Piece of gear you most regret buying

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No real regrets, I listened well and bought from guys I trusted :thumbsup:
 
ISP theta head. must have spent 2 months trying to dial in a good sound. ask a tone freak bro to come take it to his place and mess with it. he had it for a month and brought it back saying "i cant do anything with it." thank god i got it at cost, so i didn't take a bath when i sold it. everything else ISP makes for guitar i love, i thought i'd take a chance.
 
The Digitec GNX 4. PITA to tweak and sounded like crap.

ART SGE Mach II,ART SGX 2000 Express & ART X15 pedal. Never got a sound out of it I liked. Big POS!

Marshall Jackhammer and Guv'nor pedals. didnt like the sound.

Guyatone FL3 Flanger. CRAP!

Voodoo labs GNX switchers. Had 2 and once I tried the RJM I couldnt stand the voodoos.
 
spirit7":20wqklq4 said:
Marshall TSL 60. Dreadful. Should I get it modded or cut my losses and sell the bastard?

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I had one of those as well. Absolute shit sounding. I loved my DSL and figured the TSL would be in the same ballpark, with more versatility. Buzz... wrong. Nothing alike. I quickly sold it.
 
I can't recall buying anything that I hated, but there was a deal that I regretted doing soon after completing it. Back when the PODs first came out I traded an early 60's Danelectro Shorthorn bass (in a 60's Fender Mustang case) even up for one and a bit of other shwag (chords, strings, picks, etc) because I was low on funds and "had to have" the POD for some demo work. :doh:
That said, I still use the POD to this day for headphone practice and rarely touch a bass so maybe it wasn't such a bad deal (yeah, keep telling yourself that :lol: :LOL: ).
 
I don't really regret buying anything...there was stuff that I ended up not liking, but led to other stuff I did like. All part of the journey.

I have learned to not take other people's opinions on gear....
 
No regrets per se...but the biggest POS amp that I've ever owned was a Lee Jackson Metaltronix. Horrible tone....I still have nightmares about it
 
turtlefingers":13vmjquo said:
What you disliked in it? :confused:
I agree with you, the costumer service is a big shit! :doh:
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It just wasn't reliable.

Round 1.
It had to go to the shop for repairs in the first week I owned it and it was more than a month before Gary at Alpha Kinetix could get it back to me. Diagnosis? Cold solder joints.

Round 2.
After I had it out of the shop only a month and a half it stopped switching. Off to Florida again, and surprise!! No amp for more than a month. Diagnosis? Cold solder joints. Should those have been discovered and fixed the first time? :confused:

ENGL refuses to call it a lemon and replace it with a working unit. No surprise, but I thought I would ask. The email was snotty and rude. In a nutshell they said "too fucking bad, we already cashed your check".

Final round.
Amp stopped making sound after about 3 months clear from it's second surgery. Off to A.K. again. The doctor says?
Seems all the tube 'fail safe' circuitry was smoke and mirrors, because a blown tube took out a bunch of stuff in it's path. 5 weeks later I got it back, tested it to be sure everything worked and sold it to fund a Diezel Herbert.

I still have an ENGL cab, because it sounds wicked, but I refuse to buy anything from that company ever again. Great sounding amps sure, but I prefer companies that care about the people who spend a small fortune on their products.
 
JCM900. I was young and didnt know better, just knew it was a Marshall.

It was so bad, I hated Marshalls for atleast a decade.
 
I know there's a lot of love out there for it, but...
Zvex Fuzz Factory.

Tweaked and tweaked, just couldn't get a usable tone with my Marshall Vintage Modern.
Couldnt get it to cut thru my 2 guitar band.

Said bye bye to it last week.
 
Sure. Every piece of gear that I've bought that wasn't a Fender Stratocaster or a Marshall/Mesa.

Really. Almost everything else is gone. And those pieces that aren't gone? Their days are numbered. :thumbsup:

I do really like that Ibanez Prestige though. Killer guitar. :rock:
 
ShredMojo":3lbpx39x said:
JCM900. I was young and didnt know better, just knew it was a Marshall.

It was so bad, I hated Marshalls for atleast a decade.
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OMG me too. the dual reverb one...and it sounded NOTHING like the bands that i listened to at the time that used MARSHALLS.
little did i know.

so i flipped it for a pretty banged up early 70's SG. i refinished it myself, gutted the already trashed electronics, and replaced everything myself. put a silverbird bridge pickup in it and an alnico 2 pro in the neck.

i've bought some real shitter guitars and flipped them, and of course, you always lose money on them. fucked up real good, had a blue stripe mark 3 head that i traded for a subway rocket and 300$ in cash to me. i just couldn't get it to sound good...back in 1997, or 98! then, listened back to some demo work i did with it about 4 years later and was like "WTF" was i thinking!

traded the subway rocket for 400$ a year later. fucked up good!

some other crap, i just block it out..no sense in dwelling...much...hahah
 
rlord1974":1gyb4y8p said:
Well, tons of Recto Pre hate boiling over in here. Mental note: stay away from it!
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I don't think you should stay away from it, plenty of people bash gear I love.
 
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