Higher end Gear you've hated?

[Mikathechou]

Oh YES I HATE PLUGINGS !!!

[Marty J]

I can't afford most of this stuff. I guess that makes me lucky.

[SamSites]

Originally Posted by Mikathechou

Oh YES I HATE PLUGINGS !!!

²!

Plugins == tutt

[Sean Sullivan]

Originally Posted by Marty J

I can't afford most of this stuff. I guess that makes me lucky.

I'll second that.

[Sean Sullivan]

Actually, every expensive Marshall amp except the Bluesbreaker and JTM45, and the majority of Mesa/Boogie (too many knobs!).

[vincentvangogo]

Originally Posted by Jim vanBergen

I recently miked a guy who played the kazoo from his bum. I miked it with Coles 4038 into a Fearn tube mic pre to a Crane HEDD at 24 bit/96kHz to PT HD3. The direct sound was warm and fuzzy, but the early reflections were just terrible. Sounded like there was a piece of tissue paper inside that kazoo somewhere!

I tried that but it came out too bottomy.

[narcoman]

Only one thing really, for me.

Anything Avalon.

Sold as high end. Not in any lifetime. Everything else seems to sit where it's sold....

[Gabriel Sousa]

why you didnt like the MP-2A ?

Originally Posted by philip

Dynaudio monitors
Focusrite RED3
A-Design MP2-A

[Gabriel Sousa]

strange, no one mentioned the neumann m147...

[bforest4]

Not a fan of Summit, except for their Mono Compressor is Cool

Avalon 737 is highly overrated

AKG 414, Neumann U87 both do nothing for me

[ebot9000]

nerds.

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oh.. and hi.

[philip]

Originally Posted by Gabriel Sousa

why you didnt like the MP-2A ?

to bright and to harsh.

[LaChunkyStudio]

Well done slutz!! You've managed to diss just about every piece of pro gear ever made. More proof that the opinions on this forum are so widely disparate that they generally can't be trusted as objective.

One piece of advice - use your ears!!! OH, AND GET ON WITH MAKING SOME F******* MUSIC!!

[yareck]

Originally Posted by ulle

Cranesong is rubbish, DW Fearn and Daking just crap, Pendulum a joke (isn´t it) ? .... ok , ok, ...go on..

so , I guess you better stay with Behringer, M-Audio and Tascam ;-)

Cranesong may be boring...

[ToneRexx]

Originally Posted by Acoustic Cloud

I have 4 Demeter 73068-A preamps and two of the B models unracked. Bob is coming over next month to rack the other 2... I cant wait!!

???

Poor guy! ..Demeter!!! ouuuch!!!!

[audibell]

Originally Posted by 84K

Millenia stuff.... I don't get it.


Soundelux..... I tried but one never came that worked correctly... 5 strikes and they're out


Sony C-800G... again, Don't get it. Sounds like plastic to me.

That's OK, I get it - if you have little use for the early 90's pres with the click-stop white knobs, I'm interested.
WT

[Sacalait]

In the vernacular of James Brown "Lawd!!"

...I own every peice of gear that has been torched in this thread!

...but I've made a living with all of it for the last 6 years...

[insomnio]

AT4033
I sold my 737sp, but I can't say I hate it. It also looked incredible racked.

[Todd K]

Originally Posted by transfiguration

Thats the kind of customer service ALL company's should provide!

[carlheinz]

Neve VR's.....clincal sounding
Da-88's sucking the life away and adding edge.
888 profools
sony dash....225k you had a very fast rewind!Still in use by Chris or Tom
c12vr....ice picks
Finalizers
737...for the 100th time...
6176...ehhh..nice bottom but not well defined
culture vulture...boss pedals beat it
dbx post 160 vu
Neve 8108 the one with the microwave oven automation beep noises.
PCM 42'S...nice but way Overhyped
MX2424...Never worked for me
LOGIC ....Not intuitive
Genelec anything...sold my 1031's
New marshalls....hw 18watters ok
Panasonic 3700's and DAT machines...SUCK compaired to good tape
DX7'S.


