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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: HTH AMPS on November 25, 2007, 06:38:23 PM

Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 25, 2007, 06:38:23 PM
I'll soon be putting the finishing touches to a stompbox I've lashed up and was wondering what the favourite colours are for stompboxes.

It's just a plain brushed aluminium box that will have creme knobs.  I was thinking a dark chocolate brown myself, but I may well be in the minority there  :lol:

Anyone?

 :twisted:
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Twinfan on November 25, 2007, 06:53:35 PM
Bright red......
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Will on November 25, 2007, 06:57:49 PM
Totally depends on the effect itself :P
Tie die style is the best though!
Red and chrome?
Black?
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: CJ on November 25, 2007, 09:01:59 PM
burnt chrome like those pickup covers?
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 25, 2007, 10:39:04 PM
Quote from: callme.nasty
burnt chrome like those pickup covers?


ahh, cool idea - lets see what I can do with a pair of plyers and a gas hob

 :lol:
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: CJ on November 25, 2007, 10:59:49 PM
ha, i wouldn't have a clue how he does those. well, i'd guess maybe a blow torch or something. probably completely wrong. throw em in the fire!
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on November 25, 2007, 11:12:57 PM
I'm quite fond of my Rick Nielsen compressor by HBE:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/CPRTop.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/CPRSide.jpg)
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: CJ on November 25, 2007, 11:16:31 PM
nice  :D
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: il˙ti on November 25, 2007, 11:40:51 PM
I don't care what effect pedals look like. No one seems them.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Henk on November 26, 2007, 07:30:22 AM
I prefer something very bright so you can see them on a (very) dark stage situation. So anything white, red, yellow or orange or so would be fine with me.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Mr Ed on November 26, 2007, 08:59:49 AM
I like bright colours - bright reds, electric pink, lime green, violent orange.  8)
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: 38thBeatle on November 26, 2007, 11:00:48 AM
A nice pale blue would be right I think.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Orkestra on November 26, 2007, 11:37:35 AM
I painted my swell pedal in EVH style stripes but in dayglow yellow and green... but it chipped really badly in my case. So I tried to sand it down to the bare metal... now it looks $%&#ING AWESOME. Ill post up some pictures when I chill the $%&# out for 5 mins


my advise to you is to make it look like a brick...


or cover it in ham
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Mr Ed on November 26, 2007, 01:10:05 PM
Quote from: Orkestra
or cover it in ham


I heartily endorse this idea.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Twinfan on November 26, 2007, 01:33:58 PM
As a vegetarian I couldn't condone the use of ham in this way.

Try it with tofu  ;)
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: gwEm on November 26, 2007, 02:13:02 PM
green is never the wrong choice for a stomp box
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Roobubba on November 26, 2007, 02:34:26 PM
My vote definitely goes to the burnt nickel effect :)

Roo
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Orkestra on November 26, 2007, 03:10:22 PM
"it makes your sound more hammy"


tofu? ah, low fat and flavor (of a sort)
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: apmaman on November 27, 2007, 02:02:35 AM
Go for the 80's classic of a swirl.

(http://files.muziq.be/pics/ibanez_jemini-proto_001.jpg)


Failing that a fluorescent colour so that it can be seen pretty easily on a dark stage. Also good if your pedalboard has a built in blacklight so the pedals glow!!!
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: gingataff on November 27, 2007, 02:31:54 AM
Swirls were a 90s thing :wink:
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: hunter on November 27, 2007, 06:14:12 AM
Oh no someone asked for colour, now you will get 1,990 different answers (as many forumites there are I think)
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Catalyst77 on November 27, 2007, 11:31:40 AM
I built the delay pedal from BYOC and sprayed it glow in the dark green.  Never gonna miss that on stage.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: indysmith on November 27, 2007, 11:35:35 AM
this totally depends on what the box is - green for overdrive, red for distortion, blue for chorus, silver for fuzz, etc.etc. it's just how it works
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Fourth Feline on November 27, 2007, 08:08:44 PM
I like the colour dark blue, but having also seen the brushed aluminium offerings of a certain small pedal maker, I like the brushed aluminium, or brushed aluminium with engraved lettering best. It looks refreshingly 'business like'.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on November 27, 2007, 09:24:09 PM
Quote from: gingataff
Swirls were a 90s thing :wink:

Hehe, you beat me to it!!
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 27, 2007, 10:31:59 PM
Quote from: Fourth Feline
I like the colour dark blue, but having also seen the brushed aluminium offerings of a certain small pedal maker, I like the brushed aluminium, or brushed aluminium with engraved lettering best. It looks refreshingly 'business like'.


like this? (slightly spammy I know, sorry - I'll try harder in the future)  :cry:  :wink:
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Fourth Feline on November 28, 2007, 01:27:54 PM
Hello HTH  :D

Getting much closer,

( I say this in confidence - so everybody else look away )

I was thinking of the early Indyguitarist Plexdrive pedals, before they started using white powder coat finishes and adding extra decoration  - or closer to your example, the way that the initial ' un-painted' limited edition MXR Zakk Wylde OD pedal ( raw metal, blue LED ) - looked.

I like rounded edges and simplicity of design. Understated is always more attractive to me.

If anything, I like the sound of your boxes just as they are, brushed aluminium with creme knobs - a real touch of ' vintage ' in my books.

 ( although I do love Blue LEDs ) .

I always think that pedals and amps are like good quality clothes or cars, the variations and fads come and go, but the classics always look good.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: CJ on November 28, 2007, 10:45:13 PM
tolex it
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 28, 2007, 10:53:04 PM
Quote from: callme.nasty
tolex it


done that, I'll see if I can dig out a picture of the leopard-skin one I did, REALLY bad taste  :lol:
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: HTH AMPS on November 28, 2007, 11:07:12 PM
Found it, here you go - totally bad taste, but it was just a bit of a laugh...
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: CJ on November 29, 2007, 02:29:33 AM
greatest thing i have ever seen.

i thought it'd be cool to have it match your amp, i guess depending on what your amp looks like.
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Fourth Feline on November 29, 2007, 07:04:40 PM
That leopard skin pedal will surely get Billy Gibbons on the telephone ordering 6 of 'em   8)

The only 'out there' option I liked  ( seen on the Telecaster Discussion Forum  ) - was a white ' Cherry Drive'  pedal with one of those 1940's pin up girls and a  ' cherry ' LED. There is a thread in the 'stomp box' section on the topic of " coolest pedal ? " you might find interesting.

I'll try and attach the picture I saw...
Title: Favourite colour for effects pedals?
Post by: Will on November 29, 2007, 11:28:54 PM
I want one :P

does it actually sound any good :P