A recent problem

[Drmckool]

Hello

So recently i noticed a problem. I used to love to kill a few hours every once and a while in music stores trying out all the basses, unfortunately it's no longer fun. Since I purchased my Stingray 5 HH 20th Anniversary every in store instrument is -- to put it lightly -- somewhat lame. It's just too fun of a bass and nothing else compares.

Oh well I guess way worse things could happen, eh.

 

[adouglas]

Yeah, now I go into a store, look around, generally go "meh" and walk out.

Every once in a while I'll run across something kind of cool and unusual, but not that often.

 

[Holdsg]

There should be a new term coined somewhere in here, hows about
"perfect ball syndrome" - the feeling you get when every other bass you play pales in comparison to the one back home plugged into your amp

 

[Drmckool]

There should be a new term coined somewhere in here, hows about
"perfect ball syndrome" - the feeling you get when every other bass you play pales in comparison to the one back home plugged into your amp

100% agree.

 

[JayDawg]

When I went to Guitar Center yesterday, I took my Bongo 4HH DDII. It got lots of looks, ooh's and aah's. I played a variety of Music Man basses that the store had on hand in addition to my bass and loved them. But I totally agree with you because I didn't even see another brand that interested me in the least bit. The Markbass stuff I was looking at on the other hand, it was nice but I was just playing it to temporarily appease my G.A.S..

 

[syciprider]

When I go to GC and want to try out amp/fx gear I only use the EBMM basses.

 

[nurnay]

Same problem here. The last bass that really grabbed my attention in a guitar shop was a EBMM fretless honeyburst Stingray back in June. Go figure. Of course, most stores around here only carry 7ender, lower end Yamaha, and lower end Ibanez, so no surprise there.

 

[Golem]

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Not being a brand loyalist, I've always been more than curious about
the Steve Bailey F3nder Jazz FL .... not the kinda thing you find on a
shop wall around here .... unless it turns up used, which it did. So, to
evaluate it, I hadda bring a "competing model" for an A-B trial. Well,
my beloved Sterling FL just saved me $1800

The SB F3nder has an epoxied FB and RWs .... so I brang my modded
Sterling, with RW E-A strings and FW D-G .... and a Moses neck, cuzza
the similarity of the two FB's. Blew the F3ender a-waaaaaayyy. Would
a wooden neck Sterling do the same ? I can extrapolate that cuz I got
the exact same Sterling with an official EBMM FL neck and I know that
the standard Sterling FL would also have saved me the same $1800. I
just chose to bring the Moses necked one cuzza the epoxy FB thing.

Fender gots more nerve than a toothache, wanting all that money for
that ax. OTOH, I spoze such shenanegans prolly helps sell a few more
top shelf EBMMs. I mean, you can buy a Reflex for a coupla hunnert $
less than a Steve Bailey F3nder.


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[cellkirk74]

Yeah, it's a luxury problem.

The only thing that got my attention in a Musicstore last time besides the classic Stingray was a Nordy Jazz 5.

But I am quite sure that it would not have survived an a/b test with any of my EBMM 5ers

 

[J Romano]

There should be a new term coined somewhere in here, hows about
"perfect ball syndrome" - the feeling you get when every other bass you play pales in comparison to the one back home plugged into your amp

"perfect ball syndrome" - Looked it up in the dictionary, picture of a Sting Ray next to it!!

 

[Ian Perge]

I also have noticed that since moving from an area with an "B-Level" Guitar Center to one with a "C-Level" (I imagine having to do with population and standard-of-living issues, and having grown up outside of NYC where the local GC was *truly* an "A-Level" store with quality high-end gear of all types) the only part of the store that interests me is the Used Gear, where I can see if there are any nice deals to be had (which is how I got my first EBMM, a Textured Cinnamon SUB Sterling for a steal of a price). It also doesn't help that in the 4-months before moving I finally was financially able to have installed and therefore finish a 3-year plan of "Custom-Wound/Custom-Sized Pickups" & "High-End Preamp w/ Custom EQ Points selected" electronics swap-out of my 4 "Main Players" (4-string fretted, 5-string fretted & 5-string fretless with "J-Bass On 'Roids" Single-Coils & a 5 string fretted with a P/DC setup from the '95-'08 American P-Deluxe, the only P-Bass tone I've found myself liking) that frankly put almost all stock @ GC to shame. I suppose I'm now stuck with the high-end "Bass Only" stores that are sprinkled across the country... but which none are anywhere close to where I now live.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I am happy to know that I own some of the best basses I have ever played. While I still enjoy checking equipment out, I also find that less and less is catching my eye.