Worst piece of equipment you've ever owned.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:55 pm

dezb1 wrote:
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.

Apparently, you're mistaken, because Rob has been here longer than you, and this sort of post (in this case casually making light of the rape of infants) is what makes shortscale great. Apparently.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:44 pm

benecol wrote:
dezb1 wrote:
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.
Apparently, you're mistaken, because Rob has been here longer than you, and this sort of post (in this case casually making light of the rape of infants) is what makes shortscale great. Apparently.

I see, I must have missed that memo...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:09 pm

The multitude of Teisco's and Harmonies I've owned. I always think there is something I can do to make them playable and I'm always wrong.

The first guitar I ever had was a harmony shitbox and it put me off playing from the ages of 13-32. Then I played a Duo-sonic and realized it may actually be possible to learn guitar.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:12 pm

benecol wrote: - 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.

I actually really enjoyed mine (same exact model). Not enough to keep it mind you, but it sounded decent (for the nonsense I was playing on it) and played well enough. Looked good as well, finish was spot on.

Though I've heard they're QC is essentially non-existant.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:57 pm

I believe we've had this ding-dong some time back. But still: fuck that guy.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:11 am

go to fucking bed ben. shit.

anyways the punkifier sondz shit. i don't give a fuck what oasis player sondz like.

i don't hear any punkifier in a fucking oasis sondz

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:12 am

no one in america even knows who gram coxton is besides me and bonehead

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:12 am

GET IT ?

Post by **Mike** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:08 am

Rob, shut up.

Ben79 · Post by **Ben79** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:28 am

When I got my first job the first thing I bought was a Marshall Valvestate VS65R from Academy of Sound in Norwich. For years I practiced and gigged with it (with some backup from the DI output being run into the PA) and as far as I could tell, or cared, when I hit the overdrive switch, my pub metal power chords sounded as good as any stadium filler's. I loved it. I can still recall that excitement when I look at it now. But with the benefit of owning several valve amps, I can see it for the stiff little tonekiller it really is. By my current standards, it would be the worst piece of gear I own but back then, it was the best!

The other contender would probably have to be this abomination....

I bought it from the local music shop, plugged it in, stood well back from the 10 watt Badger and readied myself for the crushing onslaught of scooped Hetfield grind. Even at 16 years old, I knew this pedal was bad.

Ainm · Post by **Ainm** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:07 am

Billy3000 wrote: -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.

Yeah, it's kind of a marmite pedal, to be honest. I've got a reissue, and an old block logo version from the early '80s (I think), and despite what the chumps over on TGP think, there's actually fuck all difference in the tone. The older pedal is slightly 'warmer' sounding, but it's got no LED, it only takes batteries and it's got the worst bypass I've ever heard. Still either version will get you really close to Bob Mould's sound on those old HÃ¼sker DÃ¼ albums.

Oh, worst piece of equipment I've ever used? The Behringer VT911 Vintage Tube Overdrive. I'm not a Behringer hater, btw. But all it could do were starved voltage sounds, and unlike the EHX Germanium OD, I couldn't get them to sound good. Changing valves made little difference, so I traded it.

Simon · Post by **Simon** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:12 pm

Boss OC-3 Think I bought it on a whim thinking I could get some nice bass'y volume swells out of it. Utter dogshit. I sold it the day after I bought it.

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:55 pm

Harmony Bobcat. It made me queesy to handle, because I am a fucked up person who has physical reactions to musical instruments.

onedaycloser · Post by **onedaycloser** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:54 pm

MY ROBROE KEY BOARD, HURR HURR HURR.

Or a DOD Grunge, I'm not too picky on gear tho.

Chorlton · Post by **Chorlton** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:31 pm

Another vote for the Epi SG with bolted neck

71Smallbox · Post by **71Smallbox** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:11 pm

My worst piece had to be the Randall 100 watt solid state head I had way back. I was happy to be loud but never liked the sound, always sounded lifeless on the clean and like a box of bees with the distortion on. Awful in every respect. I believe it was an RG100 head.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:54 pm

aen wrote:It made me queesy to handle, because I am a fucked up person who has physical reactions to musical instruments.

hahaha

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:53 pm

Mexican Standard Strat. It was one of the earlyish ones and felt like a really awful chinese copy. The neck was a horrible shape, sharp frets, hardly a straight screw in the pickguard and the worst wiring that I've ever seen in a guitar. Horrible, heavy plasticky crap.

Rayjaysonic · Post by **Rayjaysonic** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:16 am

The original Zoom 505 was a piece of pooh! OK, it didn't cost the earth but after about a week of owning it I came to the conclusion that it just just made everything sound bad.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:49 pm

Ben79 wrote:

ooh, i want one!