Well, here we go. I call up Chad on a Wednesday afternoon. He's working on a TV commercial in a production company's studio. He just moved into a new house recently, and he says that he's stoked to have all of his studio gear finally hooked up. Moving into a house is no big deal, Chad says, but moving a studio of equipment, sorting through yards and yards of cable, and rewiring it all is a pain in the patootie.
Chad collects studio equipment.
Maybe there's something there. Collecting things definitely runs in the genes for my family. I collect records and British dance music magazines, and my dad collects enough guns to make me want to be on Daddy's side when the next war comes. Chad started buying studio equipment two years after high school, the summer of '91, and ever since he bought his first sampling work station, he's been hooked. He says that he has enough equipment so that he could record for a whole band, if he wanted.