cujo
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Splawn nitro
Tc g system
Tc g system
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Mr. Burton
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Randall MTS - Most of the stock modules sound like junk. Egnater is a far superior product.
Line 6 Echo/Mod Pro - Volume drop issues made them almost unusable.
Anything by DOD - Switch broke on every pedal I or any of my friends ever had.
Line 6 Echo/Mod Pro - Volume drop issues made them almost unusable.
Anything by DOD - Switch broke on every pedal I or any of my friends ever had.
petejt
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SodaJerk":3fr8za1k said:
I wonder how that would sound in stereo with a really midrangey high gain sound?
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grrr_me_scary
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Heritage Softail":17csom9n said:
Now that is a priceless statement!!! I am going to pass this along to my buddy who just got divorced, it will make his day!!!
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grrr_me_scary
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Rocktron Voodu Valve Online.
I actually liked the way it sounded live at the store but it didn't come close to the AXE FX Ultra I had purchased around the same time, missed my 45 day return option, and it has sit in it's box ever since that day I compared the two for recording guitar tracks.
The most disappointing part is that the device sounds pretty good for live stuff but it keeps no resale value.
I paid over $750 for it and I would be lucky if I was able to even get $350 these days.
It is brand new and has sit in it's box since the first day it was taken out.
I even tried listing it at $150 as a joke just to see if any interest was out there on CL and not a reply to the ad except the usual spammers.
The worst purchase EVER!!!
I actually liked the way it sounded live at the store but it didn't come close to the AXE FX Ultra I had purchased around the same time, missed my 45 day return option, and it has sit in it's box ever since that day I compared the two for recording guitar tracks.
The most disappointing part is that the device sounds pretty good for live stuff but it keeps no resale value.
I paid over $750 for it and I would be lucky if I was able to even get $350 these days.
It is brand new and has sit in it's box since the first day it was taken out.
I even tried listing it at $150 as a joke just to see if any interest was out there on CL and not a reply to the ad except the usual spammers.
The worst purchase EVER!!!
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grrr_me_scary
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Actually, the worst purchase I have ever made (and thanks for reminding me 
) was for a Roland VS 880EX from a mom and pop's store called Styles Music in my old area.
I paid about $2700 for the VS 880EX, the custom case, and cd burner.
It was an 8 track recorder with some virtual tracks (just in case no one remembers what it was in the late 1900's and early 2000, lol).
I remember I headed over to my brother-in-laws place to show it off to him and I found him using digital means to record called a Cakewalk computer program which allowed him to move around between all the windows where I was having to hurt my eyes looking at the little window on the VS 880EX at the store plus trying to remember where everything was located.
I immediately went back to the store and they told me there was NO REFUNDS just store credit.
I had 29 more days to decide what I wanted to do with it (they had nothing I wanted there especially since I was getting everything at a much lower price back then at GC).
Well, I waited until the last day then decided to open it before returning it that day, and they said they wouldn't give me even store credit now since it was opened (I think they new the VS 890EX was coming out the next day).
I figured I could sell it at a few $100 less but then the DAMN 890EX came out literally the next day for $700 less and my unit dropped to below $900 for a new one and a used one was at a price below $600. I was pissed off about the whole thing because of the high price and loss and especially since I remembered how my brother-in-law used his computer monitor for everything.
I quickly jumped on the computer software wave for recording and never looked back.
The unit is BRAND NEW and sitting in it's case.
One day I will donate it to a recording history museum and hopefully get a tax write-off, lol.
I know I wasn't the only one pissed off about the VS 890EX coming out because I saw many of these being sold over the next year at close to $300 and $400. I tried putting it up for sale at $700 because of it being so new and coming with a case and a person called me up and said I was a douchebag for listing it so high and that he sold his the year before for $300 then he hung up on me, you could smell the alcohol on his breathe, lol.
I never bought a new Roland product again (I wait until Sam Ash or GC clears out their new but discontinued Roland products for new Roland replacements (I get them at a much, much, much, lower price this way)) and I never listed my number on a site like Recylcer or CL again as well.
