Building the Porsche Flat 12...
The pedal that changed your life !!
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Building Exhaust System on a DVU...
I really don't miss those days. The hobby was very consuming and super expensive...
ivan H
Ambassador of Tubes & Grooves
Damn, there's some seriously desirable old pedals (& cars) shown in this thread. Though I don't use a lot of pedals, I own a good many, about 70% of them homebuilt. The pedal that turned me onto pedals was scored from a pawn shop, way back when I was about 17, a Roland Double Beat AD50 fuzz wah
like this. The wah was quite useable. The (silicon) fuzz had 3 selectable frequency setting, an almost unusable bass setting & a normal & a high treble setting (that was good for "satisfaction" type fuzz). For its day it produced an insane amount of gain & an absolute "wall of fuzz". It served me well for at least 15 years, until it was stolen one night after a gig (bummer). I see them pop up occasionally on the bay etc, maybe I'll grab another one day, just for nostalgia. Cheers
like this. The wah was quite useable. The (silicon) fuzz had 3 selectable frequency setting, an almost unusable bass setting & a normal & a high treble setting (that was good for "satisfaction" type fuzz). For its day it produced an insane amount of gain & an absolute "wall of fuzz". It served me well for at least 15 years, until it was stolen one night after a gig (bummer). I see them pop up occasionally on the bay etc, maybe I'll grab another one day, just for nostalgia. Cheers
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On the older Ferraris the suspension bushings were wooden.
Chubbles
Ambassador of Sarcastic Tone
My first pedal was a Cry Baby in the late 80s. My first mod was a DS-1 years ago. I did the Monte Allum vintage mod. Boss pedals are easy mods. They're labeled so well. I changed the LED to green too.
I've kept all my pedals except 2 old DOD ones that I traded for a Boss. I have about 10 DOD left. Almost all my pedals were used and cheap. I bought many at the old Philly shows. A dealer sold old, dirty pedals really cheap. I acquired many. They cleaned up well. Most of the rest were GC used. I wait for a particular used pedal to show up local, or really cheap national (10.00 shipping for used pedals). That process along with YouTube reviews/demos has served me well. I think my MXR Super Bada$$ Variac Fuzz (cool as hell) was my most expensive. Dave Sloven suggested it. I'm poorer but happy.
I've kept all my pedals except 2 old DOD ones that I traded for a Boss. I have about 10 DOD left. Almost all my pedals were used and cheap. I bought many at the old Philly shows. A dealer sold old, dirty pedals really cheap. I acquired many. They cleaned up well. Most of the rest were GC used. I wait for a particular used pedal to show up local, or really cheap national (10.00 shipping for used pedals). That process along with YouTube reviews/demos has served me well. I think my MXR Super Bada$$ Variac Fuzz (cool as hell) was my most expensive. Dave Sloven suggested it. I'm poorer but happy.
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ChasFred
Ambassador of Smooth Operations
This was my first pedal also.$35.00 in 1968. Actually sounded like crap and constantly broke, but it was still a good thing.
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Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
My first pedal, and the one that changed my life
was a Boss TU-2 tuner. Before I bought this remarkable
and useful and practical and life changing piece of kit,
I tuned my guitar(s) the analog way, using a harmonica,
or an electric piano (if available) to tune one string, and
then tuned the rest of the guitar to that. I used the human
ear. And the human ear has good days and bad days.
There were no clip-ons at the time I bought the Boss TU-2.
There were other electronic tuners, but most of them were
plastic. I had bought one, and it didn't hold up well. So I
went back to analog, and scoffed at technology. I knew about
the vaunted "Petersen" strobe tuner, and had used one in the
studio. But they were very expensive and not road-durable.
The life changing part of owning this pedal, was the brilliant
idea of muting the signal while tuning was going on. Since I
was a scoffer about technology, I actually didn't know that any
stomp tuner existed until one summer, maybe mid nineties when
I played a festival and observed that all of the coolest performers
each had one of these white pedals.
Curious, I asked one of them what it was for. When they told me, I
immediately knew I had to have one. I might have stopped into some
music store somewhere on that tour and bought one. It was that
urgent. And the relief was immediate, once I put that puppy into
service. I had no pedal board, just plugged my (acoustic) guitar into the tuner
and then right to the P.A. I got into the habit of muting my signal with the
tuner while I was playing bass. This changed everything.
