Does anyone else have a hard time getting rid of gear?

[Nephilymbass]

I haven't owned an actual bass head in a while. I've been using a sans amp RBI since they came out. Mines been to so many gigs you cant even read the words on the back saying what each jack is for. I've been using ampeg cabs just as long but have switched what ampeg cabs I use based on the vehicle I had at the time. I did switch power amps a few years ago. From a heavy SWR to a 9lbs crown xls1500. But no I don't miss the heavy stuff. Some amps like the Hartke and line 6 stuff I had sounded terrible. Used a SWR 750 for many years but was over the whole clean bass tone thing at that point. I do wish I still had my first amp which was a 112 peavey combo (basic 60 I think) but that's more of a nostalgia thing.

 

[Groove Doctor]

I always tell people that the easiest way to build a vintage gear collection is buy the best, oldest stuff you can afford when you are young, and hang on to it for as long as you can.

Great advice for anything collectible.

It was very difficult for me to get rid of anything at one point, because, hey, I might need that. I'm semi-recovered from this line of thought now. How?

One reason is that having kids started me looking at unused equipment as money sitting on the shelf that I could put to better use.

My new line of thought is, if I really want it in the future, I could always buy it again or at least something like it.

I'm in the midst of a big selloff and I have to say, it's been good for me.

Well done - my folks are hoarders and that's a mighty effort!
The 'or at least something like it' really resonates with me. I'll start using that.

I used to keep everything, until storage got to be an issue.
Then I started only keeping things I actually use.
If it doesn't get used in a year or two, out it goes.

I really want to disagree but know that its true. I'm only kidding myself thinking 'I might use that someday'. Heck, if I sold half my stuff I wouldn't really miss it.

 

[ialma]

Getting rid of that ugly bass in a satisfying fashion has become one of my life's greater ambitions. Everything else I'll probably hoard forever.
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Drill the neck and turn it into a clothes hanger. There are few interesting projects with old cheap instruments turned into furniture

 

[JGbassman]

I'm a hoarder. I'll admit it. I've got around 18 basses, countless bass rigs, cabs, racks, gear. Ugh.

Some basses I haven't even played this year. Are they collectors items? No, not even close. They are players I've accrued over the years and just can't seem to sell. I go through periods of eBay shopping, always fishing for a great deal. I throw my line in the water often, and about just as often come up with nothing. But every now and then I get lucky and get a great deal. This was much more the case back in the day when you could snipe a great deal in the last mili second manually. These days eBay makes sure that you spend as much as you can, and the deals are fewer and farther between, but every now and then I still run past one.

Amps I'm not as attached to, but I still seem to have just about everything I've ever bought, sans a really cool old peavey tube preamp, and an old Trace Elliott head.

I still have an old guitar vault I used touring. It's completely useless now playing part time, but it still sits down in my storage area.

I'm trying very hard these days on hot collecting gear and I'm trying to focus on modding the basses I play to tweak them out.

I need help, and even though I'm a one woman man, a single bass just doesn't keep my interest long.

 

[Chicory Blue]

Drill the neck and turn it into a clothes hanger. There are few interesting projects with old cheap instruments turned into furniture

Alas, the thing's far too ugly to become furniture, of all things, though.

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[Tnavis]

One of the things that started off this gear problem was playing in multiple bands, and not wanting to move cabinets. So I bought different cabinets to keep in different rehearsal spaces, then started trying out different heads to keep in those spaces. That way, I could leave my Landmark 300 in one rehearsal space, and I picked up a Carvin BX500 to leave in the other. Now I've got a Darkglass Microtubes, and will absolutely sell the Carvin... except it's really light and absolutely perfect for gigs where I just need a 1x15 and don't need 900 watts.

 

[Bob_Ross]

I just can't bring myself to actually sell the ones I don't really need.

That's not my problem; my problem is that when I do decide to sell gear, nobody wants to buy it!!!

I've got tons of gear gathering dust in my studio that I would happily sell for pennies on the dollar...but every time I try, nobody bites. No one wants it, nobody makes an offer. And so the whole process of taking pictures and putting them up on eBay or CL or sticking flyers up around the local rehearsal complexes etc. just feels like a colossal waste of my time.

 

[Mr-Bassman]

I currently have 6 amps but somehow am able to justify in my head that I need them all LOL.

