First effects

Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 10 Jan 2003 10:15 pm

What was your first effects, other than reverb? Mine was an MXR Phase 90!

Dave Birkett · Post by **Dave Birkett** » 10 Jan 2003 10:54 pm

I bought a Maestro Fuzztone so I could play "Satisfaction".

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 11 Jan 2003 12:09 am

1966, our drummer was a ham radio operator, so he rigged up something that I could plug my guitar into and plug into my Gemini II to get the feedback and overdrive sounds. I still have my Multivox tape delays from the '70s.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 11 Jan 2003 5:12 am

A Mosrite Fuzz-rite...wish I had it back...

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 11 Jan 2003 5:32 am

Small Stone Phase Shifter and a little blue compressor [don't remember the brand] around '78, or '79.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 11 January 2003 at 05:34 AM.]</p></FONT>

Chuck McGill · Post by **Chuck McGill** » 11 Jan 2003 5:33 am

The old three big button Chourus from Maestro. Man that pedal was huge and sounded
great through my twin.

Post by **Joey Ace** » 11 Jan 2003 6:55 am

A Vox "Tone Bender".
Late 60s, it was a Fuzz Tone.

Next was a Univox Echo Unit. Basically a poor man's Echoplex. It used a cassette tape loop. Great for Rockabilly Guitar or Vocals.

Johnny Jones · Post by **Johnny Jones** » 11 Jan 2003 7:21 am

My first effect was The Clone Theory by Electro-Harmonix,and i still have it.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Jan 2003 7:51 am

My first effects were internally generated...

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 11 Jan 2003 9:12 am

A DeArmond tremelo. (1952)
Erv

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 11 Jan 2003 10:34 am

MXR chorus (late 70's)

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 11 Jan 2003 11:00 am

Erv - I've still got one of those units. My uncle gave it to me when I was in about 6th grade.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 11 Jan 2003 11:45 am

A Bosstone. I don't miss it one bit.

Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 11 Jan 2003 1:17 pm

"Electric Mistress" by Electro-Harmonix and a BossTone.

Matt Steindl · Post by **Matt Steindl** » 11 Jan 2003 4:47 pm

Ibanez "METAL CHARGER" Cause I had to make my 6 string sound like Randy Rhodes to play all those Ozzy tunes! I still have it, I just keep that gain knob at 1 instead of 11 now. It actually has a nice Tubescreamer sound when it isnt maxed out.

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S-10 Dekley, Suitcase Fender Rhodes, B-bender Les Paul

Matt Steindl · Post by **Matt Steindl** » 11 Jan 2003 4:48 pm

Great topic by the way!

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Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 11 Jan 2003 5:37 pm

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 11 Jan 2003 8:00 pm

I guess my first effect was a "tube overdrive". I sat down one day with the RCA tube manual, and designed a 2-stage preamp built around a 12AT7 tube. I hand-made a chassis and cover out of sheet metal, designed in a power supply (complete with a sexy neon pilot light) and it would do everything from "soft overdrive" to "endless sustain". It worked great, but was about half the size of a shoebox...I think I wound up trading it for some albums by the Byrds and Moody Blues.

Back in the early '60s, there wasn't too much available, outside of the old Echoplexes and portable reverbs. After the Beatles got hot in '64, things got a lot better. Everybody played lead guitar, and everyone had some kind of stomp box-toy to make the "authentic rock sounds".

Among the effects that I still have, and use only occasionally, are the Boss Tone, an Ibanez Analog Delay, a Phase 90, and Phase 100 phase shifters, a Mu-Tron envelope follower, and an Arion Stereo Chorus. I no longer have, but used in the '60's, a Gibson Reverb Unit, and a Cordovox extension speaker...replete with the slow-to-fast rotating wheel.

My favorite combo is the Boss Tone with the Phase 100. Man...what GREAT rock sounds! I mean, like look out Aerosmith and Van Halen! Heavy Metal magic!

Oops! Sorry guys...lost it there for a minute.

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 12 Jan 2003 2:06 am

Boss-Tone

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Jan 2003 2:09 pm

Lee:
I've still got my DeArmond unit too. I haven't plugged it in for quite a while but it always did have a pretty bad hum. I also still have my DeArmond foot volume control. Did you ever have one of those?
Erv

Doug Jones · Post by **Doug Jones** » 15 Jan 2003 5:25 pm

early 80's: from the volume pedal to a MXR AC powered 10 band EQ to a Fender tube reverb unit to a Fender Showman head. Later I added an Electro-Harmonix chorus and a boss-tone. Were those the good old days? I'm still not sure.

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 16 Jan 2003 3:58 am

An Echo-Plex and then a Boss-Tone.
(Lots of hyphens.) Before I got any toys, I was playing a Sho-Bud. (Guess that figures...) Before and after the Bud, it was an Emmons.

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Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 16 Jan 2003 6:22 pm

Ernie - Shouldn't that be Em-mons?

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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 16 Jan 2003 8:42 pm

Electo-Harmonix Small Clone full chorus. I bought it from Shot Jackson and still have it. The second effects pedal I got was an Ibanez AD-9 analog delay pedal. I used that pair for two or three years before I got into rack stuff. I've still got the AD-9 too and every once in a while I'll take it to the gig and leave the rest of the stuff home.

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 16 Jan 2003 10:21 pm

first was a Maestro Phase Shifter- the original with three big buttons.
second was an Echoplex.

favorite stompbox: MXR Flanger, set mid sweep for honking rock tones