Gilmour's fuzz box - see the video

yeeshkul · March 30, 2015, 03:30:38 AM

When you check out this Pink Floyd rehearsal video from probably around 1969, you can see (at around 5:40) that apart from his wah and fuzz face, there is another pedal left on the floor. Can anyone recognize that pedal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzyZ1IRMBlU#t=346

FUZZZZzzzz · March 30, 2015, 03:49:26 AM

Maybe a Selmer Buzztone?

pretty hard to see in the video:
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/selmer/buzztone#

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=95747.0;prev_next=next

Barrett used one frequently.

yeeshkul · March 30, 2015, 04:15:41 AM

I doubt so. This one seem to have jack sockets on the sides and some sort of a dark plate on the top. Also the front-top part seems to come out a bit.

FUZZZZzzzz · March 30, 2015, 04:30:15 AM

I thought that was some sort of volumepedal.. and he was refering to something else in the picture (black and white video :O)

google does not really give an aswer beside the obvious
http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=251

yeeshkul · March 30, 2015, 04:45:10 AM

It is not his volume pedal. I have just never seen this one round his feet

FUZZZZzzzz · March 30, 2015, 05:08:57 AM

if you look closely, it can also be two pedals next to each other:

Mark Hammer · March 30, 2015, 08:27:36 AM

Is it visible anywhere on the Ummagumma album cover shot where all their gear is laid out?

deadastronaut · March 30, 2015, 08:50:13 AM

http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=29

Kevin Mitchell · March 30, 2015, 02:57:50 PM

It definitely seems like a rocker pedal but it's incredibly small in between the wah and FF. Thought it could be an old Morely volume due to it's odd shape but those are much bigger.

EDIT;

After really looking at these pictures here I think this very well could be it. Consider the lighting and quality of the video as well as the Morely being chrome. Now looking at the pictures the reflection of the chromed pedal's controls are consistent with the shades of the pedal in that video.

slacker · March 30, 2015, 03:25:42 PM

If you have a look here http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=11 it shows a virtually the same still from that video, it makes no mention of the unidentified thing, but tells you what everything else in the picture is. Maybe it isn't a pedal at all.

canman · March 30, 2015, 04:26:42 PM

Wait Gilmour used a tele??

stallik · March 30, 2015, 05:09:56 PM

Whatever it is, it doesn't appear to be plugged in. Perhaps he didn't like it?

Derringer · March 30, 2015, 05:15:38 PM

Quote from: canman on March 30, 2015, 04:26:42 PM
Wait Gilmour used a tele??

Derringer · March 30, 2015, 05:18:23 PM

DeArmond Volume pedal FTW

http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=14

canman · March 30, 2015, 05:40:46 PM

Quote from: Derringer on March 30, 2015, 05:15:38 PM
Quote from: canman on March 30, 2015, 04:26:42 PM
Wait Gilmour used a tele??

And here I am thinking I'd need a strat to get closer to Gilmour's tone...this makes my desire for a tele of some kind much worse, great. Maybe it's time I explored DIYguitarbuilding haha.

jaysg · March 30, 2015, 07:11:40 PM

Run Like Hell is a tele in drop D.

Derringer · March 30, 2015, 07:20:21 PM

Quote from: canman on March 30, 2015, 05:40:46 PM
And here I am thinking I'd need a strat to get closer to Gilmour's tone...this makes my desire for a tele of some kind much worse, great. Maybe it's time I explored DIYguitarbuilding haha.

LOL .. and fwiw, I think everyone should have a Tele

Here's one of my favorites: Gilmour w/Tele, playing Barrett with Bowie

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A0LEV72o2RlVyCkAgJEnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0b2ZrZmU3BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwMl8x?p=david+gilmour+arnold+layne&tnr=21&vid=F236F4495384F9940598F236F4495384F9940598&l=252&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DUN.608006742143469929%26pid%3D15.1&sigi=11rt9pnd1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDWjh3VBUxBs&sigr=11b3vssk3&tt=b&tit=David+Gilmour+-+Remember+That+Night+Arnold+Layne+%28With+...&sigt=11qb106tg&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Ddavid%2Bgilmour%2Barnold%2Blayne%26ei%3DUTF-8%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla&sigb=136tebift&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

canman · March 30, 2015, 07:47:55 PM

You guys aren't helping.

Maybe if I sell a couple pedals, do some random house painting jobs here and there...shoot, you guys are killing me!! Get back on topic, dangit!

Kevin Mitchell · March 30, 2015, 08:15:45 PM

If you read this page the information there, as well as the look (although poor quality) of that mysterious pedal leads me to believe it's a Morely pedal. Started up in the 60s and they really utilized that unique design -pretty much all of their pedals in the 70s looked like this-.

When I first checked out this thread I thought the pedal looked like a wide, low to the ground whammy (digitech) but obviously that isn't it. It could possibly be the DeArmond volume but the mystery pedal seems a little more rectangular.

Perhaps we won't know for sure. But I'd put money on it being a Morely of some sort.

Also, the burn of wanting that tele... Been wanting one like it since watching a Omar, John and Flea jam. Thanks guys.
Soon........

Derringer · March 30, 2015, 09:30:52 PM

I agree that the pic does look more rectangular than the DeArmond

but upon further inspection, it's a sewing machine pedal

Floyd were pioneers of experimentation. It probably controlled the lightning or something.

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