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What's your arsenal worth?

What's Your Arsenal Worth?

  • Under $1,000

    Votes: 251 17.5%
  • $1,000-10,000

    Votes: 869 60.7%
  • $10,000-20,000

    Votes: 196 13.7%
  • Over $20,000

    Votes: 115 8.0%

  • Total voters
    1,431
4 basses = about $4000
12 guitars = about $5500
5 amps = about $3500
All this I paid in a time of 25 years (though in Deutsche Mark/Euro currency, so this might not be accurate)
I didn't do too many gigs that made money, but I can say the money I got from gigs paid half the stuff. Nowadays I'd love to have a new bass amp, and a Rhodes piano as well as a clavinet would be cool in the future.
 
basses: 5000
amps: 2000
cabs: 3000
guitars: 3600
mics: 1350
mixer: 250
PA speakers: 1200
drums: 9000
cymbals: 1200
keyboard: 1900

total: 28,500

It's been a while since I bought anything, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the prices, but that should be fairly accurate.
Most of the stuff is listed in my profile if you want details.
 
You tell me........

Hartke HA3500 350w head, plus Transporter 2x10 and 4x10 cabs
2 Trace Elliot 715 combos
Fender 60th anniversary USA P Bass in 3 tone sunburst.
Fender 2008 USA Standard Jazz Bass in Candy Cola Red.
Hamer B12 short scale 12-String Bass.
Hamer Chaparral long scale 12-String Bass
Gibson SG Supreme Bass
Warwick Streamer Chrome Tone Bass (2006)
Fender Precision Lyte Bass
Burns Bison Reissue Bass
Fender Squier Modified Vintage Precision Bass
Dean Rhapsody 8 String Bass
Epiphone '58 Flying V Bass
Cort Violin Bass
Danelectro Longhorn Bass
Aria ZZB Deluxe Bass
Gordy XR Custom fretless 'Explorer' style bass
Rickenbacker 4003 Fireglo
Rickenbacker 4003 Blue Boy Ltd Edn
Rickenbacker 4003 Midnight Blue
John Birch (1976) SCDR stereo bass (Ric 4001 style)
Squier Standard Precision Special bass

Gibson SGII guitar (1975)
Epiphone Firebird guitar
Tokai TST 50 Strat type guitar
Dean Stage Acoustic guitar
Gretsch White Falcon guitar (2008)
 
Basses: Around $4,000
Amps and such: $3,000
Accessories and such: $500
Production software and equipment: $1000 or so

Almost every red cent I've come across in the last 6 years has gone to music. A little bit goes to drinks and other fun college expenses, but a majority of my spending goes to the bass gods.
 
Basses:
Ibanez ATK 305 - $325
Brice HXB 406 - $150
Squier Affinity P - $100 + $200 of yet to be completed mods (what can I say?)

Amps, cabs, effects:
GK 800RB - $460 (Rack case, rack tuner, compressor)
SWR 4004 - $300
Ashdown ABM Mini 12T - $250
Ashdown AMB Mini 15 - $250
Peavey Black Widow 115 - $100
MXR M80 - $80

Other:
Martin D18V - $1700

Altogether: So much for saving tuition money...
 
Cort Headless bass: free (got it from a family friend)

Epiphone Thunderbird: $300

amp: $80

strap: free (got it from my guitar playing best friend)

cord: $10

headphones: $30

picks: $5

a single string: $8


total: $433, I guess It's not much compared to some of you other fellows, but it is for me. (I'm 15) :eek:
 
pfft, bass is cheap.

my arsenal consists of a bass i "borrowed" from the church, therefore total value is $0 :D

photography on the other hand.....

i have close to $6000 in that, and im gettin another $4000 peice of kit at the end of the summer. and this is for a prosumer kit, not even a professional one.

compared to that, the $1200 human base i have my eye on is cheap.
 
This is gonna make me sad...

basses: Probably close to $10,000 ( If I sold them tomorrow, not what I paid.)
amps&cabs: about $4000
PA: Powered monitors, mics and cables...roughly $2000
Guitar and Fx: $800 ( shows where my priorities lie)

Strings, cables, pedals, straps and other misc. debris. Who knows?
 

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