What is the piece of gear you have been most disappointed in trying or purchasing?

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Zado said:
It's always funny how much praise Suhr gets on TGP while tons of guys here dislike the brand with passion. I guess truth is in the middle (finger?)
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I've had mixed experiences. I owned a modern I sold (but it was a great player), and still own a modern-T. Great build quality and player but does not sound as good as some of my other (less expensive guitars). Also agree that a guitar that expensive should come with a case.

I had a CAA PT 100 and a CAE SE+. I liked both. The CAA PT 100 sounded crushing when you drilled a chord and I really liked the tonal options. But, ultimately, there was something kind of goofy and offputting about the mids in the amp and I sold it. It did sound very similar in many ways when I a/b'd it against my Aldrich cameron (which I also have since sold). The cameron had a bit more note clarity to it.

The CAA PT100 is a cool amp and has cool sounds but I have found other things I preferred in the amp department that overlap with the Suhr and while I think the guitars I have owned had good quality, I could see there being QA issues (and have heard of this), and I never felt like any Suhr I had really had "the sound."
 
Zado said:
It's always funny how much praise Suhr gets on TGP while tons of guys here dislike the brand with passion. I guess truth is in the middle (finger?)
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I’ve never heard one . But love koko boost !
 
Mesa MkV35
Had a horrible touch response.
Nothing about it honestly did I like.
 
To add to my Suhr failures, the PT 100. If I wanted a bass amp I would have bought one. I couldn't dial out the massive bass. Plus the gain had a grainy shitty quality to it. Recorded like shit, where most every amp I ever recorded demos with, was great.
 
panhead said:
The fleshlight I ordered it broke first time I used it. :yes:
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In the near future men start relationships with robots to avoid going broke only to get a repair bill. Bugged firmware updates based on porn site trends lead them all to become lesbians and lesbian sisters. As the years pass people can no longer afford to repair outdated hardware and proceed to mod their companions into the nightmares of Hentai. Birthrates are down in all but the poorest countries, eventually leaving them to be the last human survivors. It was an ES-355. Played like a stiff board and was uninspiring no matter the setup/hardware used.
 
PurityS.L.G said:
I really LOL'd at this hahahahaha!! Fluff is the last guy I watch for a review or opinion on any gear. His videos feel like they are targeted towards teen musicians.

My votes are for anything made by Lone Wolf Audio, REVV, KSR and Gibson (too inconsistent).
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Everything I've ever tried from LWA joe was fantastic 🤷

Especially his time based stuff
 
cetanu said:
It's only because the Suhr guy is a (paying) member there and so is their most beloved narcissist gear tuber asshole and Suhr endorser. Every single bit of criticism or bad experiences with Suhr will be deleted but not before the critic is torn to pieces by a toxic fanbase and then gets permanently banned by some asshole mod like DGTCrazy who is easily one of the worst bootlickers and fanboys over there.

My experiences with Suhr were mixed but mostly disappointing considering their prices.
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Yeah, i noticed there isn't much room for criticism or even civil discussion when Suhr guitars are involved there, but I had no idea things were this bad. I've played a few Suhr during the years, never thought they were plain bad or anything, just never "my thing"; I still think Tom Anderson , Grosh and Schecter USA deliver much better products, and far more peculiar/personal, as they do not try to faithfully recreate the Fender DNA when doing Strat like stuff(which is something Suhr still falls short Imho).
No idea there was a real Suhr mafia on TGP tho, just thought people was overly hyped as often happens
 
Rdodson said:
For me it was the Bogner Helios 100w. I'm a huge Bogner fan but this wasn't for me and I was devastated because I sold my 20th Anniversary XTC 6L6 to get it. It sounded admittedly pretty good in the 30w JTM mode, but then I was having to run it at 4 ohm and it wasn't flexible and it just bummed me out.
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Bogner Helios 50w for me. The loop really sucked the life out of this amp. Darkened the tone. It was nothing in my chain causing this. Maybe I got a lemon, but it went back to Sweetwater the same day it arrived. With all the rave and awesome clips, I was hoping for the same. Major let down. I then considered the Goldfinger 45SL, but eventually decided against buying another Bogner product.
 
cetanu said:
hen gets permanently banned by some asshole mod like DGTCrazy who is easily one of the worst bootlickers and fanboys over there.
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Looks like you were dead right
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:LOL:
 
rottingcorpse said:
ISP Theta head. Im a huge Buck Waller fanboy and ordered one of the first Theta heads. I already had the Vector subs and decimators. And I'm a big solid state creep. I really thought this head would be a tweakers paradise. I worked that amp for at least 3 months before handing it off to Bloodrock to see if he could dial it in. He gave up after two months. Wish I had another crack at one just to confirm. Was crazy disappointed.
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I have the analog preamp pedal and I have found it to be okay at best. Very touchy controls with a lot of range, and hard to dial in. Just when I think I have something good, I compare it to another amp that stomps it. Also using the clean channel as a boost for the gain channel is incredibly noisy (though the built in gate is super effective). But shouldn’t really be necessary since using an external boost is significantly quieter.

I still keep it around since I got it cheap and pedals don’t take up much room. I pull it out every now and then and remind myself why I put it away in the first place.
 
Everything Bogner, Horrible noisy loops and popping relay switching

Diezel VH4
Channel 3 ok, all other 3 channels were useless for my taste
 
I must be the only person who didn’t hate the AFD when I tried it. The problem I guess is that it has two modes and they need the EQ set very differently. One of them sounds a lot like a Silver Jubilee but of course you have simpler, more straightforward controls on the AFD. The other mode has a good bit less gain and is super trebly and squirrely sounding - although it can be set to sound pretty good depending on what you’re doing.

I did buy the little SL5 amp at one point and I really liked that thing.
 
Jackson Pro Series Monarkh.

I had way high hopes but fell super flat. The neck was anemic and funny feeling. I've never felt anything that compares to it. The blackout pickups in it sounded uninspiring. It had a real nice top and finish to it so there's that.
 
Taylor acoustics. They look good and usually play well but I just don’t dig the sound for the money. And it’s not like they sound bad but it’s just not inspiring I guess. My cheapo Sigma dread kicked a couple of them to the curb.
 
HK Grandmeister 40. Boxy sounding. Had better clean tones from cheap amps. The Gain was that "I have a blanket over me but I'm still shrill" feeling. They fail constantly and the only people really buying them were fools like myself who thought they wanted all of the gadgetry. Went through absolute hell with that amo- repairs, replacements, HK personally screwing me at the very end. SO glad things worked out the way they did. Got a Rivera Clubster Royale Recording Top and never looked back! The GM are notorious for just not working or having crazy hums, etc.
 
Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Mayhem SFX-04

What a nasty sounding hunk of junk.

Frank Falbo, wherever you are.. go suck a dick.
 
Probably the Bogner Shiva 20th

Thing just sounded generic in every way. Considering the price of them at the time, I was kinda floored just how un-exciting it was
 
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