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 1 hour 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 51 minutes ago by HeadlessBassist