Electric Guitars

[GreatDane]

what was the very first effects pedal you bought?  i think mine was a DOD metal maniac distortion pedal.

i remember it was between that or the "thrash master" but i couldn't get on with the pink chassis of the thrash master.

how about you?

[Chad]

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion.  Bought it new from the long defunct Capital Music Supply and sold it long ago.  Acquired it mainly because I read an interview with Kurt Cobain and he said that's what he used at the time.  *facepalm*  

Or might have been a Dunlop Crybaby wah.  I can't remember for sure.  Bought the wah from a friend for $40.  Still have it and still works like a charm.  Have replaced the pot, power jack, and switch to convert it to true bypass.  

[xrleroyx]

Crybaby wah.

[gtrman56]

Mine was a Univox Microfoot phaser in 1978.

[GreatDane]

trying to think back; wah was such a foreign concept to me at the time. i was totally mesmerized by players like hendrix or even kirk hammett *facepalm* and how they could get that vocal-like quality to their playing. i thought at the time that it was technique. later, when finally introduced to a wah, i was like "ooooh, that's how they do it..."

[Hand Amputation]

Green "Tank" Big Muff. $40 from a classmate.

Wish I still had it.

[Virgman]

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone.

Because I wanted one pedal that could do it all, from mild overdrive to over-the-top, bonecrushing distortion.

[catalinagoose]

I bought a DOD Overdrive 250 because it was $19. That was the cheap imitation guitar players bought when they couldn't afford an MXR Distortion+. I still have it 32 years later and it still sounds as harsh and painful now as it did then. I don't understand why people want that pedal and consider it vintage. Just about any overdrive made today blows that 250 out of the water.

[jrockbridge]

The CS3 was very useful to me as a beginner because I could not control my playing dynamics.  

[Strung_Out]

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Virgman wrote:

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone.

Because I wanted one pedal that could do it all, from mild overdrive to over-the-top, bonecrushing distortion.

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This was mine as well. 

[GreatDane]

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jrockbridge wrote:

The CS3 was very useful to me as a beginner because I could not control my playing dynamics.  

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interesting first choice!  did you go searching for a compressor because you knew you lacked control over dynamics, or for some other reason?  

i had one of those, but later on after i started to really understand how to use a compressor in my signal chain.

[GreatDane]

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Strung_Out wrote:

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Virgman wrote:

Boss MT-2 Metal Zone.

Because I wanted one pedal that could do it all, from mild overdrive to over-the-top, bonecrushing distortion.

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This was mine as well. 

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so, did it deliver?

[reverberlayed]

I think mine was a DS-1 or a Crybaby.

[jrockbridge]

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GreatDane wrote:

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jrockbridge wrote:

The CS3 was very useful to me as a beginner because I could not control my playing dynamics.  

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interesting first choice!  did you go searching for a compressor because you knew you lacked control over dynamics, or for some other reason?  

i had one of those, but later on after i started to really understand how to use a compressor in my signal chain.

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I tried one that a friend owned.  But, yes, I was very aware of my lack of control over the attack of my picking hand.   

[Kevman]

Analog delay from a company "gig". Wish I still had.

[Steadfastly]

I bought 120 of them on my first puchase! I thought I might as well get them all in one package.

DigiTech RP255 Guitar Multi-effects Pedal Features:

• 20-second looper
• 94 amps, cabinets, stompboxes and effects
• 24 amp/acoustic types
• 15 cabinet types
• Lexicon reverbs
• 30 tone and 30 effects libraries
• 120 presets (50 factory, 50 user)
• Up to five seconds of delay time

[koaguilds]

EHX Big Muff Pi in 1981.

[Floyd Rosenbomb]

DanEcho. It was a nice delay actually, just no tap tempo.

[bubkus_jones]

Carvin distortion pedal. They weren't available for long. Had a good sound, but the quality wasn't great (or maybe I just abused the **bleep** out of it) and I ended up wearing out the footswitch.

That was it till I bought my POD XT Live several years later.

[gardo]

A phaser, I don't remeber the model but I thought it was fun