First pedal you ever bought (and when.)

sweepy

Ibanez Tubescreamer @1979 ;

KevS

Coron Sound Creator Distortion..  1986

i still wonder if it was a copy of something else..

I couldn't afford Boss or Ibanez etc..

It stopped working within 2 Days,I got a replacement..
Then I moved away. from the town I bought it in...
It stopped working shortly after that..

KevS

BillDL said:

[EDIT]  Not another ancient post that has been resurrected!  I didn't notice the date.

LOCObox DS-01 distortion around 1980.

Probably made by the same japanese OEM that were making Aria, Maxon, Guyatone, and various other pedals.  The exact same Loco ones also came with the names Gig, Cutec, Powervoice and Studio Series screenprinted on them.  Those were the days when they named them based on what they actually did rather than the modern trend of choosing a theme and concocting names from which it is impossible to determine what they do.

I owned one of these..It broke Down and I got it fixed..
I used it a while,but can't remember how it sounded..

Alex2678

Boss me-50 when I was a teenager, probably  around 2006. Really good bit of kit

Jota

Boss CH-1 (have no idea!) around 2000.

mudslide73

Pearl OD-05 in 90/91 from a local second-hand shop. Basically a TS with eq and boost. I still have it but it's not in great condition. (obviously, this isn't mine).

Tannin

I had a green one and a yellow one, or possibly orange. That was about 1978. Later on I got a purple one. I think one of them was a phaser.

(Sounds as though I'm trying to be funny, but I fair-dinkum do not remember what they were or which one came first. I was always looking for one of those special Turn Me Into A Good Guitarist pedals but none of them worked.)

Supportact

I got a Rocktek overdrive first, would have been the early 90s. Same answer i gave in the 'worst pedal' thread. A shocker.

That said, before that an older guy who lived on our street and played a strat gave me a distortion pedal for free before that. The switch was broken, and he'd soldered in another switch (kind of a plastic switch like you'd get on an old car dashboard) which was gaffer taped onto the pedal. The brand was JHS (John hornby skewes, not the new JHS that is popular now). 

Brio

Coloursound Fuzz/Wah/Swell. Early to mid 70s I suspect.

CE1

Some Boss distortion pedal, it was twin channel, or at least had two sides with separate footswitches. I have never been able to work out what it was.

Fishboy7

Boss Turbo Overdrive  - Probably around 1993.  I remember buying from a music shop in Hemel Hempstead and being a bit disappointed it didn't have more gain

jeroenvanhulsteijn

Boss OC2 in 1992. I had an Aria strat (MDF body) with a Torque solid state amp. Sounded like crap. But I didn't have a clue about what I was doing on electrics anyway. Costed me (new) 120 dutch guilders (1 euro = 2,50 dutch guilders). To me it was a fortune at that time. Only kept it for a short time. Should've kept it so that I could make a profit out of it now. 

Supportact

Fishboy7 said:

Boss Turbo Overdrive  - Probably around 1993.  I remember buying from a music shop in Hemel Hempstead and being a bit disappointed it didn't have more gain

Was that the shop in the old high Street? I used to go in there a fair bit in the early 90s. They had some good stuff, that was where I got my first pedal as well. It's not there any more though sadly. 

Musicwolf

c1977

lustycourtier

Mine was an Ibanez PT3 which I miss often! At the time it was just a multifx, in a sea of others, but looking back, it was 3 analog pedals in one.  

Tele-scopic

Mine was a fuzz pedal kit sometime mid '70s.  It included a length of square grey drainpipe and two plastic ends for the enclosure.  It also had a sticker with markings to drill through to label and position the controls.  I needed a project for physics at school I think.  It worked, that's all I can say.

Next two pedals were the Coloursound Wah and a Fuzz like @Musicwolf above.

HerbieTheRadDorklift

Mine was a black black round distortion pedal. I struggle to remember the name. It looked like a Darth Vader fuzz face. Bought around 2004...Anyone have any clues?

HerbieTheRadDorklift

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Mine was a black black round distortion pedal. I struggle to remember the name. It looked like a Darth Vader fuzz face. Bought around 2004...Anyone have any clues?

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tweedphan

Fuzz face circa 1968………

MagicPigDetective

DOD Grunge FX69 around 1994, I was 18, I still have it.