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Things you'll never have GAS for again


Delberthot

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Instead of things you want how about things you are confident that you will never ever buy again?

For me there are three:

  • Fretless basses - ideal for certain situations but don't suit my punchy aggressive style of playing. I still love the way they look though. I still have a £50 Lindo fretless precision bass in my livingroom as a reminder - any time I even contemplate one I pick it up and it all comes back to me.
  • Heavy Cabs - I had a flashback this morning back to a gig lifting 2 37kg Ashdown ABM410s up several flights of stairs and telling myself then that was the last time (and it was). Heaviest were 2 46kg Trace v-type cabs or the Ashdown MAG810 that I had that weighed 57kgs.
  • Effects - don't have any use or need for them and just spend my time messing with them during gigs then sell them on the next day
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Ditto heavy cabs. I've been using lightweight since the moment I could, and will never go back. In fact, I've just ordered a Markbass 102P 2x10.

My own would be - Nickel/stainless steel strings. Having played flats for a couple of years now, the feel and tone of them just don't appeal.

Standard scale basses - Having jumped from long-term Rickenbacker owner to (briefly) Fender, playing a SS in between made me make the jump. I'm not a big bloke (careful, now), so the lesser weight and smaller fretboard is just so much more comfortable.

Makes me wonder why on earth SS never became the standard.

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Any 5 string bass. I owned a 5 string Warwick Streamer Standard (I think that's what they were called, Warwick's budget line that came out in 2000). I was a teenager at the time and not sure what I was thinking, not to denigrate 5 string players but there was just no need for me to be playing a really slack B string in the bands I was playing in at the time. The B string didn't work for me with the passive electronics on that bass, I never really got on with the Streamer Std except for the Warwick adjustable nut - great design! It was very neck heavy and I sold it soon after. I've never played another bass with more than 4 strings since.

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electro acoustic basses i had two at one time thought they would be good for noodling at home but they just seemed to get in the way

5 string basses have had a couple but nowadays i will just downtune a bass if i need it

heavy cabs sound great but when i see an old trace cab on ebay i remember the weight of my old one and move along

im with you on effects too i went through a time using them but i dont bother much nowadays

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I always laugh when I think that I've had everything from A to Z apart from Alembic and Zon  xD

Primarily a 4 string player I've just bought a 5 which is my first in a couple of years. I still have a craving for a Hamer B12A despite having no real use for one

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2 hours ago, EdLib-3 said:

Any 5 string bass. I owned a 5 string Warwick Streamer Standard (I think that's what they were called, Warwick's budget line that came out in 2000). I was a teenager at the time and not sure what I was thinking, not to denigrate 5 string players but there was just no need for me to be playing a really slack B string in the bands I was playing in at the time. The B string didn't work for me with the passive electronics on that bass, I never really got on with the Streamer Std except for the Warwick adjustable nut - great design! It was very neck heavy and I sold it soon after. I've never played another bass with more than 4 strings since.

It sounds like thhe crappy bass was the issue, rather than the B string - but if you don't need it, you don't need it 😀

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I agree with Cato's thinking.."never say never" but for now I'd say:

  • A Wal - well the mk1 anyway - can't get on with the neck profile.
  • A 5 string - too many failed attempts into getting into them.
  • A saxophone - love the sound of them but they're too physically demanding to play.
  • A skateboard - I'm not 15 anymore, I'm likely to kill myself on one.
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2 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

And yes, I have recently bought a kazoo.

😎

Bass kazoo, that must be huge. 

I will never buy a 6 string bass again. It was the nicest bass guitar I have ever played, but it made my head hurt.

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