Anyone else experience gear fatigue?
Not sure what I'm looking for here, but I have a fairly small but respectible setup at home, featuring a PC with Reaper, a MacBook with Logic and FL Studio on both. As far as hardware goes, I have the usual MIDI keyboards, a couple of synths, a BOSS RC-505 looper, a Novation Circuit Tracks, some guitars, mics and a mixer.
Despite having these fun toys, I almost always end up just playing my guitar into Reaper with the same old plugins and VSTs I've used for the last decade... and I never do anything but make short little riffs that ultimately collect digital dust on my harddrive.
I follow all of these amazing artists who have similar setups to me, and they do the coolest stuff. Whenever I try to exit my typical track-stacking recording in Reaper to explore looping, sampling or live synth jamming, I get stuck in a sort of fatigue of not knowing where to start. I'm well versed in MIDI chaining, using all of the In's and Out's and live mixing. I could set all of that up for someone else, but when I try to do it for myself, I get hung up on things like "which device should be the master clock?" or "how many bars should I set my looper tracks to?" or "How should I implement the groovebox into all of this in a way that makes sense for more than a single idea?"
Just looking for some inspiration, validation or ideas on how to make use of what I have. I almost feel bad that I'm sitting on a pile of gear that rarely gets used. I have no intention of turning music into a career or anything, but I do want it to be more than a hobby and maybe entertain or inspire others.