Gear you (thought you) fell in love with but never did

[D.o.S.]

The Axaloti is a great piece of kit but the UI is like the Windows 95 version of Max MSP and ultimately fighting with the interface when I could use something that was way more powerful (although obviously not a standalone thing) wasn't worth it because I'm never going to use it outside of a PC.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Laptop emoji

You Mac musician you

[odontophobia]

The Axaloti is a great piece of kit but the UI is like the Windows 95 version of Max MSP and ultimately fighting with the interface when I could use something that was way more powerful (although obviously not a standalone thing) wasn't worth it because I'm never going to use it outside of a PC.

Yeah. If somebody did something with that UI in an aesthetically pleasing fashion people would go nuts for it. Doesn’t help them I’m just dumb and can’t do fuck all with it.

[qersty]

VCVrack. I thought it was gonna be like reliving my teenage days of fucking around in the nord g2 and learning how to build stuff from scratch but it felt more like a youtube electronica machine. Most of the moments where i felt super stoked about it was "hell yeah this filter sounds so nasty" rather than having learned cool patching techniques.

One day I'll get a g2 for a reasonable price...

[Confuzzled]

EQD Rainbow Machine. I couldn't find a context to use it in and didn't see it as something I would use in more than one song so it was flipped.

[lordgalvar]

Jaguar HH. It's just boring. No quirks, just a solid guitar. Got it when my SGV was stolen in 2006 and was like, "wow, a real, nice guitar" but I started missing my SGV as we played more shows.

Revolver DT (I had DT, not DX). Same kinda thing. I'd rather use a DSD with an elaborate trigger setup. It did everything so well, I just didn't want to explore it. Plus I rarely loop more than a few milliseconds.

Edit, phone typing blunders!

[Jwar]

Revolver DX here too and I do like it but I always used it in a pretty unorthodox way, meaning I was chasing a single sound and could not replicate it for some fucking reason. hahaha, so I gave up. I mean, after I bought it 4 more times....maybe 5.


I had the version with 2 minutes of loop time too. I just didn't jive with it still. I love his pedals too.

[friendship]

i’ve just been playing acoustic for all of 2019 and 2020. It’s really tempting to sell off most of my effects and my extra electric guitars and my 120w head that I haven’t used in over a decade. I like fooling around with sounds from time to time but it doesn’t usually help me write/record music, which was ostensibly the point of the gear. I’m not into weird sound effects like I used to be—there doesn’t seem to be much of a point to them when I don’t have anything musical to say with them.

Sorry for the bummer post.

[retinal orbita]

Maybe I don’t love THE RAT as much as I think I do? I have a super nice flat box vintage one with the kvlt chip that just sits in a box. I like it, but I never use it. I love the aesthetic of it but maybe I’m not a RAT GUY.

Also I love the HM-2 but since I bought the HMD-1 the OG sits in the same box as the Rat. The clone hath surpassed its master.....

[qersty]

Maybe I don’t love THE RAT as much as I think I do? I have a super nice flat box vintage one with the kvlt chip that just sits in a box. I like it, but I never use it. I love the aesthetic of it but maybe I’m not a RAT GUY.

Also I love the HM-2 but since I bought the HMD-1 the OG sits in the same box as the Rat. The clone hath surpassed its master.....

I feel you, I dont vibe with them either, not enough gain and the highs are just weird to me

[D.o.S.]

the whoismarykelly Rats look fucking sick though.

[coldbrightsunlight]

^

I've only tried Rats briefly and never owned them but they seem pretty cool. I think I have enough pedals for OD/distortion sounds that I'm not in any rush to get one though.

[Blackened Soul]

it took me almost 20 years to like rats, i got one when i was 17 and never used it because it sounded bland and traded it.. Then on a whim i got another.. Still found it bland.. But when i switched from all tube amps to a ss pwer amp a few years ago my favorite fuzzes and ods no longer sat in the mix right so i retried everything i had and the rat won so i used that in a blend loop type pedal and it was awesome in a band context.. I still find them bland and meh on thier own though..

[mathias]

Not sure about Rats for bass, but whenever I want that compression and huge 90’s guitar distortion sound (guilty pleasure Weezer Blue Album songs, I’m looking at you), my Dirge Rat delivers. (Granted, I think I’m running it without diodes — on a switch on the Dirge but you’d have to mod a switch for that into regular Rats, I believe.)

[Dowi]

I like Rats even though my favorite one was a revised version with no clipping diode, so not sure if it counts.