What was your first ever stompbox?

[rhinson]

hello there, craig anderton tube fuzz---right out of book.  i went on to build just about all the projects in there and mounted them on rack mount strips in a box with a bipolar supply (also out of the book).      rh

[dr]

....silver hammertone Fuzz Face (with silicon trannys).....second one;Vox Tonebender....still have them....

[D Wagner]

MXR Distortion+.  I liked it so much, I bought another and cascaded them.  I used one for an overdrive sound, and the other for over the top distortion.....on my bass.  

[primalphunk]

I already posted about my first stompbox to ever use...just last year I finally decided to mod a pedal for the first time...Hmm...It was a ts5 in a new case(eventually part of a half rack multi-effect) with choice of different diodes and stuff.  Now I've got the bug.

[Phorhas]

My first box was a reissue TS-9... I still have it (but quite modded now...)

[petemoore]

How's this for old cheese...
 "Olson Frizzy Fuzz"...Bright red 'box' [actually two 'U's of metal, the ends could be bent open easily]. with jacks on the 'flexible' sides, and a hanging garden of about 12 parts in a cats cradle for innards.
 It worked flawslessly for a full two days!!! I repaired/twisted it 'till it worked a few hundred or thousand times.
 I got [somehow by magic I guess] a Broken Big Muff to work, IIRC the Olson [you guys remember when Oslons/Radio Shack competed?...good old days of Ham popularity]...Frizzy Fuzz got turned into some speaker jacks, and the slide switch was used to switch to the new Guild Humbucker that had been 'honed into' a Gibson Meloday Maker...quite the guitar [stolen...I find it, I become the HULK  :evil:  to whoever took it] .
 I don't think there's anything left whatsoever around here from those days, except a speaker jack from the Olson Frizzy Fuzz, I hope that jack will be entered in the nearby Cleveland R&R 'Hall of Shame' someday.

[StephenGiles]

My first sound effect was a Watkins Copycat, which I promptly dumped after seeing Lord Sutch & the Savages who didn't use echo, around 1962.

[strungout]

My first one was a Boss Heavy Metal HM-2, bought from my bro for 10$. I hated it It gave me the gain i wanted but so much for a good tone...it was noisy and the input jack is broken. I used it till my bro started playing bass and let me borrow his fender bullet reverb amp (love the sound of that). now my little bro's using it. Of course, now I could fix/mod it, but, heh.



Maybe it sounds better when its buried by all the other instruments  

Ciao.

[TheBigMan]

An Ibanez TS-5 Tube Screamer, which I am too attatched to to mod.  So much so that I bought another one to mod.  How sad is that?  

So now I have one stock and one modded to 808 specs and the stock one sounds better cos the TS-5 sounds much darker than a normal Tube Screamer.  :shock:

[bwanasonic]

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

That's funny, even after extensive mods, my head doesn't have tremolo :wink:  Just distortion...

My first effect (1974) was a Thomas Organ Stereo Fuzz/Wah/Volume. I still have it, but the pots are too scratchy for use. Geoffrey Teese was nice enough to email me some info on replacing the dual pot contraption, but I have yet to ressurect it. The next two purchases were script logo Dyna-Comp and Phase 90. Those were loaned and never returned many years ago. I have tapes of the fearsome noise these pedals unleashed via my mighty Peavey Backstage 30 and '59 Guild Starfire hollowbody. <beavis>pretty cool</beavis>

Kerry M

[Aharon]

First stompbox for me was a phase shifter.
Don't remember the brand but it had 3 letters like MXR but the box was black and the logo was script .Sounded pretty much like a 45.
PAid around $25 in 77/78.
After that it was a Colorsound Wha/Fuzz/Swell.
I don't have them anymore.
Aharon

[Johan]

...Ibaneze LA-Metal...oh, where is it now?...somewhere fara away I hope..

Johan

[Arn C.]

1983   I built a "Superfuzz"   .   This might have come out of a project book as a friend copied the info and gave me the info.   It worked great at the time.   I still have one schematic and layout on paper from the pack of projects he gave me.   Project No. 8  Compressor

Anyone know where that came from?  What project book?

Arn C.

[Paul Marossy]

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

Oh... you mean one you bought? I thought the question was about first one you built.  :oops:

In that case, I believe it was an Arion SAD-1. Not actually bought, but given to me - but the first pedal I ever had. The first thing I actually bought was a DOD Compressor.

[Johnny G]

first pedal i bought was the marshal jackhammer. great pedal (Overdrive mode is nice but distortion mode sucks)
so far i havnt modded it tho i have opened it up and am about half way through working out a schematic so i can start modding

[MartyB]

Age 15.  Early 1970's fuzz effect, metal box, gold-toned with black lettering.  Can't remember the brand.  Sounded pretty cheezy.  Would love to have it now.  Jusy couldn't  get it to sound like Paul Kossoff...

[Hal]

Boss DS-1 :-D

$40, c. 1996

[puretube]

Age 15... Just couldn't  get it to sound like Paul Kossoff..)

been smoking since "All Right Now" - still don`t sound like Paul Rodgers...
:cry:

[Samuel]

I think the only commercial pedal I've ever owned is a DD-5.

[Fret Wire]

Roger Mayer Classic Fuzz. Bought it when he first started making them. Was distributed by Guitar Galaxy of NYC. Has Abel AC128's in it. Sounded great when I got it, but the trannys are a little weak now. I should put new 128's and electro's in it, but I keep telling myself to leave it alone. Don't know why, it's not valuable or anything. Got a pic of the guts in the test section.

My second pedal was a block logo Dist.+. Still have it, looks like hell, but I replaced the components with the original types and values. Still sounds great, and I use it to compare my D+ builds against. So my first two store bought pedals also ended up being picked as my first two builds. Both are still my favorites.