when the knobs are at center detent).
Steve is always having that existential gear crisis
sorrt - I meant the pedal!!!!
