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Roscoe Club

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This was the very best sounding Roscoe fretted bass that I have owned. It was built for Jon Packard and I bought it. It had a very heavy mahogany body and weighed more than 11 pounds. I should have just bucked it up and kept it. The top looked like looking into blue water.

My take on that bass was the reverse slant PU's made the C string sound fatter and the B string sound more clear.

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These photos make me regret selling it all over again.
 
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edbutler3 said:
Hard to prove without building the same bass both ways. But I did go with the reverse P setup on my Roscoe Classic, and I like what it does. Just seems like I want more depth on the high strings, rather than making the low strings bassier. Leo Fender made a lot of good design decisions, but seems to me he went the wrong way on that one.
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Trust me. If Keith thought the reverse slant sounded better it wouldn’t be the exception.:)
 
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Chuck M said:
This was the very best sounding Roscoe fretted bass that I have owned. It was built for Jon Packard and I bought it. It had a very heavy mahogany body and weighed more than 11 pounds. I should have just bucked it up and kept it. The top looked like looking into blue water.

My take on that bass was the reverse slant PU's made the C string sound fatter and the B string sound more clear.

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These photos make me regret selling it all over again.
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That was a great bass.
 
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JOME77 said:
Trust me. If Keith thought the reverse slant sounded better it wouldn’t be the exception.:)
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Yep, many ways to address the issue than just pickup slant: roll off some bass frequency (while adding some low mids, and cutting treble), use an HPF, lower the bass side of the pickup (positioning the treble side to liking), move your right hand closer to the bridge (or further away), etc.
 
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Chuck M said:
This was the very best sounding Roscoe fretted bass that I have owned. It was built for Jon Packard and I bought it. It had a very heavy mahogany body and weighed more than 11 pounds. I should have just bucked it up and kept it. The top looked like looking into blue water.

My take on that bass was the reverse slant PU's made the C string sound fatter and the B string sound more clear.

IMG-2939.jpg


IMG-2938.jpg


IMG-2940.jpg


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These photos make me regret selling it all over again.
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Beautiful bass! If I were to order another Roscoe it would be a 5-string version like that with the reverse slant.
 
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The slant (and by extension, the reverse slant) was Jimmy Haslip's idea. Keith stuck with it because it looked good, but Jimmy's reasoning was what makes the reverse slant for non left-handed, upside down players.
 
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Chuck M said:
This was the very best sounding Roscoe fretted bass that I have owned. It was built for Jon Packard and I bought it. It had a very heavy mahogany body and weighed more than 11 pounds. I should have just bucked it up and kept it. The top looked like looking into blue water.

My take on that bass was the reverse slant PU's made the C string sound fatter and the B string sound more clear.

IMG-2939.jpg


IMG-2938.jpg


IMG-2940.jpg


IMG-2943.jpg



These photos make me regret selling it all over again.
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Good grief Chuck that bass is gorgeous. What a lovely beast.

5StringPocket said:
Beautiful bass! If I were to order another Roscoe it would be a 5-string version like that with the reverse slant.
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Exactly!
 
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Chuck M said:
This was the very best sounding Roscoe fretted bass that I have owned. It was built for Jon Packard and I bought it. It had a very heavy mahogany body and weighed more than 11 pounds. I should have just bucked it up and kept it. The top looked like looking into blue water.

My take on that bass was the reverse slant PU's made the C string sound fatter and the B string sound more clear.

IMG-2939.jpg


IMG-2938.jpg


IMG-2940.jpg


IMG-2943.jpg



These photos make me regret selling it all over again.
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SteveC said:
Some have said there MAY be some benefit to the reverse slant (putting the pickup closer to the bridge on the low string side) but I’m not sure that’s ever been scientifically proven.
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From my understanding of bass guitar psychics - I mean physics - a reverse slant (bass side closer to the bridge) would have less fundamental vibration to pick up and would in turn give you a tighter (more trebley) sound while slanting it the opposite way would phatten up the sound since the pickup sees more of the fundamental of the string. Thing-of-it-is I don't know how much slant would make a difference.
 
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