Completely Made Up Yet (Not) True (Non-)Facts About Gear

UnclePsychosis

Guitar effects units are actually powered by smoke. If the smoke ever escapes from your effect then it won't work properly anymore.

frankus

John Mayer did not have sex with that Klon Centaur.

IanSavage

If you put a Boss LS2 into the loop of a Boss LS2 and activate both you can open a portal to a parallel dimension.

guitarfishbay

You get a 30% discount on the Axe FX if you promise to post that every update sounds more real, but you're not allowed to tell anyone.

Teetonetal

The cornish TES is just a rehoused lightly modded Boss DD2 - imagine how stupid you'd feel if that was true!

jonnygreentrees

JHS actually invented most of the popular pedal circuits but he's just terrible at keeping secrets and so humble he won't stand up for himself when others accuse HIM of cloning other pedals

Heartfeltdawn

After his final farewell tour in 2016, David Gilmour is planning to have all of his pedals and rack rehoused gear inside of Sandi Toksvig. 

Winny_Pooh

I was refinishing a pedal when I saw a face appear on and form in the wet membrane. I was perturbed to see not Jesus but David Cameron, but then I remembered it was a double big muff.

preston61

The Edge doesn't actually use delay, he has 2 guitarists under the stage who play everything he does a dotted eighth and quater note behined him

Teetonetal

Winny_Pooh;890550" said:

I was refinishing a pedal when I saw a face appear on and form in the wet membrane. I was perturbed to see not Jesus but David Cameron, but then I remembered it was a double big muff.

Not a way huge pork loin?

JezWynd

Sustain for daze.

57Deluxe

Francis Rossi DID NOT drill that hole in his Telecaster to deter it being stolen....

Sassafras

Pedals endow players with much better skills.

Flanging_Fred

If you add a Korg Miku and a Digitech Lyra to your pedalboard, you are automatically granted Japanese citizenship and sent a pair of vacuum packed, slightly damp japanese schoolgirl's pants in the post.

Flanging_Fred

Richlite fingerboards have a 37% dairy content.

MikkiMcMurderer

The goop used to mask the Klon circuit boards is baboon jism that has leaked back out of the maker's Bovril Bypass

Flanging_Fred

The Digitech 'The Weapon' pedal appears in the United Nations  "Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons" concluded on October 10th, 1980 and is banned in all major Western countrys, except the USA, where it is given to children when starting Kindergarten.

BintyTwanger77

Everyone, these are magnificent "facts", keep them coming.

therose789

The Boss MT-2 Is the greatest pedal ever made. 

kjdowd

Each new purchase of the original Marshall Guv'nor pedal was hand delivered by hard man Lenny "the guv'nor" McLean. The less nice reissue is hand delivered by Paul Ince to this day.