Higher end Gear you've hated?

[SteelyDani]

I feel absolutely depressed. Believe or not but almost every piece of my gear has been mentioned in the first four pages of this thread and there are already 18. I am so sad I could not continue reading.

What shall I do? Selling all my gear?

Nobody will want to buy Genelec’s 1031. Well, perhaps I could sell them to Avatar Studios as spare parts because they have 1031’s.

And my two U87? I thought of Abbey Road. They are dumber than I am as they have purchased 39 . Maybe they will accept two more...

The rest: Neumann (14) including a couple of M149, AKG (9), TG Electronic 4000, Lexicon (2), Millennia HV-3D, Focusrite Red, Avalon 737, etc, etc, etc.) I'll throw it away. Fortunately I have not bought an U67 or a C12.

Herebelow the list of suspects (in parentheses the number of times they have been mentioned in the first four pages):

TLM 103 (8)
K184 (3)
KS 105
BLUE Blueberry
Drawner 1960
PND Portico Preamp
TC Finalizer
Focusride RED (7)
Monster cables 2
U87 2
U67
M149
KM184
AKG 414 (6) they all suck
AKG 460
AKG anything
Genelec anything
Soundstrack anything
Drawner anything
TC Electronic anything
everything newer than 50's tube gear
Pro Tools 192 (4)
Neumann TLM
New Neumans (3)
UA re-issues
Avalon 737 5
Avalon 747
Avalon 2022
Avalon 2044
Focusrite 2
Manley Elop
Drawner
Harrison
Mackie
Distressors 2
Sony C-800G
Portico Pre
Pedulumn ES-8
Cranesong STC-8
DW Fearn VT-1
Daking
Summit DCL-200
DBX 160SL
Manley Gold
Adam
Royer 121/122
Millennia 2
Apogee Rosetta
Dynaudio
A-design MP-2
Manlet Vovox
TC Electrinic reverbs
Genelec 1031 (3)
UA 1176
Sondelux
Rode
Royer
Vintech X73
Sondelux E47
Triaxis
Yamaha NS10
Blue Bottle
LA 610
AT LDC's

Damn there is almost every kind of gear out there made mentioned on this thread.....shit if we all took this serious we would have an end to music (cmbsounds)

[Aaron Rash]

Avalon 737. Biggest waste of money

[RevolutionStudio]

U87 - I actually don't hate these, just have never been blown away by them.

I don't know if you consider these high end but Soundcraft consoles....Hated the DC2000 (they're discontinued now), and I wasn't too thrilled with the MH4 when I got to mess with it for a few months.
TC Finalizers.

[snellular5]

New u87s, compared to the purple badged ones.
Anything Avalon! Despise of avalon and most daking stuff

[Baz]

Originally Posted by snellular5

New u87s, compared to the purple badged ones.
Anything Avalon! Despise of avalon and most daking stuff

Umm, ALL 87's, are purple badge

Another cred killer moment on GS. Big surprise.

[energizer bunny]

Originally Posted by Space Station

Barefoot MM27's..I didn't like then at all..lived with them for over 6 months until I finally sold them off.

What have you replaced them with. If i may ask.

[RightOnRome]

Originally Posted by Knob Tweak

Portico preamps.. Yuck

hey does anyone else feel this way? i was considering getting some of these pre's

[RightOnRome]

Originally Posted by SteelyDani

I feel absolutely depressed. Believe or not but almost every piece of my gear has been mentioned in the first four pages of this thread and there are already 18. I am so sad I could not continue reading.

What shall I do? Selling all my gear?

Nobody will want to buy Genelec’s 1031. Well, perhaps I could sell them to Avatar Studios as spare parts because they have 1031’s.

And my two U87? I thought of Abbey Road. They are dumber than I am as they have purchased 39 . Maybe they will accept two more...

The rest: Neumann (14) including a couple of M149, AKG (9), TG Electronic 4000, Lexicon (2), Millennia HV-3D, Focusrite Red, Avalon 737, etc, etc, etc.) I'll throw it away. Fortunately I have not bought an U67 or a C12.

Herebelow the list of suspects (in parentheses the number of times they have been mentioned in the first four pages):

TLM 103 (8)
K184 (3)
KS 105
BLUE Blueberry
Drawner 1960
PND Portico Preamp
TC Finalizer
Focusride RED (7)
Monster cables 2
U87 2
U67
M149
KM184
AKG 414 (6) they all suck
AKG 460
AKG anything
Genelec anything
Soundstrack anything
Drawner anything
TC Electronic anything
everything newer than 50's tube gear
Pro Tools 192 (4)
Neumann TLM
New Neumans (3)
UA re-issues
Avalon 737 5
Avalon 747
Avalon 2022
Avalon 2044
Focusrite 2
Manley Elop
Drawner
Harrison
Mackie
Distressors 2
Sony C-800G
Portico Pre
Pedulumn ES-8
Cranesong STC-8
DW Fearn VT-1
Daking
Summit DCL-200
DBX 160SL
Manley Gold
Adam
Royer 121/122
Millennia 2
Apogee Rosetta
Dynaudio
A-design MP-2
Manlet Vovox
TC Electrinic reverbs
Genelec 1031 (3)
UA 1176
Sondelux
Rode
Royer
Vintech X73
Sondelux E47
Triaxis
Yamaha NS10
Blue Bottle
LA 610
AT LDC's

Damn there is almost every kind of gear out there made mentioned on this thread.....shit if we all took this serious we would have an end to music (cmbsounds)

wow this is funny.. well it goes to show you that we live to learn!

