S t e v e Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 i bought 2 on the same day, a DOD grunge and BOSS blues driver...can you remember your first? B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bschory Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 The first pedal I ever bought was a Zoom 505II mutli-effects pedal. Zoom 505II I used it to get slightly better drive than the terrible overdrive channel on my terrible practice amp. (The cleans on that thing weren't great either, but better than the OD by a long shot.) I got it because it was really cheap (I was in college) and it let me play with a bunch of effects and start figuring out what sounds I wanted. The one thing it couldn't do was imitate a wah pedal. I think it has auto-wah in it, but it never really worked the way I wanted. That deficiency inspired me to go pick up a Dunlop Crybaby (which is still on my pedalboard). You know, I bet I still have the thing kicking around somewhere. I might have to dig it out later and give it a run against my pedal board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanPC Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 i bought 2 on the same day, a DOD grunge and BOSS blues driver...can you remember your first? B) DOD Grunge also. Still have it. Never use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Boss DS-1. I now use it as a decoration :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 First 'sorta' pedal = Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 power booster, $19.99 brand new in 1984. Now they're frickin' collector's items. First pedal acquired as swap bait = Washburn Stack-in-a-Box. Sounded like rump. Sold it immediately. First pedal bought on purpose, right in front of God and everyone = ProCo Rat, first incarnation, 1985. List price $99, my dealer cost in 1985 about $43. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom_JEM Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 boss ds1, still use it on my bedroom transistor amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 DOD Corrosion...wish i still had it. Sounded so cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 DOD Corrosion...wish i still had it. Sounded so cool! same as the grunge, and i can't remember why the hell i got rid of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Blue Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 In 1969 I bought a Univox Superfuzz. I loved that pedal. It let me get my first taste of distortion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman5293 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 The first pedal I got was my Crybaby Slash Custom Wah. Love it. Crybaby makes the best sounding wah pedals out there and the Slash Custom has an added distortion/boost feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 My first pedal was a 'fuzz'. I can't remember the make. It was an orange colour and shaped like a wah. It was made of plastic. Does anytone know what it was? It would have been around 71. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner 13 Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Arion Chorus pedal through a tiny DC powered peavey amp some time around 86. also one of the ones I wished I still had. Only chorus box I have ever seen with a actual tone knob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIANTRobOT42O Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Black Russian Muff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 The first pedal I had was given to me by my dads mate. It was a korg toneworks AX1 that he didnt want anymore. This guy also gave me a behringer eurostack ub802 mixer which he didnt want. I still use the mixer its great. The first pedal /my parents bought was a christmas present, the zoom g7.1ut. Pretty expensive but I never use it because I have so many effects also on my zoom fire 30 amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 My first pedal was a Climb phaser, it sounded so great at the time. I sold it 10 years later, more like gave it away, a guy was about to buy a cheap wireless system from me (Star or some brand like that) and he saw that pedal and a fretless bass I had (a washburn lion of which I had taken the frets off using a pair of pliers ) he asked me how much I wanted for the whole thing (bass+pedal+wireless) and I sold it all to him for 150 bucks My next buy was a zoom gfx707 or something like that, it came with everything the musician needed, even an expression pedal and at the time it too sounded so great. Makes me wanna go back to the time when a $80 multifx pedal was the greatest sound in the world (it gave me slashtone baby!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 My first pedal was an Ibanez TS-10 Tube Screamer, I had it before I had an amp. I was running into my portable stereo (aka Ghetto Blaster), it had a 1/4 mic jack but no Gain so I used then TS-10 for a preamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Nada... But I've been watching some stuff on eBay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 The Crybaby Wah. Wasn't that the No.1 pedal on some list recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigh Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Mine was an EH Small Stone phaser & a Big Muff in 1980. Wish I still had them. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 DeArmond Square Wave in 1979 for $35 new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 My first was a Boss Flanger (BF-2) early 80's model, and still have it, yet don't used it much. Modeling comes close but the fulness and roar of this pedal is hard to duplicate IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disembodied Loaf Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Digitech RP355. It took me years to get my first pedal and to this day, I only have 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Actually my first 2 pedals were a gift from my now wife, when I started playing again she saw I was browsing for Boss pedals on the internet and going by the history she bought me a Boss Metal Zone which I still have and a Boss Blues Driver which I returned because I didn't think it did anything my amp at the time didn't already do. By returning the Blues Driver I pissed off the guitar Gods and brought myself forever bad gift karma, my wife has never gotten me anything that cool again. I wish I had kept that pedal even if i used it as a boost or a different level of overdrive so not to tweak the amp. Stupid move on my part. I'll never part with the Metal Zone, lesson learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky scott 29 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Simple.Actually I think most of my buddies I used to hand around with back in them days, bought the same. A Cry Baby...WAH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon S. Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Mine was either the green Big Muff, or the Danelectro red OD box(Fab Tone i think?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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