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Post by ab101 on Mar 14, 2021 23:32:29 GMT -6
Well - I thought this might be an interesting topic. I thought of this topic tonight when I saw a Sphere eq on reverb.
I sold a pair of Sphere 920 eqs - graphic - but sounded unbelievably awesome - and worked perfectly.
I have regretted it since that sale some years ago.
I am sure there is more on my list. (Hmm- my mint Soundelux 251 with ge 5 star, DPA 4015a pair, etc.)
I am curious what others have regretted selling and wish they could buy back right now!
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 14, 2021 23:39:08 GMT -6
Well - I thought this might be an interesting topic. I thought of this topic tonight when I saw a Sphere eq on reverb. I sold a pair of Sphere 920 eqs - graphic - but sounded unbelievably awesome - and worked perfectly. I have regretted it since that sale some years ago. I am sure there is more on my list. (Hmm- my mint Soundelux 251 with ge 5 star, DPA 4015a pair, etc.) I am curious what others have regretted selling and wish they could buy back right now! I bought a Lowden O12 in 1998. I sold it in 2009 for close to 3x what I paid for it. But that was a seriously dumbass decision. I miss that guitar so much. I’ve owned 3 other Lowdens since then, plus an Avalon (built in the same factory by some of the same people), plus 2 McIlroys (Dermot McIlroy was the head builder at Lowden for many years). Still, none of those others had quite what that first Lowden did. My current McIlroy is closest, but it still sounds very, very different.
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Post by woofhead on Mar 14, 2021 23:44:51 GMT -6
I sold a selmer mk6 baritone sax about 15 years ago that I was recently missing a lot.It was really beat up and could be challenging to keep in operational form especially on the road but it had a beautiful and unique quality to its sound.
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Post by seawell on Mar 14, 2021 23:59:13 GMT -6
Stephen Paul modded U87 Avalon AD2055 are the two I miss the most ☹️
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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 15, 2021 0:31:36 GMT -6
All of you will be shocked…but there really isn’t a lot I look back on and think “oh man…I made a huge mistake…” The only one I can think of is the future one I’ve been threatening to sell for 7 years - my Martin D-28 Authentic. But here’s what I can think of.
- Boutique Audio racked pair of Helios reissues - Sta-level is constantly on this list - Maybe one of the nicer ADs I’ve had in the past? - Gibson SG reissue with Maestro trem - Martin 000-18 Golden Era - Had a cheap 3 pedal pedal steel for a while that I wish I still had - CAPI VP 528 and the 526 comps.
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Post by tasteliketape on Mar 15, 2021 1:00:45 GMT -6
Original 1953 fender p bass ! I bought for 800$ . 45 years ago and still regret it .
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Post by rowmat on Mar 15, 2021 2:29:39 GMT -6
Well - I thought this might be an interesting topic. I thought of this topic tonight when I saw a Sphere eq on reverb. I sold a pair of Sphere 920 eqs - graphic - but sounded unbelievably awesome - and worked perfectly. I have regretted it since that sale some years ago. I am sure there is more on my list. (Hmm- my mint Soundelux 251 with ge 5 star, DPA 4015a pair, etc.) I am curious what others have regretted selling and wish they could buy back right now! I bought a Lowden O12 in 1998. I sold it in 2009 for close to 3x what I paid for it. But that was a seriously dumbass decision. I miss that guitar so much. I’ve owned 3 other Lowdens since then, plus an Avalon (built in the same factory by some of the same people), plus 2 McIlroys (Dermot McIlroy was the head builder at Lowden for many years). Still, none of those others had quite what that first Lowden did. My current McIlroy is closest, but it still sounds very, very different. I bought a Lowden O25 from a music store in Melbourne about 35 years ago and knew nothing about Lowden except after playing it I knew I had to have it. I still have it today.
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Post by nick8801 on Mar 15, 2021 5:15:28 GMT -6
I’ve had a bunch of nice guitars I’ve let go or traded, but the one that I miss the most was a Fender Custom Shop 1966 Strat in gold. Maple neck, big headstock, not sure the pickups but they were the really bright scooped kind. I got it for 1700 at a local guitar center. Something about it was just awesome. I’ve seen one like it on Reverb, but for 3500!