We learn from some mistakes.
) was for a Roland VS 880EX from a mom and pop's store called Styles Music in my old area.I paid about $2700 for the VS 880EX, the custom case, and cd burner.
It was an 8 track recorder with some virtual tracks (just in case no one remembers what it was in the late 1900's and early 2000, lol).
I remember I headed over to my brother-in-laws place to show it off to him and I found him using digital means to record called a Cakewalk computer program which allowed him to move around between all the windows where I was having to hurt my eyes looking at the little window on the VS 880EX at the store plus trying to remember where everything was located.
I immediately went back to the store and they told me there was NO REFUNDS just store credit.
I had 29 more days to decide what I wanted to do with it (they had nothing I wanted there especially since I was getting everything at a much lower price back then at GC).
Well, I waited until the last day then decided to open it before returning it that day, and they said they wouldn't give me even store credit now since it was opened (I think they new the VS 890EX was coming out the next day).
I figured I could sell it at a few $100 less but then the DAMN 890EX came out literally the next day for $700 less and my unit dropped to below $900 for a new one and a used one was at a price below $600. I was pissed off about the whole thing because of the high price and loss and especially since I remembered how my brother-in-law used his computer monitor for everything.
I quickly jumped on the computer software wave for recording and never looked back.
The unit is BRAND NEW and sitting in it's case.
One day I will donate it to a recording history museum and hopefully get a tax write-off, lol.
I know I wasn't the only one pissed off about the VS 890EX coming out because I saw many of these being sold over the next year at close to $300 and $400. I tried putting it up for sale at $700 because of it being so new and coming with a case and a person called me up and said I was a douchebag for listing it so high and that he sold his the year before for $300 then he hung up on me, you could smell the alcohol on his breathe, lol.
I never bought a new Roland product again (I wait until Sam Ash or GC clears out their new but discontinued Roland products for new Roland replacements (I get them at a much, much, much, lower price this way)) and I never listed my number on a site like Recylcer or CL again as well.
We learn from some mistakes.
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Ye Black Knight":3q9yhgrt said:
BRILLIANT!
my WORST one was a marshall jcm 900 dual reverb.
tried like hell, just couldn't vibe with it.
had a mark 3 that i just could'nt figure out why it sounded so shitty....i think something was wrong with it, or it needed new tubes...it was very BLAH sounding....but, i sold it for 200$ more than i paid for it, so i was happy.
i wanna get another mark 3 and give it a shot.
i also had jcm 800 50 watt...not sure which version, and it just sucked mucho cocko. total turd ferguson, and it got returned. musta been a 2205 or 2210 cause i wasn't gettin the tones i was looking for.
i bought a washburn dimebag model (the high end one) back in like 98, got it home, plugged it in, and realized it wasn't the guitar that sounded killer, it was the jcm 800 that i put it through in the store ( a used gear store here in pittburgh), promptly took the guitar back and returned it so i could buy the amp, and literally missed it by minutes...i was really really bummed. that 800 had the "it" that prompted the 800 purchase i spoke of above.
original digitech whammy....fucking hated the thing. not into making insect sounds with my guitar...not sure what i was thinking.
im sure there were many more....
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Valtyr
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Moog Satilite
Very sterile thin sounding synth, not sure why I got it. I didn't have it long before I sold it back. I hear it died shortly thereafter.
Very sterile thin sounding synth, not sure why I got it. I didn't have it long before I sold it back. I hear it died shortly thereafter.
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blackie13
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Engl Screamer:Nice clean,nice lead.The two channels in between were crap...
Engl Fireball 60: PIECE OF SHIT.Nothing can be worse than that.Even an alternative rock player laughed when heard it.
Engl Blackmore:Nothing awesome(OT was tinny...and fried).
Engl(again!!!! -insecure guy-) Invader: Nothing special.Liked it when I was playing alone(esp in ch3).But lacked balls...
Mesa Boogie Dual recto solo head:I don't get it mesa guys...why an amp that costs 3000$ needs a 100$ pedal in front to sound good?Lots of low end-lots of treble...nothing in between.
