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

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Randall Thrasher - I was extremely excited for this one, but it was totally uninspiring to play. Flipped it once I realized I bought the hype.
 
SonVolt said:
So I just installed a Custom in a Strat. It's definitely scoop-ished, but I do find it pretty aggressive. To me it's similar to a Duncan Distortion but a little less compressed and PAF-y (slightly).
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I find the Distortion is more my thing. Just more aggressive, more midrange, more output.
 
Diezel D-Moll is up there with letdowns. Just sounded thin to me and I couldn’t dial in anything I liked.

SLO. Just a lower noise floor 5150 for a lot more money.

Peavey Vyper 60W. Mine always had bias runaway issues and it was a thin sounded pile.

One of the most surprising amps I loved was the Fortin Bones and the Randall 667 which ironically has the bones circuit in one of the channels. Just super fun to play.
 
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ENGL Powerball. Back in the day on the Harmony Central broads they were on fire with hype. It was completely processed, thin and sterile sounding...Evaporated in the mix when I tried it with my band. Sold it while the hype was still inflated. Went right back to the Peavey 5150II.
 
PRS guitars. I kept giving them a shot, but I just could not bond with them. They all felt lifeless. I owned three core models at different times.

PRS DGT
PRS Fiore
PRS 594 McCarty
 
4406cuda said:
PRS guitars. I kept giving them a shot, but I just could not bond with them. They all felt lifeless. I owned three core models at different times.

PRS DGT
PRS Fiore
PRS 594 McCarty
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67mike said:
I buy and sell prs guitars quicker than shit through a goose!
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There has been a tan pants revival here at Rig Talk so I was forced to hit the report button on these posts. :LOL:
 
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Pretty much any pedal that is supposed to be better than the older classics.

I have found the best pedals are the more reasonably priced older pedals...
Boss SD-1
Ibanez TS808
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Fulltone OCD
Boss DD3
MXR Carbon Copy
Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master
I have never been a huge fan of distortion pedals, the DS-1 I have always hated.
I think my favorite might have been the MXR Super Bad Ass or Suhr Riot

I recently purged almost all of my pedals and the only one I use now is the Dispatch Master set to reverb only.
I do have a Boss SD-1 stored away as a great $49 boost if I ever decide I want to use it.
 
glpg80 said:
Diezel D-Moll is up there with letdowns. Just sounded thin to me and I couldn’t dial in anything I liked.
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Something is wrong here; maybe a tube?
I had a DMoll for years and miss it a lot. Thin would have been the opposite of my experience- it was so thick! I usually put a clean OD boost in front and that made it attack, but no boost it was so full and weirdly super quiet on high gain. I liked so many tones on that thing it was all great.
 
For me it's my KSR Gemini. I picked one up based on the general hype over KSR. It's not necessarily a bad amp, but it's more dry than what I like. Some people say it sounds cardboardy and I can see where they get that. With all the switches there's also a bit of option paralysis and I ended up being on the same mode 90% of the time.

It's not all bad though. I've found a better life for my Gemini as 100 watt bass amp. There's enough low end to be sufficient for bass, the dryness sort of works in it's favor like playing through a Class D, and there's enough options to find several good dirty bass tones.
 
Marshall Studio 15 from the JCM 800 era. Biased way too cold from the factory. The original V30 was the wrong choice for this circuit. The overall tone is simply not that "Marshall thing". It takes pedals so-so. I've owned two over the years because of trade/swap deals. No more.
 
BackCrack said:
Marshall Studio 15 from the JCM 800 era. Biased way too cold from the factory. The original V30 was the wrong choice for this circuit. The overall tone is simply not that "Marshall thing". It takes pedals so-so. I've owned two over the years because of trade/swap deals. No more.
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That's an interesting one as it's one that definitely got a lot of hype as a more volume friendly Marshall. I always wanted to try it (as well as some of those other small-box Marshalls from the era) but have never seen one in person.

As prices went up, and other options were available, plus I started building amps for myself, it lost it's allure. Anyhow, good to know.
 
Bad Cat Lynx combo. I was so excited to get that thing. Hasn’t worked a day since I got it in late February. Sent it in for warranty repairs and it came back with new problems. Absolute nightmare that just won’t end
 
PRS Silver Sky. I had two of them, the USA versions.
I liked and hated both.
While I liked the tones, reminded me of my old 70’s Strats, and they played well, I could keep neither one of them in tune using the whammy bar.
I tried every trick known to man. For 2 years these two pieces of 💩 frustrated me.

See, if that f’ing asshole PRS designed this guitar for John Mayer, well John doesn’t use the vibrato bar, so why design it with one?

Doesn’t the genius PRS know that if the strings don’t have a STRAIGHT pull after they cross the nut, it’s a recipe for disaster?
I will never buy another PRS guitar as long as I live.
 
Laputan Machine said:
Yes. I had a coily cable too.
The clean sounded really nice but it had zero gain. I sent it to Dr. Z to see what was up and they charged me 400 bucks and basically did nothing. I think they changed an input jack and a little clamp thing that goes onto the tubes for one socket.
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This is mine straight in. I don't know how much more gain I could ask for out of a clean amp

 
angelspade said:
ENGL Powerball. Back in the day on the Harmony Central broads they were on fire with hype. It was completely processed, thin and sterile sounding...Evaporated in the mix when I tried it with my band. Sold it while the hype was still inflated. Went right back to the Peavey 5150II.
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i remember the Savage and Fireball having some hype at hcaf, but the joke about the powerball was always it was a great sounding SS head lol
 
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