Genz Shuttlemax 9.2 - for outdoors or big rooms where I want to move some air. Just used this weekend.
Genz Shuttle 6.0 - Gig this often with 112 or 210 cab, DI to PA & IEM's. Simple, light, sounds great.
Carvin BX250 - Leave this at church to play worship services only having to bring my bass.
GK MB200 - Take this with neo112 to side band rehearsals; use on acoustic gigs, smallest & lightest & great sound.
Ampeg B115 combo - In practice room at home where main band rehearses, always sitting ready to plug & play.
GK 1001ii - Doesn't get used much but what sensible bassist would get rid of this amp? It slays!

Seems completely logical to me, I don't have a hard time getting rid of gear, I just Need it all

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

Sentimental value sinks its claws into my little blue heart without a trace of mercy. I stopped making any sincere attempt at learning guitar years ago, but keep my acoustic and electric around because they were gifts from my father and I can't bear to let them go. Likewise, my obsolete pedals, while entirely useless to me, stick around because I feel like I owe them respect for having carried me until I outgrew them.

The only instrument I ever sold was my 8th grade clarinet, which I hadn't taken out of my closet once in over a decade. I felt it deserved a second chance at being loved and appreciated, so I traded it to Sam Ash for an acoustic bass in hopes that some little band nerd would get more value out of it than I did.

The exception to all of this is my "technically first but I call a do-over" bass, a Rogue PJ I got with a Guitar Center gift card to assess whether or not bass was the right instrument for me. I've been trying to ditch it for years but pawn shops won't give me more than $20, churches and schools frankly deserve better instruments to practice on, and Guitar Center actually asked *me* to pay *them* to take it.

Getting rid of that ugly bass in a satisfying fashion has become one of my life's greater ambitions. Everything else I'll probably hoard forever.

--^@

Sentimental value sinks its claws into my little blue heart without a trace of mercy. I stopped making any sincere attempt at learning guitar years ago, but keep my acoustic and electric around because they were gifts from my father and I can't bear to let them go. Likewise, my obsolete pedals, while entirely useless to me, stick around because I feel like I owe them respect for having carried me until I outgrew them.

The only instrument I ever sold was my 8th grade clarinet, which I hadn't taken out of my closet once in over a decade. I felt it deserved a second chance at being loved and appreciated, so I traded it to Sam Ash for an acoustic bass in hopes that some little band nerd would get more value out of it than I did.

The exception to all of this is my "technically first but I call a do-over" bass, a Rogue PJ I got with a Guitar Center gift card to assess whether or not bass was the right instrument for me. I've been trying to ditch it for years but pawn shops won't give me more than $20, churches and schools frankly deserve better instruments to practice on, and Guitar Center actually asked *me* to pay *them* to take it.

Getting rid of that ugly bass in a satisfying fashion has become one of my life's greater ambitions. Everything else I'll probably hoard forever.

--^@

Sentimental value sinks its claws into my little blue heart without a trace of mercy. I stopped making any sincere attempt at learning guitar years ago, but keep my acoustic and electric around because they were gifts from my father and I can't bear to let them go. Likewise, my obsolete pedals, while entirely useless to me, stick around because I feel like I owe them respect for having carried me until I outgrew them.

The only instrument I ever sold was my 8th grade clarinet, which I hadn't taken out of my closet once in over a decade. I felt it deserved a second chance at being loved and appreciated, so I traded it to Sam Ash for an acoustic bass in hopes that some little band nerd would get more value out of it than I did.

The exception to all of this is my "technically first but I call a do-over" bass, a Rogue PJ I got with a Guitar Center gift card to assess whether or not bass was the right instrument for me. I've been trying to ditch it for years but pawn shops won't give me more than $20, churches and schools frankly deserve better instruments to practice on, and Guitar Center actually asked *me* to pay *them* to take it.

Getting rid of that ugly bass in a satisfying fashion has become one of my life's greater ambitions. Everything else I'll probably hoard forever.

--^@

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

nope.
But I do have a buddy who finds excuses to keep EVERYTHING - he has more cabs / heads / pedals than he'll ever use - he just can't sell it.

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

I have a Rogue LX200BF Fretless Bass that's a PJ and paid $89 for it New in 2010 and I was blown away with the quality, feel, & sound_ i love it to the max and feel like why the heck did I ever spend so much on other basses ! I put a Hipshot Bridge on mine and made it a string thru body Bass now_
John Paul Jones (Ex- Led Zeppelin) has a Bassist when playing live (if JPJ is playing another instrument) and that Bassists #1 Bass is a $100 Rogue !
Rogue kicks ass

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

Why would you EVER want to get rid of gear?!?!?!

