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What ticks you off? Example page 4

#48
MD Stingray said:
I am the first to admit. I have a compulsive disorder.

I buy and sell a bass at least once a month. Have owned over a 100 now. Currently own 5.

It seems I just get bored/ticked off/frustrated with any bass I have ever owned within a couple of months.

Every time in the shop any bass I try seems like the best one ever, until I return home and after a month I start too think..:

It's too heavy
Too light
Too ugly
Neck too wide
Bored with the color
Fretbuzz
Not comfortable playing seated
Not comfortable playing standing
Too expensive for what it is
Too many sound options - except the right one
Dislike the brand
Bad electronics
Vintage crap
Humm
Unfinished dirty necks
Too exotic woods
Sharp frets
A dent in the back of the neck
neck-pocket too wide
Pick-guard not perfectly lined with control-plate
too many strings
Can't get intonation pitch -perfect
and last but not least - some just smell funny

- it has to go.

Of course It's me. I'm definitive not the player that can make any bass sound good.
From Squier to Fodera to Vintage Fenders - I've owned them all.

So, besides this topic, what ticks you off?

If you are wondering.. My wife and I are together 25 years.
I guess her standards for a husband are much lower than mine for bass guitars :)
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Apparently my wife has the same...lol!!!
 
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#50
MD Stingray said:
It is -10 Celsius overhere. I’ll wait until spring arrives

Stop buying basses? I can’t do that. Shops will go out of business without me.
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Nothing like strapping on a winter coat and going and sitting on a bench, enjoying the view of the sea as the wind whips the frozen spray into your face....:D
 
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#52
MD Stingray said:
I am the first to admit. I have a compulsive disorder.

I buy and sell a bass at least once a month. Have owned over a 100 now. Currently own 5.

It seems I just get bored/ticked off/frustrated with any bass I have ever owned within a couple of months.

Every time in the shop any bass I try seems like the best one ever, until I return home and after a month I start too think..:

It's too heavy
Too light
Too ugly
Neck too wide
Bored with the color
Fretbuzz
Not comfortable playing seated
Not comfortable playing standing
Too expensive for what it is
Too many sound options - except the right one
Dislike the brand
Bad electronics
Vintage crap
Humm
Unfinished dirty necks
Too exotic woods
Sharp frets
A dent in the back of the neck
neck-pocket too wide
Pick-guard not perfectly lined with control-plate
too many strings
Can't get intonation pitch -perfect
and last but not least - some just smell funny

- it has to go.

Of course It's me. I'm definitive not the player that can make any bass sound good.
From Squier to Fodera to Vintage Fenders - I've owned them all.

So, besides this topic, what ticks you off?

If you are wondering.. My wife and I are together 25 years.
I guess her standards for a husband are much lower than mine for bass guitars :)
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I think there is nothing wrong with changing taste, and sometimes it takes a while to get a complete picture of what you have bought.

I’ll give an automobile version of this. Ever buy a new car, and the first night you go out, and the headlights suck? Or six months later you find out it really isn’t good in the snow, or in the summer on a vacation road trip, you find out the air conditioning is just a tad weak and the seats are not real comfortable?

As for basses, I tend to do my due diligence before I buy. I’ve owned 7 basses since 1969, and have only owned 4 since 1974, two of which I still have.
 
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#56
Small dings on the back of the neck, noisy pots, dead spots, yeah I get it.

What gets me as a kid in the 70’s, all anyone needed was one bass.

I have 6 right now including one that rarely comes out of the hsc.

I could probably get by with two, fretted and fretless.
 
#57
somewhat off topic, but just in case no one has said it lately, a $100 bass that's in good working order, which includes being setup right, is WAY better than a more (and even much more) expensive bass that has some kind of problem that can't be fixed for whatever reason.

So, the silver bullet for all this is 1) know that any bass you get is only going to be as magical as it is. 2) If what you buy is pretty/is of a certain brand everyone is supposed to genuflect to in reverence, but also blows for some reason, you just bought yourself a headache. Just because is schmancy doesn't mean it's "Excalibur"...

Luckily, I'm good with playing Squiers. Well setup, and somewhat upgraded ones, but still...
May you be as lucky.
 
#58
dbsfgyd1 said:
I think there is nothing wrong with changing taste, and sometimes it takes a while to get a complete picture of what you have bought.

As for basses, I tend to do my due diligence before I buy. I’ve owned 7 basses since 1969, and have only owned 4 since 1974, two of which I still have.
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So..you have the basses I should have? I’m jealous..
 

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