Gear Regrets: Turkey Modeler Edition!

Maybe the closest would be the GT-1000 and Kemper I bought earlier this year, both at really good deals but the prices have kept falling so I'll take a slight him on them. Really though modelers are easy to sell especially if you aren't worried about recouping costs.
 
If I had it all to do over again, rather than selling the Axe III and trying to go Helix Rack as bothe modeler and audio interface, I shoulda kept the III, gone back to using my Behringer audio interface, and bought a Stomp.

Otherwise, the only hardware I regret is the blue Behringer V-POD-AMP I bought for like $40 off eBay for a single track a buddy was recording…only to find its S/N was so awful it was not suitable for purpose so borrowed a work colleague’s POD 2.0. V-Amp is still sitting in the attic somewhere.

At this point, I regret all amp sim plugins I ever bought.

Pretty content with FM3, Stomp + Synergy setup now, but do eventually want to have a Big Dawg Fractal again.
 
Boss GT-6 is the only one I regret buying. It's not that good sounding.

I do not regret selling the Quad Cortex or Fractal FM3 (I've got an Axe-Fx 3 now). Similarly don't regret selling my past Fractal units.

I regret selling the Helix Floor a tiny bit, but not too much.
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
If I had it all to do over again, rather than selling the Axe III and trying to go Helix Rack as bothe modeler and audio interface, I shoulda kept the III, gone back to using my Behringer audio interface, and bought a Stomp.

Otherwise, the only hardware I regret is the blue Behringer V-POD-AMP I bought for like $40 off eBay for a single track a buddy was recording…only to find its S/N was so awful it was not suitable for purpose so borrowed a work colleague’s POD 2.0. V-Amp is still sitting in the attic somewhere.

At this point, I regret all amp sim plugins I ever bought.

Pretty content with FM3, Stomp + Synergy setup now, but do eventually want to have a Big Dawg Fractal again.
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What was wrong with the AxeIII audio interface? I know the FM3’s was/is squirrelly. The FM9’s seems to work fine.
 
Truly showing my age, traded a very cool Roland GP-8 (analog) for a POS Roland GP-16 digital effects processor.

Lose/lose :facepalm
 
paisleywookiee said:
What was wrong with the AxeIII audio interface? I know the FM3’s was/is squirrelly. The FM9’s seems to work fine.
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(1) when I had it, you had to manually measure the latency and then manually input an offset into Logic because the damn thing didn’t bother to do it for you. Confidence inspiring.

(2). Setting up to monitor anything via headphone and kill your studio monitors just took too much thought/effort. So even though I could run mic pres into it for recording vocals and acoustic, it sucked for purpose.

(3). It’s not a device I really wanna just leave on all the time. The fan was not loud but was noticeable; it kicked off some heat, etc, etc. i am damn well used to my audio interface being on all the time at this point in my life and not willing to change.
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
(1) when I had it, you had to manually measure the latency and then manually input an offset into Logic because the damn thing didn’t bother to do it for you. Confidence inspiring.

(2). Setting up to monitor anything via headphone and kill your studio monitors just took too much thought/effort. So even though I could run mic pres into it for recording vocals and acoustic, it sucked for purpose.

(3). It’s not a device I really wanna just leave on all the time. The fan was not loud but was noticeable; it kicked off some heat, etc, etc. i am damn well used to my audio interface being on all the time at this point in my life and not willing to change.
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My thoughts exactly. It's a shame that on modelers the audio interface functionality is almost like an afterthought, with level settings buried deep, often not very flexible routing (especially in a box with the most flexible routing for the guitar signal) and so on.

I'd love to make the Axe-Fx 3 my main audio interface, but I'd like things like a dedicated headphone volume knob (now I dedicate Out1 for headphones and hook up my studio monitors to Out2 just to get around this), an option to make the display/meters sleep (because I don't need to see them when it's just used as an audio interface) and I've done my darnest to make the fan as inaudible as possible by upgrading it to a Noctua model, but it's still there enough to hear in a quiet room.

So my audio interface is a humble Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd gen because I can't find another audio interface that meets fairly simple requirements:
  • A few mic pres.
  • A few line inputs.
  • Some line outputs.
  • SPDIF I/O. Preferably RCA so I don't need a RCA -> optical converter box. Modelers often have RCA, audio interfaces optical these days.
  • MIDI I/O.
  • Better headphone amp.
  • Solid drivers and latency performance.
  • Works on both Windows and MacOS.
  • Doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I'd probably pick up one of the Arturia Audiofuse units but reviews say the small one gets hot and all models have issues with the big encoder knob. Audio interfaces should be "so reliable you never have to think about it" stuff.
 
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Yeah fair points there. TBH, the Axe II sucked as an audio interface, particularly if you ever plugged an electronic drumkit into it. It just couldn't handle the data I don't think. So I never really imagined I'd use the III in this context very much. I have SPDIF on my main interfaces, so I just do that.
 
Honestly, Quad Cortex. Great sounding box, but i bought it shortly after launch and found myself dealing with a shitton of issues and unfulfilled promises. I was luckily able to sell it about 1 year later, for a bit more than what i paid too.

As for gear regretted, i'm about to sell my HX Stomp XL and i'm 99% certain i'll miss it down the line.
 
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