Mac,

You know me. I'm an excitable boy. I happened to be working in an industrial machine shop at the time and very new to the technology, so yes, I was a bit agog with the whole computer-controlled deal. Four-million-dollar CNC machinery capable of .005 tolerances on two-ton gear blanks day in and day out. I'm frankly still amazed at all that.

But my bass really did sound a whole bunch better, and I still use D'Addario XL nickel-wound strings, the successors to the Slowound series on my Peavey. (I'm open to suggestion for flatwounds on my fretless Wish Hyper bass.)

R.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."