UtilityBeltFX
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Yes especially if it's cool as hell!
Show me your vintage pedals.
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drgonzo1969
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Sick amp! I had never heard of those but I love Mick Ronson. I guess he used one at some point…. That’s the reverb listings say anyways
JohnnyCreepy
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I’d call it some kind of ”UK version of Model T”. Loud, bassy and crazy responsive, but bit picky on pedal chain and buffers feeding the pre-stage. It was an improving transition from modded Valveking 100w, because with SimmsWatts every bad pick sweep is ruthlessly amplified to output. I already did partly power and coupling cap job, but it really needs some further care with more fresh caps and metal film resistors. Luckily these things are easily serviced.
Feral Feline
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Been meaning to put this together almost since the thread's inception.
Not sure what constitutes vintage — I mean, some stuff is obvious, but other stuff blurs the line...
Didn't include my Diamond Bass comp, for instance, even though it's an early one;
yet I included my Diamond Vibrato (great chorus!).
Nowhere near what some of you cats have stashed, but I have a few covetable items, and some not so much.
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'31/32 AlCoA bass (needs some TLC, when I get some $$$ — paid double what it's worth because I've got no brain)
'68/'69 SG (broken original knob and Vibrola in non-original but Gibson poly-case — you'd scream if I told you how little I paid for it)
Korg Tuner, my first ever tuner and what lead to my tuner addiction. Still works like a top (pity the PitchBlack I got years later is a POCrap)
- Board Top Row
- Danelectro Cool Cat OD (Both direct-Timmy-Clone and lawsuit-modded-nonTimmy versions)
- Boss CE-2B Bass Chorus (mint, with box)
- Boss OC-2 Octave
- Boss LM-2
- Boss LM-3
- Korg 301DL Dynamic Echo (Interesting Ducking feature; obscure pedal — I think it's a hidden gem)
- Danelectro Spring King (recent acquisition, stretching "vintage" to the breaking point)
- Danelectro Fabtone,
- Cool Cat Chorus 18v (another great sounding chorus!)
- Diamond Vibrato (really, the chorus is the thing here)
- Aphex Punch Factory (Okay comp, IMO better on my "acoustic" gittar than on my bass — should've included my Diamond Bass comp in the pic)
- Aphex Bass Xciter
- Small Stone (was gifted to me, a complete wreck. If I get it running, I'll gift it back to the rightful owner)
- Electric Mistress (gifted to me, and is largely responsible for you lot having to put up with me on the forum — its phoenix-story is in this thread. Oh, and most of the original screws and all the original knobs are in its comfy shoebox home. Once fixed, I tried to give it back...had to settle for joint-custody).
- Boss BF-1 (Another SAD1024 gift given to me!)
- Snarling Dog Wonder Wah II (Decent on bass!)
Ace Tone, MIJ tuber by Roland with a Piezo for reverb. From the same friend that gave me the Small Stone, and will go back to him if I get the weird little reverb fixed.
Lastly, my 1956-ish Olds trombone I get to play nearly every Thursday in a small community-concert-band.
The Melodica on the shelf I didn't mean to include, just forgot to remove it before taking the pic — I doubt it's vintage though old, a Suzuki model #?.
Missing from the pic:
A small transistor practice amp from the early '70s (garbage, but vintage garbage), still in Mom's basement along with my Dad's vintage archtop-acoustic of unknown provinence — super-sharp V-neck on it, needs some repair to the nut and top — it suffered an unfortunate accident when I was in Grade 8 and when I complained to the authority-that-was the asshole teacher said "Anybody know what happened to [FF's] guitar? No? Sorry [FF], nobody knows who broke the top of your guitar." Gee Mr POS, you sure tried hard to get to the bottom of the matter, the guitar was in a safe location before lunch and... I digress. I saved the piece off the top for decades, but it's now missing, possibly thrown out by my sister when she cleaned the basement.
Better pic of the Ace Tone:
I'm supposed to trace his pedals, in addition to fixing the amp's reverb.
Might be buying my Electric-Mistress friend's Traynor YGL-3...
He's gone for a stereo setup, so I've got first dibs on the amp, which was just recently serviced.
[EDIT: Traynor bought and paid for...I store it at its former owner's...
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phantom
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phantom
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I just found this 30th anniversary at a pawn store yesterday. It's smd but so far sounds the same . I didn't have much time to play.
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Bricksnbeatles
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Always wanted one of those. Incredibly hard to find in the US tho, and shipping something like that from Europe is crazy expensive.
UtilityBeltFX
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Picked up this late 70s/early 80s Maxon 'Compandor' which is just a Dyna Comp. Has a metal can 3080 in it which does provide added ~mojo~. Compared to a current MXR Dyna Comp, the Maxon is more neutral and even warmer sounding, while the MXR is definitely brighter and adds extra spank and sparkle.
UtilityBeltFX
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Uh oh, they're multiplying!
'79 Maxon AD80 analog delay. Looks like maybe a couple replaced caps. Sounds awesome at 18 volts. Surprised to find it's reverse polarity compared to the compressor, center positive but still needs a female DC plug.
Stickman393
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Old, and new:
UtilityBeltFX
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Oh jeez, they definitely seem to be spawning!
Another '79ish Maxon. 909 Phase Tone!
I've only owned the evh phase 90 for practically my whole guitar playing career, so this is my first phaser with more than one knob.
With the feedback low you can sweep from 'Script' tones to 'Block Letter' tones.
Start bumping up the feedback and you can enter more metallic flanger areas.
mkstewartesq
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Boss SD-1 that I acquired around 1991. The only pedal I ever owned in my entire life before I got into this place and building my own pedals about two years ago. For any other effects I needed, I just borrowed stuff from friends or used rack mounted stuff like the Quadraverb (yes, I’m that old) or eventually computer-based stuff. Now everything I do is guitar to analog pedals to amp.
I actually had not used this in about 20 years and didn’t bring it out when I got back into playing because I prided myself on my entire board being DIY. But I’ve just caved and added it back to my board because I tried playing through it to see if it still worked and it just still sounds so good for the type of stuff I play.
Mike
giovanni
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This was my first pedal! I got it probably in 95. I still have it (got it Analogman modded a few years ago).
UtilityBeltFX
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Guys what the hell? They just keep showing up!
Man this thing sounds good! I believe it's supposed to be an MXR Dist+. It has germanium diodes but a 1458 op amp instead of 741. Has a little bit of a RAT character thanks to it's filter-esque tone knob. Definitely gonna be using this for some chunky rhythm parts.
Got it for $99 and aside from some wires that weren't soldered to a footswitch lug, just wrapped around, it's in killer shape for something from 1979.
Will I stop now? Time and my wallet will tell!
giovanni
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Where are you finding these gems?!? Now I wanna start looking…
UtilityBeltFX
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Reverb typically.
Erik S
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What up with them chocolate dipped resistors??
UtilityBeltFX
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Brown sound.
Stickman393
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Wall 'o baby.
Most of these are Thomas Organ. Two Jens. The Dunlops are early varieties with SOD inductors, except for the Hendrix Fuzz Wah.
Plus a few others in the periphery. Got an EME on the way too.
Wahhhhhhhh
Most of these are Thomas Organ. Two Jens. The Dunlops are early varieties with SOD inductors, except for the Hendrix Fuzz Wah.
Plus a few others in the periphery. Got an EME on the way too.
Wahhhhhhhh
