Pedal Stars of the 90s

[drolo]

someone should build a tube screamer in a glass enclosure

[rfurtkamp]

I'd smash it.

[repoman]

And Nobels, not sure if they were available outside EU at the time
This was like my 3rd pedal at the time (after a dunlop wah and a boss ch-1 )

Blooz guys had TS9s, every country guy had a Nobels ODR1

[JereFuzz]

The Japanese started killing the US made pedals in the 90s from what I read. They restricted key components that killed US manufacturers. I read that DOD was the sole survivor of the Japanese assault. I think DOD adopted silent switching, like the Japanese, whereas the other US manufacturers failed to adopt. ...

[Mudfuzz]

No.

[JereFuzz]

Some info on DOD: http://www.americaspedal.net/

[rfurtkamp]

There just wasn't much interest in US-made pedals at that point - the 80s stuff was almost all Japanese.

There was DOD for budget stuff (and that's what it sounded like generally as well by comparison), the RAT, and isolated local brands, but pretty much it was Boss, Ibanez, etc or bust.

[rfurtkamp]

DOD was a budget brand at the time - when they'd release some new gimmick for whatever the flavor of the month was, it was pretty much garbage compared to the options out at the time.

The early-Harman stuff was similar to the post-Gibson and post-Fender buyout stuff - poor QC, didn't really fit the market at the time, and got left behind pretty fast.

Unlike Fender and Gibson though they couldn't live on the logo or the rep - the only advantage they seemed to have is every mom+pop probably had them.

[JereFuzz]

Cobain's DS1:



Cobain's Sansamp:



Greenwood's Shredmaster:

[Mudfuzz]

There just wasn't much interest in US-made pedals at that point - the 80s stuff was almost all Japanese.

There was DOD for budget stuff (and that's what it sounded like generally as well by comparison), the RAT, and isolated local brands, but pretty much it was Boss, Ibanez, etc or bust.

And boss and Ibanez and Ross etc were being made in Taiwan by then..

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, to be honest, I never even noticed the switch in where, it was all far east cheapie production to me!