WELL, i started out with vintage stuff..

back when i was younger, and what is now 'vintage' was then, just old stuff.

LOL

and i could have some killer pieces then, for cheap, that are almost impossible to get now..

dallas rangemaster....
Univox super fuzz..
Script Dynacomp...
original fuzz face....
thomas organ crybaby.....

and in later years:
the 1st MXR Distortion +......
Ross Compressor....
1st big muff Pi.....
EH LPB-1......
i had one of the 1st MXR phase 90's, even before EVH got his....

so many cool pedals...

but thru the years, i found pedals that did their thing..... better.

and as i found superlative models, i let go of the old ones.
have NEVER regretted it.

Beepster


I've had very few problems here but I've seen lots of dumb crap. The crappy part is the negative spiral that occurs. Someone takes a dump in a thread and then the cool guys get sucked into it when they should just point and laugh. ;-p 

Ain't that the truth!


We need more smileys......

wst3


OK, just to add some votes to the cool side... my locker currently includes the following pedals:
Danelectro Tuna Melt
Deltalab Effectron III
Digitech Whammy WH-1
DLS Chorus-Vibe
Dunlop Cry Baby, Rotovibe
Electro Harmonix Big Muff pi, Deluxe Electric Mistress, Frequency Analyzer, Micro Synthesizer, POG, SmallStone
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal (x2)
FoxxRoxx Captain Coconut, Paradox TZF
Geoffrey Teese RMC-3 (w/Foxrox buffer)
Guyatone SV2, WR2
Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
Ibanez AD-80, CS-505, EPP400, SD-9, UE-405
Lexicon Vortex
Line6 DL-4
Maestro Boomerang, Envelope Modifier, PS-1, Sustainer
Mutron III, Bi-Phase, Octave Divider, Phaser
MXR DynaComp
Peterson Strobo-stomp
Pigtronix Attack-Sustain, EP2, Philosophers Tone
Proco Rat
Roger Linn Adrennalinn
Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter
Snarling Dogs Black Dog,  Erogenous Moan, Mold Spore, Tweed E Dog
Subdecay Prometheus
TC Electronics Chorus+ Pitch Modulator/Flanger
Tech 21 XXL
Thomas Organ Cry Baby
Vintage Tone Project Dan Armstrong Orange Crusher
Voodoo Labs SparkleDrive
Yamaha SPX-90


No, I don't use them all at the same time, but I have two pedal boards that I populate as required for different projects. In the studio I have been known to have quite a few of them hooked up at once<G>!


And there are a couple pedals left on my wish list - pretty much everything from Pigtronix, Randy's Revenge (yet another ring modulator), and the Retrosonic CE-1 clone... the DLS will do a LOT, but it won't quite cop a CE-1, and I'm going to trade up from my Pog to the Pog2.

I think I need help!

Ah! NOT a Boss fan.

Early '80's I had a Marshall stack, a Gibson Sonex, a Boss Chorus, and one of these;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnQmb5X9FBo

Hey Danny, remind me never to get on your bad side... Lol

The 112 questions\points of interest in your earlier post provide plenty food for thought. 

What I currently use is a line 6 spider valve MKII.
(2) 12" Celestion vintage 30's.
Not sure if you are familiar with these amps or not.
16 amp models and built in effects.
I have found that I do not care for the effects all that much.
The longer I play thru this amp it seems the less I like how it sounds.
I will say the class A model has some warmth to it when playing clean, but add any built in drive and it just feels muddy.

Perhaps it is just me running out of talent when it comes to fine
Tuning any sounds from it.

I don't think my ears are what they used to be...

I wonder if anyone here likes Boss pedals??  :)

Tom:  that pic was great! Old school man.
Drummers, generations come and go and yet they remain unchanged...
Don't get em wet and keep them out of the light.

DeeringAmps


@McQ
Beautifully done!
BUT, the octal socket is a 6V6, not the rectifier; no?
I gave up pedals in the late 60's.
Once I had a LP>Marshall 100w Stack, what else did I need?



Tom

Hi Tom,


The best part about knowing you prefer the EL84 and EL34 over the 6V6 is the idea that I may be able to afford another pair of NOS 6V6 before they all run out.


I'm glad there's other popular tubes cause I sorta like the 6V6 myself, and as I'm sure you know, very few can handle the voltage in a Deluxe Reverb... so I like the idea that they may not be so popular.






The good news is, I have some EL84 and EL34 amps here as well, not as cool as the stuff you make, but good enough to hear the warm crunch.


Good times.

:-)


all the best,
mike

Let's get back to the pedal board discussion, shall we? Although I haven't bought a pedal in years, I do still have some old individualized stomp boxes that I use from time to time. The Boss pedals were very durable and built like tanks. I still have an old analog delay that produces some nice tones. I also have some old EH original boxes too. They are a bit noisy but have some really classic tones. I think the bottom line though is that it's all a matter of personal choice. It's all a matter of what fits in your budget and sounds good to you. Some prefer no effects, some prefer lightweight, lean and versatile effects boards and some prefer fat 540 pound rack units. And it's all OK. If we were all the same, life would be boring.

Bristol_Jonesey

Ah! NOT a Boss fan.

Not on purpose mind you... well, not on purpose against Boss. Everyone I knew had Boss pedals back in the early 1980s, and I didn't want to use the same pedals as everyone else, so I gravitated towards Ibanez. After that it was more that the pedals that really spoke to me were not the mainstream stuff I found in local music stores. I do have a Roland Space Echo RE-301, is that close enough? It isn't on the list because one of the heads failed, and I haven't gotten around to replacing it yet. Might go do that tonight!

Oh, and I guess I blanked it out because it's painful, but I did sell a pedal about ten years ago - a Prescription Electronics Experience - and I regret it still! Maybe why I stopped selling any of them. It wasn't so much that I had grown tired of it, but I had picked up the Captain Coconut, and I had so much fun with the fuzz face and octavia sections that the Experience pedal seemed redundant. DUMB! I really need to get one of them again!


Yeah, I need help!

64 Fender Bandmaster/ Tube screamer / Boss ME 50 / Boss stereo delay.  Still looking for a second overdrive. Tube screamer is excellent and dose it 90% of the time but is a little on the mild side.  

This is just my personal observation, but I'd like to know if anyone else has noticed. 

Most of the guys I work with that make a living playing guitar live have pretty cheap pedal boards. I ask all the clients what they use for patch cables, power supplies and pedals. Guys that have "people" often don't know what cables they use. They send a guy out to buy a bunch of cables for the tour and don't spend time agonizing over the capacitance etc. They tend to use readily available pedals from Boss and Voodoo labs. If they break, off goes the roadie to the music store for another.

Studio guys and hobby players go for the expensive stuff like evidence audio cables, clon pedals and vintage uni-vibes. Double this for lawyers. They buy Dumble amps and 59 bursts.

I think pedal boards are similar to studio rigs. It's not so much what they are, it's more about what a given individual can coax out of the gear on hand.