Worst piece of equipment you've ever owned.

Benmurray85 · Post by **Benmurray85** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:09 am

a squire tele, was my first real guitar. it broke my heart coz i got it as an xmas present from my folks and i always said id never sell presents but it was just awful to play, like really bad.

it looked the mutts nuts and theyd gone to the effort of asking bout what my favourtie sort of guitar was and what colour id like if i were to ever get one. they have absolutely no interest in music or guitars either.

i part x'd it for a nice marshall combo but to this day i still feel bad

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:17 am

I loved the Memory Boy too, although I used it for vibrato and weird noises as much as for delay, so maybe I was just asking it to play to its strengths. For me, its:

- MXR Blue Box; absolutely hated the sound - could tolerate it with the low octave blended off, but the octave just made me feel like I had a tartrazine hangover and travel-sickness. I am aware that this also sounds like an endorsement.

- Eastwood Johnny Ramone HiFLyer; the old white one with a german carve, 2 x P90s and tuneamatic bridge. Bike snobs talk about 'BSOs'; 'bicycle shaped objects', meaning those cack bikes you buy outside Autoparts - while I don't hold with that (the best bike is the one you're riding, in my opinion), this was a GSO. Felt like it was carved from polystyrene (and the source of much of my basswood haet), terrible level of finish even for the pricepoint, and bits would fall off it at random. Later dreadful encounters with Mike Robinson of Eastwood have only further lowered my opinion.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:36 am

EHX Worm, from the original run. Basically switch it on select effect, barely any difference in sound. I believe I sold this to Gavin in ye olde Jag-Stang days.... sucker!!!!

holyCATS1415 · Post by **holyCATS1415** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:00 pm

First "real" amp I bought for myself in middle school. Lasted about 3 months before melting. Shipped it out and waited a year and a half for it to get fixed before they said "it can't be fixed sorry". Sold the speakers for like $50 and bought a Peavey Pacer for $25 which was still working perfectly when I sold it 7 years later.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:09 pm

Randal is a berserker!

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MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:03 pm

Another vote for the Epiphone Les Paul Special II. A terrible, terrible guitar. Mine's intact, but a friend had one at school that literally started to fall apart one day. Pickups just tumbling out.

I also had the Fender FM212 amp. It's very loud. That's about all there is to say about it.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:07 pm

I've never owned a guitar that I've wound up hating, but here's the few things that I have hated.

- Fender Princeton 112 plus - this was one of the 90's solid state princeton models and it sounded absolutely horrible. It picked up radio signals more than any other amp I've ever heard, it would randomly have squeeling feedback sounds for no reason while set to clean. The volume knob was also pretty much useless, it was either loud as fuck at barely 1 on the knob, or no sound at all. Those were the options. I absolutely hated it, sold it to my brother's friend and bought a peavey bandit which actually sounded great for a solid state amp. My brother's friend still has it, and he actually likes it for some reason but then he also has a solid state randall head that he loves... so I don't think he necessarily has great taste in amps.

- Peavey TVX 410 bass cab - I bought this with my old Peavey Deltabass head, it was my first big bass amp. This cab must have been made out of lead and concrete because I swear it weighed about 200 pounds. It was also the most ridiculously oversized 410 cab I've ever seen... easily twice the size and weight of your average 410 cab. It was almost as tall as my Mesa Powerhouse 100 cab that has 4x10 and 1x15 in it, and it was about 6 inches wider and 6 inches deeper too. It also sounded horrible. Right after I bought the mesa cab, I had to bring my ampeg head into the shop to have some work done on it, and was using the peavey head during that time, and the peavey had sounded SO awesome through the mesa cab, but sounded like muddy, horrible shit through the peavey cab. Even the ampeg sounded horrible through the peavey cab before I bought the mesa cab.

