What is your rarest pedal?

RaymondLin

I saw this video last night and thought, what is your rarest pedal.  Ignoring the JHS element...and focus on the actual pedal.



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jonnygreentrees

My Timmy clone, I made it myself so it's the only one in existence.

In terms of commercial pedals, my Bearfoot Uber Bee but that isn't that rare

MichaelWatts

It was my sadly eBayed Danelectro Back Talk... I guess now it's either my Beetronix Royal Jelly or an ancient hand-painted Jam Pedals Boomster that I still love

ICBM

Everything that's wrong with the pedal market, collectorism and Youtube gear videos in a nutshell.

My rarest pedal is a Boss DF-2 Super Distortion & Feedbacker. It's one of those really rare early ones before they changed the name to Super Feedbacker & Distortion after DiMarzio threatened to sue them... so it must be better, right?

Actually it can't be that rare because I have two of them.

WHO CARES?!!!

I thought it might be about something *actually* rare and interesting, like a pedal Roger Mayer hand built for Jimi Hendrix, or something...

RaymondLin

ICBM said:

Everything that's wrong with the pedal market, collectorism and Youtube gear videos in a nutshell.

My rarest pedal is a Boss DF-2 Super Distortion & Feedbacker. It's one of those really rare early ones before they changed the name to Super Feedbacker & Distortion after DiMarzio threatened to sue them... so it must be better, right?

Actually it can't be that rare because I have two of them.

WHO CARES?!!!

I thought it might be about something *actually* rare and interesting, like a pedal Roger Mayer hand built for Jimi Hendrix, or something...

Cheer up ICBM....I thought it was a fun topic.

Mods please close if it upsets people that much....

oh_pollo

I have three Bell Electrolab pedals which seem fairly rare although they do pop up and a Baja Tech Ghost Compressor which I've never seen another one of.

TateFX

oh_pollo said:

I have three Bell Electrolab pedals which seem fairly rare although they do pop up and a Baja Tech Ghost Compressor which I've never seen another one of.

Are those the ones that snap together and have a power unit called mother? I had one of those as a kid blast from the past.

joetele

I think the rarest pedal I've owned is a Boss DSD-2 or a HF-2 but they're not really that rare these days. Currently it's probably the Danelectro Reel Echo on my board. So not really rare. I'm not a collector, I just want the right box of sounds for me. If that's from a stupidly rare pedal then I'll look for the cheapest alternative. 

ICBM

RaymondLin said:

Cheer up ICBM....I thought it was a fun topic.

It might have been if it had been about rare pedals instead of some modern mass-produced one that just happens to have a very slightly different graphic or something... maybe there was more, but I gave up at that point. It was a struggle to get that far.

RaymondLin said:

Mods please close if it upsets people that much....

No, don't close it. Maybe someone will post some interesting examples of *rare* pedals .

bbill335

I have a small handful of one-off fuzzes and a wah. I guess those are rare.

impmann

I have the very first D*A*M Drag-n-fly (small box) hand built by David Maine. I actually asked him if he could make the Drag-n-fly with less pedalboard real estate to the original version "no problem" he said... and so he made the small box. Mine has a Captain Beefheart quote handwritten inside it by David, along with the serial number "1".

PolarityMan

weeping demon jr probably..... got it off @digitalscream ;

simonk

My Hudson 999 qualifies I guess as he only made 30 of them.

octatonic

My Telenordia Germanium pedals.
The company existed for a short time before they became Tortenmann.
The Treble Booster is amazing with the right amp.

Kebabkid

I had a Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive at one point that sold for a lot of money. You don't see many of those around

fields5069

An Alan Exley fuzz. It still has my daughter's blood on it from when she was 2 and cut herself on a magazine.

stickyfiddle

Other than home made stuff that’s literally one of a kind, I guess my Anarchy audio Gold Class booster.  I’ve literally never seen anyone else mention it online or seen one on anyone’s pedalboard. 

springhead

I've got an early Marshall Bluesbreaker, an early RAT.  An Axis fuzz hand built and tuned by Roger Mayer for a friend of mine (so long term loan rather than mine). I've got one of Rogers 9090 wah boards that I boxed up in a Dunlop shell and got him to sign the baseplate when he did a talk on working with Jimi a couple of years ago.

prlgmnr

I've got a "Musicground Special Edition" Mr T T-Fuzz.

I assume "Musicground special edition" means "we harvested any decent components to make fake pedals with and replaced the innards with a dead rat".

Sounds good though.

DiscoStu

My MonkeyFX Valvesporker. Properly rare as
Sporky only made 30 odd (I think) of them and every one has a different finish/design.

Jonathanthomas83

Good topic.

I don't have any rare pedals and not sure I ever have.

This is about the rarest - Mr. Black Gilamondo, one of 4 re-released last month but he's discontinued it now. Best phaser I've ever tried. And yes, it even has a different finish to usual! haha.