do you store your bass in its case?

[conttador]

All of mine are on Hercules 3fer stands that my daughters affectionately refer to as bass trees…

 

[bobyoung53]

luthier who just repaired my bass recommended that i store it in a case with humidity control packets in it to keep the bass in top playability as far as humidity

I have humidity meters in my rooms sitting next to where my basses are on the stands. I keep my house from between 49-59% humidity based on the weather

I like to keep my basses out and on a stand to quickly grab and play as the cases would have to stay in the basement and stairs would be involved to go grab this instrument. I am not a super lazy person but I like the ease of being able to just grab it off the stand in the other room when the urge to noodle hits me.

I only have a mono gig bag so I would need to get a case that would fit this bass.

I think that with the humidity at those levels the bass should be fine on the stand.

Im sure some will say yay and some say nay, but I guess this post was mostly to vent.
Thanks!

I leave them all out so they beckon to me and always have, bass in case is out of sight, out of mind.

 

[tbz]

I usually keep about half of them in cases and the other half on display. Currently have about 11 basses and or guitars on display, for context.

I tend to rotate them, but also tend to keep the most expensive ones in cases the majority of the time.

 

[Rick_Bass]

This is what I do --- I play em and put them in the case when I'm not going to adore them .. I got 5 bass guitars. At the moment I'm loving the Ibanez. This bass has survived 42 years of Michigan weather and has never left this state in the USA coming from Hiroshima. My uncle brought it over from the Marine Corps. Any way --- let the bass breathe. If YOu are LUCKY - THE NECK WAS MADE PROPER - and will not warp even under extreme conditions --- if the neck warp s ya got a dud. has nothing to doth anything other than real bad choice of wood. Other than that I can say you could abuse a neck and screw it up but I think we are beyond that here.

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

Nope. I live in S. Florida. Basses in cases do not get played.

 

[MegaSwing]

Sometimes. Sometimes they are all strewn all over the house. I’ll sit them up in armchairs like houseguests.

I would probably not do this with acoustic instruments.

 

[Gizmot]

I used to keep one bass out on a double guitar stand, but stopped doing that a couple of years ago. I now keep all my basses in cases and only get one out when I’m going to play it.

 

[stinkfoot60]

I have a P bass and 4 guitars, 2 electric/2 acoustic. Everything is on stands except for the alI solid Gibson acoustic, which stays in the case. I live in the Sierra foothills, so it can get pretty dry at times, but the house rarely gets drier than 35%.

 

[flatrat]

My basses are nudists. We live in the high desert so it's only a matter of time before everything turns to leather or jerky.

 

[Alan Ace Cooper]

I always keep mine in cases or in my storage closet. I have humidifiers available for every case. I have all of the vents closed in my music room, to keep the temps as consistent as possible. As a result, I do very few neck adjustments and I never have issues with fret edges. The DC area can be terrible on instruments hangin in an open room. We have Super Humid summers and very dry Autumn/Winter seasons.

 

[Steven Ayres]

If I didn't keep the basses in their cases, I'd have a bunch of instruments exposed to danger and a bunch of empty cases taking up space. My house is too small for that.

 

[bmusic]

I leave Fenders on stands and the hollow and fragile and rarely-touched (sorry, StingRay) stuff in cases.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

luthier who just repaired my bass recommended that i store it in a case with humidity control packets in it to keep the bass in top playability as far as humidity

I have humidity meters in my rooms sitting next to where my basses are on the stands. I keep my house from between 49-59% humidity based on the weather

I like to keep my basses out and on a stand to quickly grab and play as the cases would have to stay in the basement and stairs would be involved to go grab this instrument. I am not a super lazy person but I like the ease of being able to just grab it off the stand in the other room when the urge to noodle hits me.

I only have a mono gig bag so I would need to get a case that would fit this bass.

I think that with the humidity at those levels the bass should be fine on the stand.

Im sure some will say yay and some say nay, but I guess this post was mostly to vent.
Thanks!

