Do you compulsively buy gear? Do you spend hours researching recording equipment and instruments for your home recording studio? Did your Sweetwater representative attend your wedding? If so, you may be suffering from GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

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Gear Acquisition Syndrome is the inability to stop yourself from buying gear. You find every excuse to justify the next purchase, but you really don't need it. Does that describe you? Or do you simply own one guitar, one amp, one interface, one computer, and you never find the need to look for more gear, and you are satisfied with what you have. Congratulations to you, Sir (or madame).

I just want to clarify I did not invent the term 'bulimic shopping'. (I understand Bulimia is a serious disorder). Bulimic shopping is a term used to describe compulsive buying and returning. You might say well, as long as you are not purchasing, what's the harm? Well, yes it's great to realize you do not gear that you don't need, but it feels like constant researching gear and sounds and A/B comparisons is a huge waste of time.

The other weird thing is that sometimes I'll need a specific instrument, or sound for a job, but instead of purchasing the piece of gear, I'll borrow it or find some workaround. Most musicians use any excuse to buy gear, but even in this instance I can't seem to purchase stuff. Purchasing gear has been permanently ruined for me lol. I borrowed my neighbor's acoustic electric for a decade for live gigs (thanks Mike!) cause I never wanted to install a pickup in my vintage Martin.

I compulsively sell all of my gear. I sell stuff I don't use, and nothing is too precious to me. It's not the gear, it's the operator.

I do a lot of window shopping, and unnecessary research which takes up hours of my time. Is it the forces of the internet that are to blame, or is it my own weakness? Or both? I'm interested in a lot of topics and I like learning and I like gear and physical things.

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Studio Guitarist & Virtual Guitar Teacher
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