Harry Klippton
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I do not have this anymore so I grabbed the pic from my reverb listing when I sold it.
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My first pedal.....
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jwyles90
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I don't have it at this point, but I'm pretty sure my first pedal was a Tube Screamer in like, 2006. I wanted a straight up distortion pedal and had no idea what a Tube Screamer actually did, but I figured since it had the word "Screamer" in the name, it would probably do what I was looking for, right??
I remember messing around with it for a while and thinking it was broken or something since even with the gain all the way cranked it was just crunchy at best. To this day I'm still not a huge fan of Tube Screamers, but I think that's more from my own trauma around them as a teenager than anything else
I remember messing around with it for a while and thinking it was broken or something since even with the gain all the way cranked it was just crunchy at best. To this day I'm still not a huge fan of Tube Screamers, but I think that's more from my own trauma around them as a teenager than anything else
steviejr92
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Ok so we got surface moun components except for a few thru hole which are the offboard components. The daughterboard contains the pots and the LED thats about it. The SMD opamp reads TL064C. I do like the jacks on here lol Its not digital either im surprised i thought it was.
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benny_profane
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I hope you at least got a good sale out of it.
Harry Klippton
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Not particularly. It was a late 90s reissue one. A dude I knew that worked at analogman added the LED and the bass boost switch
brightlight
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Never heard of it! Now im curious
I'm pretty sure this was a Guitar Center brand. Pretty cool!
steviejr92
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Sound right, I remember buying this from guitar center like in 08!
spi
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Technically my first effect was an RP5, but I don't consider it a "pedal" since it's a multi-effect.
Chuck D. Bones
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Everybody should own a DS-1 at one time or another. It's a fine pedal and mods abound. I picked mine up for $5 at a garage sale. It had a busted TONE pot.
In the early days I mostly borrowed my buddy's pedals. First one I built was an opamp BMP. Predated the MXR opamp BMP. Mine had no Tone control, just Fuzz & Volume. I think my brother has it now.
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steviejr92
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Truth be told i never had one! I need to build one and start modding maybe breadboard it first! Thats my brothers first pedal he still has it till this day nothing wrong with it other than the spring is jacked so the "platform" part just stays limp. Not good when youre trying to pair it with a muff. 
Ok im done...
Ok im done...
Mentaltossflycoon
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I've posted this before, 3rd edition V7 bubble font that l think i bought in 95 maybe 96. The switch died long before these were worth so much so it got rehoused, my first time putting a soldering iron to anything other than guitars. I made it true bypass and added a dc jack. Kept the beat up knobs and reversed in/out jack placement for mojo. I'm so very thankful that the guy working at that music shop was a bassist who knew exactly what I needed.
Supposedly this is the version of green sovtek (t shaped pcb) that has less bass than the others but it floated my boat just fine for several decades. My dirt section used to just be this and a sodameiser.
Supposedly this is the version of green sovtek (t shaped pcb) that has less bass than the others but it floated my boat just fine for several decades. My dirt section used to just be this and a sodameiser.
Dang, you bring back memories. I had to think long and hard but my first pedal was a Coloursound Wah/Fuzz. Orange with the chrome treadle, it was a nasty sounding affair but drove a Traynor GuitarMate in the 70's and I got a long and loud solo in a school band performance of "When Sonny Gets Blue" to thunderous applause. Well as best I remember it. I've been chasing the dragon ever since.
Harry Klippton
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I thought I remembered reading somewhere that's what the dude from Budgie used, but upon re-investigating, I guess it's the wah fuzz swell. I love this guitar tone either way
peccary
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I bought my first bass in 2000, I think. I just moved out on my own and had wanted to play bass since I was in grade school, but was never given the opportunity.
So when I was on my own and that student loan check came in I went to GC and bought an Ibanez p/j package that had a little practice amp and cable included. The guy at GC threw in this pedal for the heck of it. I'm not sure if they still do that kind of thing but I feel like I'd always walk out of there with something extra if you were cool with the sales staff.
Anyways, I used this pedal approximately three times and decided I hated it on bass. How it managed to stick around for 23 years when I've moved half a dozen times I don't know. But I don't think I'll ever get rid of it considering it's sentimental value for me. I do want to mod it one of these days, though.
So when I was on my own and that student loan check came in I went to GC and bought an Ibanez p/j package that had a little practice amp and cable included. The guy at GC threw in this pedal for the heck of it. I'm not sure if they still do that kind of thing but I feel like I'd always walk out of there with something extra if you were cool with the sales staff.
Anyways, I used this pedal approximately three times and decided I hated it on bass. How it managed to stick around for 23 years when I've moved half a dozen times I don't know. But I don't think I'll ever get rid of it considering it's sentimental value for me. I do want to mod it one of these days, though.
steviejr92
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In my opinion every Boss Ds1 looks so good when they're beat up a bit (still functioning perfectly fine).
If that's true it's even wilder. My first band was a bunch of Budgie freaks. A number of years ago we got backstage passes to a show in San Antonio as an excuse to be 16 again and the tour got derailed by the volcano and they couldn't get gear out of the country let alone fly themselves. So we postponed and the next year the guitar player (then Craig Goldy) was a pallbearer at Dio's funeral so that was out. They never rescheduled and then Burke Shelly strokes and dies (HUGE SADNESS inserted here).
