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Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:50 am
by smile_man

I know it's a Big Muff but I've never heard of anyone else have it save one on ebay a while back. It's a Fuzz/Compressor, nice tone.
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:48 pm
by DiscoFreq
Here are those Beckmens:

Also rather obscure:


Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:09 pm
by dronemachine
My friend had that rotator thingy,but we could never tweak it to sound good on guitar
Maybe it's not for a guitar or it was broken?
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:03 am
by DiscoFreq
C W Y wrote:My friend had that rotator thingy,but we could never tweak it to sound good on guitar
Maybe it's not for a guitar or it was broken?
This one or the bigger version with more knobs and control pedal input?
This one is actually a kind of filter circuit, sounding like a very strong phaser or almost flanger...
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:19 am
by the raytownian
Probably the only "obscure" effect I own:

My Sirkut Electronics Gnarler, which I love so very, very much.
And since I just happened to have it in Photobucket, here's a bitchin' gut shot:

Probably he simplest circuit I've ever seen in any pedal! haha...
EDIT: Oh, here's one I took at a "SEXY" angle:

Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:45 pm
by dronemachine
DiscoFreq wrote:C W Y wrote:My friend had that rotator thingy,but we could never tweak it to sound good on guitar
Maybe it's not for a guitar or it was broken?
This one or the bigger version with more knobs and control pedal input?
This one is actually a kind of filter circuit, sounding like a very strong phaser or almost flanger...
Ithought it looked the same,but I remember it didn't had the footswitch,but rather the on/off switch.
It wasn't very good for a guitar,so we thought it's for synth or something...
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:57 pm
by jrmy
Here's anudda EH oddity. Well, maybe not an oddity. But an old-assed EH of some kind nonetheless. I got it for $25 at a midnight 50% off sale at a local music store back in college. My guitar player insisted I needed to try playing with compression, and this thing said "compressor" right on it.
I was never very impressed with the results, unless I really cranked the "sustain" knob all the way down - then I got a really cool volume swell effect. Unfortunately, it eats through batteries like candy and I never bothered to get a 9v adaptor added.
I spoke to someone at EH about it once, and they said something along the lines of "Yep. That sounds like an old EH compression pedal. Sure does." End of conversation.
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:44 am
by dronemachine
Just found a pic of my old yamaha phaser...it's kinda rare.
I sold it to my friend for peanuts...never looked back,but it was cooler than most of the phasers I've played.
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:39 pm
by Seizurema
the raytownian wrote:My Sirkut Electronics Gnarler
Wuzzit do?

Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:58 am
by suboctave
Seizurema wrote:the raytownian wrote:My Sirkut Electronics Gnarler
Wuzzit do?

Crazy distortion/oscillation... Just checked noisefx.com (who Sirkut sells through) but they don't have the Gnarler in

Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:51 pm
by DiscoFreq
Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:15 pm
by dronemachine
Nice!I never seen those in real life,though

Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:03 pm
by bigchiefbc
Hey if BJFE is considered obscure, then I can play:

Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:16 am
by dorfmeister
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Re: Show yr. obscure pedals!
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:54 am
by moose23