Ohhhhh, this can't be good...

[bunwabit]

I guess because we are all tying to be ex-smokers we are prone to be obsessive compulsive people??? I know that in 1 month of finding "vaping" I just upgrade to my 3rd E-Cig waiting impaitiently for it to come in the mail and I only ordered it yesterday!!! Would have been nice if I found this forum before I bought my other 2 but I probably wouldn't have known this was going to become such a "thing" for me. Good think my husband is the obsessive type to, we want what we want when we want it!!!!! LOL Actually most of our "hobbies" are expensive (he is into RC planes & jets) so this is a drop in the bucket compared to that!!!

Hope you get your stuff soon and quit the habit. Yesterday was 2 weeks for me. I did smoke one analog in those 2 weeks just to see what I was missing. Yuck, I'd rather be vaping on Red Hotz!!!!! LOL I never thought quitting would be so painless.

 

[chatter97]

Ok you got my curiosity going............post a pic of your "manpurse" LMAO

Right now it is a travel bag that I converted. It has only two pockets which works, because I use an old make up bag to hold extra atomizers and batteries, then I have two mini juice holders juice goes into and I have an ego case I use to stash my drip Kit, some napkins, an extra ego bat, extra drip tip and some small 3mm bottles and some q-tips. I throw all those into the bag, plus the smokestik kit. If I am going to a residence I throw in my chargers as well. Some places this stays in the car and I grab smaller versions, but that is if I know I am close by.

 

[Stormiefury]

I guess because we are all tying to be ex-smokers we are prone to be obsessive compulsive people??? I know that in 1 month of finding "Vaping" I just upgrade to my 3rd E-Cig waiting impaitiently for it to come in the mail and I only ordered it yesterday!!! Would have been nice if I found this forum before I bought my other 2 but I probably wouldn't have known this was going to become such a "thing" for me. Good think my husband is the obsessive type to, we want what we want when we want it!!!!! LOL Actually most of our "hobbies" are expensive (he is into RC planes & jets) so this is a drop in the bucket compared to that!!!

Hope you get your stuff soon and quit the habit. Yesterday was 2 weeks for me. I did smoke one analog in those 2 weeks just to see what I was missing. Yuck, I'd rather be vaping on Red Hotz!!!!! LOL I never thought quitting would be so painless.

Shoot I'm right there with you BUT I deem myself an ex-smoker. And my husband always says "What the Wife wants the Wife gets, because I know I get the benefits" LMAO I'm just glad I don't have to buy for both of us because we are both "It's My Money and I Want It NOW" kind of people. Happy Vaping!!!

Stormie

 

[Fox5]

I hear ya brother, hope this works for you and you can start a healer life style

 

[ChadR]

Look at the bright side - hopefully the more you spend, the more you'll be determined to make vaping work, and not go back to the analogs. I know after everything I've bought in the last week, if my wife catches me with an analog in my mouth, I'm toast!

 

[Roidrage]

I'm currently looking for a man purse. I just resurrected my credit cards from going to default. I gotta buy a man purse before I start buying everything in sight again. I guess I'll never be done "saving my own life". LOL!

I thought it will be all over after I get the SSGGTS and UFS3, but I still cannot stop thinking about the ProVari, REO Grand, Precise 18650, Apex Ultramax, those cherry vape drip tips, those CE2 tanks...

SOMEBODY STOP ME!

 

[GreyLion]

Yeah -- I don't know if I'm moving slower or faster than most who take up vaping, but only a couple of weeks ago, I was just wanting something that looks and feels like an analog -- like most newbs, from what I read -- and now I'm trying to get my hands on a certain model of GoGo and the gear that goes with it.

Already got enough gear that I'm running out of pocket space. Not done buying yet.... Fortunately, I'm an IT guy, so it's okay for me to be wandering around with a bag full of odd-looking unidentifiable tech parts...

 

[chatter97]

Yeah -- I don't know if I'm moving slower or faster than most who take up vaping, but only a couple of weeks ago, I was just wanting something that looks and feels like an analog -- like most newbs, from what I read -- and now I'm trying to get my hands on a certain model of GoGo and the gear that goes with it.

Already got enough gear that I'm running out of pocket space. Not done buying yet.... Fortunately, I'm an IT guy, so it's okay for me to be wandering around with a bag full of odd-looking unidentifiable tech parts...

This vendor has a variety of GoGo stuff.(Good juice too)!!!

 

[Gergely]

Hi, Vapers --

[T]his is commonly known as GAS -- Gear Acquisition Syndrome -- in that community, and I've got it bad. Is that what it's called here?

No, but I vote that we adopt it, like now

 

[GreyLion]

No, but I vote that we adopt it, like now

Y'know, I just realized that the initials are much more appropriate for vaping than just about anything else I could think of....

EDITED: Chatter97 -- Thanks! I'll def follow up on this.... Great prices! I'm trying to find the GoGo batt with the LCD readout. May have a line on one. They seem to be rare as chicken's teeth right now...

 

[nanovapr]

Hi GreyLion, welcome to ECF. I'm an IT guy and musician/home studio guy as well. Online for 30 years, gigging for 40 years, home studio for 22 years, vaping since last summer. As mentioned, they're all basically batteries. Find one (or a few) that work for you. The most important thing is finding juice you like. Yup, it can be G.A.S here as well.

