Having spent years collecting from car boot sales (pre-eBay) and local adverts, it seems a shame that I only use these sonic treasures once on the way into my DAW and recordings.
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You get my meaning !Ĭolorsound Tonebender, MXR Script distortion, BK Butler Tube Driver and even a Mesa Boogie V-Twin (for those 'shred' moments) are all worthy additions to guitar recording but one thing kept bothering me. My Japanese 1978 Boss CE-2 chorus pedal sounds perfect alongside a 1979 EHX USA small stone phaser - both providing rich sonics that plug-ins can't get close to and just play on through the old Deluxe Memory Man and WEM Copycat etc. Gone are the dreams of owning an overdrive pedal, now it's a case of what era of overdrive are you after? But I've found all the classics still stack up really really well, and whilst you've got to keep an eye and ear on their maintenance they're all in pretty good shape. Now these days boutique pedal manufacturing is big big news. Shortly afterwards when hair metal died a bit and it all went a bit indie BritPop I started collecting 70's Crybabys, Fuzz pedals and MXR delays that were a nod back to the 1960's raw sound. This was the late 80's and early 90's when guitars sounded like Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Joe Satriani and Guns n' Roses and what we were all after. In this quest I chopped and changed pedals, researching in magazines what these 'guitar heroes' were using and then trying all in one Boss multi-effects to more 'interesting' designs from Electro-Harmonix and MXR. Then it was the RAT overdrive, Ibanez TubeScreamer, and so on. The dream, when I started, was to own a yellow Boss OD-2 Overdrive pedal.which I eventually ran through various random second hand Peavey combo amps that were prevalent at the time. No, my obsession was guitar pedals. There, I've said it. (Well I had an Atari 1040ST which sort of hung out in the garage being unforgiving in its metronomic sonics and once you've heard that beep it's ingrained in your subconscious forever !) How long have we got?īut my real obsession started long before the computer ruled.
just ask what the best plug-in is for your mix buss / Vocal / DrumBuss etc and you'll get a wealth of useful and not so useful. We're up there with our studios and setups, and DAW's, oh and plug-ins. Like every musician, engineer and producer out there we all have secret obsessions.
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