Roscoe Club

[armybass]

My Roscoe gas is ragin! Beware.

 

[SteveC]

My Roscoe gas is ragin! Beware.

Hide your basses! Unless you're looking to trade/sell. ;-)

 

[Pacman]

My Roscoe gas is ragin! Beware.

Or as we call it, Tuesday.

 

[JoelFT]

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I'm in love!

 

[Gard]

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I'm in love!

FYI, that is not a SKB 3006.

It's an SKB 5006. (and it is one of the few neck-through Roscoes period, being fretless it is probably one of 2 or at most 3 ever made)

 

[Chef]

I'm gonna eventually be sorry I did this. Maybe.

I'm a single coil jazz guy. I've tried tons of other stuff. Yep. Single coil J5 guy.

So, all you Roscoe guys with single coil J5's, show me what you got, and wax poetic about them and such. Thanks.

 

[Chef]

....if you're measuring things, you're not playing them. Being a bit of a smart@$$ here, of course, but it holds true - if it feels good, it IS good. The measurements are of little real-world value IMHO.

I pretty well agree with this.
I know "by the numbers" about what I like.
But: that doesn't always feel right on this or that bass, or, with this or the other strings.
So, I'll start by putting things where I more lor less like them, by the numbers, and then tweak it till if feels right from there.

 

[Gard]

I'm gonna eventually be sorry I did this. Maybe.

I'm a single coil jazz guy. I've tried tons of other stuff. Yep. Single coil J5 guy.

So, all you Roscoe guys with single coil J5's, show me what you got, and wax poetic about them and such. Thanks.

I'm expecting Pacman to stop by soon...and Greg from Rocket.....RyanL.....there are a few cats out there that have something to share with you.

 

[Dave Siff]

Chef, here's my Century Standard 5 with Nordstrand NJ5F single-coil pickups. I replaced the stock Bartolini humbuckers. The Nordstrands rule. Not that the bass sounded bad before, but now it's just a snarling, growling beast and more of what I need for cutting through in a two-guitar rock band.

 

[Chef]

Cool. I think the Barts would be "too smooth" for me.
Interesting pickup placement...

 

[Dave Siff]

Yeah, that's what they refer to as the "JB" placement. Emphasizes the mids a bit more. Once I played Gard's fretless with this pickup layout, I knew I had to do it.

 

[armybass]

Mine will beat up your kid and steal his lunch money......

 

[Chef]

24 fret is why the pickup placement looks like that?
Barts in this, jah

 

[armybass]

Yes sir.... I am a Bart lover. Bart Pre too. My Aggy equipped Roscoe is a PJ

 

[armybass]

Here is my JJ in the very capable hands of Keith Horne.... I think it is anything but polite

 

[ArtechnikA]

Here is my JJ in the very capable hands of Keith Horne.... I think it is anything but polite

I guess !

 

[armybass]

fixing it....you're gonna thank me if you havent seen it... moving it over to youtube

 

[Chef]

Or send you the bill. One or the other.

 

[armybass]

OK, should work now folks

 

[Chef]

It's backwards!
Good tone tough!