2025 GAS list

[cetera]

So, finances allowing..... in 2025 what bits of gear are on your GAS wish list?

 

Me? I'd like:

Epiphone Grabber (if/when they drop to a sensible price) - not sure on natural or black though....
Epiphone G3 (possibly......dependent on price when they're finally released)

Squier 40th Anniversary P bass (black and gold with block inlays)
LFSys Monaco 1x12 cab

 

Edited December 3, 2024 by cetera
additional GAS item

[ezbass]

I can’t help thinking that a Sandberg Lionel is in my future.

[Jackroadkill]

A nice 4ohm cabinet to go with my Elf.  A small, lightweight but poky cab with a tight bottom end, please.

[Twigman]

Still umming and aahing about a wireless system - current top of the list is the Shure GLXD16+  Price was £458 hence the umming and aahing  - was waiting to see if anywhere discounted on 'Black Friday' - I notice Andertons had a big red sale banner on the item early last week and had reduced the price to £458! - now there is a black Black Friday 'sticker' on the item with the price reduced to £458!

 

Such savings shouldn't be sniffed at....

Still umming and aahing

 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2024 by Twigman

[gjones]

I'm hoping to grab a black, sparkly, Sire Z3 when some random Basschatter, who grabbed one when they first came out, gets bored with it and decides to flog it.

[Reggaebass]

I’ve got a bit of gas for a barefaced two 10s just to see how it sounds with my Ampeg amp ,and I think I might try out some 65/66 precisions again in the new year to see if I can get on with the wider nut 

[chris_b]

I'm still looking for my unicorn bass.

 

Must sound better than my Sadowsky and weigh less than 3.5 kg.

[tauzero]

I'm rather short of headless fretless basses, so a headless fretless 5-string Sei Flamboyant would be nice.

 

Toying with the idea of replacing my GR Bass AT800 with an AT212V to use with the Tecamp Puma.

[Doctor J]

I'd like to get my hands on a Vigier Passion IV, for the craic.

[Norris]

I can't help feeling that I need some midi foot pedals to control my Novation Bass Station 2, even though I really don't need them

 

Stylophone theremin. Must have one

 

I'm actually ok for basses. I'd rather get back to building them rather than buying

[Linus27]

Unless things take a dramatic turn, I can see my 2025 GAS list being quite small. I'm very happy with my fretless basses and can't really see the need to get anything else or improve on what I have.

 

I'm also very happy with my pedals but there are some I'd still like to try which are,

 

Strymon Cloudburst

MXR Script 90 Phaser

 

I do have a bit of a love/hate relationship with my MarkBass LM IV and Barefaced Two10 rig. Some days I'm super happy with it and other days not. I'm actually really tempted to get a Fender Rumble 800 combo as every time I played through one, its sounded mega. So we shall see.

[EBS_freak]

2025 Im looking to get rid of more stuff!

[binky_bass]

Would love to have @Cosmicrain make me a 6 string Zoot of some variety. Been threatening to properly discuss one for years, never found the right financial time to do so yet! Maybe 2025 is the year...

[BassBiscuit]

'GAS' you say....!

Well gonna get me some 'therapy' to help with my affliction..... Might cure me of looking at stuff I don't need.......🙄

[Dood]

Finances definitely don’t allow and probably won’t for many years now sadly, but:

 

I have a bass and a guitar that need routs for new pickups

One bass that needs routing and I want to refinish it in my “signature colours” .. flip paint, you know me! 

Another bass that I’d love to customise with a new finish.. flip paint!

Two basses that need refrets/dressing.

A pick guard designed for a bass.

A new neck for my Tokai maybe..

I want a Candy Apple Red / Candy Cola body or respray for my Strat.

 

For gig tools, I’d love an active FRFR solution, the ole Barefaced FR800 would suit for guitar and bass needs I think, but I might be looking at a combo or PA cab. Failing that I could use a passive 1x12” with my Berg head when my big cab is OTT.

 

I’d love to get a custom PJ bass made, I seem to be playing way more 4 strings at the moment and something for the bass magazine to use in every review would be super cool.

I quite fancy a little guitar valve combo too, like a Laney LC for tinkering around with..

 

[Dood]

And a fretless..

 

[Lozz196]

I’ve a lot of gear to sell but I’m thinking of getting a bass specifically made for me, essentially the Mustang bass that Fender don’t make:

 

Black

Slim Jazz width neck (same dimensions as my CIJ)

Maple fretboard

Hipshot Ultralites inc D-Tuner

P & J pickups 

Vol, Vol, Tone

7.0lbs

 

 

Edited December 2, 2024 by Lozz196

[Dan Earp]

3 hours ago, ezbass said:

I can’t help thinking that a Sandberg Lionel is in my future.

It is mine😎

[neepheid]

Nit, aff it.

 

I have something on back order slated to arrive at the end of January to ease the shakes, then that's it.

[joel406]

Gas?

 

2025?

 

Hmmmm...

 

Maybe a Fender USA 5 string Jazz? No, I got 4 of those.

 

Maybe a Fender USA 5 string Precision? No. I got 4 of those too.

 

Maybe the new Squier 6 string? Wait... Got one.

 

Maybe a G&L USA L-2500? No got one.

 

May be a USA G&L M-2500? Got it so, no.

 

How about a G&L M-2500 tribute? Never mind. Got one.

 

Maybe a new amp. No got 2 Mesa Subway D-800+ heads and a custom built Epifani UL901. That's out.

 

Speaker cab? 2 Subway 212 cabs and 2 Subway 410 cabs in house already. So, No!

 

New pedal? Let's see. 2 Quadcortexs. Pog 2 and Pog 3. Keely compressors. EBS envelope filter, check. Chorusaurus. CABM. Revolt. Le Bass. I could go on so, No!

 

Wireless system? Shure SLXD. PSM 300 for the IEMs. No set there.

 

2025 looking gas free here.

Edited December 2, 2024 by joel406

[snorkie635]

Maybe track down a CAR Roscoe Beck V, or failing that, nab an orange Bongo V?

[casapete]

2 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

2025 Im looking to get rid of more stuff!

Yup, me too. Still got some stuff left that I won’t be needing due to the reduction in my gigging 

schedule, so need to address what to let go & then that should be me done.
But it doesn’t stop me wondering……..

[Jackroadkill]

4 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

A nice 4ohm cabinet to go with my Elf.  A small, lightweight but poky cab with a tight bottom end, please.

 

Oh, and a pre-CBS reissue Jazz of some sort.

[ardi100]

My first 5 string. Something cheap, humbucker(s) and a maple fretboard,  only because that seems to be the opposite of what I do have. 

 

Some way of scratching the synth sound itch I can't seem to shake. Either a cheap series of pedals,  a SA C4 or a quality multi unit that I could build some presets with.

 

And a one cab solution. Even though I'm only playing in my house!

[Merton]

5 hours ago, ezbass said:

I can’t help thinking that a Sandberg Lionel is in my future.

Me too, I keep coming back to it as a bass I want to own….

 

But I have a new ACG incoming sometime in Q1 which I need to pay for before I even start thinking about anything else! And bonding with that should take priority for 2025 🙂