What are the WORST hyped pieces of gear you've owned..

Eminence speakers.

Every time I go back to a Celestion, I wonder why I bothered.

ET-65 is great and all, but I’ve yet to find a single one that works for me 100%.

It’s like they all have this lower value vibe, and while some found great, they are missing that “It” factor.
 
Nigel said:
Eminence speakers.

Every time I go back to a Celestion, I wonder why I bothered.

ET-65 is great and all, but I’ve yet to find a single one that works for me 100%.

It’s like they all have this lower value vibe, and while some found great, they are missing that “It” factor.
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I can agree with this IME too

I'm sure other people like certain models and all, but there has not been a single situation where I didn't find a celestion or something that did the same job better as an eminence
 
DanTravis62 said:
I can agree with this IME too

I'm sure other people like certain models and all, but there has not been a single situation where I didn't find a celestion or something that did the same job better as an eminence
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I love Zinky Eminence and Fryette P50E’s if they are flogged to death first, but every single fucking time I go back to a Mesa V30 I am happier. The mic is too.

Maybe when I have Josh Homme money I can get retarded with mics and odd speakers to be unique and special like on Rated R and Songs for the Deaf…but until then nothing works as fast or satisfies in a mix like Mesa V30 > 57.
 
Nigel said:
I love Zinky Eminence and Fryette P50E’s if they are flogged to death first, but every single fucking time I go back to a Mesa V30 I am happier. The mic is too.

Maybe when I have Josh Homme money I can get retarded with mics and odd speakers to be unique and special like on Rated R and Songs for the Deaf…but until then nothing works as fast or satisfies in a mix like Mesa V30 > 57.
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That's my setup most of the time too, although it's an early 90s uk v30 and two 57s in a fredman clip

I love v30s and I used to think it was the only speaker I would ever need

But what I needed were a handful of other really great speakers and mics to mix and match with them for variety and to extrapolate on the sounds I like

Scumback bm75LDs, an EV12L, a 121, a 421, and a handful of other speakers and mics are kind of what I've settled on as the bare minimum for me

But I would suggest starting with another mic to mic with the 57, and then start experimenting with other speakers after you find something that meshes well
 
Rackman said:
Agreed as well. I've got them in a L5 and they do exactly what they're supposed to do.

Frankly some of the answers here are laughable. SLOs are not overhyped. BKP are not overhyped. Neither is the DC30 or the MkV. You may not like them, but that's different. Carvin amps are overhyped pieces of shit designed to separate fools from their money and nothing more. The difference should be obvious.
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Hyped... by whom? ...the music instrument Industry, the pro players or the musician/guitar community?
It wasn't specified and was pretty open to various interpretations. You perhaps seem to be assuming it's the industry hype here, but thats not where I was coming from.

My post wasn't about Industry/sales hype, but more regarding the general player community hype. The DC30 has an almost mystical reputation with many at this stage and holds a high price. It prob does sound as it's designed, I don't think my one is faulty and I never implied it was a piece of shit.

But for me... the tones are just meh, next.
A: Perhaps the Vox style tones are really not my flavour and that's fine, at least I know that even the 'highly regarded' modern interpretation of that circuit proved I'm just not into Vox tones, and
B: The cleans were really not that special to me, especially through the 2x12 combo and especially for 5k. I had to plug out to my other cabs to get away from the boxy combo sound.
I took an opportunity to get one without the chance to play and get to experience it beforehand, due to their rarity in my region. Thats just life in a small market like Australia.
I was expecting the heavens to part when I strummed that first chord... meh, I'd rather my cheap VOX CC2 for that voxy sound, or my VH4 Ch1, Fender Super Reverb, '64 Bassman, SS100 Ch1, JC120, Wizzer VC100 or many other amps I already have for my favourite clean sounds with some sweet reverb and delay preferences.

I don't feel the amp is worth 5K just for me to get a Vox sound I don't really like for more than 10 mins, or a clean that I can get elsewhere in my collection.

It's all subjective and it's all good. I'm kidding wrt 'expecting the heavens to part' above, but you know what I mean.
I can just sell it on later and someone else will love it and I'll use that money to buy something more suited to my taste. Lesson learned for me.
I also fully realise it's perhaps the same experience for others wrt other classically hyped gear like Wizards, Diezel, IIC+ etc, etc... until you play them yourself and experience them first hand you can't really know if it's for you or not. The world keeps turning.

