What was your first ever stompbox?

[primalphunk]

It might be cool to hear stories about your first ever stompbox.  This is likely something you purchased as a youngster but who knows.  Maybe the first effect you ever used you happened to build yourself.  It also might be interesting to relate what your other starting gear was.  So here goes...

My first stompbox was an Ibanez UE300.  I no longer have this unit but for better or worse it kind of got me addicted to that tubescreamer sound.  It had four switches and 3 effects total and ran off of ac current.  The fx were compressor/limiter, tubescreamer and a stereo chorus.  The four switches were set up one per effect and then one master switch so you could turn on a couple of effects with one push if you wanted to.  There was also a little fx loop and since it was a stereo chorus you could output two signals.  

I used this with an old peavey bandit and my sweet little Martin EM18 electric that was made in 1980 or so.  The guitar is the only thing that I still have of that original setup.  It still sounds great.

[Rodgre]

My first ever stompbox (and it can barely be called that, because it had a SLIDE switch, not a stomp) was, and is an E-H Muff Fuzz. I still have it, though I've had to rebuild it.

It was a later one with black/orange graphics and two jacks (no plug).

Sort of like this one, but without the red replacement knob:


I can still hear the sound of that thing run through my GAX amp with the tremolo cranked in my head.

Roger

[Jim Jones]

I think my first pedal was a DOD Supra Distortion...sounded like absolute crap unless used with a solid state amp - really.    It was kinda cool  save for the horrible bypass switch, sometimes it would just stay on or off whether you stomped it or not.

After that I got some old EH stuff, an LPB-1 and a Crying Tone/Muff Fuzz huge wah thing, it produced some ungodly racket alright.  

Jim

[dosmun]

Seamoon Fresh Fuzz

[RDV]

National(Shin-Ei) Fuzz/Wah.
I just recently scored another one off eBay. Great octave/fuzz!

First DIY was an LPB-2, 'hanging garden' style!

RDV

[Chris S]

Tube screamer TS-10. And I still have it (although fairly heavily modded and in a new case!)

[axr]

rogue dst-5

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

A diode bridge that I thought would get harmonics for a friends bass. But, it sounded just the same (looked a lot different on a scope, though!)

[Paul Marossy]

Black Cat OD-1 clone

[jazzyfingers04]

cascaded dod250s. Man that thing kills!

[Marcos - Munky]

The first one that I got is a wah/fuzz with slide switches. I always thinked that the fuzz sounds cool (when I didn't knew nothing about electronics), and some time ago I opened it again, and what I saw? Three germaniun transistors!!! I think it's a Tonebender clone with wah. My father bought the pedal for him long time ago, he used it when he played guitar, now it's mine. After this one, the first that I got was a LM386 amp that I made (first working thing!!!), and then a Bazz Fuss.

[Lonestarjohnny]

My first distortion pedal was a Miniture Reel To Reel recorder that ran off 4 double A batteries, came from Japan and was about the size of a ross flanger, there were not many pedal's around in the early 60's, a friend showed me how to convert this recorder into a distortion box, I don't remember how I did it, It's been to many Moon's ago. :roll:
Would be interesting to find another and try it again,
JD

[Torchy]

1977
Solasound/Colorsound Tonebender (3 knob)
Grey case, orange graphics.
Still got it.
No. I have resisted the urge to mod it

[Ge_Whiz]

1st: EA / Babani treble boost, homebrew;
2nd: Germanium Fuzz Face, s/h, repaired, used, nicked;
3rd: Coloursound Octivider, s/h, crap (still got it though).

[puretube]

almost don`t dare sayin`it (Mark might read this...) but among the first :
2 beat up Schaller WahWah/YoyYoy rockers that I tore apart to only use the mechanical portion of `em. (still got the shells since over 30 years...)

[Gringo]

My first effect was a dod supra distortion that wasn't really mine (I lent the money to my younger brother to buy iy, to use with the cheap guitar i gave him for a christmas gift. You guessed it, my parents would not buy him one ). The supra is still in the family, and always sucked big time.

At the time i didn't even play guitar, so my brother tought me a couple of nirvana's songs, and that was the begining of the end

After a while i got my own gear, and then got a boss mt-2 i still own and use (less and less everyday now, since i've built a huge arsenal of dists).

[RDV]

Black Cat OD-1 clone

Yeah, that's the first one you built. What's the first one you bought?

RDV

[moosapotamus]

First thing I ever did was to rip open my Bassballs, pull out the trimmers and replace them with panel mounted pots. Then I tried to build an Electra Distortion, but never got it to work. The first pedal I ever built (successfully) from scratch was this Tube Sound Fuzz...
http://www.moosapotamus.com/CA-TSF/ca-tsf.htm

~ Charlie

[casey]

a ProCo RAT.

I loved that pedal....

[bassman]

Mine was a late 70's Big Muff...