What Was Your First Pedal/Effect?

My first “real” pedal. Actually my 3rd pedal. I remember walking into my local music store and seeing a wood box on the counter with this huge green slab poking out and asked the guy “whoa what is that thing” then I saw the name and realized it was some how connected to my mudhoney cd Super fuzz BigMuff. I was such a noob back then I didn’t know super fuzz and big muff were pedals… needless to say I left the store with that box and it changed my teenage life. C81BBE66-995A-4BE2-B8ED-ADC034CB48A0.jpeg
 
I had an Echoplex like this back in the 80s, had to sell it to get some cash at a low point. 😑
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The first pedal I ever had was the Danelectro BLT Slap Echo. I got it trying to sound like East Bay Ray from the Dead Kennedys. This was back in 2000 way before the big pedal explosion. My second pedal was an MXR Phase 90. Then I got a Digitech Whammy v3 (I think v3 at least). Back then none of the people I played with really messed with pedals much. We might have a chorus to play Come As You Are, but that was about it. A couple people had Danelectro Fab Tones which I always thought sounded god awful. Played this stuff into solid state Peavey amps LOL. It sounded like a can of bees.
 
Played mainly acoustic until the early 2000's. My 1st effect was a Boss multi effect. It worked fine but just could not handle diving in menus and submenus. Sold it and bought a TS-808. Not the best effect I ever had but it made me realize that I'm a 3 knob guy. Spent more time playing rather than navigating the menus.
 
Betty Wont said:
I'm a voice over artist more than a musician and the Meatbox was initially for a cartoon gig. It is an amazing vocal processor. It makes the most natural and clear demon timbres. I was still playing mostly acoustic in those days, on an Ovation a/e. The day I plugged the Ovation into the Meatbox and a PA was a formative moment in my music. I got an amp and electric bass soon after. My second pedal was the DOD flanger, which sucked in every possibly way. Voice pedals still make me the happiest.
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Wow! I need to try that out. I have like 4 or 5 meatboxes, and I’m planning on building a pair of Soy Sauces in the near future
 
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Nobels Sound Studio 1

It may or may not resurface. I know I never sold it, but it may have been stolen when my storage was broken into and motorcycle helmet stolen (amongst other things).

The Studio 1's wall-wart got its cable cut by accident so it was retired not long after I got it. Now that I think about it, probably my brother cut it...
 
vigilante398 said:
Yup, my tragic backstory explains everything. For years my "rig" was RP50 into old computer speakers. My parents threw money at my siblings' hobbies, but I was stuck with whatever I could scrape together myself, because guitar is never going to get me anywhere in life :p My gross income from pedals last year was as much as my parents' first house cost. SUCK IT, MOM AND DAD!
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So, your M&D's first house was maybe $10,000 total, back in the day... 😸
 
pcb rookie said:
Played mainly acoustic until the early 2000's. My 1st effect was a Boss multi effect. It worked fine but just could not handle diving in menus and submenus. Sold it and bought a TS-808. Not the best effect I ever had but it made me realize that I'm a 3 knob guy. Spent more time playing rather than navigating the menus.
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I played only acoustic for many years, when I first started playing electric it was a trainwreck, took me a while to adjust my touch
 
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