Are you addicted to buying gear ?

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Are you addicted to buying music gear ?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 52.9%

  • No

    Votes: 24 47.1%
  • Total voters
    51
I used to be I’d say. But not anymore. In the past 4-5 years I started to dial my guitars back from like a rotating crew of 15 to 4 solid ones. But I’d even like to cut that down to 2 or 3.

Amps, ever since acquiring my Suhr Badger 30 I’ve been just working with it. And I’ve been rewarded big time. It is a really killer amp that kicked out old Marshalls, Soldano, etc. Certainly surprised me, but I think it’s in part to my tastes changing a bit too.

So as of October 25, 2021, no.
 
I was when guitar driven music was relevant. Now it's bout da beatz... ya feel me?
 
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No.

Tone chased for a number of years, which did lead to GAS and whatnot - ended up where I started (more or less) - so no. Got no cravings whatsoever. Nada.

My kit is beyond me - and thus, I need to play more, and more, and more...and more. Buying more won't make me a better player. Playing more will make be a better player.
 
Ventura said:
No.

Tone chased for a number of years, which did lead to GAS and whatnot - ended up where I started (more or less) - so no. Got no cravings whatsoever. Nada.

My kit is beyond me - and thus, I need to play more, and more, and more...and more. Buying more won't make me a better player. Playing more will make be a better player.
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How dare you bring smart thinking and common sense into this..
 
ClintN667 said:
I will say that I much rather have a gear addiction vs the addictions I've had at various points of my life. I wanna try out sex addiction at some point. It seems like a fun one.
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It most certainly is. But then again, there can always be too much of a good thing. Eventually it becomes monotonous and you get to the point that you would rather be playing guitar.
 
I believe I’m the opposite. Besides essentials like spare tubes, etc, my mantra is if a piece of gear ends up being unused more than used, I’ll sell it even if it’s rare. I’m kind of an anti hoarder.
 
thegame said:
I believe I’m the opposite. Besides essentials like spare tubes, etc, my mantra is if a piece of gear ends up being unused more than used, I’ll sell it even if it’s rare. I’m kind of an anti hoarder.
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A very sound approach. What I struggle with is the unused or under used. For example I have a pa in my music room, but only use the subs once a week. Obviously the pa and subs in particular are under used, but not sure that warrants selling them as they are getting used and I would have to replace with something for practice.

I have a 61 key keyboard that gets used for a show once a year, so not getting used much until it gets close to that Christmas show, but rest of the year it is hardly turned on.

So as I said really hard to define what unused is too much. I will go brown periods where stuff collects dust, then other periods Where it gets used a ton.
 
I have a bad habit of buying when I'm bored. I gig and we've been gigging this year, but I work from home and I'm in front of my computer all day everyday. so my collection goes up then goes back down when I realize I bought something I don't really need and won't use that often.
Case in point , I used to play 7's all the time for years but sold them all a few years back because we don't use them in my band.
Now I have one and another one in bound.
I also like my MIJ Charvels. the White H/S/S is one of my work horses and I don't really need the Wildcards, but they are set up so well and sound so good (brass blocks in all of them and a BK Holydiver in the bridge of the Wildcard#4(aqua)) that I can't bring myself to sell them just yet. I' hoping I find a "need" for them but the reality is I use the white one, my Jackson SL-1 and my Les Paul to cover everything I need in this band. I'm hoping to fond another band to hook up with that I can use my 7's and some of these.
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DanTravis62 said:
Nah, I spend far more time writing and playing than I do buying gear.

The Larry cured most of my amp GAS tbh

It's hard to justify buying anything when THAT is sitting in the music room.
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Maybe when my Larry comes that’s the end for me lol
 
Ventura said:
No.

Tone chased for a number of years, which did lead to GAS and whatnot - ended up where I started (more or less) - so no. Got no cravings whatsoever. Nada.

My kit is beyond me - and thus, I need to play more, and more, and more...and more. Buying more won't make me a better player. Playing more will make be a better player.
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Exactly.
Same here.
Answer is no.
Perfectly said.
+311

That said, I am still somewhat addicted to watching other people being addicted and their Classified Ads and NADs. :lol:

It is a sickness :D

I think once I got my Splawn+Rectoverb+pedals rig dialed in it killed a lot of GAS. Now I need to focus on playing more.
 
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