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05-16-2010, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | The broke bassist club.
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here's how you get your number....
1) gotta be broke
2) cheap equipment (nothing over 700$)
3) no more then 2 basses.
i'm number 1 of coarse.
number basses - 1
Cost of bass - 280
Number of amps - 1
cost of amp - 100
income - poor.
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05-16-2010, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Woodbridge, Va | | | Bass: 1
Cost: $399 though I caught it on sell because I'm cheap and have no money (retails for $799)
Amps: 1
Cost: $300 if that
Income: None (Student)
and to top the icing on the cake, my cable is a cheap crappy one that came with my bass.
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05-16-2010, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | Tropic # 2
i should have mentioned that my cable is a horizion 15' and cost like 5 bux new.
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dear God,--Please give us back Paul Gray, and in return we'll sacrafice that Justin Bieber kid
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05-16-2010, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: South Florida | | Steinberger Spirit Bass (floor model) $400...the neck was and is not right. Had to replace the bridge, it can't be tuned or stay in tune....Other than that it sounds great and looks great but it is a piece of crap...that simple, I could trade it in but I like it...dumb but my other basses play great so its staying here on welfare....I'll offf it to somebody some day ...
I will say that this was the only bad deal I got all last year when I was buying a lot of gear......I feel lucky and better after I fessed up....................  |
05-16-2010, 08:28 PM
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Unofficially Endorsing: D'Addario, Lakland | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: ghostjs | | | Bass: 2
Cost: 400 for 1, 150 for the other
Amps:1
Cost: 60 bucks
income: whats that? (zero)
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Florida Bassist club #128, Lakland Owners Group #365!!, The Wood Doesn't Matter Club #3
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05-16-2010, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Massachusetts | |
Bass 1: Guild Pilot, not mine, borrowed for the last 10 years. Cost = $0.00.
Bass 2: MIM Jazz just got off ebay for $200. My first bass since I sold my old one 15 years ago, and that was a $120 Fernandes P-copy.
Amp 1: Mesa Combo with ext cab, not mine, borrowed for the last 10 years. Cost = $0.00.
Amp 2: I don't own an amp, but I used to own a Peavey TNT that I bought for $100. Sold it 15 years ago though.
Total current assets = $200
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05-16-2010, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: columbus ohio | | | 1 bass
$400
1 amp
$425
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Acid#227-Ohio Bassist#185
My band - wix.com/hellbranchrun/hbr
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05-16-2010, 09:37 PM
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Ibanez club #618 Broke Bassists club #5 & #6
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05-16-2010, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | Well let's see...
I have three basses:
SX Fretless P-Bass ($100; Christmas gift)
Squier P-Bass ($100; bought with Christmas cash, thus Christmas gift)
Fender BG-31 Acoustic Bass ($100; another Christmas gift)
Into a $20 used 15-Watt Johnson RepTone 15B practice amp, via a Monster Cable Performer 12-foot instrument cable. Occaisionaly I'll use a Hartke VXL Bass Attack Pedal (used for $45.)
So let's see.. Total cost TO ME is $65 (not including strings; probably $200 including strings), whereas the sum of my gear is $500.
Long story short, I think I qualify. Lots of gear, just all of it was dirt cheap/a gift 
EDIT: I should include that I'm a sophomore in college. I'll have a job from June to August, making $200 a week (plus room and board; Summer Camp) which I will be using to buy (most likely) a Gallien-Krueger MB115, which will put my total at $900. Of course, again with the cost TO ME it'll be around $600. So that's all!
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P&W #90. Squier P5 -> GK MB115 Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian_L  Note to self: Read whole thread, THEN post. Read whole thread, THEN post...... |
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05-16-2010, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Noblesville Indiana | | | xxfaux_punkxx - 1
tropics - 2
ghostjs - 3
whiskeyjim - 4
vinkreepo - 5
vinkreepo - 6 (that's right you get 2 numbers for the afro-enginered bass)
bassist4dalord - 7 (even though you have more then the recomended basses i'll give you a pass because you didn't pay for them)
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05-16-2010, 11:40 PM
| | | | I'm on welfare (well, disability really) and own 5 Bass Guitars (2 worth more than $700). |
05-16-2010, 11:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Portland oregon | | | does the total of everything have to be under 700? or just each piece?