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Post by srb on Mar 15, 2021 6:59:58 GMT -6
I've owned 3 different Les Paul Jr.'s over the years: '58, '59, '60; of them all, it's the '60 I miss most of anything I ever sold. That guitar was light, played well; the P90 barked and snapped like no other I've ever had. And, it intonated well for a wraparound. And it stayed in tune, too.
I don't wax nostalgic often, but I can about that guitar. I was in one of my "can't go broke selling for a profit" predilections. That mindset has generally worked well for me, but not that time.
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Post by nick8801 on Mar 15, 2021 7:06:55 GMT -6
Interesting, it's usually instruments and not rack gear most of us regret selling so far. How about things you would never sell, therefore you will have no regrets lol. I'll start....I'm never getting rid of these ATC's. I love them. If they ever pop up in the classifieds, someone remind me that I'm being a dumb ass!
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Post by tkaitkai on Mar 15, 2021 7:11:09 GMT -6
- Great River Harrison 32EQ: Sold to fund my Wunder. Ugh. Easily my favorite EQ . I would buy 16 if I could.
- 3U Warbler 127: No idea why I sold this. The fuck was I thinking?
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Post by RealNoob on Mar 15, 2021 7:14:18 GMT -6
PSI A21M’s Daking FET III Daking Pres
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Post by Guitar on Mar 15, 2021 7:31:48 GMT -6
I think it's mostly microphones for me.
Really missing the Neumann KM184.
Somewhat missing the MD441 and RE20.
By selling that stuff I sort of did a "downgrade" which is not good, that's why I miss them. My SDC, and most (not all) of my dynamic mics are not quite at that level right now.
Shouldn't be hard to find them again though when I'm ready.
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Post by jerrypbury on Mar 15, 2021 8:36:37 GMT -6
1959 Sunburst Strat I bought in 1967 for $50 with a Kalamazoo amp. Sold it in 69 when I was drafted for $85 without the amp! Traded a 1971 Les Paul Black Beauty Custom fretless wonder for a crappy Fender twin Reverb in 78. Sold my original 65 Deluxe Reverb to Aspen Pittman in 79. Gave a 69 SG with vibrato to an ex girlfriend as a Birthday gift. She broke up with me that night. Sold a Ludwig 65 blue sparkle drum set to the studio next door in 84. Probably more but at my age I have a better memory of the past than I do about what happened 10 minutes ago.😎
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Post by ab101 on Mar 15, 2021 8:40:55 GMT -6
Wow - going back to the 60s. Love it. If we are going back that far - in about 1974, I sold my fender rhodes suitcase keyboard with a pair of fender twin reverb amps. It sounded amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 8:43:57 GMT -6
Long life means carrying a few regrets doesn't it? I sold an RE-20 and an MD-421 about twenty years ago--long before online videos. The 421 is a peculiar mic, but had its uses (especially if you know how to use the polar response to advantage). And I ended up doing a lot of interviews and tutorials much later on. So I sure would have sounded more authoritative with the RE-20.
And I had a '65 P-bass that I bought from a drummer for $50 in about 1977 or so. Refinished it and gigged with it for several years. Without a doubt the sweetest neck I've ever had on a bass. I traded it a dozen years after I bought it. Should have had my head examined for that one.
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Post by EmRR on Mar 15, 2021 8:53:42 GMT -6
Stereo Collins 26U-2 vari-mu and Gates SA-38’s. In both cases I have original parts to build clones, but when? farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/3154741826_f883442b21_b.jpgThe rack of Langevin 117A’s was super nice. Traded those for an RCA 96-A vari-mu. groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=21964.msg343887#msg343887But all these things were laterals into stuff I wanted more. It's mainly the thing of deciding to (probably) never have a thing again once it's gone, in these cases because I'd never pay current market.....which is sorta WHY they are gone..... I haven't let any instruments go for that reason. Oh yeah, thought of one I did block: had a pair of Western Electric 121-A’s for a minute. Just worth too much, and spare/repair parts costs are terrifying, with the transformers being $3K+ apiece. I’m not in the financial class to have something like that die on my watch! As said by someone, “if the stock market is keeping you up at night, sell stocks until you can sleep”
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 15, 2021 9:12:12 GMT -6
My mom took me to the local music shop when I was 14 (1976) and she signed for a red Fender Bronco guitar and a Champ that I made payments on. Wish I still had them both and especially the Champ. Other than that, a beat to shit Gibson Firebird that had P90s in it that I got around 1984 or so. It was a blues machine. I got it in my head that I HAD to have a Les Paul and traded it. Kept the Les Paul about two days and went to try to get it back and it was gone.
