Following up on the 1973 thread, what was your first distortion pedal???

I'm trying to remember but it's gotta be either a Big Muff or MXR Distortion+ for me.

I remember the Muff Fuzz and Little Muff and Fender Blender, but hmmmm.... now that I think about it, MXR Distortion+?

Probably not an answer anyone is looking for, but a Boss DS-1, circa 3-4 years ago   Before that I played an acoustic guitar, and later an electric with no effects... hard to believe.

I've been using onboard amp overdrive since I started playing years ago.  The first stompbox distortion I've used is honestly your Rocket.  Thanks, by the way.  I love it!

BOSS metalzone. Loved it at first, now I'm only using it for shredding around to piss off the other band members

My whole first rig was a hoot! A Teisco E-210 with the accompanying 2-knob Teisco amp. I think it was bought as a set. With the guit & amp was also a Shin-ei Fuzzwah which was noisey & great. If I could have played much then it would have been cool. I've actually recently purchased a National(Shin-Ei) fuzzwah & a Teisco ET-210(2 PU plywood special) and have been reliving my childhood only now I can actually play a bit so it's slightly disturbing hearing the sound you had as a kid, only with actual music being played on it. Big fun .

Regards

RDV

Quote from: smoguzbenjaminBOSS metalzone. Loved it at first, now I'm only using it for shredding around to piss off the other band members

The metal zone was my first (and only) distortion, appart from my amp's dirty channel. I simply can't live without a high gain distortion, and the mt-2 does it big time.

Quote from: smoguzbenjaminBOSS metalzone. Loved it at first, now I'm only using it for shredding around to piss off the other band members

hehehehe When I was purchasing a distortion pedal a while back (before this hobby), I could buy any Boss pedal. I tried the Blues driver (cause Larry used it) and a bunch of others and I chose the METAL ZONE!  

Perfect match with my 80's Charvel!

YEAH!

Hi,

if the FuzzFace is named as a distortion, this is my fist pedal,
if not, i added some hardclipping diodes switchable to a TubeScreamer.

bye
Oliver

The 'limited edition' Olson Electronics "FRIZZY FUZZ".
 Long since dead and scavenged decades ago.
 It had two transistors hanging from a 'cat's cradle' of surrounding components...no board...and plugged directly into your guitar jack...don't even need another cord.
 It made alot of Fuzz and Boost, I wish I knew what circuit it was, with so few parts...couldn't have been much more than a dozen.
 It had one knob and a switch...I can't remem their exact functions, the knob varied output level and maybe gain.
 It cost a Mere 4.95 .. circa earkt 70's. Thhe jacks mounted on flimsy sides of the box...bendable end tabs, and the hanging garden innards insured a short life...it underwent numerous fixes and was never reliable after the first week of use...
 That thing had me grinnin' from ear to ear at the time...it had one very intense, not very finely tuned Fuzziness...
 The 'next first' one was a BM, no idea which one, I got and repaired and used for a year or so before I finally had to give it up...I got 10$ for the repairing + a years use..lol..it became infinitely more valuable after it began working...
  Enter MXR Dist+...for decades my main box. Always worked like when I got it. I used it all the time 'till I looked for it after a setbreak...dohh....wondering what the hum was...there's the cords tip contacting the stage carpet...right where the Dist + ISNT...had to play a couple hard rock gigs with a honkin' 100w plexe..."Without" ....[no-pedals}...stnading there with the guitar near 'off' setting and let the other guitar pull slack...that sucked !!!
 The switch from the Frizzy Fuzz is probably somewhere in the world...I used if for the 2 humbucker Mod on my [got ripped off too] Melody Maker [Xmas present[...use the trunk in 'questionable'areas or all the time when possible. Sorry, I guess I'm still looking for that Gibson MM.
 So it was the Frizzy Fuzz for certain...My First Fuzz Box. I loved it.
 Argueably one of the rarest [not sought after] Fuzz units of the 70's...anyone ever even "SEEN a Frizzy Fuzz?...abbreviated that's FF /// I wonder...like I say ...sounded pretty 'crude'

I still use my MT-2 and I just found a great sweet spot which sounds like a huge cranked stack, on a small 10W amp. The transition from clean to dirty sin't pleasant though, because you go from small sound to huge sound in a split second... So I leave it on That new setting's definately re-awakened my interest in this pedal My shredding is more annoying than ever! But it sounds dark and cool

I still gotta make a nice blues overdrive though Oh and aron, I used to buy boss pedals because they were boss pedals, guess we were in the same boat

I couldn’t afford effects when I was a lad so I didn’t get my first overdrive til I was sixteen.  Raydon I think it was called?  

Lots of friends had gear though and I got to play through a coloursound or two, usually with something that looked like my mother's dining table only guitar shaped (a combination that many of a certain age in the UK will remember).  

A mate of mine also had a vox fuzz box which was equally awful (but I’d probably love it now!).

rocktek distortion

My first fuzz was a DIY Tychobrahe Octavia. Built it 2 years ago, with help from all of you! I have played bass for about 10 years, abd started foolin' with a guitar 3 years ago.

I use to have a DIY distortion with 2 BC548 4 resistors and 3 caps, now 18 years ago, you ask?? a cloned Fuzz face i thinf but the first y buy, and i miss it, Ibanes Fat Cat.

Saludos, Marcelo.

some crappy old DOD distortion pedal.. absolutely horrid sounding.

I've never bought another DOD product since... it was THAT BAD.
"-)

An original 1970 (71?) Vox hollow body guitar, a Vox tonebender and a Fender Vibro champ. I remember ended up geting some nice sounds out of it. I ended up trading it for a VW bug. I'd love to have all tat stuff back now. The bug didn't last all that long.

Bill

Hello Hello--
    Vox Tonebender, St George guitar [quickly replaced with a Gibson Firebird I] ,  Vox Berkley amp [piggyback, 2-10" speakers].
Brian.

A NKT275-equipped Fuzz Face bought in 1975 for £5 (battery wire had fallen off). Sounded great. Easy to repair, easy for a fellow muso to steal two years later.  :evil:

A ProCo Rat 2...still have it and use it occasionally.

Phillip

.....I had a Supro electric guitar plugged into a little red Sekova Booster then into a little Kay tube amp with 10" speaker-I found an old reel to reel tape I made of it years ago...........what was I thinking?..........that's what started all this.......