Impulse bought this on sale at about half off what they initially went for. Loved how these guitars sounded but always found a reason to not like ones I’ve had (as well as Jaguars)… But now I am in love with this thing. Part of it is I know now how to dial in guitars with setups now (kills me to think I let the binding and blocks candy apple red CIJ Jazzmaster, with Novaks, go because I hated the string tension - I was an idiot). When this thing arrived I thought it looked cool but didn’t feel great. After removing a ton of relief from the neck and adjusting the bridge it’s so good I’m now itching for something like a Japanese Jazzmaster that I can throw in some Duncan Antiquities… No plans to put $240 pickups in a $300 guitar - but I do plan on dropping this off at a shop to get the pots switch to proper CTS pots and the switches and jack switched out for Switchcraft ones… As well as a fret level.
Anyways, I upgraded both my Mac and recording interface recently. Still waiting for Kush to get their plugins working native with Apple silicon. I moved from a 2012 Macbook Pro to a M2 Pro Mac Mini (1TB / 16GB)… All told it has 3TB of SSD/NVME disk space and 6TB of mechanical storage. Was having some issues with dual displays - went to mix stuff and was getting no output to my monitors. Resolved it today (I hope) and since I have to go to the DMV first thing in the morning tomorrow, and the fact that I got off work today at 3 AM and am staying up as late as possible, I decided to fuck around and try and throw something together quick using that Squier Jazzmaster…