cabba2203 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Nice! My first was a 2000 Sires MXR Phaser. I've bought a few more since then. I want a POG so bad! FX Envy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 When I was about 12 (Circa 1982) and had been playing a year I saw a guy playing Aint Talking Bout Love by Van Halen and he was using an original Purple Boss Flanger. I was a Van Halen freak and thought WOW! That is the Sh*t! I didn't know there were different brands of flangers at the time. So I saved up about $50.00 and started calling around asking for a Flanger and everywhere I called ll wanted about $120.00 or so for them. I was bummed but kept calling around. Then one store said they had a used one for about $50.00 so I begged my mom to drive me to the store so I could buy it. When I got there I said I wanted the Flanger and the guy get's out this ancient looking thing with a big power cable attached and my hear sank. I said where is the little purple box Flanger and he was like "Oh that's a Boss pedal....They're about $125.00) I was so bummed and mom was not going to come off the difference so I went ahead and bought the used Flanger. It was an Electro Harmonix - Electric Mistress. It looked exactly like this but I don't remember it being a "deluxe" but it may have been. Way too long ago to remember. I took it home and much to my surprise it sounded cool. I eventually traded it for something that I don't recall but the funny thing is that through the years I have never ended up buying an original purple Flanger and I would bet that the Flanger I had probably sounded better. Now I have an original MXR Flanger Identical to what Eddie used. Floor Effects: Rack Effects: That's an original Chandler delay on the bottom. One of the best sounding delays that I have heard. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Is that an Echoplex I see before me? When I was about 12 (Circa 1982) and had been playing a year I saw a guy playing Aint Talking Bout Love by Van Halen and he was using an original Purple Boss Flanger. I was a Van Halen freak and thought WOW! That is the Sh*t! I didn't know there were different brands of flangers at the time. So I saved up about $50.00 and started calling around asking for a Flanger and everywhere I called ll wanted about $120.00 or so for them. I was bummed but kept calling around. Then one store said they had a used one for about $50.00 so I begged my mom to drive me to the store so I could buy it. When I got there I said I wanted the Flanger and the guy get's out this ancient looking thing with a big power cable attached and my hear sank. I said where is the little purple box Flanger and he was like "Oh that's a Boss pedal....They're about $125.00) I was so bummed and mom was not going to come off the difference so I went ahead and bought the used Flanger. It was an Electro Harmonix - Electric Mistress. It looked exactly like this but I don't remember it being a "deluxe" but it may have been. Way too long ago to remember. I took it home and much to my surprise it sounded cool. I eventually traded it for something that I don't recall but the funny thing is that through the years I have never ended up buying an original purple Flanger and I would bet that the Flanger I had probably sounded better. Now I have an original MXR Flanger Identical to what Eddie used. Floor Effects: Rack Effects: That's an original Chandler delay on the bottom. One of the best sounding delays that I have heard. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Is that an Echoplex I see before me? Yep but I got to get one of my tape cartridges refilled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 cheap little boss ds-1. the amp I had at the time had a nasty little O.D. button as the distortion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanPC Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 When I was about 12 (Circa 1982) and had been playing a year I saw a guy playing Aint Talking Bout Love by Van Halen and he was using an original Purple Boss Flanger. I was a Van Halen freak and thought WOW! That is the Sh*t! I didn't know there were different brands of flangers at the time. So I saved up about $50.00 and started calling around asking for a Flanger and everywhere I called ll wanted about $120.00 or so for them. I was bummed but kept calling around. Then one store said they had a used one for about $50.00 so I begged my mom to drive me to the store so I could buy it. When I got there I said I wanted the Flanger and the guy get's out this ancient looking thing with a big power cable attached and my hear sank. I said where is the little purple box Flanger and he was like "Oh that's a Boss pedal....They're about $125.00) I was so bummed and mom was not going to come off the difference so I went ahead and bought the used Flanger. It was an Electro Harmonix - Electric Mistress. It looked exactly like this but I don't remember it being a "deluxe" but it may have been. Way too long ago to remember. I was sort of in possession of that exact effects pedal. When I was 13 or 14, we had a neighbor who played and was clearly a huge Van Halen fan, because I could hear him jamming it constantly. Guy was pretty good too. Anyway, he heard me playing one day and, I guess, trying to be friendly, let me "have it". Figured he'd given up on playing or something. I'd say a few years went buy, and one day he came over and wanted it back. We suspected he was involved with drugs and what not. Heard some shifty things going on over there late some nights. Anyway, I gave it back and it was gone. I've never really been an effects guy. I suppose that could change one day, but in the 16 or so years I've been playing, I've only owned three pedals, counting the Cry Baby, which never gets used. The other is a Marshall Jackhammer JH-1, which gets occasional use. Maybe I'm just lazy, or maybe part of me feels like I'm taking the easy route to get "good tone", but nonetheless, I don't really use them. I suppose the genre/s of music I play have a lot to do with that. If I were playing a lot of hard rock or metal, I'm sure I'd have a pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobB Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Cry Baby wah-wah. Used it with a Vox fuzz unit that plugged directly into my '60's Firebird V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 My first pedal (Two, actually, as I bought them the same day), was a Vox Tone Bender, and Vox Wah-Wah. Later added a Big Muff. Had a Little Muff, too...that plugged, directly, into the guitar, and your guitar cord, plugged into it. It was kinda cool, as you just had to move the slider switch, and there's the Fuzz! ;>) A friend of mine, had one of those, built into his guitar (Danelectro Guitarolin), with a little toggle switch, to activate it. More common, now, to do that...but, in the mid-60's, it was a lot more unique. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Way, way back in the olden days, early 70s but don't ask when, I got a flanger that had a cupla sliders on it, but it hooked onto one's guitar strap rather than on the floor. Told you it was way back when... I still have it with some other old, old junque. Anyway, I tried it, decided it was a waste, never bought another one until I started messing a bit with stuff around 2004 and got a Zoom 707II multi-effect that adds some thickness to my light string habit. Later I got a Boss Leslie emulator I've used for a cupla gigs with other people doing blues so I could be the B3 - sorta. It works pretty well. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windmills Optional Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I bought a Pro Co Rat in the late '80s. I was trying to bang out a lot of Neil Young/Crazy Horse kind of stuff, and looking for a way to get a decent overdriven sound out of the crummy amp I had at the time. It did a pretty good job of that, though I'm not sure the neighbors and landlord always agreed. I had some sort of cheap fuzz box before that that used to go through 9-volts like M&Ms, but that was given to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auriemma Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 My first was either one of these... Kay FuzzTone or ESR Graphic Fuzz Bought them both in the mid-70s and sold them both just last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 In 1968 I bought a fuzz box, It was silver, I don't remember the brand name. Iron Butterfly, Cream, etc. Had to have a fuzz for that SG Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitargreg1993 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 first pedal was a Boss DS-1 and even though i don't use it anymore, i dont regret spending the 40 bucks on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rguerra Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Electro Harmonix Black Finger sustain pedal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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