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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2013, 08:36:50 AM »
About 1981/82, an H/H Flanger, powered by the socket in my amp, an H/H VS-Musician 100W combo. Liked the sound but didn't use it much.

When I switched to valves, about 83, I got DOD's Chorus and 6-band Graphic EQ, and a Crybaby. These were my only pedals for years. Graphic conked out and I replaced it with one of the first Guv'nors. I replaced the Chorus with a Digital Delay that could do Chorus (can't remember the name) - it was a better Chorus, but I never really used Chorus live after that.
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2013, 12:49:47 PM »
My first pedal was a Crybaby wah, that will have been around 1988.  It's long since been gutted and is currently a volume pedal; and sprayed silver.
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2013, 02:13:33 PM »
I believe it was a 6-band graphic EQ from Ibanez with a level control. I used to crank everything on the EQ, i.e. I (ab)used it as a boost to push the transistor radio I played through into submission. Both the EQ and the radio are long gone.

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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2013, 08:28:35 PM »
I had the 6 band Ibanez EQ and I used it for a little more mids and gain for solos. It worked very well and had a lovely warm tone but it was noisy. I replaced it with a Boss GE7 which was a lot less noisy but didn't have the warmth of the Ibanez.
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2013, 10:38:33 PM »
Mine was a cry baby...which I used for bass! Probably sounded really naff though I thought it was cool.
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2013, 10:30:11 AM »
Quote from: 38thBeatle on January 16, 2013, 10:38:33 PM
Mine was a cry baby...which I used for bass! Probably sounded really naff though I thought it was cool.

Hey wow! Never even crossed my mind to use it on a bass... interesting idea... especially now I've been playing a fretless for 2 or 3 months... just wait til I get home from work!!! :lol:
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2013, 12:03:09 PM »
Quote from: AndyR on January 17, 2013, 10:30:11 AM
Quote from: 38thBeatle on January 16, 2013, 10:38:33 PM
Mine was a cry baby...which I used for bass! Probably sounded really naff though I thought it was cool.

Hey wow! Never even crossed my mind to use it on a bass... interesting idea... especially now I've been playing a fretless for 2 or 3 months... just wait til I get home from work!!! :lol:

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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2013, 11:29:09 AM »
My first pedal was a Crybaby wah that I got for Christmas in 1996 (I think). First pedal I bought was a used Boss SD-1 and both pedals have been sold.
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2013, 02:08:40 PM »
Quote from: AndyR on January 17, 2013, 10:30:11 AM
Quote from: 38thBeatle on January 16, 2013, 10:38:33 PM
Mine was a cry baby...which I used for bass! Probably sounded really naff though I thought it was cool.

Hey wow! Never even crossed my mind to use it on a bass... interesting idea... especially now I've been playing a fretless for 2 or 3 months... just wait til I get home from work!!! :lol:

That is quite a deadly combination. Jury's out whether that's in a good way or not  :lol:
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2013, 06:52:25 PM »
i found the orange overdrive!  it was my first pedal, i said the maker started with "A", but i was wrong  :oops: it was Rockson.  i was going to try it out again, but the 9v socket doesn't seem to be working.  i'll have to find a battery.  i found it along with my second pedal, a Dunlop Crybaby.  i long since got new wahs, and hadn't thought of this one in years, but it sounds great!  bit of a scratchy pot though
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #25 on: January 21, 2013, 07:03:45 AM »
Quote from: allstar100595 on January 18, 2013, 02:08:40 PM
That is quite a deadly combination. Jury's out whether that's in a good way or not  :lol:

I haven't actually tried it yet - but I suspect it will take a lot of practice to get it to do anything more musical than "wooooo-er-ahhh wacka-wacka woooo-er-zzz"... BUT, that will be quite satisfying in its own right for ten minutes or so (assuming the speakers survive it!!)

Quote from: blue on January 18, 2013, 06:52:25 PM
... a Dunlop Crybaby.  i long since got new wahs, and hadn't thought of this one in years, but it sounds great!  bit of a scratchy pot though

I dug mine out just over a year ago and found the same thing. It reminded me that NONE of the wahs I've used since have beaten this baby, but it is SO noisy now!! :lol: (Actually, I suspect this one feels so good/right because it's the first one I learnt to use).
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2013, 08:18:59 AM »
Good thread!

Mine was an Arion Distortion pedal back in - possibly 1985/6?  Haven't got it anymore, although I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it...

Bit of a cr@p pedal, I guess, although interestingly if you plugged headphones into the output, the sound you could hear was very similar to Tony Iommis tone on the first Sabbath albums...
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Re: First effects pedal.
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2013, 09:13:01 AM »
I'm pretty sure that my first pedal was an Arion Metal Master in, at a guess, about 1990. I obviously had no taste being 15 at the time, but I'm pretty sure that I was delighted that it made my solid state, budget, low watt, fuzzy fabric covered first amp sound nastier. I have neither the pedal nor the first amp and I don't remember what happened to either.
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