CrashClint
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Being curious I put a set of LaBella Low Tension Flats on my Roscoe, it gives it that nice semi upright thud.
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Roscoe Club
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Being curious I put a set of LaBella Low Tension Flats on my Roscoe, it gives it that nice semi upright thud.
Spanish cedar is a great body wood for Roscoe's. It sounds similar to mahogany but IMO is a bit more polite in the mid's and as Keith puts it, Spanish cedar is more "acoustic sounding". Just a bit smoother sounding than mahogany (which is now my favorite for Roscoe's). You can't go wrong with either one IMO but I do lean a bit more towards the mahogany.
Thanks for the info/advice. I just picked up a used Roscoe today with a mahogany body. It's one you guys have seen before, but when it arrives I'll post pics anyway.
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Just a little THANKS to you guys for all the pleasure you have given me with the "twins"
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OK.... I think I have reached Roscoe nirvana for me.... I am holding steady with this lovely group....
Having a fretted and fretless Roscoe is definitely the way to go. There are a few other good fretted basses out there but IMO no fretless basses that compare to the Roscoe with a diamondwood finger board! ....... maybe a Zon with the phenolic finger board.
I gotta join Funky and show you guys my 'new-to-me' Century Signature 5 I finally received today. While I was waiting for UPS to get their act together, I read almost every page in this thread. Incidentally, I feel like I 'know' several of you already. I've surmised who likes DR Sunbeams, and many of the aftermarket preamp faves (Demeter pre with Roscoe Barts, Aggie/Aggie, etc.).
This is a great looking bass! I've very impressed with the carved top, and the workmanship on the neck (maple/Chechen/purpleheart/Chechen/maple with maple and cherry stringers). The spalted purpleheart fingerboard is just sick, to me at least. I'm super excited to get this set up to my tastes and take this bass out.
My first sound impression after changing it to new stainless steel strings and giving it a setup, however, is that this bass lacks the 'sparkling' highs that I've enjoyed on my other basses (I had 3 Carvins and 3 Warwicks, sold 2 wicks to finance this Roscoe). I tried lowering the pickups a little, with no distinct change in high end response (it obviously lowered the overall output, but frequency response stayed pretty even). I've found I have to dime the treble knob and then back it off to about 9.5/10 to get the high treble I'm used to with my single coil and split single coil basses. I'm using a GB shuttle 9.0 into a GB 12 with tweeter, and my amp setting typically produce plenty of smooth jazz-like highs. This bass has the Roscoe Barts and 18v bart 3-band preamp.
Is this lack of high end inherent in the Roscoe Bart dual coil pups/Bart pre? Any suggestions? I figured the hi-fi Shuttle with brand new Stainless Steel strings would be the ticket to the highs I'm used to. I guess the last thing to mess with is the trim pot on the back...maybe I can back that off to open up the high end. All suggestions, jokes, wise-a** comments and 'welcomes' are, well, welcome!
This is a great looking bass! I've very impressed with the carved top, and the workmanship on the neck (maple/Chechen/purpleheart/Chechen/maple with maple and cherry stringers). The spalted purpleheart fingerboard is just sick, to me at least. I'm super excited to get this set up to my tastes and take this bass out.
My first sound impression after changing it to new stainless steel strings and giving it a setup, however, is that this bass lacks the 'sparkling' highs that I've enjoyed on my other basses (I had 3 Carvins and 3 Warwicks, sold 2 wicks to finance this Roscoe). I tried lowering the pickups a little, with no distinct change in high end response (it obviously lowered the overall output, but frequency response stayed pretty even). I've found I have to dime the treble knob and then back it off to about 9.5/10 to get the high treble I'm used to with my single coil and split single coil basses. I'm using a GB shuttle 9.0 into a GB 12 with tweeter, and my amp setting typically produce plenty of smooth jazz-like highs. This bass has the Roscoe Barts and 18v bart 3-band preamp.
Is this lack of high end inherent in the Roscoe Bart dual coil pups/Bart pre? Any suggestions? I figured the hi-fi Shuttle with brand new Stainless Steel strings would be the ticket to the highs I'm used to. I guess the last thing to mess with is the trim pot on the back...maybe I can back that off to open up the high end. All suggestions, jokes, wise-a** comments and 'welcomes' are, well, welcome!
