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Much more than a budget instrument
This bass guitar does not belong to the its price group, it could be easily compared with some much more expensive instruments. Very solid made, high quality wood and other materials, smooth very playable neck. It is still good as it is but with few interventions, like installing some better pickups (especially humbucker one) could be built to an instrument even with a professional characteristics.
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incredible bass guitar
This is simply a great bass, its comparable to a bass 3x the cost. Every other bass under 1k usd i compared it to i was dissapointed with. There are some minor typo issues with specs, pickups, and the active circuit does nothing for me. Removed the active circuitry (-1 star for active circuit) and added a DPDT on-on-on switch to select the humbucker in single neck, parallel, single bridge I'm totally happy with how this guitar sounds now. The selectable MM coils line up perfectly with 60s or 70s jazz position.
Still planning to swap the pickups for Bartolini's to make this setup similar to a Lakland. Although this bass plays just fine and has completely serviceable tones from the factory the factory pickups aren't matched well and there are huge volume differences even in passive between the neck/bridge but it still sounds really good once you dial something in.
If you are going to mess with the pickups be advised that the wiring diagram on the Roswell site is incorrect. the red/green start and end wires are reversed, I verified this with a DMM on the pickups. I suspect this out of phase wiring was responsible for the MM tone that I wasn't happy with (and the reason I re-wired the bass).
If they released the 25th anniversary in the J model i would have ordered it to replace mine no question.
Still planning to swap the pickups for Bartolini's to make this setup similar to a Lakland. Although this bass plays just fine and has completely serviceable tones from the factory the factory pickups aren't matched well and there are huge volume differences even in passive between the neck/bridge but it still sounds really good once you dial something in.
If you are going to mess with the pickups be advised that the wiring diagram on the Roswell site is incorrect. the red/green start and end wires are reversed, I verified this with a DMM on the pickups. I suspect this out of phase wiring was responsible for the MM tone that I wasn't happy with (and the reason I re-wired the bass).
If they released the 25th anniversary in the J model i would have ordered it to replace mine no question.
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Great Bass
I didn’t realize I didn’t make a review on this bass I got in 2020 so I still have this bass
guitar and its still my go to bass when I’m playing on stage. I really love this thing. It has amazing punch. 
guitar and its still my go to bass when I’m playing on stage. I really love this thing. It has amazing punch. 
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