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Roscoe Club
- Thread starter JOME77
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Where the **** are my cookies?
I'm a fan of mahogany too, but I've been listening to clips of Ash bodied Roscoes and they sound pretty good too.
I've thought about an ash bodied Roscoe (no top, but still carved) and maybe an amber tint to the body. Sort of like Richard Bona's Fodera but in the Roscoe flavor. That would keep the weight down.
I've thought about an ash bodied Roscoe (no top, but still carved) and maybe an amber tint to the body. Sort of like Richard Bona's Fodera but in the Roscoe flavor. That would keep the weight down.
I'll make an attempt to answer this one. It's been a while since I've owned a MM SR5 but as I remember the SR5 neck seemed a bit chunkier (top of FB to back of neck), is more narrow (at both the nut and the body) and has quite a bit tighter spacing (SR5=17.5mm verses Roscoe=18.3mm).
One thing that I always remember about the SR5 necks is I was constantly pulling the G string over the edge of the finger board. The Roscoe has more distance between the G string and the edge of the finger board (also true with the B string) and the Hipshot does allow for fine tuning the distance between the strings (via adjustable saddles). I definitely prefer the overall profile of the Roscoe over the SR5.
I hope that this helps.
From a previous Stingray 5 owner and a current Roscoe owner, this sums it up quite. well +1
thanks guys. that's what i was looking for. i knew the sr5 was narrower but was more curious about the front-to-back thickness. it sounds like the Roscoe profile is a shallow C, which is good to me.
Sorry I missed this earlier - but Joe nailed it for me. I've never owned an SR5, but sold a boatload of 'em at one point in my life.
Just plugged bass in and no sound. My Passives are fine so not my amp. Only had it from new less than 2 months and just been noodling and practicing at home so can't believe batteries would be drained already and had no degradation. Yesterday perfect..today dead.
Will of course be buying batteries tomorrow (it's 1030pm here) but concerned as I would have thought that if it was battery exhaustion there would have been signs before now.
Any advice welcomed guys.
It's a Century 4 custom build.
Will of course be buying batteries tomorrow (it's 1030pm here) but concerned as I would have thought that if it was battery exhaustion there would have been signs before now.
Any advice welcomed guys.
It's a Century 4 custom build.
I have to ask the "dumb" question first:
Did you ever just leave the bass plugged in?
- Apr 1, 2000
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Yup! It was the Monkeyman that swayed me to the Duncan and mahogany body. From what I gather, this one "don't suck"
I'll pop in here as another data point. I had a nice Lakland 55-76 (their short lived exact MM placement model), that came stock with the Bart MM pickup. While it sounded good, it really didn't cop the more aggressive MM thing very well. It had that strong, warm, low mid present Bart sound that would be very comfortable for those who like the standard dual Bart pickup Roscoe models. Kind of like a 'MM on satin' sort of vibe... smoother ping up top, rounder upper bass response down low.
I had the Seymour MM installed to try to get closer to that MM wide, deep, sizzly sort of tone, and, to my ear, it went a little bit too much in that direction. Massively brighter than the Bart MM (lots of upper midrange), and much wider and less punchy down low. So, too much of a good thing for me with that one. It did the MM series thing VERY well, but to my ear, fell short of the classic MM parallel tone (and of course, without the dummy hum cancelling coil, the single coil setting was unusable. If I remember correctly, the Bart was basically two HC pickups in a single case, which kept it hum cancelling when coil tapped... been a while though. The Seymour was definitely 'single coil' when tapped).
To date, the best sounding MM replacement pickup I've heard is the Nordstrand classic MM model. However, I believe it does not have a series/parallel switch option (I always used my MM in the more classic parallel setting, but for those who dig the grittier, punchier series setting, I don't think it is doable).
So, to my ear, the MM Bart will do the best job of 'flavoring' the Roscoe stock Bart tone toward a more MM thing. The Seymour would take it to a totally different place, and with some pretty extensive EQ, it sounds quite good to me.
Edit: These comparisons were made with the original 3 band Bart preamp used by Lakland, which I believe was a stock preamp.