Especially a Rogue Bass !
It's priced to keep !

 

[bassdude51]

I must have the worst case of ADD, because I get tired of stuff quickly.
So no, my only problem getting rid of it is selling it. The market is pretty slow around here.

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have trouble getting rid of stuff 'cause I want to reduce and down size....................the problem is that nobody will buy it and I can't get rid of it.

Everybody's broke!

 

[Chicory Blue]

I have a Rogue LX200BF Fretless Bass that's a PJ and paid $89 for it New in 2010 and I was blown away with the quality, feel, & sound_ i love it to the max and feel like why the heck did I ever spend so much on other basses ! I put a Hipshot Bridge on mine and made it a string thru body Bass now_
John Paul Jones (Ex- Led Zeppelin) has a Bassist when playing live (if JPJ is playing another instrument) and that Bassists #1 Bass is a $100 Rogue !
Rogue kicks ass

Methinks I got a bum one, maybe. The pickups are weak and yet noisy, so it's hard to hear over its own static.

Also the look just doesn't really do anything for me. That spearhead-esque headstock screams "metal," which would be a totally rad feature if metal were my thing, but..

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[Fretless_Rogue]

Methinks I got a bum one, maybe. The pickups are weak and yet noisy, so it's hard to hear over its own static.

Also the look just doesn't really do anything for me. That spearhead-esque headstock screams "metal," which would be a totally rad feature if metal were my thing, but..

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Oh I see_ firstly, it sounds like you got a bad one...Give it to charity....Like totally make some neighborhood kids day by just giving it to him !
THEN ~ Get a New LX200B Series III for $100 - $129.
My Avatar is my Rogue Fretless_
My Pups sound fine but just for fun I'll Replace them with some DiMarzio's_
I'm with you on not being into Metal really but I kinda like the headstock arrow shape cuz my Fretless is like a light Saber....Smooth and cutting...Quiet but deadly_ the arrow sort of stands as a Warning to others LoL

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have trouble getting rid of stuff 'cause I want to reduce and down size....................the problem is that nobody will buy it and I can't get rid of it.

Everybody's broke!

LoL ...Yep ! ....Just relax and polish your Rogue, talk sweet to it, Hot Rod it, and name your band: 'Hobo & Sticky Rogue'

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

Your Rogue Bass is like a chick who won't leave....No one else will have her cuz she's so cheap....You can do anything you want to do to her....And she was easy to get

 

[Chicory Blue]

Oh I see_ firstly, it sounds like you got a bad one...Give it to charity....Like totally make some neighborhood kids day by just giving it to him !
THEN ~ Get a New LX200B Series III for $100 - $129.
My Avatar is my Rogue Fretless_
My Pups sound fine but just for fun I'll Replace them with some DiMarzio's_
I'm with you on not being into Metal really but I kinda like the headstock arrow shape cuz my Fretless is like a light Saber....Smooth and cutting...Quiet but deadly_ the arrow sort of stands as a Warning to others LoL

Hee... I like that it suits you, anyways. I usually shoot for a more chill and ambient kind of sound, so waggling a spear around kind of detracts from the image I want to create.

I have thought about giving it away to someone in need, but I'd like to know for sure it was going to a good home, and of yet, I don't know of any young would-be-bassists. Maybe someday if I ever find myself mentoring someone, it'll be my gift to them, and I'll tell them, "You've done so well. You've earned this. May it serve you well for a month or so until you buy literally anything else because I promise this is the worst bass you'll ever own."

... Eh... So maybe not exactly like that, but

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[two fingers]

Nope. I swap gear like shoes. I recently found the bass I started on 30+ years ago. I'll probably put that in the keeper catagory. Anything else can go if another shiny object catches my eye....or ear.

 

[Fretless_Rogue]

I have thought about giving it away to someone in need, but I'd like to know for sure it was going to a good home, and of yet, I don't know of any young would-be-bassists. Maybe someday if I ever find myself mentoring someone, it'll be my gift to them, and I'll tell them, "You've done so well. You've earned this. May it serve you well for a month or so until you buy literally anything else because I promise this is the worst bass you'll ever own."

... Eh... So maybe not exactly like that, but

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LMAO !!