10 Strangest Vintage Effects of All Time

ChrisMusic

"It’s probably not a coincidence that effects such as wah pedals and fuzz boxes started appearing en masse about the same time that recreational drugs like marijuana and LSD became popular with rock musicians.

Indeed, it would take the mind of an incredibly stoned individual — someone deprived of exposure to the sun’s rays, fed a diet of lukewarm Mountain Dew and stale frozen pizza and kept awake for days by snorting lines of Instant Maxwell House — to even conceive of the idea for some of the music industry’s many audio oddities."

http://www.guitarworld.com/weird-science-10-strangest-vintage-effects-all-time

ThePrettyDamned

Quite a few seem to mention envelope filters...

Which is one of my favourite effects. Never losing my qtron, which is pretty weird sounding - I use it in 'underwater' mode - which is a backwards, bass centric sound. Weird!

Lixarto

"It’s probably not a coincidence that effects such as wah pedals and fuzz boxes started appearing en masse about the same time that recreational drugs like marijuana and LSD became popular with rock musicians."

Ye gods.

Lexie1

Nah... until they start talking about Mutron 111s I am not taking it seriously.

ChrisMusic

Just moved this to FX, where I should have put it first, instead of the default guitar category.

Thanks for looking  

juansolo

Bah, they're missing a few there. The main one being the Colorsound Dipthonizer

Bucket

No Roland Bee Baa? That's a pretty crazy one.

juansolo

Love the BeeBaa, but I think the Ibanez Standard Fuzz trumps it

Bucket

juansolo said:

Love the BeeBaa, but I think the Ibanez Standard Fuzz trumps it

That is brutal.

I've also just found out that there are Bee Baa clones out there... hmmm.

mike_l

Lixarto said:

"It’s probably not a coincidence that effects such as wah pedals and fuzz boxes started appearing en masse about the same time that recreational drugs like marijuana and LSD became popular with rock musicians."

Ye gods.

I understood the Wah came about as people wanted to make a guitar sound like a muted trumpet, which has a kinda wah-wah sound.......

BTW I've never taken LSD, never intend too, and still love having a pile of F/X available to me.

ChrisMusic

I didn't know about the Mu-Tron III, but especially for @Lexie1 here is a YouTube demo, cool

ChrisMusic

Lovin' that little box with all those crazy people inside, Colorsound Dipthonizer you say @juansolo, just brilliant

Bring out your dead, bring out your dead...  

well maybe not quite, but

bring out any great vintage wackiness, dead or alive, and post a YT demo or just tell us about it,

these old pedals are just great fun.  

ChrisMusic

Another new one for me, thanks @Bucket for the Roland Bee Baa, decent fuzz me-thinks.

That Ibanez is nasty fuzz.

ChrisMusic

OK so not a pedal, but here goes  -  a great FX box, the Moog Vocoder.

I have one of these stashed away from my previous life.

You can cross patch the frequency section for more effects too, all lovely analogue.

This video is a rebadged Moog - a Bode Vocoder, seems identical to me.

juansolo

ChrisMusic said:

Another new one for me, thanks @Bucket for the Roland Bee Baa, decent fuzz me-thinks.

That Ibanez is nasty fuzz.

The BeeBaa is really good. It can sound a little thin and weedy at low volumes, but it really isn't at all. Turn it up and it'll take your head off (in a good way). It's a cracking fuzz.

The Ibanez is pure nasty. Of all the people who've tried it, only me and MattF actually liked it. It's the nastiest, most velcro, most octavey, most chaotic thing known to man. For that I love it.