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[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1208424' date='Apr 22 2011, 06:05 PM']Now that's a challange ![/quote]

The challenge... is accepted.

Have horrible pigs for exams coming up, recovery proceedings and bankcruptcy for one, crime, deviance and social control for another, law of auditions (YAY! Wait, it's the financial reporting sort of auditioning) and law of securities and debt contracts, so realistically I'll start on Donna Lee on May the 20th, after my last exam this spring. Gimme 2 weeks to sort it out? I got full-time office work to muddle through by then.

Ash-maple SKB3006 Roscoe Barts with Demeter pre-amp: [url="http://www.myspace.com/mboostband"]former band's myspace[/url] Select 'Circles' edit: yes, the bassline was largely dictated by the guitarist - no, I wouldn't have played that exact line. I kinda like my choruses though.
[url="http://www.myspace.com/theneutronics"]Njoha's band[/url] Wouldn't know which tracks he cut with the walnut CSVI with Classic Barts and Glock pre though.

Bugger . System update borked php forums for my phone.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1207112' date='Apr 21 2011, 04:29 PM']I have number of items up or sale and depending on what/if they sell I will very well co sided buying it.

I'd consider the ACG Pre a downgrade though as personally I love the Roscoe Bart sound and am not a fan of the ACG tone (having tried 3 or 4 basses - they have a lovely feel though).[/quote]

Bart / bart is The combo fretless roscoes but we're divided when it comes to fretted basses. I'll try to put up tracks of an ash 5 with roscoe barts / glock, ash/maple 6 with roscoe barts / demeter and the ash/koa with classic barts / demeter. Don't think I've got anything of the walnut six with barts tho. I'll ask member njoha for some of that.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='1199994' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:48 PM']An upcharge for less wood, makes zero sense.[/quote]

Since their standard is 35" it's more WORK - and you know how labour is the most expensive resource in a bass, right? Apart from Foderas, for which the NYC premises contribute in a huge way towards the costs.

[quote name='Bass Culture' post='1196073' date='Apr 11 2011, 08:46 PM']You are so right - you'd almost think they'd done it on purpose![/quote]

Nah, it's a mistake. Keith has his off days. Like when drew the plans on this guitar.

Seriously, though: Roscoeheads say, and I agree, that ash body and bart pickups make for incredible funk machine of a bass. Unless the bassist wants the signature tone of a Smith, MTD or Wal I can't think of a bass that. just. works. better for playing in a band. Lots of great bedroom basses out there. Roscoes take the cake when you play with guitarists and drummers. (For my sins, I'm saddled with a drummer but I'm not bad enough to have earned a guitarist as well!)

Fantastic!

Not as fantastic as my Century Signature VI (either the one I sold to njoha or the one I now have!) as they've completely blown installing the pickups! Even I know they're supposed to be at a straight angle to the strings!

I think it's Oscar Pettiford's Tricotism, which I had to learn on the upright.

I find to this day my walking bass is so very much better on the upright than on the electric. It's the physicality of it, and the fat, fat tone, the attack, the pain of schlepping the bastard, the feedback, the back pains, the shoulder aches, the out of tune notes...

But anyways, Tricotism is a favourite of mine.

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='1194586' date='Apr 10 2011, 03:52 PM']I love it when you find yourself in the company great musicians and it all just flows - such a good feeling.[/quote]

And it's a pain when it's the opposite! It's all [i]work[/i] then.

Now this is something you don't see here every day!

I wouldn't set a foot in that upstart town of a capital, myself!

Been working on my fusion chops lately. Today I got Teen Town 40% of the way there. The last 60% is to make it clean and groovy at concert tempo. No fun blowing the notes of the bass line on that one.

[quote name='P-T-P' post='1037273' date='Nov 26 2010, 03:24 AM']It's one thing to sell something you've bought locally for a bargain from somewhere where there was limited bass playing custom and then sell it on at reasonable market value on here or eBay, it's something else entirely to buy something from a national/international source, well known to bass players - like here or eBay for example - and then try to take advantage of the nature of this community and turn a substantial profit on it a few days or so later.[/quote]

I've done the reverse a few times. As you brits may have noticed, I much of the time offer a nice trade value for Stingrays, as finns pay more for them. I always figured it was kosher trading or buying a bass off a forumite for a value he hadn't gotten at this forum yet (or in the case of valuing a used Stingray at a thousand pounds, would never get) and make a little profit on the side. I learned a few things about EBMM basses and desirability on the side, too! Didn't nearly pay for all the beatings my recurring GAS has given me though!

bump for a price cut

Music Man basses would be highly rated in trades! Stingray +460 quid would likely work for me, depending on the 'ray summat.

Thanks! You were easy to deal with, as well! I've cooled down re: the Roscoe somewhat (and I played this a bit more today) and I think I could very well live with this bass.

Even without import duties factored in, I think buying a European hand-made bass is probably the best value for money. (Says the guy who mostly plays US brands)

see: price of second-hand Seis, Shukers, GB Basses, Chris Larkins, Statii, Leduc, Vigier, Noguera, L Kah etc
edit2: If someone has a Leduc U-bass 6-string I'd be verrry interested. It has a unique tone.

bump for my soon-to-be-sold-to-another object of desire

1600 quid over the weekend only - because what I'm gassing for won't last until Monday.

