WHERE were you back WHEN? (Pedal board thread spinoff)

[GardenoftheDead]

Boss sold a HM-2 or a MT-2 to every single guitar player between 1990-1995. My mt-2 is still at my parent's, somewhere.. .

Mine's on the way to skullservant

[kbit]

March 2011.

kinda boring.

THIS IS NOT BORING THIS IS AWESOME.

[skullservant]

Yeah man I mean I've been making boards similar to that recently geeebus

[rustywire]

Yesterday at the local music store, after eyeballing it for months I tried what turned out to be a modded mt-2, and goosed my Green Russian.

Nobody knew what the mod was, done by some other local fella.....but it sounded really good.
I could def see myself getting one for a cheap parametric boost/attenuator/wildcard buzzy thing.

They've gone for low as $30, just have yet to pull the trigger because they're easily found and rare/must-have opportunities keep falling into my lap. No complaints!
It's one of those pedals that has a reputation for sounding like thin and fizzy crap, but I suspect it's from the players who used it for all of their dirt, with gain dimed into Fender amps on 2.

Like anything it has its sweetspot, and the EQ section alone has great potential for dialing in your amp & other dirt peds...even those that may initially clash with each other.

skully lately we seem to overlap a bit with similar gear leanings. Good taste bro

[goroth]

I used to hate the MT-2 back when it was new, but I bought one for the worship board thread and I really like it. I think I'm better at appreciating pedals for their idiosyncrasies these days - that and The Elements ensures that I don't ever need to think about my distortion sound ever again...

The eq and the gain on the mt-2 are all insane, having a little restraint leads to some good sounds. Having no restraint leads to fun!

Gotta dig up some old pics of my boards!

[rfurtkamp]

Boss sold a HM-2 or a MT-2 to every single guitar player between 1990-1995. My mt-2 is still at my parent's, somewhere.. Indeed, it's amazing the amount of stuff available these days! Not to mention you can have the most advanced recording studio into your computer. Back then there was nothing, and only fully-committed bands had a 4 tracks tape recorder.

Pretty much, I flipped my first half-decent Tascam portable (the one that ran on D cells and fit in a large briefcase) to get the Bassman and cab, then got a free 414 from a guy who didn't know all it needed was to have the belt put back on. ;0

Had a bunch of deals like that.

And my HM-2 was a gift circa '88 or '89 from a friend who had moved on from metal to jazz, like so many of them did - and I saw him again with one years later at a jazz gig and laughed when he realized that 'that' sound was useful in some improv contexts too.

In 2000 I bought a black Russian Muff and a Small Stone, and felt like they were the coolest pedals on the planet.

Yea, I brought a Small Stone (big ugly black box) and a Bassballs (same) back from a trip to Seattle around then. And cried when I saw they were reissuing the Frequency Analyzer and paid a fortune for it (they were asking $200 when that was still real money).

Still have the Bassballs and the FA, the FA gets used, the Bassballs is here simply because it's not worth dumping.

My band pedalboard at that point was a 8 space rack with 4 Digitech RDS/Time machines, ART SGX, Boss DE-200, and the ubiquitous power conditioner/light. Added an actual board when I got the EHX stuff.

And transitioned slowly into digital recording (my then-amazing 488 was still very useful as 8 tracks on a computer was stupid dumb expensive).

[MaxMaps]

I think it was a Bukowski RAT

this is it.

REALLY miss that thing

[voerking]

i usually have very minimal set ups for the bands i'm in...
in my first 'real' band, i used a green russian muff & the channel switch for my amp.
the next band i just had an Arion tuner & an EB volume pedal.
my current band, i just use a joyo tuner & a switch for the built-in boost on my amp.

i have, however had a long string of pedalboards for solo playing...
this one was pretty fun:

this was probably my favorite:

the only thing i still have is the SMM/H (which i use with an EB jr. VP & an Ultralord clone).

[Bartimaeus]

This is from a week less than two years ago, maybe a year after I'd started playing electric. I'd built up to this(about a pedal a monthish). I wasn't very original in my first choices of pedals. Can you guess my favorite guitarist? haha

And here's from when I was TGP-Approved a little less than a year ago.

[ryan summit]

damn
i keep bidding on fx-17s and losing
guess there worth more than i think
i have two vol pedals i got for cheap
to make up for not winning that thing
and they both suck
got this old morley compact wah-vol
the wah is so awesome
but it just sucks the life outta my whole rig
is it good voerking,or is it like the rest of em

[voerking]

the fx-17 adds a bit of hiss. the wah is really cool & filtery. i kind of miss it...but it's not something i'd want in the chain all the time.

[rfurtkamp]

I donated my last two FX-17s to a local thrift store, nobody wanted them and they sounded like dirt.

My only use was as a CV filter and I moved from needing them.

Sweep in the mechanical sense was tiny - smaller than a cheap expression pedal.

[ryan summit]

ehh
whatya goonna do?
the search continues
thanks guys

[rustywire]

There's a "pedalboard evolution" thread over at OSG, that got me digging through some photo archives yesterday.
I posted some content from this thread, the Show Your Pedalboard thread and more.


My first guitar setup, put together from traded-for and found equipment, September 2011:


When I decided to get serious; after some trading up, July 2012:


That was the last setup before replacing the QR w/Selmer TNB 50 mk2.

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**The new beginning**
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Sold/traded most of my dirt used with the Fender; went hunting for dirt pairings with the Selmer...January 2013.


Many changes and explorations to follow, spring-fall 2013:








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