Bass: 2 mim j bass 350$ at gc on sale. squire vm p bass 250$ online a few years ago
Cost: 600$
Amps: 1 Hartike ha 2500 200 at american musical referbished. cab ampeg 1x15 en 150 used at gc.
Cost: 350
Income:unemployment ha and whatever i make playing shows filling in as the guitarist for my buddys metal band ha. usually just free drinks.
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Bass tattoo club #26
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05-17-2010, 03:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Australia | | This is the club for me.
I'm sooo broke I built my own bass from timber left over from jobs. Only thing I bought was the fretwire.
I own the poor mans ampeg SVT ie - peavey roadmaster
The strings on my Spector (Korean) are 7 years old, I just try to keep them clean.
I build my own cabs .. out of scraps left over from jobs with the cheapest , generic drivers I can purchase. $30 bucks a pop for an 8" bought 8 of them
I use garden shade cloth for speaker grill - 50cents a square metre.
Speaker leads - bits of chopped up cord I find around the place.
My band....Tight, phat sound with a tight @rse bassplayer!
But not tight @rse by choice 
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05-17-2010, 04:02 AM
|  | Hecho en Indonesia | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VinKreepo | wow...is that hand made by you? how does it sound and play? |
05-17-2010, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: middletown, oh | | i think i qualify for this!
lol ...
2 basses:
'93 Peavey foundation 4, defretted ($299 new, back in 93 ...)
'03 Ibanez sr300dx
Behringer UB bx600 (traded a free laptop for ibby & amp!)
income - not enough. would be livable if i was single, however, i am married with a 3 year old daughter.  
oh ya, that 6 string is a $80 First Act i picked up offa CL ...
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Ohio Bassist #182\Ibanez #619\US Peavey #161
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05-17-2010, 08:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Franklin, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VinKreepo 
Can I get a number please? |
Your dishwasher doesn't fit the slot! You are broke!
Can I get a number?
1) EBMM Sterling - it barely qualifies - I bought it used on eBay for $650.
2) MIM Fender - bought for $150 off Craigslist (disassembled, and missing some parts)
3) Eden WT300 - bought used for $300
4) Acme B2 series I - bought used from a thrift shop for $150
5) Ashdown Mag 300 - bought new for $250
6) Sansamp BDDI - bought used from music store for $105
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EBMM Club Member #52, EBMM Sterling Club Member #126, Christian Praise & Worship Club Member #124, Mediocre Bassist Club Member #137
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05-17-2010, 10:15 AM
| | | | Number of basses: 2
Costs of basses: €250 for the Epiphone EB3, €330 for the acoustic Ibanez
Number of amps: 1
Cost of Amps: €91 (Laney RB-1), but i got it in a bundle with my old bass. |
05-17-2010, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Riverside, Ca. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by t0t0m wow...is that hand made by you? how does it sound and play? | Yeah! That is either the most badass homemade bass on the planet or it's a cool little piece of art. What's the story?
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05-17-2010, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: NH-USA | | Cool bass!
I think I belong here. I'm practicing with a $5 craigslist guitar amp!
my bass was $150  
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05-17-2010, 10:57 AM
| | | | I originally had a black GSR 190 as my first bass. I decided to defret it to make me a better player with ore precise fingering. I stripped the paint to reveal a cheap epoxy, and then I screwed up. I took it off to put on some oak cabinet veneer as a top and that failed. So I'm sittin there in a shed with some scrap boards around me and this ugly trashed body... few hours later and lots of screws... volia!
It Sounds great. Like a fretless P with the tone knob on 10. But small pine boards eventually bend like a neck does, so the action is pretty high as of right now.
The best part about this bass... it's perfectly balanced hahahaha!
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