gary mac

Nice, nothing wrong with the natural look. Got a few myself.

Damn you OTPJ, I was convinced that I was all gassed out, now look what what you've done. planning my campaign now, what I can sell and what to tell the good wife.

Nice one, glad you are enjoying.

First gig in six months last night. A school fund raiser bingo night. Not an appreciative audience, but it was good to play again, rather than just rehearse. We were pretty tight all things considered. Aint it a joyous thing when the bass and drums just lock in And we got fed and watered.

Good news, pleased for you. Enjoy

Yes, mine had the duncans in originally. Honestly, it is money well spent. I'm sure you will not regret it. The wizard chaps are very helpful. I bugged them with a few phone calls before actually ordering, they always patiently answered my questions.

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.