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Post by dreamsambas on Mar 15, 2021 9:25:30 GMT -6
Probably an EMT 140 several years ago. I didn't have space for it then. It literally sat behind our bed's headboard for a few years haha. But now we bought house with a decent size basement, and a plate reverb would be perfect...
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Post by Ward on Mar 15, 2021 10:18:12 GMT -6
1976 Ludwig kit. 1992 Meinl Congas. 1956 Gibson Les Paul Custom (pawned, went to get it back and the shopkeeper was a dishonest dick) 1989 Gibson LPC sunburst. and for about 5 minutes, Manley Slam, but I quickly got over it.
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Post by drbill on Mar 15, 2021 10:19:59 GMT -6
Out of the hundreds or maybe close to thousand pieces I've owned and eventually sold over the years, there's not that many that I really regret. I learned fairly early on from my guitar buddies - they were always selling and buying something "better" only to regret it in short order. So I've really always tried not to sell to fund something "better". I think that's the secret - don't sell to fund the purchase of something different. Only sell to make space if you're not using it, or if it doesn't resonate with you.
I do have one good story I've told before. Back in the very early 90's, I GAVE my Jupiter6 to a keyboard player in a band that I was producing. Over the years, I grew to regret that move as my emphatuation with the new digital stuff waned and my first love of analog synths grew stronger. Fast forward about 10 years into the early 00's when those things really started to grow in value....and I ran into that keyboard player in a coffee shop, and he asked if I wanted it back - he said it had been sitting in the anvil case in his garage almost since the day I gave it to him. Didn't take more than about...half a second to say YES!! He even brought it back to me. It's still hanging on the wall, loved and played 20 years later alongside the Prophet 5 which I'll never sell.
Oh....there is one more that I honestly do regret. My little tabletop D&R Vision console. That thing had been modded from here to the moon and back. It sounded SOOOO freaking good - open and punchy - and I sold it cause I had the larger console. I ended up selling the larger console too....and even now without a place for it I do regret it a bit....
Maybe I do have more things I regret selling. Must be blocking them from my active memory. LOL
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Post by sagefields on Mar 15, 2021 13:05:30 GMT -6
Interesting how so many of these are instruments! For me it was a cherry Gibson ES330 with a vibrola that my parents bought for me in 1965, and I played it in all my bands throughout high school. Sold it in 1970 for $200 (which is actually a bit over half of what it cost new then), thinking I would never play electric guitar again. Hah! Would love to reunite with it, but not having the serial number I could never find it for sure.
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Post by EmRR on Mar 15, 2021 13:17:04 GMT -6
Tangent story.
I was in a band with a guy who sold his final and nicest Les Paul in 1978 to open a guitar store of his own, $10K then ($40K inflation adjusted now). That Les Paul is considered maybe the best flame top of them all, has graced at least one book cover. He had no regrets.
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Post by teejay on Mar 15, 2021 13:50:03 GMT -6
...a beat to ---- Gibson Firebird that had P90s in it that I got around 1984 or so. Forgive me guys, as I am not an instrumentalist and have no classic guitar stories. I know this is out of scope, but the word Firebird drove a stake in me. This is a "gear-box" regret. First car at 16, 1978. '69 Pontiac Firebird Sprint, 2.0 straight six with overhead cam, Rochester Quadra-Jet carburetor, four-on-the-floor with Hurst linkage, Keystone spoked mags. Bought it for $800. Immediately put in a Pioneer deck, Kraco power amp booster, and Jensen Triax speakers. A year later I was in an accident. Had just installed air shocks, a Thrush muffler and flex fan. Ready to buy Mickey Thompson 50's for the rear and 70's for the front mounted on Crager SS 5-spoke chrome wheels, as well as a set of headers. Big dreams. The insurance company told me it would cost more to repair than the car was worth ($900 damage). I had a job and needed transportation. Instead of hanging on to it and repairing it myself, I let my dad talk me into selling it...for $75!!! The air shocks alone cost more than that. That is the biggest regret I have, and it haunts me to this day.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 13:51:11 GMT -6
The 52' Martin D28 still stings a little..
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