[uncle muscles]

Summit DCL 200

[uncle muscles]

Believe me when I tell you that if you did a shootout between the waves CLA2a and the DCL you wouldn't be able to hear the difference. And if you "can" you're lying!

[uncle muscles]

The UA reissues are awesome. Especially the 1176.

[uncle muscles]

Originally Posted by RevolutionStudio

U87 - I actually don't hate these, just have never been blown away by them.

I don't know if you consider these high end but Soundcraft consoles....Hated the DC2000 (they're discontinued now), and I wasn't too thrilled with the MH4 when I got to mess with it for a few months.
TC Finalizers.

I wasnt blown away by the u87 either. Reissue, that is. Very condenser-ish. The only thing I dont like about the 525's is setting the damn things up.. Now that I think about it Im not really a fan of the Cl1b either. And back to the Summit gear, the TLA 100 annoyed the shit out of me by giving me nothing but noisy high noise floor crap.

[tiny333]

Any 500 series

Stupid tiny annoying little pieces of **** !!!



There i said it

[alligator]

ALL AVALON PROCESSORS - way overpriced pretty crappy
GT ELECTRONICS BASS TUBE PRE - mine is worn out want marcus miller bass pre
TL AUDIO - EVERYTHING - i unfortunately bought a compressor / mic pre which has turned out to be the biggest POS ever. Compressor plugins are better than this shit.
FOCUSRITE LIQUID 4 PRE - yeah all those emulations and you know what all 42 of them SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME! It's focusrite they are marketing towards the "lower end" consumer their stuff is terrible Luckily i sold this POS right away. Emulations are totally worthless. Great idea but in practice the liquid 4 pre is crap.
A DESIGNS PACIFICA - for some reason just didn't like this one
ALL VINTECH PROCESSORS (AT LEAST THE PRE's) - again probably in the minority but vintech is dissapointing the dual channel pre boy it sure is ugly and i was coerced into buying it.

KNOW YOUR GEAR and DON'T GET SCREWED!

[Kyle_PL]

KRK ERGO - high self noise, when volume knob was over 13 o'clock.

[SteelyDani]

Originally Posted by RightOnRome

hey does anyone else feel this way? i was considering getting some of these pre's

Are you going to make your decisions based on this thread? This is funny too.

[Pgraf88]

Hanks pre/comp I like the pre but the comp is crap, also studio I worked at had a tla pre/eq is was complete crap useless pres just as useless eq and it was "TUBE!!!!!!"

ohh and Yamaha M7cl that thing just doesnt have what it takes to be a live sound console.

[Liquid360]

Originally Posted by waldie wave

Manley VoxBox - The EQ and the compression isn't my thing. Still have the unit.
Lexicon PCM 96 - It is like a toy. Reverbs are lackluster.

Funny, I hated the Bricasti.

[a2dpapi]

Originally Posted by tiny333

Any 500 series

Stupid tiny annoying little pieces of **** !!!



There i said it

Wow! How do you really feel?

[krheatman]

Too bad all you guys got suckered by Sweetwater catalogs into buying all that junk,or was it believing everything you read on gearslutz?

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[salomonander]

horch rm2
phoenix drs8
vovox cables
any "summing box" i have tried (considering pre/post insert aux)
apogee converters
neumann km184

[arth]

I don't get people dissing on Distressors. Besides using them on snare and kick, I like distressors with neve 1081 and u87 on certain female vocals, especially the ones with vary variable dynamic range, going from really soft into full on belting. Nuking the shit out of room mics wiht distressors is the greatest pleasure!

So far I didn't really like Peluso P12, but I might not have enough of playaround with it. TC finalizer is nono. TLA stuff hasn't worked out for me so far either.

[Kelly Cameron]

NS10M's: absurdly underwhelming and required more printing of mixes than any other monitors I've used. Yet they were industry standard for years...I made bird feeders outta mine after purposely blowing them up with a bridged 4 Bryston, felt way better after.

[kraku]

SSL AlphaLink MADI AX

[Saxon-of-a-son]

Originally Posted by thethrillfactor

Stuff that didn't bowl me over and proved the point don't believe the hype/ check it out for yourself:

Portico mic pre

Pendulumn ES-8

Cranesong STC-8

DW Fearn VT-1

Daking mic pre and compressor

Vintech anything

Transient Designer

Summit DCL-200

DBX 160SL

Avalon 2044

Soundelux mics

Manley Gold Ref mic

Korby mic with switchable capsules

Adam monitors

Speck mono EQ

The RNC compressor

What don't you like about the D.W. Fearn? I'm just about to order a VT-2!

[tiny333]

He told me it was too red

[uncle muscles]

Dude if people are dogging on distressors they haven't used them correctly. Thats insane! And the Avalon stuff is majorly overpriced. Then again, I tend to agree most stuff is.

[Rob Coates]

SPL Vitalizers in any form
Summit FEQ-50

[Swamp Thing]

Manley Gold Ref (and the non gold as well). Sounds horrible.

[Jim Williams]

Originally Posted by Kelly Cameron

NS10M's: absurdly underwhelming and required more printing of mixes than any other monitors I've used. Yet they were industry standard for years...I made bird feeders outta mine after purposely blowing them up with a bridged 4 Bryston, felt way better after.

I used to shoot pencils into the woofers with an Uptown moving fader system. The dust cap was a bulleye.