what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

forge · Post by **forge** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:45 am

M-Audio DUO - the thing just didnt work

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:21 pm

M-Audio Ozonic.

Useless toy made of recycled Chinese condoms (like most M-Audio products...)

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:57 pm

Amazing how many times the word "Behringer" turns up in this thread.

My worst ever purchase was a Behringer UB 2442fx mixer which I bought for live gigs. Fucking piece of shit.

Out of the box the first six line inputs never worked but if you wiggled jack input #1 you could get them to work intermittently.

Returned it to the shop and got another one - exactly the same problem. Opened it up and discovered that the pcb containing the jack input sockets had come completely adrift from the rest of the mixer.

Returned it to the shop and got another one. Tested it in the shop.

Within three months the line inputs had gone intermittent so I put it in the shed and used it as a rack for drying paint brushes.

My other worst aquisition was a "Deep Bass Nine" 303 emulator which I swapped for a Roland MC 202. It never worked from day one and when I got it repaired I was horrified at how bad it sounded.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:23 pm

popslut wrote:Amazing how many times the word "Behringer" turns up in this thread.

Ya gets what ya pays for...

Robert Henke · Post by **Robert Henke** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:48 pm

sweetjesus wrote:don't feel shy to join our threads Mr Henke and fellow Abe's..

okay. here we go: KYMA.

I once thought it must be cool to have a super expensive super specialized hardware+ software box that will be sooo much cooler than all that reaktor and maxmsp stuff together. Oh, I was soooo wrong. It sounds great but the user interface drove me
I_N_S_A_N_E. I had the worst two weeks of my life with it before I finally decided it was stupid to buy it. Thanx god I was able to sell it to a film post pro studio. For the money I lost with this buying-selling action I could have gotten a used H-3000 or H-4000 and had a million times more fun. Agggggggggggggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrr

Rob.

kleine · Post by **kleine** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:01 pm

This would be the Waldorf Qr for me. It´s a good synth but i just couldn´t get along with it. It basically sit in the rack for 3 years doing nothing. Now sold.

Christian
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b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:05 pm

sony vaio.

Kobalt · Post by **Kobalt** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:14 pm

A Trace Elliot SMC7 300w bass amp head and a 1048H 4*10" speaker...
some years ago I spent everything I had to buy it, and after some rehearsals it got back to my apartment... and hardly ever been turned on again (300w for 30m² that makes it 10W/m²...)

I am attached to it though (and its value on ebay is too f*cking low for me sell it)... a funky tv stand

erwann

Macrostructure · Post by **Macrostructure** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:27 pm

b0unce wrote:sony vaio.

Shame. My B3-XP is wicked!

Nord G2 - so annoying! Way too complex to patch when you really want to be getting on with making music, the factory presets are rubbish (fortunately the user group presets are wild) and the build quality is not all they make it out to be, but somehow the bloody thing manages to be at the heart of every track I have ever finished!!!! Grrrr!

dysanfel · Post by **dysanfel** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:44 pm

Alesis Quadrasynth. When I bought it in 1994 I could have bought a Korg M-1 which was so much better. The Quadrasynth just sounded terrible.

monoschall · Post by **monoschall** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:36 pm

oh man I have bought so much 'great' junk in the past (moving to a
Software based studio from Hardware really made a lot of my gear redundant but
make the distinction between that and totally useless

SP-808EX: I bought this for doing live performance - yeah right!!!
It's best feature is that you can set the pad buttons to flash on and off in different patterns!

btw, I'm only joking, it's a killer floor burner and it's for sale for only €200!!!!!

lukas412 · Post by **lukas412** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:40 pm

white ibook. what a joke.

Luke

dysanfel · Post by **dysanfel** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:42 pm

monoschall wrote:oh man I have bought so much 'great' junk in the past (moving to a
Software based studio from Hardware really made a lot of my gear redundant but
make the distinction between that and totally useless

SP-808EX: I bought this for doing live performance - yeah right!!!
It's best feature is that you can set the pad buttons to flash on and off in different patterns!

btw, I'm only joking, it's a killer floor burner and it's for sale for only €200!!!!!

I borrowed one of those from a friend and found it almost useless.

Synthbuilder · Post by **Synthbuilder** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:58 pm

The worst purchase ever was the Quasimidi 'The Raven'. The keyboard was nice though, but the rest of the synth was not for me. Sold it a month later for considerably less than I paid for it.

The Roland MC303 was a bit of a mistake too. But I persevered with that one and got enough out of it to make it worthwhile.

I should also add my 3GHz P4 Carillon Music PC was pretty terrible too. Overheating, noisy and smelly. Fortunately, with help from various forums and websites I got this one working nicely by substantially rebuilding it.

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:48 pm

Synthbuilder wrote:The worst purchase ever was the Quasimidi 'The Raven'.

I got given a Quasimidi Quasar by somebody who'd just paid £400 for it and I hated it so much i left it beside the bins outside my flat. It sat there for three days before somebody took it away.

Somebody I know

spent £8000 [that's about $17,000 kids...] on a Waldorf Wave and ended up using it to put house plants on because three years after they bought it the operating software had still not been completed.

The best they ever got out of it was this kind of thin reedy pad sound and they were gutted later on when NI Absynth came along and completely outclassed it for £250.

Looked brilliant though.