Whats your "stupid" reason for disliking a brand/piece of gear?

[Scar Symmetry]

I dislike/won't buy a guitar with a shitty shaped headstock.

Like these:



This I go for:

I support this post 100%

 

[Prydogga]

I support this post 100%

Nearly, also, I kind of like the tele headstock on teles, even though it's ridiculously misshaped.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

He forgot to put a reversed ESP headstock in there though

 

[xtrustisyoursx]

I dunno what to tell you. The JCM 900 I used to own was completely useless unless I wanted to play some weak classic rock, so I sold it. My AVT150H on the other hand, can make just about any sound I ask it to make.

I think tube heads are great when you're the kind of player who uses one specific sound 90 some odd percent of the time. If you're like me, and playing entirely different styles of music every 10 minutes, solid state is the way to go.

I used to think this as well. However, now that I own my Mesa, I've yet to find a style it doesn't do well.

 

[Dylan7620]

For me it would be Schecter. I understand that half the forum owns one but I just can't get into them. On paper they're great, solid parts (original floyd, real EMGs the list goes on) solidly built and play great all at a steal of a price, but it's just not me. I think it stems all the way back to when they were first breaking onto the scene with the diamond series and their ads had bands like smile empty soul and seether promoting them. Now when I see kids with baggy clothes and greasy hair grab them and proceed to play their "nu grunge" music out of tune with them it becomes all to clear that Schecter reached their demographic with those ads.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

For me it would be Schecter. I understand that half the forum owns one but I just can't get into them. On paper they're great, solid parts (original floyd, real EMGs the list goes on) solidly built and play great all at a steal of a price, but it's just not me. I think it stems all the way back to when they were first breaking onto the scene with the diamond series and their ads had bands like smile empty soul and seether promoting them. Now when I see kids with baggy clothes and greasy hair grab them and proceed to play their "nu grunge" music out of tune with them it becomes all to clear that Schecter reached their demographic with those ads.

Have you played a Jeff Loomis sig? It could turn you onto Schecters, seriously.

 

[helly]

Pointy guitars. No V's, no Warlocks, no Xiphos, no Jackson Kelly, nothing of the sort. They all make you look like a big tool who can't leave the early 90s in their place.

The reason is baseless, really, because the way your guitar looks is personal damn preference, but I absolutely cannot stand them, and it's to the point where if I see a band getting onstage and soundchecking with a guitar like that, I'll usually walk out assuming they're playing metal that's way too dated to be relevant in today's scene. Nobody wants 7 minutes of the same blastbeat and trem riff over and over. Not even from Vital Remains or any similar act. It was sick then, and I'll still listen to it if the bands who did it originally are the ones playing it, but I cannot stand hearing new local bands that haven't gotten on with the times. I just have no interest in a band coming out today that sounds just like Pantera did in 1990, or like As I Lay Dying or Caliban in the early 2000s, or Vital Remains back in 2003. We've got it from here. They fell off for a reason.

Heh, that was kind of a double-hate there, but again, pointy guitars just bring instantly to mind the thought of a band that is playing completely outdated metal, and in the same regard, I also hate bands playing completely outdated metal regardless of whether they're any good at it or not. I have some strange mental block against it.

Ibanez, as well, for my own guitar purchases. My first guitar was an Ibanez RG320DX and it was BAD. First off, nobody should be forced to deal with a shitty knockoff Floyd (the guitar was 400 bucks or so, what could I have expected?) on their first guitar, and because I was, it's only been just yesterday that I had the nerve to order a guitar that has a Floyd, and only with the intent of blocking it. If I want to divebomb, I'm bending the neck before I dare even touch the trem handle. I still won't even play an Ibanez guitar, short of checking out a new guitar a bandmate or friend picks up out of pure curiosity. I just have a baseless hate for them, despite them being clearly quality instruments in many capable guitarists' hands.


