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My experience wit the Curt Manghan Nickel rounds was they are a very warm sounding string abd paired really well with my Warrior basses that had a little to much highend but I didn't like them as good on my Roscoes as they sounded almost to lifeless and didn't cut through near enough for my Roscoes or my Devon Basses I have owned. If you have a bass that is a little harder to rain in on the high end these strings are your ticket. For me I can't find anything that compares to the DR Pure Blues.
 
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JOME77 said:
Never heard of Curt Mangan strings until they were mentioned here in the Roscoe thread. I guess that I'll have to try a set on one of my basses (just in case they are the "holy Grail" of bass strings).
They look to be almost double in price for what I pay for Roscoe Daddario's so they'll have to be significantly better to sway me.
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Well, not sure they are better that D’Addarios , that’s what I put on my Roscoe. If you want to spend more pick up D’Addario NY nickels
 
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Life of Brian said:
Well, not sure they are better that D’Addarios , that’s what I put on my Roscoe. If you want to spend more pick up D’Addario NY nickels
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Also, it’s funny I went through the gamit of DR strings Elixur and Dunlop. I came back to D’Addario nickel xl for both my Roscoe and Modulus basses. They really do sound the best to me and feel the best. BTW people rave about Modulus strings on the Modulus threads. “They are made by D’Addario ”
 
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Hey all,

I've been finding that the low 4 strings on my SKB Custom 5 all sound consistent with one another, but that the G string is uncharacteristic, as it's much higher and thinner sounding than the others. Any thoughts on what could be the cause of this? I haven't had any issues with the pickups, so maybe it's the strings, but I've had these on before and don't remember anything this prominent (they're pretty old, D'addarios I think from when I had it set-up by the wonderful Evan Gluck about a year ago)

thanks!
 
#9,225
remcult,
Is it just in a certain area of the finger board or is every where (even open)?

If it’s in all positions of the fingerboardI’d say it would be either a bad string or the bridge saddle (slot).
If it’s just in one area, maybe due to the routing for the truss rod or really inconsistent grain in the finger board (neither is a good thing).
 
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Did someone say quiet? How about some Roscoes:

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The P/J just came back to me from a visit to the Roscoe shop. They refinished it (was natural, now amber with some shading) and routed for the soapbar bridge pickup rather than the J shape. It got the PLEK treatment and a setup while it was there of course and it is awesome. It was already the best bass I've ever played (really!) but it's even better now. Perfect.

The charcoal one comes to me by way of many TBers. I've followed it around and finally got the chance to own it. It's as beautiful in person as in the photos. I have plans for new electronics - custom MM/JJ pickups in dual MM shells that will cover the current pickup positions. The MM coils will fall right on the sweet spot and the J coils will be roughly 60s spacing, but with the bridge in the 70s spot (so the neck will be a little towards the bridge, close to the regular Roscoe neck position). I'm pretty excited for it to come together!

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This is still all I have.
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I'm not complaining as this is (in my opinion) one of the finest Keith and the guys have made - Standard, Signature or Custom, but I do get a little envious of you all with multiples. I just can't justify another as this does everything I need and more. I guess maybe having one of my old fretless basses back would be cool, but other than that, I don't know what I could do with another that I can't already do with this...at least for my needs in this little piece of the world.
 
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Jeff Moote said:
Did someone say quiet? How about some Roscoes:

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The P/J just came back to me from a visit to the Roscoe shop. They refinished it (was natural, now amber with some shading) and routed for the soapbar bridge pickup rather than the J shape. It got the PLEK treatment and a setup while it was there of course and it is awesome. It was already the best bass I've ever played (really!) but it's even better now. Perfect.

The charcoal one comes to me by way of many TBers. I've followed it around and finally got the chance to own it. It's as beautiful in person as in the photos. I have plans for new electronics - custom MM/JJ pickups in dual MM shells that will cover the current pickup positions. The MM coils will fall right on the sweet spot and the J coils will be roughly 60s spacing, but with the bridge in the 70s spot (so the neck will be a little towards the bridge, close to the regular Roscoe neck position). I'm pretty excited for it to come together!

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I owned this Charcoal beauty and it was a killer bass. You are braver than I would ever be to touch that finish and perform a change like that. I don't see how you could possibly do it without destroying the finish. What does those Aggie's not give you that you want? I loved the tone of that bass.
 
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You are braver than I would ever be to touch that finish and perform a change like that. I don't see how you could possibly do it without destroying the finish. What does those Aggie's not give you that you want? I loved the tone of that bass.
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Come on Shane where’s your sense of adventure? You telling Jeff to “leave it as is” is like the pot calling the kettle black!

It’s never good enough bro! Never! You of all TB’ers should know that!:D:roflmao: :smug:
 
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JOME77 said:
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Come on Shane where’s your sense of adventure? You telling Jeff to “leave it as is” is like the pot calling kettle black!

It’s never good enough bro! Never! You of all TB’ers should know that!:D:roflmao: :smug:
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Now Joe, I’m all for swapping electronics but I don’t have the nerve to take on rerouting a finished bass that cost as much as that one does lol. If I did attempt that I assure you it would be Kieth and his shop doing it.
 
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Bassworship1 said:
Now Joe, I’m all for swapping electronics but I don’t have the nerve to take on rerouting a finished bass that cost as much as that one does lol. If I did attend that I assure you it would be Kieth and hisbshop doing it.
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Hey Shane, I can assure you, Joe ain't afraid of no router!!!!!!!

I have stories........

True Stories......
 
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Bassworship1 said:
Now Joe, I’m all for swapping electronics but I don’t have the nerve to take on rerouting a finished bass that cost as much as that one does lol. If I did attend that I assure you it would be Kieth and hisbshop doing it.
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I haven't ruled that out, but any excuse for a new tool is a good project. The Aguilar setup sounds good, but the pickup/electronics swap was in the plan for this bass from the beginning (of me acquiring it). The woods/finish were perfect, but I wanted a MM pickup + at least one other. A J/soapbar neck pickup would have been fine if I found the right bass with that combo. As it turns out, for some reason this one got built with P2 size pickup shells rather than the P4 size Roscoe usually uses on 5 strings (and 6s). As a result, the width of the EBMM 5 string shape fully covers it, and 2 of them side by side cover both routs, and most importantly the inner 2 coils are within 1-2 mm of the MM spot (corrected for 35" scale).

It'll have a bypassable pre-EB style MM 2-band preamp, passive tone in passive mode only (the preamp has to load the pickup directly to do the full MM thing) and a rotary selector to have just the MM coils, either J coil solo, both J coils together, and all 4 (with the MM in series to balance the J output better).

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Hey Shane, I can assure you, Joe ain't afraid of no router!!!!!!!

I have stories........
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Exactly!
 
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Jeff Moote said:
.........any excuse for a new tool is a good project.......
Exactly!
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I stretch that to the max on occasion. My old Oliver lathe started showing it's age last December while doing a set of knobs. I was FORCED to order a new Powermatic 4020 so I could finish that fifth knob.

We do what we have to do.
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Jeff Moote said:
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The P/J just came back to me from a visit to the Roscoe shop. They refinished it (was natural, now amber with some shading) and routed for the soapbar bridge pickup rather than the J shape. It got the PLEK treatment and a setup while it was there of course and it is awesome. It was already the best bass I've ever played (really!) but it's even better now. Perfect.
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That turned out beautiful Jeff!
 
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