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D.o.S. wrote:Never flip instruments. Only flip pedals when I need to make money or if something attractive comes along (I guess I technically 'lost money' swapping my second RM-1N for a Raptio, but that was before the price increase so I don't feel any regret for it).

It's sort of like having a library. I don't sell books just because I haven't read them in a while, you know?

I flip a lot less than I used to, partly because I get paid more but mostly because I annoyed myself a few times by flipping stuff and hugely regretting it. Every time I've regretted a flip it's because I've flipped something I like because of lust for the new hotness. Now I only flip stuff if I feel like it doesn't do anything my other pedals don't do or I just really can't jive with it for some reason.

1. I don't use it for anything productive
2. It's not a Seppuku/Audioslime pedal

when i need money lol

I'm broke and have an upcoming Paypal Credit bill (6 months goes by awfully fast!). So I've been downsizing the board. "Oh, it's just an excuse to declutter my life!" I tell myself unconvincingly. Then I see something in the corner. Covered in dust - it's the Squier Classic Vibe bass I bought myself and told myself I was going to play but never really did. Looked like a couple hundred bucks right there! So I take it out, start dusting it off, and my 5-year-old comes over and starts thomping on it. I explain to her what I'm doing and she says "I don't want you to sell the bass duitar." Ffffffff.

I've flipped things because I knew they would sell fast, and I end up regretting it later. This has happened a TON of times. Right now, I love every pedal I have save for like two. But I'm so hesitant now to sell things. I just feel like I'm getting tired of the whole flipping process and that I ought to become a hoarder/collector instead. It's tough.

For example. I flipped all my Toneczar stuff. I can't even remember why. I think it was because I felt like they were too expensive or too good for me. Now that I don't have them, I miss the shit out of them and it will not be easy to get those back. In fact, I may never get them back. I got two Toneczar's semi recently but some of them are freaking expensive, I just can't see myself having the cash ever.

I also am digging my CT5 but at the same time, I don't really love it as much as I wanted to. Now I'm trying to decide if it's worth keeping. Sure it can do a million things, but I don't really use the things it does. Hard decision because I've wanted one for a long time.

Gear drives me fucking crazy. Sigh.

If you're thinking about selling it, let it sit for a month or so and revisit it. If you find yourself having the same concerns as before, then sell it.

I follow that myself nowadays. Has saved me from flipping a couple of pedals that are now some of my absolute favourites!

D.o.S. wrote:It's sort of like having a library. I don't sell books just because I haven't read them in a while, you know?

Yeah, that's it! My effects collection is like a big sound library. I love to have all these different sounds - you never know when you will need them. I only sell on those pedals that don't really enhance my sound library or that I don't like at all.

Well, I've been in the pedal game for quite some time now, so I know what I like and what I don't. Sometimes I'll try something new, and will know pretty fast whether it fits with what I want. I don't want or need ALL TEH SOUNDS, just the tools that fit with my sonic vision of annihilation and rebirth. Sometimes I'll have fun with a pedal that gives me a specific sound that reminds me of something, but then flip it because that something isn't "me".

So these days I mostly try different versions of pedal-types I know I love, i.e. oscillating fuzzies and sometimes a delay or two. If they do stuff I love and haven't got covered (more or less) by another pedal, I keep it. But mostly I flip, and the searching/chasing/questing becomes the fun. Think that's more doable when you're looking at a spesific niche of effects maybe.

Also, I try to limit myself to my boards, and a maximum of a couple of oscillating fuzzes off-board. Limitations are fun!

Also also, the only pedal I truly regret selling is the Goodbye 24. Sell me a Goodbye 24 so I can mend my ways.

If I can use it ever, I'll keep it. If I don't get it from the get go, then it's in the pile of gonners.

goroth wrote:

neonblack wrote:I try to flip stuff as soon as I get the tracking notice

This probably made me laugh harder than it should have. Hahahahah

I can't physically gig (and that circuit in me got worn out playing too many shows I suspect), but flipping gear just isn't really in my vocabulary.

I've only generally done it when I flat out need cash (and as I got older and more responsible, I had other funding choices).

Now my rule is simple: on the rare, rare occasion I sell something, if I buy it again, I will not sell the second purchase period. I do not repeat mistakes.

That said, I haven't sold a piece of gear in five years now. I should let a few things go in the pedal realm that I just don't use but realistically I'll just find somebody who needs it as a gift more than I want to sell it.

The biggest truth though is know what you're buying and why, and you won't find yourself randomly flipping gear. What need does it fill, and if it doesn't fill one, why would you keep it?

And you're buying the stuff to do a particular thing or make a particular sound, not to buy stuff, right?