Used to do the same thing with my electric guitar. I kept buying new pedals thinking that I would sound great once I found the perfect combo. Never made me a better player though.
I'm not intending to troll you :) I swear. But actually your comment might miss the point of the OP. Give Jimi Hendrix or Slash the worst guitar and the worst amp and he'll make much better music than 99.99% of the population. Same with cooking. Have you watched Top Chefs do the gas station challenge? They can take the shittiest ingredients and run circles around most chefs who have unlimited budgets to spend on organic, fresh, whatevers.
