What total rubbish product have you bought??

Rocklogicxxxxx · Groupie Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 43

lee_UK wrote:

A ROSS or a BOSS?? Ross make real cheap and nasty headphones, must be them, but i dont remember seeing any effects by them, Ive played a Variaxe, the first one, i think its the 500 series, and for the money they are very good, i would have like to hear them in a band mix at volume, cos as we know the tone completly changes under these conditions, but overall i thought it was a good soundy likey guitar,...

Did a bit of research on the Variax guitars. They emailed me (within a couple of hours). The 300 has a fingerboard radius of 12 inches and the 500 and 700 are both 10 inches. the only leftie I've seen is the 500. They have a good forum on their site and it's been flaging up a lot of the regular problems with the electronics etc worth a look for the "shed some light on the Variax" dept.

http://line6.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=18

vitaminE · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:

Re: a Ross or a Boss???

While in highschool in the late '80s, my guitar playing friends and I all seemed to have one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22669&item=7331078017&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

They weren't bad at low levels for overdriving an amp, but if you cranked them up they sounded terrible. I also had a ProCo Rat that, in my opionion, sounded like crap.

schmidtp · Joined: 01 Jul 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Cooma NSW

bulsara wrote:

Maybe not total rubbish.

I have a "Godwin Organ Guitar" it is beautifully constructed but overly complicated and so heavy you can not hold it for more that a few minutes at a time. It is a huge acoustic style guitar, the internal space of the body is completely filled with the electronics from an organ.

There are 13 knobs and 19 switches. Each fret is insulated into six sections across it's length so that the strings act as separate earth returns when they are pulled down. Each segment creates a different note from the organ component.

Every time you play a note you get both guitar and organ tunes! It also comes with a huge volume pedal. Apparently it requires 2 separate amps to work. No one has been able to play it successfully at this point.

Has anyone ever played one of these beasts? Confused

HI,

I read your quote about owning one of these. I've had a Godwin organ that I bought to fix up (and never got around to it). Is it possible you could email me privately so I could ask some in detail questions about how it works and about the expression pedal that came with it? My e-mail address is schmidtp@ipstarmail.com.au

Look forward to hearing from you

Cheers

Pete

Tim · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject:

4 year bump! I wouldn't hold your breath Pete Confused

Still you never know.

Gibbergeist · Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

The worst bit of kit I ever bought was a Washburn 'Bad Dog' Flanger pedal. It sounded like putting your guitar through one of those telephones kids used to make with two plastic cups and a piece of string. Once you added distortion you just became confused. How could a Flanger fail so utterly to sound like 'Aint talkin bout love'?. The best bit about it was it was a metal casing - what a waste of effort though. I sold it on e-bay and it was accidentally damaged in transit - a fitting end.

Riffin54 · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4

I bought this wireless pack once for playing live (first mistake). It was awful, sounded like crap and had a range of about 10 feet. I can't even remember what brand or model it was.

Tim · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:23 pm Post subject:

Zoom 506 bass multi (the original black-ish thing with the orange bits) - So plastic it creaks when you stomp (oh...actually, you won't dare stomp...try gingerly jabbing with a toe) and sounds like hundreds of different broken hair-dryers/mopeds.

jason · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:59 am Post subject:

The worst thing I ever got was a Hondo

I really hope the guy asking for a Hondo valuation doesn't read this Smile

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