The disappointing purchases thread

[narcossintese]

Voxengo Elephant (maximizer VST): It´s a great plugin, but I can´t deny anymore that TLs Maximizer sounds better and it is a freeware. Worst thing is that I already had it when I bought Elephant.

Dammit Distortion (ampsim VST): Doesn´t have stereo version and doesn´t work on Reaper. At least it was kinda cheap.

Killer Home Recording (books): Too repetitive and only really useful to total begginers. The shootouts ("Interrogator Sessions") are great, though.

Toys Breaking (sample collection): Very cheap but I don´t think I would buy it again if I had the chance to go back in time. Only used once.

EMG 81 (guitar pickup): Bought together with the 85. It´s a great pickup, it´s on the neck of my guitar, but as I only use the 85 on the bridge I can´t deny that it was wasted money.

 

[Sloan]

cheap mic stands

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

ISP Decimator. Not because it sucks, but because it broke like a month after I bought it and now it just sits around with the false hope of getting fixed one day.

 

[nosgulstic]

Marshall avt 150h and a 80 watt Crate cab rated at 4 ohms. I couldn't use that cab for anything

 

[xFkx]

digitech digiverb. I hate impulse shopping

 

[Lasse Lammert]

bareknuckle pickup, what a muddy piece of shit

 

[gabriel g.]

h&k warp-t
boss gt-6
digi003
uad1
warp-t oz cab
alesis speaker
fast track pro (also it was stabil as hell)
and all my selfbuild amd pc's

 

[Harry Hughes]

I bought 12 sets of Elixir Polywebs instead of Nanowebs a while back by mistake.
I could swear when I order it off ebay, I bought the Nanos.
They aren't terrible strings, but obviously was quite disappointed when I ripped open the delivery box to find 12 sets of the wrong strings
Next time, will triple check (not just double check) that I'm buying the right ones.

 

[AHChris]

cheap mic stands

+ fucking 1!!!!

Those things are so fucking crappy... We had 3 or 4 of those and every single one broke within weeks. Now I only buy K&M.

 

[MetalSound]

I'll take it off your hands

just make me an offer.

uad1

really?!?? why?? it´s the best thing i use here all of the time...

 

[Josh Burgess]

ISP Decimator. Not because it sucks, but because it broke like a month after I bought it and now it just sits around with the false hope of getting fixed one day.

same thing going on with my maxon od820 right now. fucking pedals breaking all the time...

 

[Melodeath]

Profire 2626 - constantly gave me BSODs on Windows XP. At least it works as a 8-channel preamp with ADAT
Alesis io26 - had tons of annoying issues, and I had to return two just to get one that worked (not particularly well, mind you), but I guess it got the job done for awhile.
Any firewire interface - they all have more stability/connection issues than I (naively, apparently) thought they would. My Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 has been the most stable so far.
SSD 3.0 - not disappointing because of the sound. Disappointed simply because I only used it a few times in a whole year before Trigger came out

 

[darthjujuu]

Profire 2626 - constantly gave me BSODs on Windows XP. At least it works as a 8-channel preamp with ADAT
Alesis io26 - had tons of annoying issues, and I had to return two just to get one that worked (not particularly well, mind you), but I guess it got the job done for awhile.
Any firewire interface - they all have more stability/connection issues than I (naively, apparently) thought they would. My Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 has

o_0 y'all need a new 'puter, son. firewire's the way to go for the majority of us, and the profire is definitely one of the more reliable ones. think you had a crappy firewire card

 

[professorlamp]

indeed my 2626 has been with me for about a year and ive had 2 BSOD's

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

Toneport UX8...it was more an impulse buy, completely forgetting I have the 002, and really this thing acts more as a decorative item than a piece of gear. will trade!

 

[FloridaRolf]

Pro Tools M-Powered

 

[reg3n]

When i got my UX2 (toneport "edition"). While i was installing it i came to realise i had to pay extra for the plugin version of podfarm.................................................... and the owners of the same (but newly colored) product, get that for free. (there's only 1 fucking legal distributor of line 6 in my city, he only had the toneport version)

FUCK YOU LINE6 i'm never paying for that.

 

[darthjujuu]

Toneport UX8...it was more an impulse buy, completely forgetting I have the 002, and really this thing acts more as a decorative item than a piece of gear. will trade!

what kind of reefer must one smoke to forget he owns a 002 and then impulse buys an 8 channel USB interface made by line6?! if it had ADAT out and could atleast be a podfarm dongle that doubles as a digimax, that'd be another story, but the i/o on those things is absolute dook.

all the toneports need MIDI i/o. such a fackin deal-breaker, i would've recommended one to my dad (cause he's BLOWN AWAY by the concept of pod farm) ...but he needs midi i/o. are you listening, line6 ?!

 

[slashvanyoung]

fast track pro (also it was stabil as hell)

Haha and it found a good home in my mobile rig. Had zero issues with that thing and the whole USB 1.1 shabang hasn't proven to be much of a bottleneck.

 

[den08]

anyway, all cheap stuff suck by default