Members SUPER VELCROBOY Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 i started out playing a marshall dsl2000 and a les paul... i had a dd5 and a volume pedal... this was before i had a camera (boo). The first boutique i bought was toadworks mr ed (good times). I quickly got into foxrox pedals, as you will see.... this is march 2003 i think. Crap this is before i had a camera lol. I had a sho, a dd fx90 delay, a teese wah, a captain coconut 2 (damn i miss this pedal), a tzf, a boss sd1, some pedal i can't remember anymore and a rehouse akai intelliphase on the bottom. this is in June 2003 sometimes.... i had the tzf, the dod fx90 for delay. That white thing is some sort of mosfet boost (i think). The green pedal is a scrambler. Tuner is boss tu12h. this is in aug 2003.... i built these 2 pedals for myself to play with. Shown is a small clone and the other is a distortion pedal called the sweet thing. I also had a teese RMC3 wah. this is a bit later...i'm thinking late 2003 or 2004 even... i was in full diy mode. I built myself a looper.... and also a phaseur fleur. I bought a zoom pd1. At the time people at hcfx were raving about this pedal, saying it was great. It was cheap, so i bought one to see what it was like. Meh it's was alright, but not all that. this is the inside of the looper. It's sort of looks stupid now that i think back this was around the same year i think. I built this little a/b switch... Here's another view of the board.. i played with a boss ac2 very briefly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SUPER VELCROBOY Posted March 20, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 at around this time, i also bought a fish and cheap eq and an old 80's boss dm2 to replace the dod fx90. The dm2 was a good pedal. this is about April 2005... there were a lot of changes here. I started to get into looping. I bought a reissue ehx 16 delay when it first came out. I also bought a carmen ghia amp. I used a drum machine to sync with the looper. I also added a peachfuzz and a mxr distortion + which i modded for true bypass. I was happy with this setup for a while. this was near about the same time, but here i built myself a nice fuzzface clone to play with. You can also see the phaseur fleur. Here's another view of my board in 2005 i had 3 amps, a blackface princeton reverb, a carmen ghia and shown here a vibrolux reverb. At the time, i thought the PR wasn't cutting it, so i added the VR. It was loud, and the neighbors complained a lot. Cops came over like 3 times... Here is a close up pic sometimes that year i also bought an akai headrush e2 for delay and looper. It was noisy as hell so i returned it. I also bought an attenuator because the neighbors were complaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SUPER VELCROBOY Posted March 20, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 somewhere between 2005 and mid 2007, my board didn't change and i was hardly on the forum I was like somewhere else...ugh.. but then i came back and my board completely changed! i sold my vibrolux reverb.... and i sold a lot of my pedals too. The 16 sec was gone. I bought a dd20 to replace all my other delays.. in fact most of my pedals were gone! I bought an rc2 for my looping needs. The rc2 is by far one of the best pedal I've used. This photo is taken in about July 2007. Overall i was pretty unhappy with this setup. The peachfuzz wasn't cutting it anymore. The dd20 was good for delays but i had the rc2 for looping. The fuzzface was crapping out. I needed overdrives and distortions... at this point a major transformation occurred. I went rack. I have been thinking about this for 6 months and finally i made the jump.. this is last august. I bought a jdesign cab for the ghia (finally). Great cab btw. I got a rocktron xpression from ebay for cheap. then i order a screwdriver and a top fuel from skreddy. The sc served my od needs and the top fuel does that lead tone that i like. I kept onto my fuzzface. I was pretty happy changing to the rack interface, using the Axess GRX4 and mfc4 controller. It was different, but in a good way. I did the unthinkable and rehouse my tzf in a rack enclosure... i think this showed my commitment to going rack.. i talked to dave fox about my rehousing idea and he sold me an octron to put into my rack enclosure. Everything turned out great! I used a pedal shelf to hold the pedals. I had a peachfuzz, a couple of skreddies etc... it was okay but i hated all the loose wires. this was last October the wires drove my crazy so i decided to rehouse the GRX4 switchers and all my skreddies.... an oh yeah i also made the fkr rat... which was fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SUPER VELCROBOY Posted March 20, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 rehousing the GRX4 was kind of a pain, but i finally did it. this is the topfuel on the right and a fuzzface i remade on the left.. the screwdriver is also there but you can't see it here. It sounded great... here's the front.... i have space available for another circuit. I'll probably build a gainster or something similar next to the screwdriver. the thing i didn't have, which i knew i needed was a tuner.... i wanted something with an LED. I got a behringer tu100 from hometown_kevin in a trade....and decided to rehouse it... this was a pain in the ass, but i finally pulled it off... It works well too this is what my rig looks like right now... it's a good rig. I still have a space available for some rack. I'll probably add a delay. There are still things i want to do to this thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pbone Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 OH MY GOD RACKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 That was a fun history. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Marshall Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 That was a pretty cool documentary I remember seeing your cow phaser back in the day. I have a lot of respect for Dave Fox as well, and I don't mind racks either.... although they can be a lot of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Saturnine10 Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 That was awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Great Waldo Pepper Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Nice Foxrox rack! For some reason I thought this thread read: "SRV's ridiculous effects history [lots of pics]" And for a split second I thought why now!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Destructobot Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Do you kick your rack when you want to bypass the tzf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seifukusha Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 wait...i know this setup. what was your old moniker again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PurpleStrat Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Nice effects but I love the first Tele! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loobster Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Talk about nice gear. Your blue tele, how did you find installing the Bigsby? Also, what pickups are in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kayzer Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Pedal PrOn! Thanks for sharing! Could stare at this all day:love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoboPimp Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 you must have a lot of gigs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zoidberg Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Wow man, sweet post and what a trip! I wish I could have your ability to rehouse stuff.. I love how the rehoused TZF/Paradox looks, nice faceplate Classy! What delay will you be adding? a rehoused pedal or a rack-thingy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crxsh Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 This is all so sick. Way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veil Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amoodymule Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 ...all that morphing and you use the same tuner, ...can you see that baby in sunlight, outdoor gigs? (that's the biggest problem I have with the TU-2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dmk Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 that was awesome! thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stubacca Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Great thread... nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veil Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 PS How much did those Princeton Reverbs run you, if you don't mind me asking? I'd really like to get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Free the Guilty Posted March 20, 2008 Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 Cow4Prez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SUPER VELCROBOY Posted March 20, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 20, 2008 PS How much did those Princeton Reverbs run you, if you don't mind me asking? I'd really like to get one. the blackface princeton i sold away a long time ago. The blackface princeton reverb i bought off ebay for $400... at the time it was an impulse buy because i was gassing for one bad. It was in {censored}ty condition. Alot of things were bad. Luckily the board was mostly original. I basically redid and modded the amp including a paul c mod, changed all the electrolytics and speaker with a weber. I installed a new baffle for this and upgraded to a 12 inch weber speaker. I also retolex the amp. So what you see now is an amp after all the facelift. I think the princeton was meant to come with a 12" speaker, because it sound 100% more powerful with it than the original 10". I am not sure what these go for now. I think you can probably grab one for $600 or so. I think it's the perfect combination between size/weight and option. You get reverb and tremelo in a small package. The clean is vintage fender but overdrives nicely when the volume is up. this is what it looked like when it first came in.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amoodymule Posted March 21, 2008 Members Share Posted March 21, 2008 yeah that tuner sucked bad. I live with it for so long. My guitar never really gets out of tune often, so i don't tune very often. I don't bend the hell out of my strings either. ...I bend, ...a lot, so I have to have a tuner, my old Gibby is a tempermental, :blah: you definatly have/had some verycool pedals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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