Too tired to type more

[ThomasWho]

Focusrite ISA 220

Genelec speakers

Euphonix consoles (not shure the model number , have written songs in two different studios that had these. Unintuitive and boring sound)


Thomas

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by LaChunkyStudio

Well done slutz!! You've managed to diss just about every piece of pro gear ever made. More proof that the opinions on this forum are so widely disparate that they generally can't be trusted as objective.

One piece of advice - use your ears!!! OH, AND GET ON WITH MAKING SOME F******* MUSIC!!

People like and dislike many things. thats is opinion - the original post asked for such opinion. I hate Avalon gear but there are plenty of big projects that have been recorded using them. Heck, I used to have an O2R - horrible pre-amps. Didnt stop me having a couple of drum n bass hits!

[dBMusic]

Originally Posted by elambo

U87. It's a standard in many studios but I've tried them a few times and could never learn to like its sound. No thanks...

And Focusrite Red from the mid-90s. Uninteresting to me. Keep it...

AKG 414. I used to like them and used them every day but using one now is very unsatisfying.

I think the RED 1 Mic Pre is the best I've heard for BD, SN and OH - ever.
I agree, you can keep the rest of them Reds...

OK, other gear I find overrated:

1) Avalon 737 (to puffy, the only pce of tube gear I've heard, that makes the sound smaller).

2) Crane Trakker (I cant say its musical)

3) Neve 8801 (puffy, too creamy)

4) AKG C12 VR (they should be officially forbidden, to use that C12 logo - mind you, its a great mike for very soft or very loud signals, if C12 is the characteristics you want - OK wouldnt mind havin 2 of them bastards after all ;-)

5) Universal Audio 2-1176
No where half like the 1176, whatever they say or put in.
Difference is staggering.



dfegad

[Elvis Gotta Gun]

Originally Posted by Jim vanBergen

the Thermionic Culture Vulture.

Which is weird, I expected to ADORE it. And...it was BEIGE sounding. As in Bland, lifeless, boring, just....yuck....with extra UCK.



But I've been a little ashamed to share this, as I'm embarrassed I didn't like a comp that gets so much praise, and costs so much per channel. Thanks, I feel better.

Jim

I thought it was a distortion unit.

[Drumsound]

Dynaudio BM15

[deft_bonz]

another one for 414. i just don't like this one.

[Mr. Man]

AKG C12VR
It's all low mud and screechy high frequencies.

[JMc]

Originally Posted by Gabriel Sousa

strange, no one mentioned the neumann m147...

Okay, I will. I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it enough to keep it, even after it received a new tube and met factory specs after I sent it in for maintenance last summer. This will not put me in good stead with nearly everyone in this thread (and what a way to make my debut here!), but I actually prefer the sound to my older TLM-103 to the M-147, so I still have it, though I rarely use it. It has a nice, grainy texture that works for me on occasion.

Other disliked gear I've owned and either discarded or put into storage (though I don't really consider high end):

Focusrite Voicemaster Pro Platinum - No issues with the sound quality on VO work considering the meager investment. Nice array of pretty red lit buttons, nearly all of which go bad after a couple of years. Garbage.

Aphex 230. Couldn't get it out of my studio fast enough. I couldn't find a setting that didn't sound horrible after two days of fiddling with it.

EV-RE20 - Had to work much too hard to get the vocal sound I was looking for out of it. Nice workhorse -- for broadcasting -- but not nuanced enough for the daily rigors of the kind of varied VO work I do.

[Jim Williams]

Originally Posted by deft_bonz

another one for 414. i just don't like this one.

Which one, they made 7 through the years? I love my 3 B-ULS models. I also love the RE-20. It does need a very fast and clear mic pre to hear what it can do, it's a condenser substitute in many situations. Heck, it was good enough for Bonnie Raite and her stack of Grammy's.

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

[deft_bonz]

Originally Posted by Jim Williams

Which one, they made 7 through the years? I love my 3 B-ULS models. I also love the RE-20. It does need a very fast and clear mic pre to hear what it can do, it's a condenser substitute in many situations. Heck, it was good enough for Bonnie Raite and her stack of Grammy's.

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

good question, i just can't remember

but i also never had the urge to give it another shot