If you could go back...

[big kurka]

If you could go back to when you bought your first guitar pedal, would you buy the same pedal or something different? What pedal would you recommend as a first pedal and why?

[Chistopher]

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Dunlop Crybaby was my first, and it was the only pedal I owned for a very long time. I would definitely recommend it to the past me.

[Jacew]

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If you could go back to when you bought your first guitar pedal, would you buy the same pedal or something different? What pedal would you recommend as a first pedal and why?

I didn't buy a single pedal. I bought a pile of pedals including power supply and started to learn what I could do with them. I eventually sold all of them and got well on my own. Would definitely do it again.

[Darg1911]

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My first "pedal" was a EHX LPB-1 back in the 70's. The type that had a fixed 1/4" plug that plugged directly into the amps input. It was well used and the case was beat to hell when I bought it. I know I paid next to nothing for it. Hell yes I'd buy it again. I don't remember what it sounded like exactly, but I remember having a blast with that thing.

Like this one ... but beat to hell

[PFDarkside]

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The first pedal I bought was a Zoom 505. I wish I would have saved my money and bought a Blues Jr. to replace my Peavy Rage 8” combo. After that, I would have kept the Vox wah, but bought a BD-2 and SD-2 instead of OS-2 and MT-2.

[Liam1963]

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MXR Distortion + back in 1982, sounded like a cheese-grater thru a small, solid-state Ampeg amp, but I thought it was the coolest thing on the planet, until the battery went dead...

[DavidRavenMoon]

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My first pedal was a Sekova copy of an EHX Mole bass booster. The next was a Guild Foxy Lady (rebranded 3 knob Big Muff Pi) and then a Maestro Bass Brassmaster. This was in the early 70's. Those last two would be valuable now!


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[Gtrjunior]

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Dunlop Crybaby was my first, and it was the only pedal I owned for a very long time. I would definitely recommend it to the past me.

Same here....in fact I still have it! It really needs to be rebuilt at this point but it served me well for 20+ years.

[FuseG4]

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I was totally clueless when I started. First pedal was a DigiTech hot rod distortion.

Silly piece of gear given my tastes today. They had a morph knob to change continuously between digital emulation of DOD 250, boss ds-1, and a fuzz face.
Didn't really sound that much like any of those.
The thing ate batteries like crazy.
Kind of a cool idea but it really only sounded good on you ds-1 setting, Morpher knob straight up 12:00.
In which case, a ds-1 is half the price, has a sturdier switch (my DigiTech died when the cheap switch crapped out), and doesn't kill batteries at a rate of one every two jam session!

Fwiw DigiTech made an overdive pedal that morphed between tube screamer and sd-1 sounds. The morph knob on it was more subtle and useable, but it still destroyed 9v batteries

[VinceT]

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My first pedal was a Roktek (sp?) chorus. I still have it down in the studio, though haven’t used it EVER. The first pedal that I used a lot was my early 90s Yamaha flanger (FL-10M) - it’s on my live board right now.


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[dystrust]

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My first pedal was an EHX Small Clone. If I could go back I'd tell myself not to sell it because I've played a bunch of Small Clones since and none of them sounded as good. My 2nd pedal was a very early LED MXR Distortion+ from '81 or '82. