The horrible 80s/90s gear thread

[Desertdweller]

We had one of these running on the metalguitarist forum a few years ago and these threads are tons of fun. Here's my total POS setup from the 90s that I thought was golden back then:

 

[DrewJD82]

I love that there's a pink pedal made in the 90's called the Thrash Master.

I remember trying these out a bunch of times at the music store and never gelling with them, even back when I didn't know sh*t about guitar tones.

 

[Desertdweller]

I love that there's a pink pedal made in the 90's called the Thrash Master.

They had a whole line of simply awful sounding pedals. IIRC the only decent sounding one was the Grunge pedal they had. I owned the Supra, the Metal Master, and the Thrash Master. All were just terrible.

 

[TSJMajesty]

ART SGE

 

[JT]

Replace the guts with something good on the Thrash Master. Name and enclosure color are

 

[Desertdweller]

Replace the guts with something good on the Thrash Master. Name and enclosure color are

You know, that's not a half bad idea.

 

[dronerstone]

I bought (and quickly sold) a Boss DS-2 back then.

Basically because at that point I didn't know most higher-gain drives sounded much better into a hairy amp - or overdrive pedal into clean amp.

 

[Whizzinby]

They had a whole line of simply awful sounding pedals. IIRC the only decent sounding one was the Grunge pedal they had. I owned the Supra, the Metal Master, and the Thrash Master. All were just terrible.

 

[Piing]

My precious. I spent so many hours playing with it
Back in these days there was nothing like this

 

[paisleywookiee]

My precious. I spent so many hours playing with it
Back in these days there was nothing like this
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I had the gray Zoom 9000, and the foot switch that ran over RJ11. It wasn’t good, but I thought it was magical.

 

[metropolis_4]

I remember the day I bought one of these. It was the coolest thing ever. It also had a headset mic for the talk-box effect.

Paired with my awesome Crate GX amp!

 

[jellodog]

Ahh the Laney Linebacker SS bass amp, circa 1985... how I hateth thee, you total POS:

Worst amp I ever played. And my first.

I went Trace Elliot after that and it was pretty darned good!

 

[JT]

I remember the day I bought one of these. It was the coolest thing ever. It also had a headset mic for the talk-box effect.

Paired with my awesome Crate GX amp!

3 band eq

 

[metropolis_4]

3 band eq

 

[Desertdweller]

I went Trace Elliot after that and it was pretty darned good!

Speaking of Trace Elliot, anyone else remember this monstrosity?

 

[ManWithGas]

Speaking of Trace Elliot, anyone else remember this monstrosity?

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Not a Star Trek Phaser but a Phase Canceller!.........................................BIG time.

 

[AZG]

As a child of the 80's this thread brings back nightmares

The solid state Crate amp I had probably turned thousands and thousands of young guitar players away from guitar. I almost became a drummer

 

[Desertdweller]

As a child of the 80's this thread brings back nightmares

The solid state Crate amp I had probably turned thousands and thousands of young guitar players away from guitar. I almost became a drummer

I kept buying pedals with my allowance as a teenager trying to make it sound good until I finally got frustrated with it and bought an amp head and cab.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I had one of these, and thought that it was THE shit. Was so excited, I had to take it to my buddy's shop (same shop I now do web/photography for), and he just shit all over it, in the most polite way possible.

 

[JT]

I had one of these, and thought that it was THE s**t. Was so excited, I had to take it to my buddy's shop (same shop I now do web/photography for), and he just s**t all over it, in the most polite way possible.

DTCMAL. Most memorable acronym ever.