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drolo wrote:do you ever play guitar these days? I always only see you with a bass

I have a cheap POS guitar and that's it. I naturally went to bass when I realized my fingers are too fat for guitar. At least the ones I'd owned in the past. I've had some very nice ones too.

I would later trade it for a wah pedal, of all fucking things.

friendship wrote:I would later trade it for a wah pedal, of all fucking things.

The BF2 was also my first. $30 at a used music store around 2006. I have no idea why I sold it, I guess because I joined here and everything just spiraled out of control for years

My first pedal was an original Rat that I bought for $20. I had it for years and years until I sold it for a lot more money.

I believe my first was one of the original whammy pedals, I bought it for $70 dollars and ended up selling it for a lot more later on.

weebles wrote:It's a DS-1.

Everyone's first pedal purchase was a DS-1, and any other answer is a lie.

I have never actually owned one of these. sd-1 probably the closest i've came.

Behringer BSY 600 Bass synthesiser, bought in 2013 I think. I was under the misapprehension that it would turn my guitar into an awesome synthesiser. It did not. I don't know if the Boss Bass Synthesiser is a better pedal or not, but the Behringer was horrible... only 3 of the 11 modes seem to actually make different sounds. The other eight sounds are various kinds of electronic farts. I still have the pedal somewhere, but it no longer works... one day I intend to try to modify it / fix it, but none of the sounds were what I really wanted (turns out that a Superego and a Mel-9 are what I really wanted) so this might never happen.

I have played guitar occasionally (and badly) since the late 1980s, but the only pedal in those days I'd ever used was a friend's DS-1. Which did sound pretty rock... I probably should buy one some day.

First pedal I ever bought was one of these. No idea what became of it.

My friend gave me a DS-1. I broke it. No idea how I accomplished that. Next pedal was a digitech rp80 multi thing. I used to play shows with my bullet strat through that into a crate bass amp. You shoulda heard my presets, my god the toanz.

The Eristic wrote:The first individual pedals I bought were the Zoom Ultra Fuzz and the Guyatone Flip Vintage Tremolo, both of which were on clearance at AMS for like $60 each.

The Flip Tremolo is supposed to do fuzz when plugged in backwards or some crazy shit like that, right?

I was a coffee achiever, circa '90. Same day I was gifted the guitar, I acquired a Boss HM-2 and a then-blisteringly new (and very, very, expensive, back when it was more than a week's pay at minimum wage) Boss PS-2 - not for the pitch shift, but because it was the first pedal with two seconds of delay time that mortal man could acquire.

The HM-2 lasted me a long, long, long time - I replaced it with the then-new Dano Fab Tone ($75ish when released, and objectively worth every penny). I added one again later because of the one setting I use on it (which is not Swedish chainsaw!).

PS-2 I replaced relatively quickly - by that point I had a Boss ME-6B multi (mostly for the analog filters) but the 1s delay was enough for what I needed since I also had a Digitech RDS 3.6 rack delay (LFO and sample/hold are still to die for, and THAT has never left my rig) and a Roland Chorus Echo (Space Echo on crack with sound on sound and the Jazz Chorus/CE-1 circuit). The latter I sorely, sorely missed until I got another tape Space Echo (and had the chorus covered by a 1980-ish Jazz Chorus 50, as well now by the CE-2W on the CE-1 mode).

There just weren't many options back then so stuff lasted longer usually. I never met a not 18v DOD I liked, so they were out. Ibanez pedals were...meh, and cost as much as the Boss stuff. MXR only had a couple things back then, and EHX was in its pre-Russian dead period.

And frankly, I couldn't afford the rack stuff I REALLY, REALLY wanted.

Gone Fission wrote:

The Eristic wrote:The first individual pedals I bought were the Zoom Ultra Fuzz and the Guyatone Flip Vintage Tremolo, both of which were on clearance at AMS for like $60 each.

The Flip Tremolo is supposed to do fuzz when plugged in backwards or some crazy shit like that, right?

......I have no idea, I've never plugged it in backwards. :^|

It sounds fantastic, though. I was super excited when I plugged it in after the Ultra Fuzz and realized if I turned the "Emphasis" switch on and cranked the speed, it sounded (I thought at the time, at least) like stuff from Hit to Death in the Future Head and Clouds Taste Metallic.

My first pedal was a BOSS RC2, because the guy at the guitar store where I got my first electric guitar convinced me it was a useful practice tool. I could never really gel with the interface since I hate double tapping to stop a loop, and I've never really been happy with it, but I still have the thing and overall I did get good use out of it over the years.

My second pedal was a lot more conventional, an SD1 that I still have fun breaking out from time to time.