What was the worst gear that you ever owned?

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:47 am

For me it was....
behringer tube composer pro.

And the gear that most lost its value......

EMU XL7 in 18 months I lost..............
1600 CAN. if you include tax!

DAM YOU EMU!

Or I guess it could have been my EMU E5000........
2100 in three years

That is the way it goes I guess. Now I just buy software and upgrade it.
Or buy OLD hardware.

jerry123 · Post by **jerry123** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:08 am

With out a doubt, the worst piece of music gear I have had to use, and still do, is a computer.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:39 am

jerry123 wrote:With out a doubt, the worst piece of music gear I have had to use, and still do, is a computer.

well said

pan0ramabanana · Post by **pan0ramabanana** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:02 am

for my first post, i'm going to have to say my old m-audio ozone. i'm glad that that thing is gone. really.

Left Eye Dominant · Post by **Left Eye Dominant** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:18 am

The MAudio Quattro, crap sound, cross channel bleeding and the thing got so hot that it could actualy cause a first degree burn if you touched it. Thankfully it stopped working thirteen months after purchase!

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:45 am

roland MC 303
behringer composer pro and modulizer

but I was 16 back then...

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:20 am

So many things that suck/sucked..........!

Maudio fw410. It was the anti-christ

Or maybe the 500 coffee-cup coaster, Sonar 3pe

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:00 am

Everything is useful.....

Even old guitar leads make cool sounds.

Who cares how much it's value goes down if u never sell it.

-Ben

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:40 am

I used to have a Roland JV2080. It was just before softsamplers and romplers took off. Had an idea I needed acoustic instrument samples - mostly orchestral... So I sold my Microwave XT and bought the 2080...

Kept the 2080 for a short while then sold that as well - I was very disappointed. Now I miss my XT. But at least there are competitive VSTs - but without that nice orange powder coating and surface full of knobs.

Cheers,
Mikael

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:56 am

Left Eye Dominant wrote:The MAudio Quattro, crap sound, cross channel bleeding and the thing got so hot that it could actualy cause a first degree burn if you touched it. Thankfully it stopped working thirteen months after purchase!

he he - another vote here for the Quattro - what a black hole in music technology history - I couldnt get a sound out of it on 3 different computers

then a bit of trawling the internet I found out most people who owned it seemed to have problems with it

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:10 pm

MrYellow wrote:Everything is useful.....

Even old guitar leads make cool sounds.

Who cares how much it's value goes down if u never sell it.

-Ben

That is the kind of positive thinking that will get you nowhere my friend!

Left Eye Dominant · Post by **Left Eye Dominant** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:14 pm

forge wrote:
he he - another vote here for the Quattro - what a black hole in music technology history - I couldnt get a sound out of it on 3 different computers

then a bit of trawling the internet I found out most people who owned it seemed to have problems with it

After a dreadful experience with the Quattro, I swore that I would never buy another M Audio product EVER!!! Shame because the Project Mix i/o gets some good reviews (mind you so did the Quattro).

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:33 pm

my worst gear was a peavey sampler i imported from usa a while ago ,
it came with 2 audio expanders ,was 3 units high , only 4 seconds sampling memory & if i can remember the sampler unit had 8 meg or memory .
at the time this was pure luxury , i could not make it work without having to go thru the manual as the menu system was so complicated .
once akai came with their nice sounding samplers i moved the peavey in the attic , it's still sitting there .

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:15 pm

eyeknow wrote:Maudio fw410. It was the anti-christ

I second this. Fucking driver problems, hardware problems, and they all persisted with two separate cards...

gogmagog · Post by **gogmagog** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:20 pm

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