I own 9 basses... will I get better if I sell some? how many?

Yea, I went thru a bunch of money and time researching, reading here a lot... Found that there is a basic set of rules that work for me:

1. You can pick 2 of these; have a light bass, an inexpensive bass, and a good sounding bass.

2. There are usually 15-16 ways to get in the same ballpark. One is decently close to the next, so pick quality stuff you can work with comfortably. Grass is not usually greener.

3. Have as much gear as you want/need. Just know that you have to keep all that stuff up. Assuming your playing and using everything you have, the wider your universe of stuff, the wider your exposure to having to fix/work on gear.

I find that I’m good enough for 3 or 4 basses at a time. I try to use everything g I have at least a little. If not, it moves on. That’s about it.
 
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This is obviously the only bass you truly need, but it will steal your soul....

Behold the Mothman.




(What's the bass bass for ska?)

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The humor seems to be getting a bit lost on some

Seems like if a bass player gets too awesome, they should be required to own way too many basses. Their playing will get dramatically worse and the playing field will get leveled for the rest of us
 
I don't see an issue as long as you consider your bass playing level what it is, and nothing to do with the number of basses you have. Looks like you're just fine.

I've got a good variety IMO. My first bass, short scale with pickups equivalent to Ric spacing. My Ibanez, essentially a 5 string Jazz. My 6 string fretless that needs work and besides I'll never give up that one. My 7 string fretless to replace the 6 string for now. And my Kramer, essentially a P bass. The Kramer and Ibanez could be traded for a 5 string P/J (and if I do that kind of trade I'd rather get a 6 string P/J), but I'm happy with what I got. I could always put flats on the P, or whatever for additional variety.

I just want basses where each does something quite a bit different. Color makes no difference, wood not enough difference to have a bunch of the same bass from different woods at least to me. IMO, mainly there's the P sound and the J sound, and so many others that sound similar to one or both of those two.

IME having a small selection of considerably different basses is a learning tool. It really does help my playing if I'm sounding in the ballpark of the original song. Like some songs just don't sound right without a fretless. And first time I played my Kramer I was playing differently, more like traditional P sounding parts rather than the more modern J tone.
 
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Someon could go down to one bass, and it wont make a difference if they don't practice the darn thing. Only difference is they'd be a person who cant play with one bass instead of a person who can't play with 9 basses.

All smart-a$$ comments aside, why would you care what other think about how many basses you own? Apparently it annoyed you enough to start this trolling thread. If you're happy with where ever it is your at with your playing then that's awesome, but really, you do not have to post a thread pretending to be joking about how many basses you own and trying to convince the rest of us that you're not agitated. You do you, and stop caring so much about what others think.
 
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Here’s the flaws in the plan:

A) You get rid of your ostentatious collection of basses that no middle-management IT person pretending to be a career musician needs. As a result of only owning one bass, nobody at TB takes you seriously anymore.

2) As a result of getting rid of all your extraneous basses, you become awesome. Unfortunately, everybody at TB vehemently hates accomplished musicians with actual music careers on any instrument. So you’re down to zero again, and GOD FORBID if you have an opinion about something...