 

[Austen876]

hahah i dont feel so bad about the amount of money ive spent in the few short months ive been vaping on gear now! Ive never hear that G.A.S term but i sure do like it! welcome to a new hobby! have fun

 

[GreyLion]

Hi GreyLion, welcome to ECF. I'm an IT guy and musician/home studio guy as well. Online for 30 years, gigging for 40 years, home studio for 22 years, vaping since last summer. As mentioned, they're all basically batteries. Find one (or a few) that work for you. The most important thing is finding juice you like. Yup, it can be G.A.S here as well.

Yay! It's good to see another musician/recorder here.

Sounds like you've gigged more than me -- mine was mostly the occasional bar thing or science fiction convention dance or open mic night; mostly just have jammed with friends -- haven't gigged at all for a couple of years. We both go back to BBS'es and 110-baud modems, I think. I started obsessing about computers and doing the little Heathkit things back then. First serious computer was an Osborne-1.

Fooled around with tape recording in the 90's, but didn't really get into it until around a decade ago, when DAWS started to be affordable and functional. If you're ever over at KVR, give me a yell -- I'm GreyLion there, too. (Some killer deals coming up through the vendors tracked there this month, I think... To feed the software GAS. )

And now -- a whole new corner of tech and possibilities to fool around with with vaping.

I'm still real early with this, but I do think you're right -- I should have all the batteries and carts I need for awhile, by next week. I'm enjoying vaping tobacco flavors as I transition off of analogs, but am about to branch out into the other juicy wonderfulness when this next shipment arrives from Discount Vapers...

 

[BrokenSocial]

Forums tend to be REALLY REALLY bad for GAS! I've spent at least $5,000 in stomp boxes alone. I'm not counting amps+guitars. I don't even want to think about that. I'm trying to be "thrifty" now and perhaps I shouldn't be with the vaping thing, but I'm pretty satisfied with my e-power and 1.7 cartos. I'm still a bit lost on juices/vendors.

The odd thing is that I'm a bit afraid to get into the better mods since I might just like them TOO much and then never quit my nic habit. I'm still giving the vape thing at least a year lol

 

[GreyLion]

$5K on pedals?? Wow! dude, I'm impressed -- that's some serious GAS.

I thought I had it bad, but I've probably only put out about $1K on pedals over the past 40 years.

Guitars and amps and computer-music-making software and hardware, though.... Yeah, that much in just the past three or four years...

You're right about the Forum thing. KVR has MADE me buy stuff that I haven't even opened yet... Do you surf the Harmony-Central Deals and Spam threads? They're like a vortex...

And yeah on the vaping gear -- I started with some standard V4L 808 stuff only a couple of weeks ago, and just now ordered a set of Gogo gear. I'm hoping I can stop at that with the hardware shopping, except for necessary replacements and, like you, just learn about the juices that turn me on...

 

[Roidrage]

Hey Folks,

It's strange that it's vaping that brought us togethr in this forum and we're all into studio/music. I guess I always had G.A.S., I'm into vocals and digital effects. My first experience was with competitive shooting equipment then it settled with just 1 main full-race revolver. My second was with audio and recording and again, I could not stop myself from buying microphones and effects processors.. I finally settled on an AKG microphone and a Lexicon fx. I wonder If I'll stop buying PV's now that I have an SSGGTS with UFS3.....

 

[nanovapr]

Roidrage, I have some AKG mics, very good middle of the road condensors. It's like anything else, if you delve into the extremes, it can make you want more.

I have accumulated a couple of racks of stuff over the years, but PCs are so cheap now, software effects are so easy. I never touch the racks or patchbay anymore at all.

On gearslutz there are guys saying that "until you break the $3k barrier in mics, you don't know what a mic is". Well, that's all nice, but I know enough about it to know that at my level (which is a hobbyist level for one, and I can't/won't have $3000 mics for another), it's more important to learn the basics of using the tool to it's utmost, not just explore the top end.

There is a great and long musician's thread on ECF, I spent a few days reading it, but did not check in.

 

[GreyLion]

Yeah, that thing about the really expensive high-end mics and other gear that gives you the professional magic fairy dust tends to avoid mentioning that most of us have recording and mixing spaces that didn't cost a hundred K to put together, so that whatever benefit we might get from them tends to be obscured by our struggle to just get a fairly accurate non-noisy track down... Not to mention not having golden ears in the first place...

That said, over the years, I've tried to gradually upgrade my gear so that it at least doesn't get in my way. Like you guys, what I'm mostly striving for these days is to just get a good clean signal in, then tweak it up in-the-box with VSTs and such, rather than hardware.

I could be wrong, of course; maybe if I had some U-87s and an old Neve console and Distressors and such, I'd be making number one hits with them. But probably not.

 

[nanovapr]

Yeah, we've all got better stuff now than the Beatles had, that doesn't make us all cranking out hits! Reverb/delay in the cans can influence a performance, but for the most part, I just try to track it hot and dry. There's plenty of mangling (sometimes too much, of course) that can be done later.