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Post subject: What's your oldest effect pedal?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:51 am
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I got rid of a lot of older stuff, so right now I'd say it's my
Thomas Organ Company Cry Baby Wah from '68.

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:03 am
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A late 70's "transition" model MXR Phase 90 phase shifter.

The "transition" models were emblazoned with the block MXR logo, but still had the script-logo circuitry.

It sits proudly between my Crybaby and my Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH-2S Classic Fuzz...

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:59 am
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I have a couple of BOSS pedals from the late 70's; an OD1 and a DS1. Also an SD1 from about 1980 or 1981 or so. They don't get used much. They're just there mostly for posterity. If anything, the SD1 gets more use than the others. I also have a mid/late 80's BOSS Digital Dimension that still gets used quite a lot because it's the best damned chorus pedal ever made. Period. It doesn't cycle through that ugly sounding in/out of phase thing that most chorus pedals do ... unless you crank it so high that all you hear is chorus. It's just makes it phatter. Chorus is a hard effect for some people (me) to like and if you're one of those people (me) then you gotta have the right one. The Dimension is the only one.

I have an original 1991 or 1992 Fulltone '70 Fuzz from back when the housings were the size and displacement of two or three modern pedals. LOL

I used to have other pedals from back in the day (.... obviously....) but if they got broken I dumped them. Back then who knew a broken pedal would one day be worth something?

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:56 am
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I have an original MXR Distortion + -- Bought new, don't ask when... late 70s??, it don't work exactly like it should (but it's all orig, I think I can probably get it restored.) as well as a Phase 90 (which my brother in law swears is his.. lyin bastid, I know it's mine cuz I etched my initials in it. $@! hat! LOL!)


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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:48 am
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I have an A/DA Flanger from the early '80s (same model EVH used on the early Van Halen albums).

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Post subject: Re: What's your oldest effect pedal?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:12 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Chorus is a hard effect for some people (me) to like and if you're one of those people (me)...

Me, too...I almost detest that effect!

Maybe because when I started playing in the late 80's, so many people over-used the effect for solos, acoustic ballads, etc.

The closest thing I'll tolerate on my own rig is the "slow" setting of my Boss RT-20 Rotary Ensemble (Leslie Simulator)...and that's more of a slow pitch vibrato than a chorus.

I like other modulation effects, though--Phase Shifters, Flangers, Wah, Rotary, Tremolo...just not chorus. :?:

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:03 pm
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Matt, if you ever find a Dimension, buy it.
There were two kinds.
One had push buttons.
The other had twist knobs like a regular pedal.
Knobs are better.
Fugly pink and they'll be asking the moon for it but buy it anyway.

BOSS DC-3

You've seen it on my pics.

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:40 pm
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Due to a long (couple of generations) hiatus in playing guitar, and only playing keyboards and fiddle, I don't have any of my old pedals. Which I think is a blessing. Back then, I ascribed to the philosophy that if a little was good, a boatload would be better. Now I appreciate more subtlety, and don't dial in "train full of uranium crashing through a geiger counter factory".

If there's one pedal I remember using, it was one can't remember the brand of, but had one switch that scooped the sound, boosting bass and treble and lowering midrange. No controls, just a switch.


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Post subject: Re: What's your oldest effect pedal?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:31 pm
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Well, I have one of these that my girlfriend got years ago from somewhere. The last time I've tried to use it, the input signal was being distorted with my bass. I was using the P Bass Lyte with active pickups, if that was a factor in that. If not, I suppose that could be fixed. It does work rather well other than that.

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:38 pm
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arth1 wrote:

If there's one pedal I remember using, it was one can't remember the brand of, but had one switch that scooped the sound, boosting bass and treble and lowering midrange. No controls, just a switch.

I seem to recall there being a Fuzz-Style of pedal that had no controls on it, just an on/off foot-button. If it's the one I am thinking of I seriously doubt anybody would have one or know much info. I'm pretty sure I only ever saw one of them in all my years. I think it was yellow, or possibly orange and some stupid cartoon name like Thumper or Bambi or Popeye something. Maybe it was Olive Oil?

I forget.

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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:57 pm
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I have a genuine Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer (the original green stomp box) and a Roland AP-2 Phase II phaser I bought new in the 70s.
Also own a Boss DD3 digital delay (circa early 80s) which is fun whenever I have a Floydian slip.
They don't get much of a look-in these days since I bought my CyberTwin amp.
A Jim Dunlop Cry Baby (also circa early 80s) I still use today.


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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:00 am
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I have an A/DA Flanger from the early '80s (same model EVH used on the early Van Halen albums).

Me too, but I did not know that Eddie used it then. My flanger does not work, though. I also have an old wah-wah pedal from that era, too (but that doesn't work either). I also had a MXR Dist+ and nice Overdrive pedal that worked very well with Dist+ ... and (since I am an idiot) I got rid of both of those.

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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 7:30 am
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AussiePicker wrote:
Also own a Boss DD3 digital delay (circa early 80s) which is fun whenever I have a Floydian slip.

Floydian Slip!
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That would be a great name for a band...

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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:59 am
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I think my oldest may be a first year Fender Blender, I think 1967.


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Post subject: Re: What's your oldest effect pedal?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:09 pm
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Interesting read on values of vintage pedals:

http://www.guitarplayer.com/effects/101 ... dals/23778

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