EDIT: ROSEWOOD FRETBOARDS. Never, ever, ever will any guitar I own in the future have one. I hate how they feel with a burning passion, and despite my Schecter Hellraiser being a perfectly fine guitar, wonderful for the 400 bucks or so I spent on it used, I hardly touch it because of it's fretboard.

EDIT 2: Graphic finishes (Jackson, I'm lookin' at you.) look fucking stupid. Just shut up and get a normal looking guitar, keep lightning in the thunderstorm and skulls and shit in the damn cemetary. And black guitars. Never will I buy a straight black guitar. We aren't in Seether or Trapt or fucking Hoobastank, you don't have to go around looking metal like it's 1997. I'd play a pink guitar before I play a black one that isn't trans black with pretty wood underneath or something like that. Ross Robinson doesn't produce your band, idiot.

Sorry, apparently I'm very angry about many of my guitar-related beliefs.

 

[El Caco]

Am I the only one who want's to get a Xiphos, airbrush some machine art on it and record a Replica cover after reading that?

 

[Daemoniac]

Am I the only one who want's to get a Xiphos, airbrush some machine art on it and record a Replica cover after reading that?

Yes.

I too am in the "I hate weird shaped guitars" club

 

[Daemoniac]

I also generally don't much like graphic finishes.

So there.

 

[Zehailiu]

Most graphic finishes look are arse anyway, if you slap some GOOD art on that shit it'll look amazing.

I can't get excited about gear I don't own already, I think anything I have is automatically gooder than anything I don't have.

 

[Daemoniac]

I'm the exact opposite; There's always got to be something better than what I currently have.... I guess that's just GAS though Though I tend to go further, even when I do find something i'm perfect with, i still keep looking

 

[Zehailiu]

Oh I have GAS too, I get new gear just to see how inferior they are compared to my current gear, and if it turns out to be better, I already own it so there are no contradictions.

 

[Dylan7620]

Have you played a Jeff Loomis sig? It could turn you onto Schecters, seriously.

Yea, it's a sick ass guitar. also, my buddy has a blackjack 7 atx that I dig a lot. even if I did happen to get along with the scale length I still couldn't see myself playing one, they're just not me.

 

[Leuchty]

He forgot to put a reversed ESP headstock in there though

Sorry mate. I meant just ESP's in general, reverse or not, I love em.

Also reverse Jacksons...

 

[cycloptopus]

I selected the quote carefully, I did not include the other insane imaginations of the sexually deprived who also still believe XP is the best OS ever made or lack the intelligence to be able to work out that the cheapest product to purchase does not mean the least expensive to own. But whatever, you keep pumping your ego and tell yourself that you are so much better then people who love their Macs and keep making yourself happy by thinking about gay porn.

Hey, man. Thanks for the credibility and all, but I'm not in the Microsoft camp either.

You say "selected the quote carefully" I say CENSORSHIP.

I'm not sure how it went this far, but maybe you can get some help for whatever made you such a homophobe...

 

[El Caco]

I'm not a homophobe, but I don't get turned on by gay porn either, if you do good for you, I won't hold it against you. I'm just pointing out that you are the one thinking of sex involving men not me, but good for you we have a few single gay men looking for the right guy maybe ss.org can help a few lonely guys meet each other

 

[boltzthrower]

Anything that comes with someone else's name on it. That is, unless it's the designer.

 

[cycloptopus]

I'm not a homophobe, but I don't get turned on by gay porn either, if you do good for you, I won't hold it against you. I'm just pointing out that you are the one thinking of sex involving men not me, but good for you we have a few single gay men looking for the right guy maybe ss.org can help a few lonely guys meet each other

no, not for me man, but thanks anyway... The reference was purely for dramatic impact. I must say, i think I was successful.

 

[synrgy]

Anything that comes with someone else's name on it. That is, unless it's the designer.

Yeah, I really hate being a walking billboard. I try to only buy clothes that are either A) completely plain or B) have 'generic' designs on them that do NOT include any sort of company logo. I don't even buy band t-shirts, unless I'm personally friends with somebody in the band.