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Ridiculous Amount of...
- Thread starter Killed_by_Death
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....cables.
And I hate each and every one of them.
And I hate each and every one of them.
I had too many Instrument cables prior to the year-end holidays, & I started looking around for things to sell.
So there goes the 2 Meter 'Live' cable & a Fender Vintage Voltage 4 Meter cable.
Now there's just two that I made myself with Mogami wire & Neutrik connectors.
If you hate your cables, make new ones & sell the old ones during the xMas shopping-rush, LOL!
So there goes the 2 Meter 'Live' cable & a Fender Vintage Voltage 4 Meter cable.
Now there's just two that I made myself with Mogami wire & Neutrik connectors.
If you hate your cables, make new ones & sell the old ones during the xMas shopping-rush, LOL!
"cables" for me, too. but unlike https://www.talkbass.com/members/dirtdog.24075/ , i like having some spares + a cable for every occasion!
I give aways strings I don't like, & sometimes the recipient reciprocates.
that's how I got a shiny new unopened pack of Lemmy plectrums:
which I almost immediately gave away & saved the box for stashing my V-Picks
that's how I got a shiny new unopened pack of Lemmy plectrums:
which I almost immediately gave away & saved the box for stashing my V-Picks
My answer to this thread is picks (aka plectrums). I swear they’re multiplying.
Even though I have too many, I now want some Lemmy plectrums. So, thanks! 
My Lemmy pick-box is FULL of V-Picks, I used to buy one every once in awhile at the local Music store, to make up for visiting so often & almost never buying anything.
It's more than I'll ever use, since I still haven't worn even one of them out.
It's more than I'll ever use, since I still haven't worn even one of them out.
picks are everywhere, I haven't bought picks since at least 2015, and I'm STILL pulling them out of pants pockets.My answer to this thread is picks (aka plectrums). I swear they’re multiplying.
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Same!
When I sold my PA, I sold off a stack of cables for pennies on the dollar. Got a few hundred bucks from that and I STILL have two large Rubbermaid totes filled with cables of all kinds. Lots of spares.
But do you think I could find the USB-C to USB-A cable I had in my hands just the other day? Nope - it went into one of those totes never to be seen again.
I have too many cables - but its really cable management that I hate the most.
Lack of gigging has denied me the opportunity to lose them, so they’re piling up.
my last gig was about a year or two before covid started, hadn't gigged regularly for a year or two before that.Lack of gigging has denied me the opportunity to lose them, so they’re piling up.
That might change after COVID, though, who knows
Oh, man, don't get me started...
I used to own a fully-outfitted recording studio. ~7 years ago I closed down that operation; most of the equipment went into a spare bedroom in my apartment, some went to the rehearsal studio I sublet downtown, and some went into storage. Between my apartment and the rehearsal studio I have enough cables to accomplish any task I can foreseeably undertake in my professional life: Bass playing gigs (including those with multiple pedalboards), remote recording gigs, overdub and/or mix sessions from my spare bedroom scaled-down recording suite, etc. All the other cables from the original studio got coiled up neatly, packed into heavy-duty ziplock bags (organized by type) and then stuffed into an enormous Army surplus duffle bag in the storage space.
I recently had to go to that storage space for something unrelated to audio, but had to move that duffle bag to find what I was looking for.
I kid you not: That bag of cables weighs more than I do.
I own >175lbs of cables that I don't even use!!!
I hear you. I wasn’t at 175lbs, but pushing close to half of that for sure.
I considered using the copper to make a bronze statue of myself.....for myself....lol!
I like the ziploc bag idea. I don’t own many long/large cables anymore but do have a buttload or shorter/smaller ones. I see a snow day project happening soon!
I have a spare parts box of tuning keys,bridges, knobs,etc. It’s not majorly excessive, but i guess i’m just hanging onto them as spares.
I’ve given away bridges I don’t particularly like. (OEM Rickenbacker V1,badass 1, 3-point Gibsons), just because i know I’ll never use them.
I had a newer version Fender coiled cord that was the bane of my existence until i finally gave it to my bandleader/guitarist. She was delighted to get it,and i was delighted to be rid of it. It worked fine,but ALWAYS took minutes to untangle.
Most of the 3-4 guitar cables i use, I’ve had for decades. Same with straps.
I’ve given away bridges I don’t particularly like. (OEM Rickenbacker V1,badass 1, 3-point Gibsons), just because i know I’ll never use them.
I had a newer version Fender coiled cord that was the bane of my existence until i finally gave it to my bandleader/guitarist. She was delighted to get it,and i was delighted to be rid of it. It worked fine,but ALWAYS took minutes to untangle.
Most of the 3-4 guitar cables i use, I’ve had for decades. Same with straps.
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Well outboard gear, cables and tons of em...
I owned a recording studio so theres that. Funny as far as picks go when I first started gigging I played alot of post/punk/alt and used med picks I am mostly a finger player but my lovely wife apparently never got the memo and to this day has gifted me medium picks for B-days/Xmas ever since needless to say they are much more manageable than my plethora of outboard gear...
I owned a recording studio so theres that. Funny as far as picks go when I first started gigging I played alot of post/punk/alt and used med picks I am mostly a finger player but my lovely wife apparently never got the memo and to this day has gifted me medium picks for B-days/Xmas ever since needless to say they are much more manageable than my plethora of outboard gear...
Bass guitar parts. 5 necks. 2 bodies. 17 sets of pickups. 25 packs of strings. 10 pick guards. 8 bridges. 12 sets of tuners. 8 straps. 4 extra cases and a gig bag. Screws and hardware out the "ying-yang".
Too much stuff!!!
Too much stuff!!!
