Strain One : The Engineers Approach

This strain is characterised by (over?)engineering the solution to each particular music gear function a GAS suffer decides they need— often by buying the best equipment you know of for a particular application.

The purchasing decision process goes something like this:
- Decide to purchase a piece of equipment (eg an amp or a twelve string acoustic).
- Determine a budget.
- Do some research and sample various makes and models within the budget.
- For comparative research sample one of the most expensive models available to see what the difference is between that and the models within budget.
- Ignore/ increase the budget and get the expensive one instead it.

Amplification symptoms present as a preference for expensive amplification that has a considerable level of versatility. Like an engineering model, The parameters are dialed in to achieve various tones based on the intended application.*

An example of someone suffering from this strain is my younger brother.

* Note — this is not the same as using cheap digital modelling gear. Versatility is important, but having the "right" gear is more so. This versatility refers to a multi channel tube amp, with separate gain, master and eq controls for each channel, not a myriad of digital effects that sound artificial.