GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome (Part 1)

Leave wife behind?
Solves both problems.

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Guess you’ll have to add a nice present for your wife on top of all that GAS :smiley:

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Have my vote for sure :smiling_imp:

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Tried that it doesn’t work, :joy:

Bonus, I sold a bass last night while my wife and daughter was getting home. Big bonus point for me. Now I can GAS some more.

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One down, eight million to go. :laughing:

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Not even close, but there’s always hope.
Hope that one day Sweetwater would be one of my buyer, :joy:

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They would be, but they’d have to build a warehouse bigger than Thomann’s.

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My last GAS act : a Yamaha 4x10" cab with Eminence speakers. It used to belong to a jazz club in Paris, and then it has been used by a local metal band for about 10 years. This cab has played hundred, if not thousands of concerts. But it still works perfectly. Very wide bandwith, very clean and pure sounding, close to a FRFR with the tweeter fully engaged. It’s a bit dusty right now but nothing serious.

Also a bit of guitar GAS with this Visual Sound Son of Hyde. This is a heavy distorsion greatly inspired by the Marshall Shred Master, which happens to have been my very first pedal (sold long ago). It sounds very 90’s, in the idea of the Marshall JCM 900’s.
Great sounding pedal, with internal settings for an embedded noise gate and the Bass control. very weird that they did not put the Bass pot on top of the pedal like the other EQ controls. Still a very interesting distorsion.

And finally a Laney Mini Supergroup amp. It’s a 3 watt solid state battery powered amp. This thing sounds way better than expected on the clean channel. The drive channel is way less interesting but still kinda useable. Lovely little toy.

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Oops.

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Next you’re going to talk about how you love playing it and make my bb434 lust worse. You can just lie to me and say you hate it :pray::rofl:

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What a headstock. Awesome

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Classic look, great sound. The grain on yours is nicer than mine was, too. Great snag.

Surprised by how nice the gig bag is? That’s the stock gig bag from Yamaha, it didn’t cost them extra.

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Forgive me Father for I have sinned (I mean serious symptoms of GAS kicked in even though wasn’t really planned, honestly!), for ~200EUR I have just purchased some old fashioned 115+210 Behringer stuff and transported it to rehearsal space. Main driver being lazy to carry amp and Ashdown 112; home I have the RB210 (that’s convenient to carry around and can deliver 500W with the 112 extension), from this point it’s sufficient to only take my bass and good to go. Tested with the Squier 40th Anniversary JB:


Again: wasn’t planned and didn’t need. I guess this is how GAS kicks in, right? :crazy_face:

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My latest GAS acquisitions.

  1. Ibanez EHB1505MS (pacific blue)
  2. Darkglass Microtubes Infinity
  3. Darkglass Harmonic Booster (got the pedals a couple months ago, never posted pics)
  4. Pedalboard (birthday gift from my wife)
  5. Small shelf and 4 guitar stand (birthday gift from my mom)


I am loving this new bass - great tone, perfect intonation, very comfortable and light. The multiscale fanned frets are nice for my hands, feels more ergonomic to me and movement around the upper frets is a lot easier. I’ll try to get a new cover up in the coming weeks showing it off.

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@brik1970
Dude! …and you let that sit in the box at home for how long before opening it
That’s gorgeous. Love the blue. I wish mine comes in blue too.

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That’s just beautiful!

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This bass looks insane - but can never get used to headless design :flushed:
But this one I could host for a few years I believe :heart_eyes:

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Oh man! They are pretty awesome I strongly desire this


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The more I look at that, the more I love it. I assume that’s basically a one-string capo to enable a quick switch to drop-D?

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It’s more than a drop D, because the rest is still playing in the same note, that’s really cool eh?

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