Most disappointing amp

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I hear you I’ve played many of the boutique amps,Marshall’s stock and modded you name it .
 
Yamaha T100C.

It was billed as a budget SLO designed by Mike Soldano with a dedicated clean channel, and reverb.

What it ended up being was two channels of muddy crap at anything resembling band volumes. It was OK when playing with just bass and drums, but add in another guitarist with a decent sounding amp and you disappear in the mix.

I've heard upgrading from the resistors to a choke and swaping in better transformers does wonders for the amp getting it into real Soldano territory, but F that. I traded it in with no lost value (I bought it on clearance for like $300), and put that towards buying a Mesa Tremoverb that I loved on for a couple decades.
 
braintheory said:
DAR (Forza, FBM and Tuzzia) : coolest looking amps ever, but didn’t sound the part. Synthetic and not really unique sounding the way I fantasized about either

Fortin Natas: nothing special when I tried it

Schroeder Formula: his clean to low gain amps were really good, so I had high hopes for it, but it sounded small, really smooth, no growl or bite, kind of muffled, nothing about it impressed me

Bogner Uber Ultra, Driftwood and Omega Obsidian: you guys already know by now lol. Sterile, filtered, cardboardy, generic quality tone

Kruse and Dynamo amps: just terrible

A few other I won’t mention, but will just say they were modded Marshall’s that are not Cameron or Friedman
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Oh yeah, I forgot the UU. It was exactly as Sam described. One of the most inorganic sounding/feeling amps I’ve ever played.
My 79 JMP came with a Kruse mod and it was terrible, an over gained, sloppy, boomy, muddy mess. I immediately had the amp reverted back to stock specs.
 
The~Kid said:
Fender Blues Jr.......



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I actually like that amp.

Like every other amp it just needs the right pedals. Still not sure what pedal that is. Not a Tube Screamer. It doesn't need more midrange.
 
Beyond Black said:
That reminds me, I had a Henning Cherry Bomb and hated it. If it sounded half as good as it looked it would’ve been a major improvement.
I sold the amp and before I shipped it I realized that one of the output jacks didn’t work. I asked Steve If I could ship it to him, have him repair it, then ship it directly to the buyer at my expense. Even though the buyer was perfectly fine with this arrangement, Steve refused to be of help. He said he’d repair it and ship it back to me (at my expense), but wouldn’t ship it to the seller due to liability issues, even though I assured him that I would not hold him responsible for anything that may occur in shipping. Fuck that guy. 👎🏻
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Yeah he just flat out wouldn't even entertain taking the the Bottle Rocket in. It struck me as really odd. He built the damn amp and wouldn't check it out/repair it even though I was willing to pay.
 
I will say I have had a lot more amps I thought were not great, until they were hit with a boost and compensated accordingly--then I found something I really vibed with. But, these other amps are ones where I was super hyped (probably too much) and then I was just disappointed or it wasn't what I envisioned.
  1. Diezel Herbert
  2. Bogner Uber Rev Blue
  3. Bogner XTC 101B
  4. Wizard MC II KT150
  5. KSR Artemis (Forgot this earlier)
 
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I have thought about this, in terms of true disappointing amps. I would say the Marshall TSL60 was a letdown but I bought a DSL50 instead...so at the time I wasn't dissapointed. The Blackstar tube combo amps are all fairly terrible across the board in my opinion. A lot of the new high gain modern amps these days, I just have no interest.
 
I haven't purchased an amp I didn't like since I was a kid with little money to buy what I wanted.

Currently I have several Marshalls, an Engl, a Mesa, a Bogner, a Diezel, two Fenders...all are tube amps; all do what I want from them.
 
Randall Satan, it just sucked in general as both the preamp and power sections were terrible. I tried a bunch of tubes in it but it just went nowhere except the sale bin where I made some money off some sucker lol.

Randall V2 was disappointing in that it was way too dry and loud for me, I have had an RG75G2 for ages and that thing kicked ass for what I wanted but the V2 was just way too much.

More of an annoyance - Rivera KR7, it needs a depth/resonance knob since the EQ is way too fiddly. Also the channel masters really suck, below a certain point you just get preamp fizz and to get rid if it you have to really crank it, you can use the loop as an attenuator but you really shouldn't need to do that.
 
More of an annoyance - Rivera KR7, it needs a depth/resonance knob since the EQ is way too fiddly. Also the channel masters really suck, below a certain point you just get preamp fizz and to get rid if it you have to really crank it, you can use the loop as an attenuator but you really shouldn't need to do that.
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Yeah...that amp lasted less than 10 days with me as well. Thin in the bottom and splatty in the top. Needed to be offensively loud to get any tone out of it. Loud it started to sound pretty good.
 
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