"If I could start all over again with the knowledge that I've obtained since I definitely would have done a lot of things differently. One thing that happens is like, when you're first starting out you're going to start encountering all these new problems. You know, "why don't my guitars sound like this" or "why don't my vocals sound like this record", or whatever it is. Sometimes you think that you need to spend a lot more money to fix those problems than you do. And actually, as I age into my career, I find myself needing to so a lot less "stuff", and I do things a lot quicker now.

I think one of the first things I would have done, is told myself to not buy new gear to fix every problem. Because the most important piece of gear is what's between your ears. The problem is at the time, you haven't exactly developed that so you go to your wallet. But yeah, I bought countless things that I thought would fix certain problems, only to find that while they had uses and they were cool pieces of gear (or sometimes they weren't and I'd have to sell them because it was a mistake) it rarely fixed my problem. It did give me experience with new gear and stuff which is cool, but yeah, I probably would have told myself to save like a bunch of money."

Found in this interview (please check out the full conversation): 

https://pluginfox.co/blogs/interviews/jay-maas

-Benedikt

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