Rock on brother. :rawk:
 
DanTravis62 said:
I can agree with this IME too

I'm sure other people like certain models and all, but there has not been a single situation where I didn't find a celestion or something that did the same job better as an eminence
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Never used an Eminence speaker in a guitar amp. I know their 10" bass drivers are the only ones I like. Oddly the ones I like best are what they call the "dark era" Ampeg. Supposedly the least desirable. When I whittled my rigs down to just one from 3 I narrowed the cabs down to a Heritage ( the last Ampeg 810 made in the US- poplar plywood), and my 2006 SLM Dark Era "Eat shit" cab ( particle board with zero tolex and Eat shit stenciled on the grill cloth.) If I wore tan pants I'd have kept the flawless Heritage, but the shitty cab sounds much better so that's the one I kept. Paired with my '89 SLM II non pro and my Spector it's a killing machine.
 
Floyd Eye said:
Never used an Eminence speaker in a guitar amp. I know their 10" bass drivers are the only ones I like. Oddly the ones I like best are what they call the "dark era" Ampeg. Supposedly the least desirable. When I whittled my rigs down to just one from 3 I narrowed the cabs down to a Heritage ( the last Ampeg 810 made in the US- poplar plywood), and my 2006 SLM Dark Era "Eat shit" cab ( particle board with zero tolex and Eat shit stenciled on the grill cloth.) If I wore tan pants I'd have kept the flawless Heritage, but the shitty cab sounds much better so that's the one I kept. Paired with my '89 SLM II non pro and my Spector it's a killing machine.
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I'm not picky at all with bass speakers normally - but from what I understand eminence bass speakers are more highly regarded than their guitar speakers
 
DanTravis62 said:
I'm not picky at all with bass speakers normally - but from what I understand eminence bass speakers are more highly regarded than their guitar speakers
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I am picky with bass speakers.

What I lack in skill I make up for with stellar tone.
 
Speeddemon said:
Monster Cables indeed (I still own two, but basically never use them).
Capacity per foot is at least double of what affordable, good cables have.

Revv amp; forgot which one, some 4 channel 120W version that was supposed to be 'head and shoulders above' my Engl Invader 100 in terms of tone and versatility.
What a lifeless, sterile, bland POS that was...

And +1 on @DanTravis62 regarding Friedman BE100; my band did a gig once with the Iron Maidens and Courtney was playing the BE100 while their subbing "Murray" played a DSL. The DSL tone matched the kerrang-y Maiden tone, but that BE100 was an overly thick, smooth blanket that lacked the cutting edge.
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Courtney was the more beautiful of the 2. But Nita must have "known" someone for her to take off and Courtney not.
 
reignman454 said:
I'll name a few....

GFS VEH... (I know.. I know...) dude's were praising it on every forum for a time... Got one, figured it was a fluke... Tried another... terrible.

Korg Pandora PX1 (if you remember these... they were actually cool for what they were but man.... terrible to gig with)

Line 6 Spider Valve (whilst tones could be had.... fart. That and the issues and QC...)

Morley ABY (owned three... one worked, until I used it at a show, the other two literally sounded like a live cable from a plexi laying on a piece of sheet metal)
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Compressors
 
DanTravis62 said:
That's my setup most of the time too, although it's an early 90s uk v30 and two 57s in a fredman clip

I love v30s and I used to think it was the only speaker I would ever need

But what I needed were a handful of other really great speakers and mics to mix and match with them for variety and to extrapolate on the sounds I like

Scumback bm75LDs, an EV12L, a 121, a 421, and a handful of other speakers and mics are kind of what I've settled on as the bare minimum for me

But I would suggest starting with another mic to mic with the 57, and then start experimenting with other speakers after you find something that meshes well
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My dad's got a 75LD I've been meaning to try out.

I've got a Fredman clip too, heh. Got a Rode K2 with and Amperex Bugle Boy 6922 to cover LDC vibes as well.
 
Nigel said:
My dad's got a 75LD I've been meaning to try out.

I've got a Fredman clip too, heh. Got a Rode K2 with and Amperex Bugle Boy 6922 to cover LDC vibes as well.
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It's not as high mid heavy as a v30 but has unbelievable grind aggression and warmth

Honestly it's my favorite non v30 speaker of all time, scumbacks are always excellent but that speaker is like his magnum opus IMO

I would mess around with it, maybe even try blending it with your v30s and see if you like it
 
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