I still haven't find an eminence speaker that I like...celestion guy I guess...
Seymour duncan JB and Distortion: I guess I like low output pickups more.
Engl Fireball 60: PIECE OF SHIT.Nothing can be worse than that.Even an alternative rock player laughed when heard it.
Engl Blackmore:Nothing awesome(OT was tinny...and fried).
Engl(again!!!! -insecure guy-) Invader: Nothing special.Liked it when I was playing alone(esp in ch3).But lacked balls...
Mesa Boogie Dual recto solo head:I don't get it mesa guys...why an amp that costs 3000$ needs a 100$ pedal in front to sound good?Lots of low end-lots of treble...nothing in between.
I still haven't find an eminence speaker that I like...celestion guy I guess...
Seymour duncan JB and Distortion: I guess I like low output pickups more.
peterc52
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I just couldn't jive with Mesa mark IV.
And Randall rg50tc sounded awfull
And Randall rg50tc sounded awfull
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ewill52
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TSL was waaaay up on the list because it was my first real Marshall. Randall RM was a big one too, so much potential but had the shittiest loop EVER, but I think the biggest for me was the Mark V. I just couldn't gel with it. I wanted to love that amp but damn it was a helluva lot of work to get decent tones out of. Sold it, bought a Shiva, never looked back.
Skrapmetal
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Every new guitar I've ever purchased online without playing it.
Granted they weren't high end (all in the $500-800 range), but each one was a disappointment. None played like I hoped, and only one sounded decent. And, unfortunately, that one that sounded decent played the worst because the frets were all flat and awful.
I can't say the same about used, though. Only purchased three used guitars without playing them first, and I still have two of them. Only reason I got rid of the third was to pay off bills.
Granted they weren't high end (all in the $500-800 range), but each one was a disappointment. None played like I hoped, and only one sounded decent. And, unfortunately, that one that sounded decent played the worst because the frets were all flat and awful.
I can't say the same about used, though. Only purchased three used guitars without playing them first, and I still have two of them. Only reason I got rid of the third was to pay off bills.
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rynnce
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Ear Candy Buzzbomb. It sounds decent but the owner screwed over lots of people and ended up shutting things down. Now I've got gear with a really bad stigma attached. Don't even want to know what the value is.
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Anonymous
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I've owned many amps and all of them sounded different, I guess none of them sounded awful (except for Krank Krankenstein), just not what I was looking for.
Recently got an Eventide Time Factor: overhyped crap
I don't know about low-medium gain stuff, but in the loop of a high gain amp, it adds treble (unpleasant, fizzy treble) to the signal. They even talk about the problem on the Q&A section of their website. For the price, I was very disappointed
Recently got an Eventide Time Factor: overhyped crap
I don't know about low-medium gain stuff, but in the loop of a high gain amp, it adds treble (unpleasant, fizzy treble) to the signal. They even talk about the problem on the Q&A section of their website. For the price, I was very disappointed
Passepartout
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VOX ST Tonelab. Blah.
thiswaythatway
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I bought a smoke shifter once! What a piece of junk. And the same guy sold me a bucket of powdered water! That shit doesn't work either.
FondledDuck
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petejt":2t3czbye said:
I would have to totally agree!!! Although my Sonic Maximizer fail moment was with the rack version.
FondledDuck
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TC Electronic's G-Major was a 'major' disappointment
FondledDuck
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XXX was my first legit tube amp and I really dug it. I ran it thru a Genz Benz 4x12 and it slayed.feraledge":gtr3gbqf said:
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steve_k":1w70emg9 said:danyeo":1w70emg9 said:racerevlon":1w70emg9 said:kurtsstuff":1w70emg9 said:
If you can't sound good with Splawn, perhaps you should look into drum lessons...
That didn't take long.
I just scored two brand new Splawn's.......head shells. Scott makes some killer replacement shells, fast delivery and reasonably priced. Needed a couple for some Marshall's - one 87 and one 59 series.
The headshells are cool....great for putting good amps into.
There's lots of big disappointments but that just happens to top the list