Nope

 

[logdrum]

Oddly enough, the ones I used for gigs are ready to go and in the mono gig bags and get only taken out on or just before leaving for the gig. As I mentioned before, I do not practice on electric basses anymore, I practice bass on the upright and on the Charlie Hunter type Bass+Guitar hybrid. 2 Sentimental basses are stored in the closet and maybe peeked at once/twice a year. I have 2 CIJs Fender jazz one fretted one fretless, that are out and I mindlessly noodle on them unplugged when I attend some long meetings where I am waiting to give my 30 second spiel or status update.

 

[bassbrad]

My instruments are on stands so I can play them. I only use cases or bags for transport.

 

[baileyboy]

I keep my basses in their hard shell cases, with Zorb-It moisture control packs. They are also in a room that is between 40-60 RH for most of the time. I think as long as you avoid extreme hot or cold storing conditions for long periods of time, your basses should be fine.

 

[Petethebassman]

All of my basses are on floor stands in the living room. I do keep a humidifier running in the winter seasons, otherwise the humidity goes too low. I have hardshell cases for all basses, but they get used only if I'm loading them in the van with cabs, drum cases etc, otherwise I use gig bags.

 

[Wasnex]

Last year I started keeping my bass in a gig bag. I bought the bass used in the mid 90s. It has a cracked fretboard that was repaired and stable until I moved to the Mid-West. During the winter, humidity in my house may drop into the teens. I had a bypass humidifier installed on my AC and it only boosted the humidity a few points. In the summer, the humidity would rise to over 60% for a few weeks. A few years back I bought a fairly large dehumidifier and it usually keeps the summer humidity somewhere between 45 and 50%, although it may go up into the low 50s occasionally.

I was leaving the bass out on the couch so I could grab it any time I wanted. I found that I was having to make at least 4 truss road adjustments a year. Since the neck was moving around so much the crack in the fretboard opened up.

The neck seems to be a lot more stable if I pack the bass back in the gig bag when I am done. However this last winter was not as extreme as previous winters.

I may get a couple of the higher capacity Oasis case humidifiers and a hygrometer to keep with the bass in it's OEM hardcase.

 

[fourfinger]

I have 4 basses. One at a time stays out of its case, on a stand near a computer and headphone amp. All four get rotated into this practice duty. At any given moment, three are probably in their cases. I use a double bag for gigs.

 

[badinage]

Last year I started keeping my bass in a gig bag. I bought the bass used in the mid 90s. It has a cracked fretboard that was repaired and stable until I moved to the Mid-West. During the winter, humidity in my house may drop into the teens. I had a bypass humidifier installed on my AC and it only boosted the humidity a few points. In the summer, the humidity would rise to over 60% for a few weeks. A few years back I bought a fairly large dehumidifier and it usually keeps the summer humidity somewhere between 45 and 50%, although it may go up into the low 50s occasionally.

I was leaving the bass out on the couch so I could grab it any time I wanted. I found that I was having to make at least 4 truss road adjustments a year. Since the neck was moving around so much the crack in the fretboard opened up.

The neck seems to be a lot more stable if I pack the bass back in the gig bag when I am done. However this last winter was not as extreme as previous winters.

I may get a couple of the higher capacity Oasis case humidifiers and a hygrometer to keep with the bass in it's OEM hardcase.

I have hygrometers in most rooms, Dampit green snakiedoodles my upright and mandolin, and D'Addario yellow-sponge gizmos in my acoustic cases (I don't jam those in the soundhole, they live in a cloth bag under the headstock and are checked kinda-sorta monthly in winter months). I now have a decent floor-standing separate "whole house humidifier" (I'm leery of using my HVAC ducting as a "moisture delivery system"). I have a general belief that it's how rapid the swings are (both temp and humidity) that matter most. I've paid attention ever since I had the back crack on a pretty darn okie-dokie 30 year-old Martin HD28P that was just sitting on a stand in the winter (that room probably was maintaining 60 degrees and humidity in the low 20s at the time (oops) . I had it professionally repaired and immediately sold it because looking at it made me feel like a moron.

So. Has the thread for these types of anecdotes been done on TB yet?