Question
My background into Roscoe Basses is as follows:
(True Story) -
I walked into the BassNorthwest shop (in Seattle but now closed!) and brought my
American Deluxe Jazz V bass.. (i've owned a few different random basses like Peavy RJ4, a Schecter EMG 5-string bass Studio Series EMG pickups, and An Old crazy Gibson copy bass (don't know any info about it, i should post up pics here on TB, and a few other Fender basses and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few..) The point is, I've played a lot of "working" man's basses..
So, I told the nice gentlemen working there that I wanted a "real bass" that had a low, phat contemporary Gospel-ish bass sound..
and something that sounded good from the beginning (meaning no extra stupid tweaking to get a good sound.. by knobs or Compressors etc..)
After telling him a description something like the above, He proceeded to ask me what is my budget of course..! ha. I told him I'm not going to spend $10,000 on a stick of wood with electronics but I am willing to pay a hefty price if the sound is there.. I'm at the stage in my career
where the instrument needs to help me make music, not fight me, trying to make music. I also don't want to have fight to get the sound I want. (meaning trying 20 strings and pickups and all that - because let's be honest, there maybe about 4-5 actual different sounds because of string types (Roundwound/Flat/etc.) , but then there is like 50 companies making the same Roundwound String.. things don't change that much..)
So he then proceeded to start with random basses he deemed close to my description. We played through a full stack T.C. Electronics Amp and cabinet (4x10 and 1x15 I think..) So nobody can say I didn't play out of a good amp and cab..
anyway, I tried a lot of basses including even some weird Protoype bass he had in the store that was all alien-like and had no name..
I remember trying some high-end Warwicks and Laklands.. G&L and Fenders and more.. I will say I liked the Lakland bass as it allowed many tonal options.
Now remember that I brought in my Fender American Deluxe V in the beginning of this story - well, I of course played that to compare what I was used to and to show how unhappy I was about Fender's sound and etc.. and all of the above basses sounded better than the American Fender Deluxe V by the way.. (Lakland,Warwick,G&L all killed the American Fender J Deluxe 2012-2013-2014 models..)
Then after many different pretty high-end basses, we came to this Roscoe bass.. LG.. He seemed like I wouldn't buy it at first ( I think because of the cost)..
He played it first and I heard it standing away from the amp and it sounded beautiful.. then I tried it and it felt good and you know what?
"sounded good from the beginning without changing knobs on the bass or amp!"
Low-phat big bottom B-string and crisp fine highs etc..
I said
'ok, well it's closer to what I'm looking for.".
I bought it right then and there.
End story.
(he did have a $10,000 Fodera but didn't show me that since I told him I won't pay $10,000 for a stick of wood. hah)
and the other funny end of the story was that I ended up buying and trying out Fodera Strings on the Roscoe bass! haha - thinking that maybe if there basses are supposed to be the "superior, maybe their strings are too"
And you've probably seen it around here but here she sits now..
Ok so the
question I have now, is not knowing all the history of Roscoe:
is there tier levels of the basses? Where does the
LG stand compared to the
Century and
SKB? Is one series somehow better or more geared towards high-end than the other?
I seem to see a lot more people having the Century series than anything.. why?
Ok thanks!
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