Your biggest gear regret...

[ezas]

regret buying:
MIC Hamer Vector (a perfectly nice guitar which I never play)

regret selling:
Roland TR-707 drum machine

I have a TR-626 you can have for the cost of shipping iffn that would ease your pain.

[sgmypod]

regret buying:
MIC Hamer Vector (a perfectly nice guitar which I never play)

regret selling:
Roland TR-707 drum machine

I have a TR-626 you can have for the cost of shipping iffn that would ease your pain.

If he doesn't can I take u up on that offer

[Frank]

One I slightly regret giving away, a 1986 Squier strat which was heavily pimped out in the pickup department. This was back when Squiers were made in Japan and higher quality than US Fenders. I know someone who bought an identical one and kept it in absolute mint condition but he's not selling yet. I need to throw money at him.

[Frank]

Oh yeah, all the S*ym**r D*nc*n pickups I ever bought!

[Sancho]

Regret buying :
- any Ibanez I've ever bought. I always bought high range models and was consistently let down by them.
- Mesa Boogie DC5. The most useless amp I've ever owned.

Regret selling :
- Marshall Silver Jubilee 50w 1x12 combo. What was I thinking...
- Gibson Explorer
- two great early nineties Les Paul Studios
- MIJ BC Rich Mockingbird

[horsehead]

My biggest regret was getting talked into buying a Hiwatt 100 watter. The amp itself was lovely, but you honestly couldn't get it up past 2 without killing people.

[Frank]

My biggest regret was getting talked into buying a Hiwatt 100 watter. The amp itself was lovely, but you honestly couldn't get it up past 2 without killing people.

Same with my ancient Sound City 120 ... unless I start playing football stadiums in the near future it's pretty much mothballed. If it was 50 Watts it'd be the greatest power amp ever made.

[sgmypod]

My biggest regret was getting talked into buying a Hiwatt 100 watter. The amp itself was lovely, but you honestly couldn't get it up past 2 without killing people.

yes the 4x12 didnt help

[horsehead]

yes the 4x12 didnt help

True, true

[sgmypod]

forgot selling my Gibbo DC with upgraded p90's

[darkbluemurder]

I regret selling:
Acoustic G100T-amp (my first expensive tubeamp sounded not bad at all and sort of collectible now)

That's interesting. That amp could have easily gone on my regret to buy list - just forgot to add it. That amp was the textbook case of an unreliable amp. Mine stopped working after a gig at the next rehearsal - no sound. Check to make sure everything is plugged in correctly - still no sound. After a while smoke signals, causing a three month tech hospital stint and a € 250 repair bill (blown output transformer and collateral damage). After that I traded this amp for an "old" Marshall with my bandmate who wanted to use this amp as a backup to his other G 100T. Man, he really needed it. If any of these amps survived a gig that was a remarkable incident. Mostly the channel switching stopped working but in a way that the amp kind of played "in between the channels". Really nasty. What pieces of cr@p.

Cheers Stephan

[Ian Price]

I have a new biggest gear regret.

Opening Daves new PRS thread 

[Telerocker]

I regret selling:
Acoustic G100T-amp (my first expensive tubeamp sounded not bad at all and sort of collectible now)

That's interesting. That amp could have easily gone on my regret to buy list - just forgot to add it. That amp was the textbook case of an unreliable amp. Mine stopped working after a gig at the next rehearsal - no sound. Check to make sure everything is plugged in correctly - still no sound. After a while smoke signals, causing a three month tech hospital stint and a € 250 repair bill (blown output transformer and collateral damage). After that I traded this amp for an "old" Marshall with my bandmate who wanted to use this amp as a backup to his other G 100T. Man, he really needed it. If any of these amps survived a gig that was a remarkable incident. Mostly the channel switching stopped working but in a way that the amp kind of played "in between the channels". Really nasty. What pieces of cr@p.

Cheers Stephan

Haha that's funny. Mine served me seven years without any problems. Just changing tubes. It was way more realible then my Rivera that had a transformer failure.

[Lew]

I regret selling my JVM

Ner ner!

Closest thing I have to a regret is my, afterwards lews 89 RG560. Nothing special about that in and of itself, but it was a niec guitar, played beautifully and generally a keeper. Until I used it in part-ex for my pittbull CL. I adore my CL, and dont regret it, but I miss the guitar.

haha I miss that amp :-p

My biggest regret was selling a transitional Vibrolux Reverb - Silverface cosmetics,Blackface innards that I got for £300 and passed on like an idiot, ARGH

hmmm I've got shot off loads I wish I hadn't. Off the top of my head...

Bravewood Esquire
Daves old 86/87 Kramer Baretta
Hamer Studio with Crawlers
Hamer Studio P90 goldtop thing
Hamer Californian with Nailbomb
Fibenare Basic Jazz
Fibenare Superstrat
PRS 513
EBMM ASS in a rare finish
Briggs Saturn thingy
MDVs VHT CL
VHT Deliverance
Battered to shiteeee black '90 Ibanez 560
MDV's white Ibanez 560

the two Ibanezes along with an RG1527 I got for £280 really rocked my world, actually (and took me back to being 16 haha) and made me look at my buying habits. I was having so much more fun actually playing the guitar and was much more comfortable than all the boutique exotic stuff. Weird, huh?

Anyway, the only electric I've had for the last 7months (which speaks volumes in itself) is my Daemoness which is just stupidly godly and perfect. There are a few things I fancy, though. I keep my eyes on eBay for a fairly priced minty Ibanez Proline in pearl white or baby blue and an Ibanez 540P. I'd love a second Daemoness too.

[BigB]

Doing a trade of my Sovtek Mig50 for a JCM900... what was I thinking?!

Don't know, but the JCM900 was my first "real" (read "tubes") amp and while the "clean" channel wasn't that bad, I definitly don't regret the day I finally sold it :lol: