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Shortest turnaround on a new bass

hibachiduck

hibachiduck

Aug 31, 2011
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Augusta, GA, USA
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#1
I was just wondering what your shortest turnaround has been on a new bass (as in you buy a bass and get tired of it and put it back on the market). I just bought a Sterling Ray34 less than a month ago, and I already found myself in Guitar Center yesterday and bought a Fender Modern Player Jazz. I kinda had the same experience when I bought a Steinberger a while back and ended up trading it in for an Ibanez SR605 less than a month later.

I guess part of it for me is not having a Guitar Center in town, so I pretty much have to order stuff and just see if I like it or not. I played a show in Tennessee on Saturday and just was not happy with how the Ray34 played (I'm not saying it's a bad bass, just definitely not for me), and luckily we passed by Atlanta on my way back home and I stopped in and found a perfect fit for me.
 
#3
A few years ago I picked up an immaculate, barely used '51RI P-bass. I was looking for a 2T burst but found a great deal on a blonde. It played and sounded great, but I wasn't totally in love with it. About a week later a friend contacted me and said a friend of his had seen the same ad, but I had beat him to it. His friend was willing to pay me a hundred more than I had just paid (still a pretty good deal). So it wasn't a matter of hating the bass, just that I wasn't really attached to it and I was willing to flip it for a profit.
 
#5
Recently traded a modded P bass for a Fender Deluxe Active P Special. It arrived on a Friday, took it to band practice on Saturday and had it up for sale on Monday. It played nice and sounded decent at home but somehow I could not get a tone on it with my Eden rig that fit the band's vibe.
 
#6
Personally, it usually takes a while to decide to sell something.

On TB, I've seen people post basses for sale before they even received them. So I guess that would be a negative time period.:D
 
#7
I had a fender jazz bass 24 once. I saw it in a store and it was a nice looking bass, Beautiful quilted maple veneer and the Deluxe jazz bass shape. So I bought it and sold it 2 days later, it just felt like it was made from rubber. The tone was horrible eventhough it had a pair of seymour dunc. quarter pounders. The hardware from what I remember felt very cheap so did the cheap crappy preamp.

Long story made short, very nice looking bass but the tone and feel from the bass I had was terrible!
 
#8
Talkbass has definitely changed how I view buying and selling gear.

Previously I'd shop for a bass, find one that played and sounded good to m and was in my price range and then buy it. I'd hold on to basses like that for years. I think 3 years is the least amount of time I kept a bass that I bought new.

But when I started using the TB classifieds I often viewed it as a no risk proposition. I could try out pretty much any bass I wanted (around $3000 used was my normal cutoff point) and if it didn't like it I could flip it for what I paid for it and just be out the shipping cost. Sometimes I even made a bit of money on them.

Not surprisingly, I've flipped almost every bass I bought that way. All fun learning experiences and helped me narrow down my exact preferences, but still a very inefficient way to build and maintain my small stable of basses.
 
#10
thumpastingray said:
I had a fender jazz bass 24 once. I saw it in a store and it was a nice looking bass, Beautiful quilted maple veneer and the Deluxe jazz bass shape. So I bought it and sold it 2 days later, it just felt like it was made from rubber. The tone was horrible eventhough it had a pair of seymour dunc. quarter pounders. The hardware from what I remember felt very cheap so did the cheap crappy preamp.

Long story made short, very nice looking bass but the tone and feel from the bass I had was terrible!
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Had one as well. The neck would not get straight. Even got another neck. Nice looking. But just didn't cut it.
 
#12
Yes, Jim, it’s called SBS (Sticky Bass Syndrome), closely related to SGS (Sticky Gear Syndrome). It’s characterized by finally going to the closet, taking out a case, and saying, “I really need to get rid of this,” and then realizing the instrument is stuck to your hand. “Surely I will fall in love with this again.” “Well, I guess I don’t really need to clear the closet space.” Or, my favorite, “No one will take care of it like me!”
 
#13
Dave12 said:
Yes, Jim, it’s called SBS (Sticky Bass Syndrome), closely related to SGS (Sticky Gear Syndrome)...
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I'm terminal. Between SBS and SGS and my CDO...

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#15
About 20 hours...a Gibson SG Reissue bass. That forward roll (when on a strap), and one tone didn't cut it for me.

Second place would be a Modulus Flea bass that lasted about 48 hours. Thinnest sounding bass I've ever owned/played.
 
#18
Back in the early 90's I got my hands on a Kramer Metalneck with an EMG P pickup.

Played it for (I think) 2 weeks and traded it in on another bass. Too much neckdive, and had a very flat sound (body material most likely the culprit).
 

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