I gotta join Funky and show you guys my 'new-to-me' Century Signature 5 I finally received today. While I was waiting for UPS to get their act together, I read almost every page in this thread. Incidentally, I feel like I 'know' several of you already. I've surmised who likes DR Sunbeams, and many of the aftermarket preamp faves (Demeter pre with Roscoe Barts, Aggie/Aggie, etc.).
This is a great looking bass! I've very impressed with the carved top, and the workmanship on the neck (maple/Chechen/purpleheart/Chechen/maple with maple and cherry stringers). The spalted purpleheart fingerboard is just sick, to me at least. I'm super excited to get this set up to my tastes and take this bass out.
My first sound impression after changing it to new stainless steel strings and giving it a setup, however, is that this bass lacks the 'sparkling' highs that I've enjoyed on my other basses (I had 3 Carvins and 3 Warwicks, sold 2 wicks to finance this Roscoe). I tried lowering the pickups a little, with no distinct change in high end response (it obviously lowered the overall output, but frequency response stayed pretty even). I've found I have to dime the treble knob and then back it off to about 9.5/10 to get the high treble I'm used to with my single coil and split single coil basses. I'm using a GB shuttle 9.0 into a GB 12 with tweeter, and my amp setting typically produce plenty of smooth jazz-like highs. This bass has the Roscoe Barts and 18v bart 3-band preamp.
Is this lack of high end inherent in the Roscoe Bart dual coil pups/Bart pre? Any suggestions? I figured the hi-fi Shuttle with brand new Stainless Steel strings would be the ticket to the highs I'm used to. I guess the last thing to mess with is the trim pot on the back...maybe I can back that off to open up the high end. All suggestions, jokes, wise-a** comments and 'welcomes' are, well, welcome!
try wiring the pups in parallel
I gotta join Funky and show you guys my 'new-to-me' Century Signature 5 I finally received today. While I was waiting for UPS to get their act together, I read almost every page in this thread. Incidentally, I feel like I 'know' several of you already. I've surmised who likes DR Sunbeams, and many of the aftermarket preamp faves (Demeter pre with Roscoe Barts, Aggie/Aggie, etc.).
This is a great looking bass! I've very impressed with the carved top, and the workmanship on the neck (maple/Chechen/purpleheart/Chechen/maple with maple and cherry stringers). The spalted purpleheart fingerboard is just sick, to me at least. I'm super excited to get this set up to my tastes and take this bass out.
My first sound impression after changing it to new stainless steel strings and giving it a setup, however, is that this bass lacks the 'sparkling' highs that I've enjoyed on my other basses (I had 3 Carvins and 3 Warwicks, sold 2 wicks to finance this Roscoe). I tried lowering the pickups a little, with no distinct change in high end response (it obviously lowered the overall output, but frequency response stayed pretty even). I've found I have to dime the treble knob and then back it off to about 9.5/10 to get the high treble I'm used to with my single coil and split single coil basses. I'm using a GB shuttle 9.0 into a GB 12 with tweeter, and my amp setting typically produce plenty of smooth jazz-like highs. This bass has the Roscoe Barts and 18v bart 3-band preamp.
Is this lack of high end inherent in the Roscoe Bart dual coil pups/Bart pre? Any suggestions? I figured the hi-fi Shuttle with brand new Stainless Steel strings would be the ticket to the highs I'm used to. I guess the last thing to mess with is the trim pot on the back...maybe I can back that off to open up the high end. All suggestions, jokes, wise-a** comments and 'welcomes' are, well, welcome!
Congratulations (although I don't see any pic's).
IMO what you're hearing is the signature Roscoe sound. Which is really nice IMO. However, if glassy highs, smoother mids and lows are your thing, change out the Bart preamp and replace it with a stock Demeter preamp. So much more open sounding (with both the Roscoe Bart's and Bart CB's). I've got a new one due to arrive this Wednesday (orders sometimes take a while from Demeter) and it's going in my fretted Roscoe LG 3005 (mahogany body). If you follow Roscoe threads it won't take you long to determine that I just prefer the sound of the Demeter in the Roscoe. I think any Roscoe bass (other than a fretless) that I've owned for any length of time ends up with the Demeter preamp installed. It just sounds good in a Roscoe. Of course tone is a subjective thing ......
I owned that one briefly and it is way up there on my list of most beautiful Roscoes ever. The Aguilar DCBs in it were killer too. If only it had standard spacing I never would have let it go, but as Gard would say they can always build me another one any way I like
