Worst bang for your buck...

[Phantasmagoria]

Expensive-ish stuff you bought that's just sat around and not/scarcely been used ever since?

I'll lead with this..

1. Two Notes Captor X.

After testing to see that it works..it's just been sitting around on my desk pretty much untouched. It's ready to go ..but t's never gone anywhere :laugh2:

Not even sure why? It's got useful stuff like a load box/attenuator & I have nothing against IR's. It sounded absolutely fine when I tried it...so what gives? Your guess is as good as mine :lmao:

I guess it's just one less thing to hook up... and I'm happy w/ the tones I'm already getting w/o it....

 

[Lucius Paisley]

It wasn't super expensive, but I almost bought another one of these...


... because it's been sitting in its box for so long I forgot I had one already.

Not because it's bad, I guess I just don't really need it. But surely many of us have a "don't even point" guitar.

 

[Cynical]

Airis Effects TS Pre. Cool pedal, and having instant "Scott Ian in SOD" tone on command is neat, but my VFE Standout does the same job in a much more useful and flexible way.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

The Captor X does have a reputation for not being very true to an actual mic'd cab sound because of the impedance curve not being accounted for or whatever. Don't know the specifics.

It's a shame, becuase the thing is not cheap. They were pioneers in the dummy load+ir thing revolution. But people started noticing it wasn't as "true" when other stuff started coming out.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

I'm not really bothered that "oh it does'nt sound like a Mesa 4x12" or w/e...it's just that I find I don't really need it. The IR loading capability was the least useful/appealing aspect of it anyway, given that I have a ton of (and prefer to use my) real cabs.It was more about the attenuator/loadbox. I guess I could use those..but even w/ that it's just more cables and connections and the less of all that the better....should've thought about that before I got it

 

[Phantasmagoria]

I'm fortunate that pretty much all of my amps sound good & record great at really low volumes. Yeah cranked tube tone is cranked tube tone..and the whole "blistering" feel does come across on recordings..ie when something's cranked there's a definite difference..

This was w/ my 120W Bugera & it's matching 4x12 at my friends studio...pretty much dimed

I was standing right in front of it in the big drum recording booth...made my ears bleed and felt ****ing glorious all at the same time :bigthumb:

 

[Artie]

I had a grandiose plan on how to reorganize, and set up, my music room. The Peavey PV10AT mixer was on sale, and had some cool features, including it's own version of the BBE Sonic Maximizer built-in. Plus Bluetooth, Wave or MP3 playback via USB port, a guitar-centric input, multiple digital effects, and all kind of input/output options.

That was about 10 years ago, and it's still in the box.

 

[Chistopher]

A whole lot of pedals wind up that way for a whole lotta people. I've seen posts online of people who use them more for decoration than any sort of music

 

[Seashore]

Weber Mass 150 attenuator - I quickly realized my amps sounded better just using the master volumes. I thought it would be useful for recording to run them harder at lower volumes but it didn't amount to anything meaningful. I did wind up selling it on, so, not much of a loss.

Floyd Rose "Pro" 7 string bridge - I guess this was partly my fault, because apparently I slightly rounded off the knife edges while adjusting the height screws, but in fairness to me, I've set up several other Floyds the same way and never had a problem. The thing never returned to zero properly unless I had it blocked for dive only, and the fine tuners weren't as smooth or accurate as the 1000 it replaced. Playing feel and sound were good but as a tremolo it was less useful and a pain in the balls. It's in a drawer.

I would have said my Schecter and Epiphone 7 strings weren't worth the money, but I just did a recording project where they got lots of playing time, so I'm glad I had them around.

 

[Securb]

I can only think of two pieces of gear I quickly took back to the store.

Fender Katana - It sat on my body strangely and I found myself fretting two frets sharp if I was using muscle memory and not looking at the neck.
Rockman XPR - It sounded great but it was just too noisy.

 

[ehdwuld]

i have a dual cassette recording deck and a box of 15 min chrome cassette tapes
that I planned on using to send demos out to record companies in the 90s

other than one test tape I still have a box of 49 tapes and the the Xenon dual tape deck in the closet

 

[ehdwuld]

I can only think of two pieces of gear I quickly took back to the store.

Fender Katana - It sat on my body strangely and I found myself fretting two frets sharp if I was using muscle memory and not looking at the neck.
Rockman XPR - It sounded great but it was just too noisy.

I had one of the Rockman X100s back in the late 90s

wonder if the newer versions are any good

 

[Artie]

i have a dual cassette recording deck and a box of 15 min chrome cassette tapes
that I planned on using to send demos out to record companies in the 90s

other than one test tape I still have a box of 49 tapes and the the Xenon dual tape deck in the closet

From what I deem from some of the audio forums I frequent, cassette's are making a comeback. The 15-minute thang might be a problem, but I bet they'd still sell.

Edit: When you say "15-minute", do mean D-60's or somesuch? I still have an old Tascam PortaStudio. A D-60 becomes 15 minutes because it uses all 4 tracks in one direction and records at double speed.

 

[Seashore]

Cassettes have been making a comeback for years. There's a market for them. Drawbacks aside, they're a nice analog merch option with much lower outlay than vinyl production. I still have my old dual tape deck from the 90s and I've gotten a few recent tape releases that sound great through my system.

 

[ehdwuld]

From what I deem from some of the audio forums I frequent, cassette's are making a comeback. The 15-minute thang might be a problem, but I bet they'd still sell.

Edit: When you say "15-minute", do mean D-60's or somesuch? I still have an old Tascam PortaStudio. A D-60 becomes 15 minutes because it uses all 4 tracks in one direction and records at double speed.

yes that is the case

 

[Artie]

Normal, or High Bias? The PortaStudio needs High Bias.

 

[ehdwuld]

hmm I believe I will have to find that box of cassettes and look
but I believe they were purposely bought for my Portastudio

 

[Seashore]

I miss my Portastudio. It got drenched in the basement flood last February. They're so expensive now. The last meaningful project I used it on was recording a bunch of drum samples from a friend's kit to build a programming library. Best programmed drum sound I've gotten, there was some body to the hits that I didn't get from recording straight through an interface.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

For me, the Fender baked Maple Flat Oval neck. Not because it is not good, but because it's not what I expected.

I guess I wanted it to be a shreddy-feeling neck, but it's not. They do mention in the blurb "it's built for speed", but it's not all that thin. The fretboard is nice because it's not the typical Fender 9.5", but it's not all that flat either. The frets are OK. But the biggest thing I'm disappointed about is it's barely even baked, LOL. It looks more like vintage-tinted neck that's a little more brown than amber than an actual nice and dark caramel-looking piece of baked Maple. It's not all that stable either. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not better than my other guitars.

They do charge extra for the shreddy-wannabe attributes and the baked Maple. I should've just gone for a standard Modern C neck, honestly.

 

[beaubrummels]

Alesis ADAT. The technology was obsolete before you could get your second album out.