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04-24-2008, 10:55 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | How cool is this? My GAS is gone!
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If you're familiar with some of my posts then you'll know that I, like all of you, am a frequent sufferer of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. But what you may not know is that I have this girlfriend, Sarah, with her own version of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I like to call it Pet Acquisition Syndrome. However, I object to pets in our apartment. So what did we do? Like any responsible couple we made a compromise. Under the terms of this compromise I am to receive from Sarah a new piece of musical gear for every new pet she acquires.
Recently Sarah has been PASing for a ferret (god I hate those things!) and since this is her first pet and she's short on cash I thought I would go easy on her and accept another Nano Small Stone, which will arrive tomorrow by the way (if anyone's curious I could do some clips). My GAS is relieved! And plus ferrets don't have too long of a life span and I know she'll be needing to replace it eventually... not to mention the long list of pets on her PAS list... Hahahahaha |
04-24-2008, 11:07 PM
| | | | As a major sufferer of GAS, I am glad to see one of us has been relieved. On a side note, I am pumped for nano small stone clips! |
04-24-2008, 11:20 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | I'm such a douche that makes his girlfriend buy him pedals. |
04-24-2008, 11:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Olson  I'm such a douche that makes his girlfriend buy him pedals. | Its all good mate  I do too 
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04-25-2008, 12:36 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | Now I don't feel so bad as I'm not the only one! |
04-25-2008, 12:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | I pay the mortgage... She buys the toys!
Maybe she has the better option actually 
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04-25-2008, 12:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Dana Point Ca | | | kill the pet and you have to get a new one = new bass stuff. No I AM JUST KIDDING that is just evil but funny |
04-25-2008, 12:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Dana Point Ca | | | Don't you need a cab to put on top of that 1x15 ? ha ha |
04-25-2008, 01:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassbasixx kill the pet and you have to get a new one = new bass stuff. No I AM JUST KIDDING that is just evil but funny | Just don't buy any Behringer stuff, because each time one of those pedals die, the missus will have to get a new animal and before long your house will become a zoo. |
04-25-2008, 01:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Dana Point Ca | | | thats funny sh.... |
04-25-2008, 07:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | Get an ant farm. |
04-25-2008, 08:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London, England | | | Actually, I too am going through a bit of a revelation. My GAS was an addiction, making me spend all my time on TB and spending money I couldn't really afford to spend. My name is Dan, and I am a GASaholic. I'm trying to stay clean though, and haven't bought a pedal in 4 weeks...
I am now in 'rehab', having quit my band (last night!) and put my amp and pedals up for sale (today!). I'm going to go on a FX journey and see what's possible with just my laptop, Ableton Live, VST plugins, firewire recording interface and a MIDI controller pedal. The advantage here is, that if I want to try a plugin, I can try it out for free from audionews or magesy rather than search/beg for clips. I can combine amp models with crazy FX chains and realtime audio-to-MIDI conversion to trigger any synth I want. It's gonna take a lot of fiddling, but it'll be fun! |
04-25-2008, 08:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Orleans, LA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimming Bird Get an ant farm. | Lol, I was going to suggest Sea Monkeys.
I've been trying to compromise with my ladyfriend regarding my GAS and her SAS (shoe acquisition syndrome), but haven't been able to work anything out as yet... |
04-25-2008, 08:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Las Vegas | | | You don't see the danger here - the more pets she gets, the more gear you will get. Eventually you will have a zoo/Tom Bowlus collection with the pets pissing and chewing on all your gear. Some of the pets may decide to live IN the gear.
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04-25-2008, 08:53 AM
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Non-Stereotypical GC Sales/Training Manager...No more selling :( | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: NY | | | lmao thats pretty funny.
Sucks you have to dedicate a room to the ferret... cause it'll stink up that room in no time! :/ |
04-25-2008, 09:19 AM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | Ferrets are OK.
I see the protocol, though - she gets a small pet, you get a small piece of gear.
You need her to get something larger.
Let her get a medium-sized dog so you can get a bass.
A pony ought to get you an SVT classic... 
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04-25-2008, 10:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bassbasixx Don't you need a cab to put on top of that 1x15 ? ha ha | Actually the one 15 works fine for the places we play as most of them are small but at the bigger ones the amps are just stage monitors. I also compete with a Budda Superdrive 18W amp so my rig is big enough. We're not too loud of course but loud enough for me to get feedback on my amplifier when I want it and whatnot, and plus I don't have to break my back hauling gear. It's pretty great!
Unfortunately Sarah only wants small animals, but we have other compromises that will get me the guitars and amps! I really want to get a Fender 57 Deluxe to try biamping with it!
And I do have a promise that she'll do everything in her power to keep that ferret from stinking but man those things do reek! We've had ferrets before so, yeah. |
04-25-2008, 11:06 AM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | GAS knows no limits. It doesn't matter whether it's effects or amps, pets or shoes, once the affliction takes hold of your system there's no getting it out.
My wife once questioned why I needed another P bass. I countered by asking why she needed another pair of black pumps. She turned and walked out of the room without another word. |
04-25-2008, 11:07 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | Hahahahaha! Nice! |
04-25-2008, 11:12 AM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malone, NY/ Montreal, Quebec | | | Seems to me yer Gas is stoked, not cured :-)
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