Which amp was your most disappointing purchase?

[Meathead]

Peavey 5150.
I bought the combo when it firsst came out in the 90's and couldn't bond with it.
A few years later tried the head and didn't like it at all.
From all the internet love I actually tried it again....ugh.

I don't know how Ed came up with an amp like that after using a plexi for all those years.

 

[LP Freak]

Peavey 5150.
I bought the combo when it firsst came out in the 90's and couldn't bond with it.
A few years later tried the head and didn't like it at all.
From all the internet love I actually tried it again....ugh.

I don't know how Ed came up with an amp like that after using a plexi for all those years.

I always wondered that too?

 

[roodboy]

Deizel VH4

Diezel Herbert


Liked the Herbert better than the VH4 though...

I'm with you on the Herbert . I liked channel one, really liked channel 2 minus mode, channel 2 + mode was eh, but channel three was a over compressed muddy woofy bass amp of a mess. Pissed me off so much it outweighed the good about the other two channels.
Maybe if I played in drop c or something I would have liked it.

 

[gtrwun]

Einstein ... Hands down a huge disappointment for me. Just to soft. I couldn't get that amp to crunch no matter what I tried. Really a let down considering the money I laid down for it.

 

[Chubtone]

Mako Makoplex. I knew within 2 minutes the tone I was looking for was not in there though I spent a week giving it several more chances.

Bogner Ecstasy 100B and 101B, Great fun to play through but man those thing just disappeared in recordings.

 

[Chubtone]

Anything Splawn!!! Biggest,costliest mistake I ever made..It also made me to never ,ever buy an amp based on video clips which is why I bought two half stacks a Promod 1/2 and a Quickrod 1/2. Sounded great on youtube!!

Since the Splawns cost half as much as the amps you routinely turn over within weeks of receiving them, could they really be the costliest mistakes you've ever made?

 

[blackba]

Easy. Engl Fireball 60. True POS.

+1 Engl Fireball 60. Very SS sounding and tight. Clean was dull and lifeless. Gain was brutal and that was it. If I played modern metal, it would be great amp, but for me and old school metal/hard rock and blues guy it wasn't the amp for me.

These threads are always interesting. My #1 amp has already been listed a few times.

 

[Chubtone]

These threads are always interesting. My #1 amp has already been listed a few times.

I'm surprised no one has listed the Mojave Peacemaker. That and the Quick Rod are my two favorites and I can't tell you how many threads I have read where people scratch their heads after receiving those amps and sell them the next day.

 

[Badronald]

THD Flexi 50 and THD 4x12. I tried and tried. That head was just terrible. I could bash it for days. Let's just say it was horrible.
The 4x12 was so dark it was unusable. Couldn't get rid of that rig fast enough.
That was just about the end of my booteek amp run. It helped me realize I needed to quit wasting time and money and just go back to Marshall and be done with it. Best move I made!

 

[thiswaythatway]

Nobody said Axe-Fx yet. Oh nevermind, it's not an amp.

 

[roadifier]

Nobody said Axe-Fx yet. Oh nevermind, it's not an amp.

This guy

 

[Khoi]

I'd have to say Splawn Nitro.

Got it expecting a high gain monster, but what I got was a high bass monster with not that much gain/saturation

skip to one year later, got a Splawn Quickrod, and absolutely loved it!

 

[Metalhead]

2007 Splawn Nitro. Totally sucked & was twangy & stiff as shit! Then comes the Engl Powerball & SE. Didn't like either I was not impressed with Rivera Knucklehead KTre or the VHT Pitbull either. Any Recto other than the new versions suck my hairy dick!!! All I can think of right now, but I've forgotten some for sure, oh yeah, the CAE PT-100. Not so impressive. All 4 now!

 

[mboogman]

I had a Mesa TremOVerb head in high school and loved it. Found a combo a few years back for a good deal. Never could jive with it. Guess I just liked that amp through a 4x12 instead of an open back 2x12 combo.

 

[prsrocker22]

budda superdrive 18. Just was not what i was looking for. Couldnt sell that one fast enough

 

[FUZZboat]

1. Rivera KnuckleHead (version 1 1st year run)
"Yuck" not what I was expecting at all, after playing a friends
TBR-SL1 - Also was not happy wiith customer service back
in 1999 - Rivera's Son "Rivera Jr" is a real tool when speaking to him on the phone as a paying customer needless to say sold the amp at a substancial loss and will never buy another Rivera product ever !


2. Lee Jackson
both the XLS1000 & XLA1000
their LOUD & Compressed w/ "weird mids" that can't be dialed out

3. add to that list marshall "bastard children"

JTM60
JTM30
JCM600 *which are JTM60's with a makeover - open 1 up
and the circuit board reads:Marshall JTM60*

 

[snowdog]

I guess the one that didn't quite pan out is that Vox issue of Brian May's Deacy amp.

Did you ever try running it into a 4x12? It sounds like a modded Marshall.

Yes I have tried it through a few different cabinets, and it sounds decent....just not the sound I wanted out of it.

 

[LP Freak]

Lot's of steam being blown off here.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

Diezel Einstein
Metaltronix M-1000

 

[King Guitar]

Bogner Shiva
Engl Special Edition
Engl Savage 120
Mesa Lone Star