Synth Nerd & Modular Synth Hats

Modular synth people have their own word for the condition: GAS, short for gear acquisition syndrome, which the Learning Modular glossary describes as an uncontrollable urge to keep adding more modules to a system. One forum veteran put the warning this way: going modular expands your mind, and you won't regret it, but your bank account will. It is a community that teases itself constantly, and Moogfest, the gathering for synthesizer geeks, is where attendees turn up in shirts printed with synth circuits and a drawing of a reverb board. These Synth Nerd and Modular Synth hats are for the player, the builder and the collector. Two plain badges name the tribe. The sentence designs carry the in-group jokes: SO MANY SYNTHS SO FEW FINISHED SONGS, since modular systems are often described as never finished; KNOB TWIDDLER; BLEEP BLOOP I'M A MUSICIAN; and PRESET IS A DIRTY WORD, for people who build every sound from scratch. MORE CABLE LESS STABLE already sells on dad hats as part of the cable mess and cable chaos theme, so it earns a second colorway here, as does the never-finished-songs line. SYNTHWAVE is set as an arch for the retro-neon side of the scene. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for your own rack, or give one to the friend whose studio is mostly cables.