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How much does browsing TB contribute to your GAS?

#81
blacktocomm said:
Before I joined this site 8 years ago I never owned more than 4 basses at a time. I currently own 22. Short scales, medium scales, long scales, actives, passives, some with flats, some with rounds. I basically have any tone option I would ever need completely covered. Yet, I see something here almost daily that will get my GAS going.
I’ve officially sworn off anymore purchases for the time being, but this place doesn’t make it easy.
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It kind of evens out for me. I think in some ways it fuels gas but in other ways it’s helped me find the right gear which has actually helped reduce it. I think people just need to use the forum in a positive way. For example I really don’t care how many basses people own. You all win lol, I’m not even gonna bother with the “I have the most basses” competition. But there is a lot of helpful stuff especially if you know where to look. The “clubs” are great reads. Love the Mesa boogie subway series club, love the Dingwall owners club. I think it takes some time on talkbass to get to know the people posting often. Not saying anyones opinions are invalid but people like different things and it takes some time to figure out who’s “on the same page” as you. For example I’ve used more than a dozen different kinds of roundwound strings but I honestly don’t know crap about flatwounds or tapewounds. So the flip side of that is if someone is primarily a flats player I’m probably not going to take their opinions on rounds very seriously. Gotta look at things like that sometimes.

anyways if you want advice on how to fight gas. When you see something that interest you that’s fueling GAS. Instead of buying it put it on a “wish list/gear shopping list” and then WAIT. If 6 months or a year down the road 20 other things haven’t come up to kick that first thing off the list then maybe consider actually buying it.
 
#82
Not at all. Of all the things that I've seen folks have that I'd want, I know about the product before I see it here (Way too much time checking manufacturers sites). I do like to see how others like or dislike it, more times than not it becomes if they like it, it will still be on my radar, if they don't like it or highlight something it lacks, I cross it off. TalkBass for me actually causes anti-GAS.
 
#83
blacktocomm said:
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It was on TB that I found out about the Squier Mini P, which I quickly purchased, and has since become my #1. This is the only purchase fueled by TB brand GAS...
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... however, various threads here have led to mods/builds that I wouldn't have normally done:
bass NuKitty 1.jpg bass svetlana pickguard.jpg bass katherine 1.jpg bass ivy pumps & pearls.jpg bass blue belle rainbow.jpg bass froggy 2.jpg​
 
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#84
Not so much for raising GAS, I'd think it's better at soothing it. ... I see what's around and available and decide I can live without, that, and that, and that, and that and appreciate what I'm lucky enough to own and be able to still play after 50-years. ...
 
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blacktocomm said:
Before I joined this site 8 years ago I never owned more than 4 basses at a time. I currently own 22. Short scales, medium scales, long scales, actives, passives, some with flats, some with rounds. I basically have any tone option I would ever need completely covered. Yet, I see something here almost daily that will get my GAS going.
I’ve officially sworn off anymore purchases for the time being, but this place doesn’t make it easy.
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not a bit. I own 5. I mostly play just 2 of them. I don't feel any urges to buy more
 
#86
I wouldn't call it GAS, but TB does introduce me to things I might not have seen before.

I would call TB a supercharged magazine "new products" section, or having a local store you visit to buy strings that is stocked with everything currently available. If something is interesting enough, I'll go check it out in person, just as I would have if I saw something in a store. I'm not a collector, I often sell off as many things as I add when I no longer use them, and my gear compliment doesn't change often.

Perfect example... The new Mesa head, that I only know from TB and YouTube, intrigues me, but is difficult or impossible to demo near me. I'm not crazy about it based on the official video, but it seems so flexible I want to try it myself. So, it'll go on my list of things to check out when I finally get back to NYC. If I really had GAS, I'd be ordering things every week from Sweetwater and returning most if it.
 
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blacktocomm said:
Before I joined this site 8 years ago I never owned more than 4 basses at a time. I currently own 22. Short scales, medium scales, long scales, actives, passives, some with flats, some with rounds.
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2007 was a year that changed my life. I bought my first PC and discovered several internet bass forums. I had 2 basses at that time. I have 2 basses now. Inexplicably, I "ballooned" to 6 basses a couple of years ago, for about 2 months, but realised I'd bought basses that I wasn't going to gig and sold 4 of them. Equilibrium restored.

