Most Dissappointing Piece of Gear You've Ever Bought?

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Have you ever had your heart set on a piece of gear? Be it an amp, a pedal. or a guitar; we've all bought something we'd been drooling over only to find out it just wasn't what you expected. Maybe it sound awful, didn't fit your style, or didn't do something you needed. Share your peice of gear and why you ended up not liking it.

I would have to say that the Boss Mt-2 I bought a few years ago was my biggest disappointment. Granted it's not a big purchase but I really don't buy much gear. It just sounded to thin and not pushy enough. Well a few months ago I got the itch for an Egnater Renegade. I went to Guitar Center unaware that they were having a gear trade up sale that weekend. That day I had just happend to have brought along my Mt-2. That $89 pedal ended up saving me about $200. Now that' what I call trading up!
 
TC G-system limited red version for me. Thought it was gonna be the ultimate, end all, be all for effects and switchers for me as it does have a lot of capabilities and made a lot of things easier, but it just didnt live up to expectations. In addition i ended up spending hundreds of extra dollars on cables to try and fix the tone suck and an extra 200 dollars on a buffer that didnt work and ended up getting lost in the mail so i didnt even get my money back when trying to return it. Really wish i could go back in time and just have invested in RJM instead...
 
For me it would be a Marshall JCM900 4100 half stack. That amp just flat out sucked. Thin, lacked bass, and IIRC wasn't overly loud for a 100w amp.
Second would be a Marshall TSL122. It was noisy, fizzy, and just didn't sound all that great. Those amps spawned my dis-taste for Marshall type amps. Everything Marshallish since including a Mesa Stiletto has not worked for me.
 
boutique replacement pickups for a strat the sounded no better than the stock ones
 
1993 Marshall 1987x purchased in 1995

Must have been on drugs in the store (ontario music: no, it wasn't crystal meth...)
Come to think of it, no disrespect to crystal meth users. You probably wouldn't
have bought this amp, this was totally on me. Had it re-tubed and biased. Essentially
left it at work until I left.

Flash forward to 2011. Came home after a night of drinking (see a theme here?). Clipped
the bright cap and wow: No longer a paper weight. Not the main amp but no longer the worst
piece of gear that I ever bought.

Moral of this story: F'ken 16 years of waiting to come home drunk enough to take a
chance. Either I have to quit drinking or stay moderately drunk all of the time.

Just got home. Time to open a leffe blonde.
 
Marshall TSL 122 - I really had high expectations when I got it (they weren't out that long when I received mine), the fizzy, thin distortion later drove me mad...and the footswitch did not function well at all, which I later found out was common with the TSL's. I later sold it for a nice loss and was glad to see the p.o.s. was gone.
 
Shure Vocal Master, I was only 15; but it still sucked.


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Marshall TSL602. Fucking horrible. A crime against God and man.
 
I once fell for the marketing hype of the BBE Sonic Stomp Maximiser. Biggest FAIL of my musical history.
 
racerevlon":3sy1wfcv said:
Marshall TSL602. Fucking horrible. A crime against God and man.
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I was going to buy one today, thanks! :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL:
That is some funny shit!
 
RJF":hvvvdqwt said:
For me it would be a Marshall JCM900 4100 half stack. That amp just flat out sucked. Thin, lacked bass, and IIRC wasn't overly loud for a 100w amp.
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Although I agree that the 4100 is not the best tube Marshall (quite possibly one of the worst ever, right up there with the TSLs), it sounds like the one you had likely had some kind of an issue. When I bought a new 4100 back in 1990, it was loud as F**K. However, it only lasted about 2 years....
 
Boss GT-10. This was supposed to be light years ahead of the GT-6/8. I had the silly idea it would sound good plugged directly into a pa. It did ok with clean tones but any overdrive/distortion tones sounded worse than playing a Kazoo into a Radio Shack microphone attached to a $19.99 Walmart boombox.
 
petejt":1gmm4clm said:
I once fell for the marketing hype of the BBE Sonic Stomp Maximiser. Biggest FAIL of my musical history.
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Amen!
 
Tie between a Marshall DSL50 and a Carl Martin Plexitone.
 
For the price tag and the amount of expectation/hype, I'd say the Mesa Mark V followed by the Diezel Einstein.
 
any of the Dumble style amps I bought-

Two Rock
Carol Ann OD2
Bludotone
 
Wow, Surprised at some of these :confused: But, guess I will add another to the list,,,Bogner XTC 101b
 
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