Pedal 'parody' names/designs - potential free stuff content

SteveF

Posting this here rather than the making and modding section as it's not just for the builders - if it needs moving, let me know. 

As a bit of a pastime, I like to build effects pedals. Clones of well known pedals with circuits available online.  The bit I always have trouble with to the point it halts a lot of my builds is the name/design/graphics bit.   I'm handy enough with photoshop and the like, but it's the initial ideas that leave me stumped. I'm planning on spending a bit of time working on these over the next couple of weeks while I'm off work. 

So here's the deal. If I'm building a pedal, I usually make an extra or two for mates etc.  I'll put a list of my upcoming builds here and if someone suggests a name/design idea that I go with, I will make that person one too and send it to them as a thank you for lending me some of their creativity. 

To get the juices flowing, here's a Hudson Broadcast and Klon clone I made: 





Ideas most welcome for the following on my upcoming build list:

Boss CE-2
MXR Phase 90
ZVex Fuzzolo
ZVex Fuzz Factory
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal
ProCo RAT
Compressor (basically a Keeley 4 knob comp with an extra blend).

These are next up, will add more later if I run out. 

Cheers, 

Springywheel

Boss CE-2 - chorus is often described as sounding 'watery', so this brings to mind sea-like imagery. Pedal name: Moby Dick. Design - a whale rearing its head out of the water with a ship in the background. 

Not the best photoshop job is it, but i think this design could work on a smaller enclosure as well, maybe with the whale approaching the ship directly from below: https://i.postimg.cc/k5mVnbnh/moby-dick.jpg

sgosden

Can ideas be submitted via paint ? 

SteveF

sgosden said:

Can ideas be submitted via paint ? 

To be honest, I'm just after names and general ideas.  Even a description is fine.  If someone wants to draw something that's cool too.  It's generally the inspiration I get stuck for! 

SteveF

Springywheel said:

Boss CE-2 - chorus is often described as sounding 'watery', so this brings to mind sea-like imagery. Pedal name: Moby Dick. Design - a whale rearing its head out of the water with a ship in the background. 

Not the best photoshop job is it, but i think this design could work on a smaller enclosure as well, maybe with the whale approaching the ship directly from below: 

Great stuff thanks  

crunchman

How about the Star Wars walls closing in scene for the compressor?

simonhpieman

BE-2 Bhorus

Picture of 2 boring choristers

EricTheWeary

https://i.imgur.com/RoSgqBk.jpg

I feel like the Roland Rat is a pedal that could have existed given a slight twist of history. 

thecolourbox

I'm crap at ideas but I'm also bored, so how about...

Boss CE-2 - Chorvid-19
MXR Phase 90 - pictures of a gang of chavs and call it Phazin' Squad
ZVex Fuzzolo - The Fuzzter Keaton
ZVex Fuzz Factory - The Fuzzter Bloodvessel
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal - Fuzzter Hattesley (ran out of famous Busters at this point)
ProCo RAT - Splinter (as in the rat from Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Compressor - Self Isolator

They are pretty dire, ideas are harder than they look aren't they

guitargeek62

ProCo RAT - (James) Herbert, with a 3-way diode selection switch to go from normal (blank), Lair, and Domain. Those books were bloody entertaining, so any excuse to give them more recognition is a good thing imo 

simonhpieman

RAT - Pied Piper. Picture of Ian Anderson, ideally with crazy one up, one down cartoon eyes
EDIT: Never mind, he doesn't need cartoon eyes. https://www.loudersound.com/features/ian-anderson-the-10-records-that-changed-my-life

There's got to be something you can do with "The (E)QE2"…?

Hard to beat Edward the Compressor for the, er, compressor. But I feel something doing with needle (as in limiter...). Needle in a Marshall Stack? Needle in a (hay)stack but the haystack is shaped like a 4x12 and head? I dunno.

Perhaps I should have quit at Bhorus...

absolutpepper

For the Rat I always liked the idea of a clone called the TAR. Then the knobs can be TAR for Distortion, Gloop for Filter and Total for Volume. Nice and simple and gives a good feeling of a thick fuzzy distortion which is always what I associate with a Rat

smudge_lad

thecolourbox said:

I'm crap at ideas but I'm also bored, so how about...

Boss CE-2 - Chorvid-19
MXR Phase 90 - pictures of a gang of chavs and call it Phazin' Squad
ZVex Fuzzolo - The Fuzzter Keaton
ZVex Fuzz Factory - The Fuzzter Bloodvessel
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal - Fuzzter Hattesley (ran out of famous Busters at this point)
ProCo RAT - Splinter (as in the rat from Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Compressor - Self Isolator

They are pretty dire, ideas are harder than they look aren't they

I was also gonna suggest Splinter for the Rat pedal! Great minds!

guitargeek62 said:

ProCo RAT - (James) Herbert, with a 3-way diode selection switch to go from normal (blank), Lair, and Domain. Those books were bloody entertaining, so any excuse to give them more recognition is a good thing imo 

This idea is cool as fuck! 

SteveF

Some good stuff here guys, keep them coming 

simonhpieman

thecolourbox said:

I'm crap at ideas but I'm also bored, so how about...

Boss CE-2 - Chorvid-19
MXR Phase 90 - pictures of a gang of chavs and call it Phazin' Squad
ZVex Fuzzolo - The Fuzzter Keaton
ZVex Fuzz Factory - The Fuzzter Bloodvessel
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal - Fuzzter Hattesley (ran out of famous Busters at this point)
ProCo RAT - Splinter (as in the rat from Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Compressor - Self Isolator

They are pretty dire, ideas are harder than they look aren't they

Phazin' Squad... 

You win, you win....!!

Alex2678

Fuzz factory- sweat shop

compressor - the crusher with the enclosure made to look like a cubed scrap car 

Rat - Mighty Mouse

Face 90, A-team theme

Springywheel

‘Quid Pro Co Rat’, or simply ‘Quid Pro Co”

Based on “Quid Pro Quo” = defined as a favour or advantage given in return for something.

Witness protection was quid pro quo for the names the mobsters gave the police

Design - Mobster wacked for snitching 
 

JMP220478

Phase90. - Star Trek character in silhouette firing from his her phaser with a red beam ? Speed control min as stun ; max as kill - presuming one knob 90 clone ?  Call it the JTK or The Enterprise or the Federation Fazer 

or alternatively some play on the script and block theme - actor reading from a script ?  

Block - could be a roadblock with some police or army style characters ? Or something Lego style block - beware anything too tm’d 

Cookiemonster

For the Rat _ Ratatouille
Chorus _ Come as you are, ocean wave, black beard (pirate so sort of water linked) like a waterfall,  hydrogen bomb. ariel, artagatis (old mermaid myth)

Phaser _ set phasers to stun. Just a phase. Have a Cigar. 
the fuzz , hot fuzz (my favourite Simon pegg movie) caught by the fuzz. Rage against the fuzz, muse

AlexC

Chorus - ‘The Greek’: as in the theatrical term for a Greek Chorus. And then you could use a graphic based around the comedy/tragedy mask.
Bit obscure maybe! 

blobb

They are stomp boxes, make them look like something that would be fun to stomp on........

A tube of toothpaste

A Ribena carton

A whoopee cushion

A frog?

A chocolate eclair

maybe not a three pin plug, although you never know.