run out of GAS

mgaw

its dawned on me today after a few days of scrambling around the internet of guitar things that I am happy with my lot...…...WTF am I meant to do now?

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

its dawned on me today after a few days of scrambling around the internet of guitar things that I am happy with my lot...…...WTF am I meant to do now?

Play them.

mgaw

Bridgehouse said:

mgaw said:

its dawned on me today after a few days of scrambling around the internet of guitar things that I am happy with my lot...…...WTF am I meant to do now?

Play them.

@Bridgehouse ; are you mad!?  I play them for hours every day

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

Bridgehouse said:

mgaw said:

its dawned on me today after a few days of scrambling around the internet of guitar things that I am happy with my lot...…...WTF am I meant to do now?

Play them.

@Bridgehouse ; are you mad!?  I play them for hours every day

Don’t play them then.. then you’ll think it’s your gear that’s stopping you from playing and you’ll GAS for new gear..

mgaw

good plan!

mgaw

I cant even think of a pedal I am even remotely interested in, or an electric, or an acoustic, maybe its time for an archtop octave mandolin

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

I cant even think of a pedal I am even remotely interested in, or an electric, or an acoustic, maybe its time for an archtop octave mandolin

Get a bass.

It will improve your musicianship, give you a new view on loads of material, help home recordings, and you’ll enter a whole new world of GAS

Bridgehouse

(I have an octave mandolin and I’d still say get a bass..)

mgaw

was considering a bass but not sure I am charismatic enough

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

was considering a bass but not sure I am charismatic enough

Can you do a good “bored, pissed off and generally disinterested” face?

If so, you have all the charisma needed..

mgaw

my default setting @bridgehouse been stuck with it since I was 14, along with a love of self pleasuring

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

my default setting @bridgehouse been stuck with it since I was 14, along with a love of self pleasuring

You are perfect bass player material

mgaw

cheers that's made my day

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

cheers that's made my day

I suggest a good few hours trawling the web for basses so you can really feel miserable

mgaw

@bridgehouse ; just to check what I need/want to enter the new and exciting realm of the Bass

appropriately charismatic     check
wanker                                  check

surely there is a lot more to it than that,  what Bass and what amp?

I dont think I am going to relish an enormously long fingerboard can one procure a smallish bass tht has solid bass credentials and deep tonez

Caffeine_Vampire

I’m in the same boat. Totally happy with my rig. I feel empty....

Bridgehouse

mgaw said:

@bridgehouse ; just to check what I need/want to enter the new and exciting realm of the Bass

appropriately charismatic     check
wanker                                  check

surely there is a lot more to it than that,  what Bass and what amp?

I dont think I am going to relish an enormously long fingerboard can one procure a smallish bass tht has solid bass credentials and deep tonez

Short or short medium scale (30” or 32”) will do the job and sound great.

Options start at around £250 and go on from there... first decision is style choice - you need to determine if you might be a P or a J man, or maybe something a bit more wacky... those new Ibanez medium scales at £250 look to be pretty hot for the dosh.

Up from that, the classic choice would be a MiM 50’s classic Precision - they really are good. Like real good. 

Above that you are in to US fender territory, or Warwick, or Sandberg, or Lakland, or something of that ilk.

For an idea of expensive stuff go to Bass Direct’s website and prepare to be totally confused. 

As for amps, start with a bass and we can came back to that one Bass sounds good DI into a desk anyway..

mgaw

@Caffeine_Vampire   its an odd sensation for sure...…..picked up me |Hahn 228 telecaster and realised I have absolutely no desire to get another electric.....same with pedals...same with amp...even accessories have let me down

Caffeine_Vampire

mgaw said:

@Caffeine_Vampire   its an odd sensation for sure...…..picked up me |Hahn 228 telecaster and realised I have absolutely no desire to get another electric.....same with pedals...same with amp...even accessories have let me down

Been a few months for me. I’m getting used to it. Just installed a Free-Way 10 way switch on my favourite Strat and I’m planning on giving it a stainless refret but I keep looking at gear and wishing I felt the need. 

mgaw

@Bridgehouse ; I feel like I am in the hands of a seasoned "converter"

prowla

I feel like my GAS has abated.

I decided over the past year that I would just get what I wanted and there seems to be very little more kit that I do want now.

I have got a number of projects to do, which probably cover the rest of the year, so I won't be bored.

Coincidentally, one of my projects is a tricked-up Rickenbacker bass onto which is going a 6-way Free Way switch!