2026 Gear Abstinence Thread

[Maude]

5 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Let's not dirty up January any further, I'll have to check back previous years but I think it might be a record breaking one.  Plus international bass purchasing can be stressful so let's not jinx it with a declaration just yet, eh?  We eagerly await your imminent arrival and I'm taking an executive decision to mark your failure down as date of safe arrival.  Not the same thing as getting a next day delivery from Andertons etc. is it?

I'm happy with that decision m'lud. 

[Stub Mandrel]

I'm picking up a hard case for £30 of eBay later.

 

Does this ount as a teir 2 fail?

 

It's utterly essential as (1) it seems sensible to use a case to take my Sire to gigs and (2) if I don't get one for it I would have to take another bass out of its case.

[Mrbigstuff]

7 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I'm picking up a hard case for £30 of eBay later.

 

Does this ount as a teir 2 fail?

 

It's utterly essential as (1) it seems sensible to use a case to take my Sire to gigs and (2) if I don't get one for it I would have to take another bass out of its case.

1) good score!

2) I think your second point confirms it isn’t essential 😂

[neepheid]

33 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I'm picking up a hard case for £30 of eBay later.

 

Does this ount as a teir 2 fail?

 

It's utterly essential as (1) it seems sensible to use a case to take my Sire to gigs and (2) if I don't get one for it I would have to take another bass out of its case.

 

A thirty quid case off eBay?  Call it an accessory and be done with it, I reckon.  I like to have separate accomodation for all my basses too, I get it.

[TrevorR]

I think that I’ve committed a Tier 2 infringement, I’m afraid, but I do have extenuating circumstances. The sound guys at church want us to try using in-ears (which I already have) but I’ll need a small IEM amp. So I got a little Behringer in-line belt pack for 23 quid off Amazon.

 

 

I can only apologise for being naughty, but a big boy made me do it and ran away (to behind the sound desk). 😫

Edited 5 hours ago by TrevorR

[neepheid]

1 hour ago, TrevorR said:

I think that I’ve committed a Tier 2 infringement, I’m afraid, but I do have extenuating circumstances. The sound guys at church want us to try using in-ears (which I already have) but I’ll need a small IEM amp. So I got a little Behringer in-line belt pack for 23 quid off Amazon.

 

 

I can only apologise for being naughty, but a big boy made me do it and ran away (to behind the sound desk). 😫

 

All I can say is that if the sound guys at church were so damn keen on everyone using IEMs, they should have provided the necessary equipment.  Making it all work is their problem, no?

[SimonK]

21 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

All I can say is that if the sound guys at church were so damn keen on everyone using IEMs, they should have provided the necessary equipment.  Making it all work is their problem, no?

 

I got a tier 2 fail for something similar - although went for the more extravagant Swiff wireless IEM than the cheap and cheerful Behringer!

[neepheid]

3 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

I got a tier 2 fail for something similar - although went for the more extravagant Swiff wireless IEM than the cheap and cheerful Behringer!

 

Oh I know, what's done is done, just pointing out that it's a bit rum that the pressure to do this was external.

[TrevorR]

47 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

All I can say is that if the sound guys at church were so damn keen on everyone using IEMs, they should have provided the necessary equipment.  Making it all work is their problem, no?

They’ve just had to buy a whole new desk because the old one started doing phantom gain and level changes at random on several channels. So getting some ADDITIONAL cash out of the finance committee right now might er… erm… hopeful! In fact, I’ll bet that the additional functionality of a new desk vs one that’s 10-15 years old may be partly behind the experiment!

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, TrevorR said:

They’ve just had to buy a whole new desk because the old one started doing phantom gain and level changes at random on several channels. So getting some ADDITIONAL cash out of the finance committee right now might er… erm… hopeful! In fact, I’ll bet that the additional functionality of a new desk vs one that’s 10-15 years old may be partly behind the experiment!

 

Did the old desk have wireless control, and if so, did they have a look round the congregation to see if someone had hacked into it?