So. I was going to keep a pair of super jazz sixes. Unfortunately, there's a chance to snag a Roscoe, which means everything but the NX6 is on the block. (And that's because I just sunk EUR2k into repairing that f***er)

[b]What's this then?[/b]

Cristophe [url="http://ubass.free.fr/"]Leduc[/url] is one of the better French lutheirs. The woodworking and design is seriously the among best I've seen, if not best. Clean lines, flawless execution and nifty details, like the truss rod cover.
All this would be worthless if the bass wasn't any good. This bass delivers. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bw2jwxItnU&"]Slap[/url] and [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWf4150fbI&"]fingerstyle.[/url] As you'll note this bass does a great single-coil jazz tone, but has it's own twist. Spankiest neck-through bass I've ever played.

The good: Tone, tone, tone. Ergonomics. Excellent balance as the upper horn goes all the way to 11th fret. The neck is really, really, nice. You can see in the pics that it starts off with modest dimensions: 56 mm wide and some 23 mm thick at nut, and doesn't get thicker down the neck. Graphite rods in the neck add spank and stiffness. The electronics are quite intuitive: vol, bal, bass boost/cut and a control that boosts highs and cuts mids one way and cuts high and boosts mids the other. Switch defeats mid boost/cut, so it's 2-band eq land.

Here's a bit of [url="http://leduc.pagesperso-orange.fr/oldsite/Gb/index.htm"]specs[/url] and [url="http://ubass.free.fr/index.php?page=35"]vids[/url] 860 mm scale means 34,5" scale more or less?

The bad: arguably the price. Starting from 3600 euro new. This bass has a racy colour. Everybody and their won't have an identical bass. There are a few scrapes and dents on the bass, as seen in the photos. It's 7 years old now.

I'm asking [i]GBP1260 until what I want sells[/i]. With a nice case. For those who are curious, I love Roscoe Precision on testosterone tone too much to be without. And the Nordstrand does do a similar, but not as spanky or burpy, tone. (And that bass cost be quite a bit with the latest repairs. I can't afford to sell it, ever.) So, yeah, I want to have a J and a P tone available. Sue me for being unoriginal

Trades: any +cash trade offers would be considered

[url="http://s626.photobucket.com/albums/tt342/prkl0405/Leduc/"]PhotoBucket album[/url]

bump for a weekend special

[quote name='Bigwan' post='1027866' date='Nov 18 2010, 02:59 PM']Probably Ibanez SR (soundgear series) I should think...

EDIT: Actually the new Roscoe Century sixes are probably lighter...[/quote]

Having had a few Roscoes, Skjold double cutaway sixes are lighter. Mine's for sale now, btw ;D Kidding, a Century Standard will be a bit cheaper I think?

Nope, checked. My Skjold is not only lighter, it's[i] also cheaper[/i] and has a great light case with it! =) Schnozz, you gotta buy it! =)

But yeah, Skjolds are the lightest solid body basses I've played.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4Nl_qFF8o"]A bit of Wal magic[/url] from John Giblin.

I've had a few nice basses and the Wals really do have a tone of their own. Never had an Alembic, but from what I've had, only two brands have had a very characteristic tone of their own unamplified: Roscoe and Spector. Every other make of bass that I've had either has a proprietary electronics thing going on (Wal, obviously, F-Bass, Leduc, Ken Smith, Skjold, Sadowsky, Overwater etc) or does a generic 'vintage' or 'modern' tone like, say, Valenti or Moon. Sadly, some brands with proprietary electronics still have a pretty generic tone. On the gripping hand, if you're a session man, having a bass with a generic, flexible, tone and personalized ergonomics may just be what your [i]professional performance[/i] calls for. It's no wonder Overwaters are so popular with the session guys working high-profile gigs... I'll get one of those again one day.

[quote name='silddx' post='1026655' date='Nov 17 2010, 11:36 AM']Well said, of course it doesn't. It comes from your mind, and nowhere else.

Funk started as music to shag to, look up the word "Funk" sometime.

Therefore you could play it on a cardboard box and still be funky.[/quote]

And up goes my post count!

Funk is indeed something within - my mate who teaches can slap circles around me and can wail scales at about twice the speed. But he can't play a funk line to save his life. Reminds me of Mark King, really. Yes, I'm saying Mark King isn't really very funky. I've not listened to a lot of Level 42 but what I've heard definitely wasn't funky. Compare to the James Brown track 'Make it Funky' where the bassist plays an Eb-E-F 3-note line for minutes on end and the funk is really happening.

[quote name='umph' post='1026748' date='Nov 17 2010, 01:41 PM']who says a funk band can't play rock?[/quote]

Jimmy Castor does! No, wait

Given a huge portion of the funk classics were played on a P, I wonder who'd say it couldn't be done? Maybe someone for whom funk == slapity whack?

To me, funk is primarily a fingerstyle groove thing. Sure, Larry G and Bootsy slapped a lot, but my classic blaxploitation soundtracks* don't really have much slap in them. And the classic P-Funk tracks are fingerstyle. Since funk is 'insistent rhythms of procreation' that needs to go on for as long as it needs to go on (/BarryWhiteVoice) I find it's often better to go with an understated fingerstyle line. Often going all Rocco shits all over your groove and it sure as heck limits what the other musos can do.

*with tracks like 'Freddy's Dead,' 'Superfly,' 'Potential,' 'Troglodyte,' 'Theme from Shaft' etc

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1025622' date='Nov 16 2010, 12:59 PM']I'd like to try one of Carey's non J bass basses... I've tried the Nordy's and they have been a love/hate thing. I'll play one and I'd love it... play another... and well, it just didn't hit the spot. Can't take away from the guy though, his creations certainly look impressive.[/quote]

Well, for me the traditional looks are a hate/hate thing. There's an NX5 bolt-on available, for the modest price of $3k if you're interested. Should be quite fantastic.