Your 1st pedal?

[oldangelmidnight]

I started with a Boss OS-2 in 1995 or so. I wanted a DS1 like Kurt had. The OS2 supposedly had that sound plus more options. I liked it okay. I think I let someone borrow it and never got it back. I tried another recently and it was total bullshit.
My second pedal was a Soundtank Slam Punk that, somehow, sounded worse than the built-in distortion in my Crate practice amp.

[Gone Fission]

Not backward on the Flip Trem, but unpowered! From Joe Gore:

An even weirder one was the mutant fuzz-trem I used on the Eels song "Agony." I had a Flip tremolo, a really lush-sounding tube-powered unit that requires AC power. But if you unplug the power supply, you get the violent fuzz sound heard on the track. I have no idea how or why this works, but it does. If anyone here can explain why it works, well, I'm all ears.

http://tonefiend.com/tonefiend-forum/?m ... topic&t=72

[jrfox92]

Not backward on the Flip Trem, but unpowered! From Joe Gore:

An even weirder one was the mutant fuzz-trem I used on the Eels song "Agony." I had a Flip tremolo, a really lush-sounding tube-powered unit that requires AC power. But if you unplug the power supply, you get the violent fuzz sound heard on the track. I have no idea how or why this works, but it does. If anyone here can explain why it works, well, I'm all ears.

http://tonefiend.com/tonefiend-forum/?m ... topic&t=72

Sounds like it either had a battery inside, or he's misremembering.
Seems a few people reported that the Flip series had low headroom and tended to distort with high enough input signals.
I don't know where he got the idea it uses AC power, though. DC 12V is written right on the front of the thing.

[Mudfuzz]

First pedal I ever bought was a ibanez thrashmetal sound tank in 95?
Ordered it from a catolog... Was very dissapointed by it not being heavy sounding... My next pedal was a Dod death metal

[The Eristic]

Sounds like it either had a battery inside, or he's misremembering.
Seems a few people reported that the Flip series had low headroom and tended to distort with high enough input signals.
I don't know where he got the idea it uses AC power, though. DC 12V is written right on the front of the thing.

Probably just thinking "wall wart = AC adapter = AC power".

I just tried it, and mostly got silence, as it's a buffered bypass, but I *did* get a little spitty something making it through when I hit really hard, though it's very quiet. After powering it up and engaging it for a bit, then pulling the power, it's definitely more noticeable, so maybe if you run it for a while before yanking the plug into a really loud amp, it could work? Maybe his bypass is particularly bad and he's hearing stuff you aren't supposed to in the process of discharging, or yeah, maybe something in the circuit is low headroom enough to clip and bleed through? Still, doesn't sound anything like that song.

[alexsga]

Ibanez Smash Box

[Jero]

Not backward on the Flip Trem, but unpowered! From Joe Gore:

An even weirder one was the mutant fuzz-trem I used on the Eels song "Agony." I had a Flip tremolo, a really lush-sounding tube-powered unit that requires AC power. But if you unplug the power supply, you get the violent fuzz sound heard on the track. I have no idea how or why this works, but it does. If anyone here can explain why it works, well, I'm all ears.

http://tonefiend.com/tonefiend-forum/?m ... topic&t=72

Sounds like it either had a battery inside, or he's misremembering.
Seems a few people reported that the Flip series had low headroom and tended to distort with high enough input signals.
I don't know where he got the idea it uses AC power, though. DC 12V is written right on the front of the thing.

Weird. Maybe he got confused by "AC power adapter," which outputs DC Hell it prob sounds like that cause he used the wrong power supply
I don't think I ever heard that about those tremolos though (fuzz trick thing). As for batteries, none of the FLIP series I've seen use them. Listening to the song, the "fuzz" has trem on it too, doesn't sound multitrack, so I'd be curious how he got the pedal to do both with no power.

I know someone on here has got to have one of these laying around

EDIT: just saw this

Probably just thinking "wall wart = AC adapter = AC power".
I just tried it, and mostly got silence, as it's a buffered bypass, but I *did* get a little spitty something making it through when I hit really hard, though it's very quiet. After powering it up and engaging it for a bit, then pulling the power, it's definitely more noticeable, so maybe if you run it for a while before yanking the plug into a really loud amp, it could work? Maybe his bypass is particularly bad and he's hearing stuff you aren't supposed to in the process of discharging, or yeah, maybe something in the circuit is low headroom enough to clip and bleed through? Still, doesn't sound anything like that song.

[cantremember]

I got a metal zone for my first pedal back when I was about 15 years old. I still have it but sent it off for a Keeley mod because I wasn't really feeling it back then but I use it on bass now and really like it.

[Ghost Hip]

catch 16 year old me playing this bad boy through a Marshall MG100 half stack writing and playing HIT SONGS about Bosco Sticks, JV Cross Country, and Pop Tarts in a comedy ska-punk band.

[BetterOffShred]

JV cross country you say!! That's rad

[dubkitty]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdWkZNbfCM[/youtube]

[ts50b]

I went to Guitar Center to get a Blues Driver and left with a Hot Head because I thought it looked cooler. I still have it and think it sounds perfectly shitty

[karmablock]

These are my first and second pedal ever. Both were gifts from family. Modified the SM in the last couple years.

[lordgalvar]

Zoom 505 and a DOD bass grunge. Both given to me because pedals were the worst thing to admit to using at the time haha.

First mfx (before I bought a pedal) I bought was a Korg ax1000g.
First actual pedal I spent money on was either a Russian big muff or DOD grunge...I can't remember. It was like the span of a week (ended up just using the amp for distortion). First pedal I used like crazy was my third, the ehx frequency analyzer.

First boutique pedal was an e13 trifuzz.

[Faldoe]

DS-1