Most disappointing amp

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Every Diezel I’ve tried, I’ve disliked. VH4 was the biggest letdown, especially for how cool it looks and how fabled it is. The Herbert was not quite as disappointing but almost. Just splatty flub all day long from those amps.

Mesa Triple Crown. I found the ones I played to be boring, bland, and harsh.
 
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Smash said:
So it was a combination of speakers and my guitar room. Matt's room is bigger and has carpet and a great shape to it. Mine is flooring and has a ton of natural reverb, but doesnt do well with crazy high end.
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I think this is a much bigger component to tone subjectivity than people want to admit. I couldn't handle a bare floor and concrete walls for what I play :lol:
 
itsgoodnow said:
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
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The Uber’s were great amps before the Rev Blue Balls
 
MrWoodchuck said:
I was most disappointed by the Bogner Uber Ultra. I have loved almost every other Bogner I have played, but the Ultra just was too filtered for me.
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That filtered thing and lack of that signature chewiness really messed with my expectations too. If I was blindfolded I may not have know it was a Bogner. If I was asked to take a guess who made it I probably would’ve went with either Driftwood or Omega
 
thegame said:
Filtering public disclosure on filtered amps. Hmmm.
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I will admit all of those modded Marshall’s I didn’t like (that I’m not disclosing) did sound similarly filtered to the UU, which is crazy to me that they were able to do that to vintage Marshall’s from the late ‘70’s/early ‘80’s. That info won’t give anything away as many love them
 
Nashville Riff Co said:
JCM 800 and anything else based on the JCM 800 circuit
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Marshall TSL 100 watt head and JCM 900 DR in stock form. The TSL was my most hated Marshall ever but the 900 DR was right there with it until Todd Langner made it a monster.
I got both of them without playing them first and I was shocked at how bad the TSL was, it sucked no matter what you did to it
 
Thought I was king shit getting a Marshall AVT100 head for my first non practice amp. First time I used it with a band and another guitar player, I couldn't hear myself at all. Of course he was using a tube amp. Bought a Mesa Mark IV that I eventually loved, but when I first got it, it had old tubes, and it was before I knew anything about dialing amps. Horribly disappointed expecting Metallica. Not a good amp for a beginner IMO. Bogner Uberschall Twin Jet had me hating life. Had it sounding great out of the box, then moved some knobs and couldn't get it back. Now I wonder if it was just super sensitive to voltage swings.
 
thegame said:
+1 I’ve noticed over the years the more my playing improves, the less important the amp becomes.
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I agree to a point

The better I get, the easier the first 75% of the tone is to dial in with any amp - I can certainly plug into anything vaguely "high gain", and as long as I have a boost, gate, and a nice delay, I'll be fine

But that last 25% becomes harder and harder to parse down, especially with rhythm sounds

As I've spent more time woodshedding, lead tones are certainly easier to get though
 
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