Do you feel at home browsing gear online or at the store right around the corner? Buying, selling, exchanging ─ it's all in your nature, it's almost an obsession. You know you buy too much gear when...
- You sold the last thing you bought before even trying it out.
- You bought Cubase 8 when it came out, even though you still haven’t installed version 7.
- The last pedal you bought is still wrapped in cellophane, two weeks later.
- You always have at least four classified ads running.
- The guy at the local music store knows you by name and always asks about your family.
- Other customers in the store think you are a sales assistant.
- You have four tuners on your pedalboard.
- You have already bought something and sold it only to buy it again some time later.
- Your monthly gear allowance is equivalent to the GDP of some countries.
- You visit your local music store every first day of the month and eat black beans and tortillas until you get your next paycheck.
- You need to rent a storage room to put all the stuff you’ve bought.
- You’ve set up some gear at your parent’s country house because you don’t have enough room at your place.
- Every time you buy new gear you tell your spouse that “this one’s really it” and you won’t ever need anything else again in your life.
- You have more than two ring modulators.
- You keep gear catalogs in the bathroom.
- You buy custom-made boxes and furniture to fit your gear in.
- The only difference between your home studio and a professional one is that you don’t make any money with it.
- You don’t have a good relationship with your banker.
- You have bought at least one instrument you don’t know how to play and said to yourself “you never know when it might come in handy…”
- Your have more than 2 TB of software on your HDD.
- You bought a DI because you think “it’s a nice object.”
- Recabling your home studio takes more than a day’s work.
- You have a room dedicated exclusively to your synths.
- You have bought at least one instrument at a secondhand store just because you didn’t know the brand.
- You have bought at least one device just because it wasn’t expensive.
- You gave a distortion pedal to your mom for her birthday.
- If you break a string on your guitar, you buy another guitar, and tell yourself: “It’s good to have both, because they are complementary.”
- You have never decided between Fender and Gibson. You’re damn right, why should you choose?
Used to think driving halfway across the state to buy a $30 item i saw on craigslist was "a good way to spend a Saturday". I'm often reading reviews of gear i already own.