-MXR distortion +... the one I had was one of the newer dunlop mxr models and I hated it. It just sounded so bad... I don't really know what the vintage models sounded like since I've never used one, but I thought they were supposed to be pretty good. But I hated it. It sounded ok as a fuzz sound for bass when I played it through my solid state orange practice amp, but that was the only thing I ever liked it for. I just recently sold it.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:27 pm

paul_ wrote:Jag-Stang
If you're mildly into these guitars and you've researched them, you've probably heard the stories. I've had this guitar since 1998 (the past half of my life) along with about 14 other electric guitars and I have to admit they're pretty much all true. I've tried to make friends with it a billion times (including a couple months back after giving it some Super Distortion/500k love), but you have to be a hypodermic-sniffer to be into these. They are not a Jaguar/Mustang crossover, they're a shittier-feeling Mustang without the brightness. Even with heavy mods something like a Strat, Tele, Mustang, Jaguar, etc will blow it out of the water sound-wise.

I've owned five (dont ask) over the years and no two have been the same. But I have to say the Fiesta Red reissue I had was a very nice player and it did sound okay, on the other hand the original late 90's Fiesta model I first owned was garbage. Even an old luthier friend at the time could not set it up nicely.
Totally agree that they are a guitar of their own and a dull sounding Mustang is a fairly accurate description.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:50 pm

Epiphone SG with the bolt on neck, the worst guitar ever made!

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:40 pm

johnnyseven wrote:Epiphone SG with the bolt on neck, the worst guitar ever made!

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:43 pm

My second ever pedal, it didn't sound like a my mates RAT or my mates Park amps Distortion... I want to buy another just to relive my youth, it could become the best gear I ever bought. I just can't remember... but it didn't do it for me at the time, that's all I remember. I haven't owned that much bad gear fortunately.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:49 pm

i've got a rocktek EQ pedal, found it in our drummer's garage. it's not bad!

George · Post by **George** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:51 pm

Mo Rawka wrote:

where has this pic been all my life

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:57 pm

stewart wrote:i've got a rocktek EQ pedal, found it in our drummer's garage. it's not bad!

I've got a Rocktek Chorus, not much different to a CE-2 to be honest. They were a bit like Arion, decent electronics in a plastic chassis.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:17 am

Fran wrote:
stewart wrote:i've got a rocktek EQ pedal, found it in our drummer's garage. it's not bad!
I've got a Rocktek Chorus, not much different to a CE-2 to be honest. They were a bit like Arion, decent electronics in a plastic chassis.

As I said in the other thread, a Rocktek Chorus was my first pedal - I loved it.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:48 am

Fran wrote:
stewart wrote:i've got a rocktek EQ pedal, found it in our drummer's garage. it's not bad!
I've got a Rocktek Chorus, not much different to a CE-2 to be honest. They were a bit like Arion, decent electronics in a plastic chassis.

I had the flanger it was pretty good as I remember, until someone threw it at me and it exploded against a plasterboard wall...

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:05 pm

dod punkifier.

i think i gave it to jsyphe for free

it sounds like a baby getting raped inside a tin can

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Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:13 pm

robroe wrote:dod punkifier.

These are quite sought after because Graham Coxon uses one iirc.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:01 pm

robroe wrote:
it sounds like a baby getting raped inside a tin can.

That's one of the worst and most unnecessary things I've seen in print.

mixtape · Post by **mixtape** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:10 pm

Billy3000 wrote:I've never owned a guitar that I've wound up hating, but here's the few things that I have hated.

- Fender Princeton 112 plus - this was one of the 90's solid state princeton models and it sounded absolutely horrible. It picked up radio signals more than any other amp I've ever heard, it would randomly have squeeling feedback sounds for no reason while set to clean.

You maybe had a defective one, because mine has never done that. The thing with the volume knob drives me crazy, though.

I've never had a strong hatred for any piece of gear, but my old Crate GX-15 was probably the worst of the bunch. That amp picks up radio stations like nobody's business. I plugged into it again for old times' sake a few months ago, and it not only has shitty practice amp/kid who doesn't quite know how to play guitar yet tone, it actually somehow made me play worse.