AND I have to say that my second pedal, which was also life changing,
was the Fishman Platinum Pro-EQ, which is more of a pre-amp than a pedal
...it's a tone shaper, and it has no on/off stomp switch or bypass, but it has an XLR out...
and it goes on my board in my signal chain. The Fishman Pro-EQ gave me
control over my acoustic guitar's amplified tone. You can see in the
illustration that I've got my starting points painted with white lines, so I can
set my EQ very quickly and send a signal to the board that the sound man
can mix. We never could count on getting good sound, so having this amount of control
at my feet made it a lot easier to get a sound I recognized out of the monitors,
and very quickly. I still have this pedal, and use it. I'm sure there's been many
advances in acoustic guitar pre-amps and EQ, but this one still works fine.
I've used this for about twenty years on the road. And the stomp tuner, more than twenty.
was a Boss TU-2 tuner. Before I bought this remarkable
and useful and practical and life changing piece of kit,
I tuned my guitar(s) the analog way, using a harmonica,
or an electric piano (if available) to tune one string, and
then tuned the rest of the guitar to that. I used the human
ear. And the human ear has good days and bad days.
There were no clip-ons at the time I bought the Boss TU-2.
There were other electronic tuners, but most of them were
plastic. I had bought one, and it didn't hold up well. So I
went back to analog, and scoffed at technology. I knew about
the vaunted "Petersen" strobe tuner, and had used one in the
studio. But they were very expensive and not road-durable.
The life changing part of owning this pedal, was the brilliant
idea of muting the signal while tuning was going on. Since I
was a scoffer about technology, I actually didn't know that any
stomp tuner existed until one summer, maybe mid nineties when
I played a festival and observed that all of the coolest performers
each had one of these white pedals.
Curious, I asked one of them what it was for. When they told me, I
immediately knew I had to have one. I might have stopped into some
music store somewhere on that tour and bought one. It was that
urgent. And the relief was immediate, once I put that puppy into
service. I had no pedal board, just plugged my (acoustic) guitar into the tuner
and then right to the P.A. I got into the habit of muting my signal with the
tuner while I was playing bass. This changed everything.
AND I have to say that my second pedal, which was also life changing,
was the Fishman Platinum Pro-EQ, which is more of a pre-amp than a pedal
...it's a tone shaper, and it has no on/off stomp switch or bypass, but it has an XLR out...
and it goes on my board in my signal chain. The Fishman Pro-EQ gave me
control over my acoustic guitar's amplified tone. You can see in the
illustration that I've got my starting points painted with white lines, so I can
set my EQ very quickly and send a signal to the board that the sound man
can mix. We never could count on getting good sound, so having this amount of control
at my feet made it a lot easier to get a sound I recognized out of the monitors,
and very quickly. I still have this pedal, and use it. I'm sure there's been many
advances in acoustic guitar pre-amps and EQ, but this one still works fine.
I've used this for about twenty years on the road. And the stomp tuner, more than twenty.
Like you. For decades I’d tune by ear to a piano if playing at church. At home. Just go thru the strings and tune them to each other the old fashion way. Then about 10 years ago or so, got a TU-2 as a Christmas present. Never been off my board.
That said. I still find myself tuning by ear at times. Perfectly in tune according to the tuner, but play a C chord and it just ain’t right. I know it has as much to do with my technique and not being out of tune. But I will tweak till it sounds right.
Another little thing I picked up along the way is to tune the G and B string about a 1/2 tick flat. Been told the human ear doesn’t hear flat as easy as it does sharp. Anyway. Those two seem to be the biggest culprits and by going just slightly flat, when I ham fist that chord. Bingo..... perfect.
Remember the ones with teeth???
Never any trips to the emergency room, but i sure crashed and burned several times. Usually involving both tires leaving Mother Earth via a ramp.
The Korg Pitchblack is - by far - the fastest, and easiest to see (while standing) tuner pedal there is. The lighted, wide vertical blocks are fast to acquire. It has several sensitivity settings too...
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
HA! do I --- I have a SCAR to this day on the back of my heel where I slipped off and it BIT me!
Had a Chrome Rampar......(traded half my Star Wars collection and a couple KISS albums for it---and myu OLD regular bicycle) -- I been a horse tradin since kindergarten!!!
mine had red mags...
one of my FRIENDS had a MOngoose.........man I wanted a Mongoose........but that Rampar cat would trade--- so I went Rampar...
Had a Huffy All-Pro like this...
I had one to Robert...I had a red one.....banana seat was good for launching you over the handle bars
Slot mags, white letters...