I started playing bass in 1965 and for 42 years I was on my own. It wasn't until 2007 that I started to meet other bass players. IMO the internet is a great source of information, ideas and experience. Google is my friend. I absorb it all, but knowing about the world of bass in all its marvellous facets doesn't make me want to buy any of it. If I have identified something that might be an upgrade, forum classifieds makes it easy to buy something I've read about, check it out and either keep it or sell it. I like to know about bass breakthrough technology. I was an early D class and neodymium adopter and now have some fantastic sounding gear. I'm waiting for the next "big one", maybe a 1000watt 1x8? When that comes along I'll have 2.

Currently I have 2 basses, 3 amps, 5 cabs and, for 3 years, no urge to buy anything else.
 
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#90
It doesn't at all in my case. I maintain a list of gear I want and I work strictly off that. I also have a gear budget I adhere to. If I didn't I'd be probably spending far more money than would be wise. I've already got everything I need. So most of what I do purchase these days is to satisfy my curiosity about something.
 
#91
Not at all. If I have a bout of G.A.S., it is from something else, so I peruse the forum to try to get more information. That usually has the effect of relieving the G.A.S. But if it confirms the desire, then I peruse the forum to see if I can find a good deal before going elsewhere.
 
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#92
I've been virtually GAS free for a couple years now.

However, that was proceeded by 17 years of TB-induced gas and at least as many basses purchased -at least partially- because of something I read or researched on TB. Even today when looking at my stable I can see that -except for my first bass- all the basses or the luthiers who built my basses were first discovered on TB.
 
#97
blacktocomm said:
Before I joined this site 8 years ago I never owned more than 4 basses at a time. I currently own 22. Short scales, medium scales, long scales, actives, passives, some with flats, some with rounds. I basically have any tone option I would ever need completely covered. Yet, I see something here almost daily that will get my GAS going.
I’ve officially sworn off anymore purchases for the time being, but this place doesn’t make it easy.
How much does TB fuel your gas?
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I admittedly have about $5,000+ worth of things I want to consider my musical GAS exhausted for the most part. Talkbass introduced me to about $3000 worth of that, but one's a bass and two are Mesa Subway cabs to go with my lovely WD-800, which replaced a malfunctioning amp I used until it was no longer usable despite falling out of love with it. I wouldn't be gassing for it if it didn't fill a hole in something I consider missing in my setup.

My collection consists of 3 basses, an MIM Strat I bought used.. I'm on gigging amp #2 as my first one started failing almost 6 years later and wasn't serviceable. My first set of cabinets I sold about a year after the purchased and replaced with a used 410 I got cheap that sounds better than they did.

from ages 12-28 I maybe went through 7 guitars never owning more than two at a time. I didn't have talkbass or gear forums back then. I was still shopping for gear. *shrug*. from 32 y/o to approaching 40, I've gone through about 7 basses. Two of them I got for dirt cheap. The three I still have all cost under a grand but are big bangs for the buck.

Part of the big plan is downsizing my pedalboard, because this forum introduced me to Source Audio and those pedals knocked quite a few off my PT-3. TB didn't introduce me to the HX Stomp XL that I plan to pair with my source audio pedals which will cover just about anything I could ever need or want effect wise for both bass and guitar.

The 3 basses I own are a P-bass and two 5 string P/J's with active preamps.. so of course JUST ONE MORE with a different pickup configuration is needed to balance that out. But I'm interested in specific features and honestly think I'll be out of things to shop for unless something malfunctions outside of a warranty period. *shrug*
 
#98
Not as much any more.

I’m pretty content with using quality used gear that is a few years past it’s trendiness and get adequate tone and volume vs trying the latest great new thing. I sound the same either way.

That said, TB is a wonderful resource to get said gear used at good prices and a great place to sell for not a lot of scratch.
 
#99
It's been said over and over again in this thread, but TB is the source of practically all of my GAS. That being said, this is also where I learned most of what know about gear (yes, I know there's a lot of misconecptions floating around and you need to be careful about what you read). I've bought and sold a lot here, but I ended up with great gear at great prices that I'm extremely happy with. I might have never heard about a lot of what I now own and use if all I knew was what the local music stores carried.
 

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