Pedal Stars of the 90s

[Hypnodrone]

I remember Lovetone and Way Huge from some of the more daring guitar magazines. Otherwise the 90'ies was the best vintage gear period for me ever. Racks and processors hit big time just as I was picking up the guitar in like 1989 and my sound esthetics were always in the 60's and 70's. Pro players were dumping vintage gear for nothing up until 2000 and me and a friend drove around south Norway scoring shitloads of cool stuff. But I still want a Lovetone Doppelganger. That's my holy grail of mostly useless feels 90's unobtainium.

[repoman]

4ms and Frantone were 90s boutique too, the 4ms stuff came in conduit boxes.

[ognoy]

Whammy?

[rfurtkamp]

Late, late 90s.

[friendship]

4ms and Frantone were 90s boutique too, the 4ms stuff came in conduit boxes.

They were 3ms back then! I still have my conduit box Noise Swash from like 2000.

[comesect2.0]

was up on ebay while back. 3ms.

[comesect2.0]

just bask in its glory.

[friendship]

Gorgeous. Mine had the same flimsy switch that they replaced when I had them add a tame switch. Same total rats nest wiring too.

[lost in music]

Whoa! What the hell is that?

[repoman]

holy fugg

[fever606]

Gorgeous. Mine had the same flimsy switch that they replaced when I had them add a tame switch. Same total rats nest wiring too.

Haha same! I sent my DA Green Ringer to the dude from 3ms after seeing his posts on some message board, which he rehoused into a blue-painted conduit box with the same switch... man, I miss that thing...

Whoa! What the hell is that?

3ms (now 4ms) phasuer fluer... or however the hell you spell it!

[Bartimaeus]

I'm really interested in this topic, since it's hard to get a perspective on the world of pedals in the past. The narrative I always hear is that it was all rack units in the 80's, then Nirvana got people to start using pedals again in the early 90's, and then Radiohead got people to use tons of pedals in the early 2000's.

I'm also surprised no to hear any mentions of the Whammy (aside from another person asking about it). It seems like a lot of pro's in the 90's had one... was it only the pro's?

[Dark Barn]

I think in the 90s I had a Boss ODB-3, Roger Meyer Voodoo Bass, a Russian Bass Balls and a TC Electronic SCF with its own dedicated power cord. I can’t remember exactly when I owned each but I think this was all around ‘95. The local guitar shops tended to have more used pedals than new and it was mostly Boss/Dunlop/DOD but youd see some second hand EHX, Mu-tron, other stuff I couldn’t identify back then. My buddy who played Cello owner an ART Nightbass rack multi effect that I used to covet. It seemed so state of the art to me lol, in ‘95.

[rfurtkamp]

I'm really interested in this topic, since it's hard to get a perspective on the world of pedals in the past. The narrative I always hear is that it was all rack units in the 80's, then Nirvana got people to start using pedals again in the early 90's, and then Radiohead got people to use tons of pedals in the early 2000's.

Rack stuff was always a certain niche of pro and pro-aspiring folks, and a small amount of pedals never went anywhere.

Nirvana didn't have much do to do with it, honestly - whenever a fad would hit and something would get abused or prominently used, there'd be a run on flangers or phasers or talkboxes or whatever for a couple years.

I'm also surprised no to hear any mentions of the Whammy (aside from another person asking about it). It seems like a lot of pro's in the 90's had one... was it only the pro's?

It was a shredder thing mostly at the time from what I saw, that's who it was marketed towards in the period mags and the only people I ever saw with them.

I wouldn't call them a "star" of that era - expensive, rare, and huge.

[OldGeorge]