gary mac

Hey Mr T.

I put a set in mine last year, it transformed a decent sounding bass into a real belter. Plenty of output and fullness.

Don't know where you are based, but you are welcome to come and try mine as a comparison.

All the best Gary.

loving all three of them. Very, very nice.

Might be a fender, but it still has that instantly recognisable Chris Squire sound.

No never encountered that.

I suspect that Leo probably tried it all those years back though, before settling on the configuration that we all know

I have just T cutted my black pickguard as recommended by Mrcrow. It has come up a treat, not completely removed all scratches, but think I ran out of elbow grease.

It looked so good I was enthused enough to polish the remainder of the body, neck and fret board (not with T cut).

Took off the strings and boiled em up. Oven dried them and re fitted.

Adjusted string height intonation etc. and generally fiddled about all day.


Looking and sounding great.

Still loving Argus, but still not managed to nail all of his bass lines.

Great news, hope you enjoy.

I got the Squier modded jazz about a year ago as a back up bass, I've ended up using it for most rehearsals and all but one gig over the last year. Play it most days.

Can't fault it, apart from lack of decent screening. Planning to sort it out soon.

The pickups were ok, but have upgraded to wizards, mostly cos I wanted to, not because it was essential.

I've always found Denmark St. to be high end prices for middle of the road kit.

Yes it's a cracking place, reminded me of the Bass Centre in it's heyday.

I went in to kill a bit of time while my good wife was shopping. Three cups of coffee later and I ended up with a shuttle 6 and mark bass cab.

Want to go back, but just can't risk it at the moment.

Top blokes.

Not sure if this is what you want, but I've got operating instruction manual for gp12smx and gp7sm (applies to all sm and smx series models apparently). Can't recal what year I purchased my trace but think it was early nineties.

If you want it pm me your details and I'll post it on to you.

That just looks so nice.

Strange really a few years back the last thing I wanted was a fender of any sort and was always gassing for an exotic active model, the more knobs, switches and lights the better.
Gone completely the other way now: loving passive basses, minimum hardware and conservative looking.

Think its the same with my playing. Nothing fancy and hopefully just what the songs need, no slapping, tapping and all the other stuff I used to try to fit in. Certainly get so many more compliments these days from other band members.

A couple more years and it will be root notes only with the occasional visit to a 5th






Do you park it on the stairs, prior to taking it up to bed Help is available

I've always meant to look into the possibility of installing a switching option to allow passive use on mine. What do you reckon, is it feasible?

I was totally underwhelmed and thought both songs were very weak.

I told myself not to open this thread.






OMG wish I hadn't. It's got me all gassed up again. Going for a lie down now.


That's lovely matey. What about some pics of how it was previously.

Trying to learn the set list for a dep later in the year, so far:

Dakota-stereophonics
sit down-james
live forever-oasis
why does it always rain on me-travis
laid-james
good souls-star sailor
getting away with it-james.

only another nineteen numbers to go.

hugely impressive, but couldn't listen to much more than 30 seconds of it

No 2 for me.

For gigging I'm currently using a Genz Benz shuttle 6 and two Mark Bass 2 x 10's and for rehearsing just one of the 2 x 10's.

Really pleased with it and cuts through nicely, even with four guitars . keyboards and drums.

I'll have to revisit this thread when I'm not so tired, it's making my head all fuzzy

I found out that they are different sizes only after I had spent an afternoon taking out the originals and soldering in my new wizards. Was feeling very pleased with myself, until I went to refit the pickguard.

I know, yes it was very stupid, but it took me a time a suss what I had done wrong, got to admit to thinking of filing the pickguard to make it fit, rather than unsolder everything.

congrats and well done

Worked on the three james tracks last night.
They all seemed very straight forward, infact Getting Away With It was a good lesson in disipline. It's just four chords repeated over and over and to make it more interesting I initially started putting in little runs etc. But fairly quickly realised it was better just playing the roots and nailing the timing.

It's surprisingly difficult sometimes to keep things simple and not try to "improve" it.

love Rythmn Stick, but so glad it's not on the list that I've got to learn.
[quote]How long have you got[/quote] The gig isn't til october

Just been sent this set list for a dep that I've been asked to do:

Dakota- Stereophonics
Sit down-James
Live forever-oasis
Why does it always rain on me- travis
Laid-James
Good Souls-Starsailor
Stop and Stare-One Republic
Getting Away with it- James
Teenage kicks-Undertones
Love it when you call- the Feeling
American Idiot- Green Day
Have a nice day-Stereophonics
Twist and Shout- The Beatles
Mustang Sally- The Commitments.

Never Miss a Beat- kaiser Chiefs
Monster- the Automatic
Creep- Radiohead
Sex on Fire-Kings of Leon
Read my Mind-The Killers
Starlight-Muse
Yellow-Coldplay
Dont look back in anger-Oasis
Valerie-Mark Ronson
Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
I predict a riot-Kaiser Chiefs
All the Small Things-Blink 182
Message in A Bottle-The Police
Chasing Cars-Snow Patrol

I think it's a good set, but there are only two on the list that I've ever played, Mustang Sally of course and Twist and Shout.

So plenty to learn, but looking forward to the challenge.

My wife thinks I'm a sad ole git for liking ozric, but I just do. I tend to play it when I'm home alone, as it's a bit of a guilty pleasure in this household.

Loving the bass on ayuredic.

Sure I read that the original bass player had some sort of manic condition, which the other band members thought was was a major influence on his very fast and hectic playing.