What gear have you bought or acquired, simply because you thought you ought to..?

[Terry M.]

Told myself I needed a posh "industry standard" pair of headphones for late night silent practice. In came the famous Beyer DT770 PROs. Out went the famous Beyer DT770s via E-Bay! They were no more effective (at that task in particular) than my less than half-the-price price AKGs from Richer Sounds.

[Owen]

Most of it. If I was still playing that bass I bought in 1987, virtually no one would notice the difference. 

[Clarky]

2 hours ago, 51m0n said:

Holy shit, 15 years ago 🤪

I think that was when I played the riff from Magnificent Seven by The Clash over and over while you fiddled with compression settings and it became progressively harder to play!

 

Crikey, 15 years... trying to work out why I am actually a worse player than I was then, haha!

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Clarky

[HeadlessBassist]

3 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

Three spare basses. I tried to go for an obscure make and model, to make it difficult to find spares and duplicates, but I still have 4 Washburn Bantam basses.  Dual humbuckers, Dual single coils, dual Bartolinis.  Fretless Dual bartolinis.  Green.  Natural.  Zebra. Wacky blue-turquoise burst. Actually, they are a good thing to have  - fun to play, easy to use.  But I should have got rid of some of them earlier. 

 

A chorus pedal.  I  wonder what it sounds like - I must try it one day.

 

A thick plectrum.  I wonder what it sounds like - I must try it one day etc etc 

 

 

 

 

Ooh, Chorus Pedal? Best used with your dual single coil bass - solo the bridge pickup and turn the tone down to 50% and hey presto, you magically  embody the ghost of Jaco Pastorius. Anyway, just off to buy a sunburst fretless Jazz... (Only joking!)

 

A thick wha..? I don't recognize this word. Plectrum? (Oh, is that the device for people who don't know what their fingers are for, who love to make those horrid clacky clanking noises?)

Edited 18 hours ago by HeadlessBassist

[Geek99]

7 hours ago, Terry M. said:

Told myself I needed a posh "industry standard" pair of headphones for late night silent practice. In came the famous Beyer DT770 PROs. Out went the famous Beyer DT770s via E-Bay! They were no more effective (at that task in particular) than my less than half-the-price price AKGs from Richer Sounds.

I just use the cheap Behringer ones I bought on recommendation from here 

[Ed_S]

18 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I bought one from

@Len_derby - I find it very useful, unless it has a huge body it really won’t compete volume-wise with an acoustic guitar, but it’s still audible for jamming 

 

That's just it, isn't it - what works for one falls completely flat for another. Genuinely glad yours worked out for you 🙂 

 

I tried again with a Fender Kingman when they first came out, and that was a nice bass. But I had to put one of those rubber feedback bungs in the sound-hole to use it live, which made it sound broadly the same as a P-bass and meant its only advantage was aesthetic.

[51m0n]

12 hours ago, silverfoxnik said:

I know - that's freaking crazy, right! 

 

T'was a great day, as I recall, especially your talk...

 

We were all sat there ever so reverential and eager to learn. .. 🧑‍🎓😁

 

Hope all's well with you btw, Si.... 

All good ta!!

 

Finally got s decent recording of my band live, and now they want me to record them properly. 

 

It's only taken 13 years 🫠

 

How's you????

[silverfoxnik]

Just now, 51m0n said:

All good ta!!

 

Finally got s decent recording of my band live, and now they want me to record them properly. 

 

It's only taken 13 years 🫠

 

How's you????

Wow!! 13 years.... 😮

 

Mind you, saying that, I'm 5 years into a recording project.. 🤔

 

These things take time when you've absolutely no idea what you're doing. 🤣

 

But yes - I'm good thanks, Si. 🙏

 

Rehearsing roday, so can't complain... 

[ordep]

A P bass for me, just because somebody once told me that everybody should own one at one point in their lives. (might also be me talking to myself )

 

It’s not bad I just don’t need one atm for the gigs I do. 

[MacDaddy]

The tee shirt from Primark with all the bass combos on it.

[HeadlessBassist]

2 hours ago, ordep said:

A P bass for me, just because somebody once told me that everybody should own one at one point in their lives. (might also be me talking to myself )

 

It’s not bad I just don’t need one atm for the gigs I do. 

 

Same here - I recently swapped a lovely Nate Mendel Precision for [yet] another Jazz bass.

[Bleat]

Gruv Gear Fret Wrap. 

 

After many years of playing rock music and succesfully using my right palm to mute notes or even lightly touching string next to fretted notes on the very odd and rare occassion, I suddenly decided  that I really OUGHT to get a fret wrap because... well I had seen the actual cool people on Basschat and Youtube etc using them and I needed to try and be a cool guy too. I fell in love with the naturally more expensive cool Dekade version as it looked the coolest thing I had seen that week so promptly ordered.

After using it for about 2 mins, I realised what an utter waste of time it was, and I would never really be one of the actual cool people, and maybe I should just carry on using the techniques I had already been using for years.

 

What a Tw@t. Anyway if anyone wants it I'll gladly post it to you as Im sick and tired of seeing the damn thing. In fact I feel rage just thinking about it.

 

I hope this counts as an "ought to get" thing. 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

26 minutes ago, Bleat said:

Gruv Gear Fret Wrap. 

 

You could use it to wrap around that ramp hidden in your bottom drawer...

[ricksterphil]

49 minutes ago, Bleat said:

Gruv Gear Fret Wrap. 

 

After many years of playing rock music and succesfully using my right palm to mute notes or even lightly touching string next to fretted notes on the very odd and rare occassion, I suddenly decided  that I really OUGHT to get a fret wrap because... well I had seen the actual cool people on Basschat and Youtube etc using them and I needed to try and be a cool guy too. I fell in love with the naturally more expensive cool Dekade version as it looked the coolest thing I had seen that week so promptly ordered.

After using it for about 2 mins, I realised what an utter waste of time it was, and I would never really be one of the actual cool people, and maybe I should just carry on using the techniques I had already been using for years.

 

What a Tw@t. Anyway if anyone wants it I'll gladly post it to you as Im sick and tired of seeing the damn thing. In fact I feel rage just thinking about it.

 

I hope this counts as an "ought to get" thing. 

 

 

Been there, done that.

In my defence I bought one to use when I was in a Panto band. Haven't used it since

[Bleat]

36 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

You could use it to wrap around that ramp hidden in your bottom drawer...

I use an old copy of Razzle Magazine on top of a "Learn Slap-Bass-In-A-Day" book to hide the ramp.