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My site would not have
been complete without an American page. I
could not put another Julie
picture here so I chose Gene for her
stunning beauty. At the time of that
picture , I would have paid to use her
toothbrush. But I am getting carried away;
let us go back to stompboxes.
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There are a lot of things
I like about Mutron pedals : Nice
colors, sturdy cases , full sounds ,
foolish instructions sheets -see the
incredible equation
for the phasing-, cool endorsers. I
saw one day in Marseilles a Mutron wha for
$50 and I did not buy it. I was not in the
mood and did not know at that time it was
the SHAFT THEME wha. H ow much I regret
it! In the same shop, there was a bi-phase
2 months ago. Price tag: $400. Eeeek!!!
The collector good times are over.
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C'est magnifix ! For this
rendition of the famous Electro-Harmonix
theme, I chose some hard-to-find boxes.
The poly-chorus & frequency
analyzer have been reissued while
that deluxe octave multiplixer with
its fuzz switch remains obscure. I really
love the EH stuff because it was
ubiquitous in my teen age time
and as soon as I got some money , I
bought one. Sometimes it was crap
such as the zipper that was so hard to
dial in , you sometimes got stuck with a
fixed frequency no matter what you play.
But I will never forgot the first time I
heard someone playing through an electric
mistress. Suddenly I was Ulysses listening
to the mermaids.
If you lived through a similar experience
, I suggest you go and see my friend RON
the famous Electro-Harmonix man at:
http://surf.to/electroharmonix
He
will show you all his knowledge and
passion for that sheet metal wonders in
his ultra cool site.
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Better known for their
guitars and amps , the Fender factory
could not resist the stompbox epidemic .
They came out with these 3 motley beauties
that failed to fire brand our sonic
memories. In this process, they stole the
idea of a giant pot for the feet
to Mr.Jennings. Admit it, the
stompbox world is the only industry where
wacky and unsuccessful finds are served
again and again , even if
musicians are still not hungry for
them. Some folks like the Blender, but
then again every distortion is a cool
distortion.
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It is not a secret I love
preamps. Louder is a magic word for me. I
remember when I was younger , I used to
turn the volume of my guitar down for PA
check, so I can turn it up whenever
I wanted, a nightmare for the engineer .
The DOD overdrive/preamp 250 is one of my
favorite and they are still present today
with the FET black preamp, whatever its
name is . This also means that DOD is one
of the few '70 stompbox company that is
still in the business strong and happy.
Good. I particularly liked their 'trend
named' pedals like meat box and
grunge even if I never tried them. I also
own an old GSP5 I used for only one jazz
preset which, maxed ,gives a monstrous
fuzz sound with an indecent noise to level
ratio. Cool.
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This was the Rolls-Royce
of stompboxes, the 'haut-de-gamme'. Rare
and very expensive in France ( 1 mxr
flanger cost 3 deluxe mistresses
), I consider myself lucky to own
this little collection. I would LOVE to
find the MXR DISTORTION II with its 4 pots
and 220v that seemed to be a very serious
tube impersonator.
These boxes were the inspiration of my
beloved CORON pedals , not to say
rip-off.
You should see them at my Obscure
Japanese page.
The plastic boxes are not bad but I should
loose at least 15 pounds to use them
safely on stage. Hard. The big black metal
Dyna-comp is absent from this picture
because I like it so much I must dedicate
an entire web page to it. Stay tuned.
You can see an intruder here: it is the
ROSS phaser with its cool recessed pots. I
am working in finding a CHANDLER tube
driver. Now all that I have to do is
locate a pedal named TRIBIANI and we are
done.
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Don't you love
untranslatable jokes? You sweat to find
the word and end up with a complete flop
saying 'In Bulgarian , it's so funny'.
Well here we are: we have a special famous
joke in French involving Elvis Presley and
a forgotten French actress named Gaby
Morlaix. So every
time we see a Morley pedal, we think
about the King, while it is uncertain one
of his guitarist could have used one. We
are so far from the Less-lie explanation
it's painful.
I also own the echo monster. My repairman
is trying to find in secrecy some kind of
liquid to fill the drum which suffered
from leakage. 'Please don't ask me
what it was'. Otherwise , I love to
use Morley Wha pedals as a manual phaser
for slow song. Try it. Special mention to
the cute compact series Wha.
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Maestro pedals are so rare
in France, that I think these demoiselles
were brought in some guitar tourist
suitcase from a flower power trip in the
Bay area.
The old fuzz is so horrendous you
think somebody stole your amp and replaced
it with a cheap Chinese AM radio.
Great. The newer one is much better
sounding and its stomp process always
amazes me: you have to switch the entire
pedal on, like an alligator jaw. And we
are still in front of pots for the feet
but in a milder way. The
phaser is more organ than guitar in all
the senses but is famous because
Mr.Oberheim invented it. Pots for the
feet. I think I just found my next band
name.
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