A quick request really.
Can someone who's made a blue-box record some sample riffage and stuff for me? I'm still not 100% sure that it's the right pedal for my purposes, which is basically to sound like DFA1977 ;) Can it sound Heavy and not become mushy??
you mean dfa 1979?
Check out this thread for some clips I did of a reissue Blue Box:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=37545.0
The clips feature a Green Ringer as well (to illustrate what switching their order does to the sound), but there are some straight Blue Box passages.
The Blue Box doesn't track well enough for anything more than a power chord. It works best for single note stuff.
Dunlop has some clips on their blue box page: http://www.jimdunlop.com/index.php?page=products/pip&id=245&pmh=products/p_and_e_detail (http://www.jimdunlop.com/index.php?page=products/pip&id=245&pmh=products/p_and_e_detail)
Some googling dfa 1979 told me that they're basically just bass and drums.I could be mistaken, but the guitar sound seems to be just a bass. I don't think the blue box will get you that sound exactly - it's more of a fuzz. You could try a Boss OC-2/3, or some other pitch shifting down, then run it into a bunch of distortion.
Pretty much all of their non-drum stuff is bass and synth, no guitar that I'm aware of. I don't think a Blue Box will give you what you're looking for. It's more of a soft, spacey fuzz; you'd need something snappier and more abrasive, if that makes sense. :icon_confused: Also, like previous posters said, the Blue Box really won't work for chords. It even has tracking problems when you play single strings in the lower registers (e.g., below the 7th/8th fret on the low E string).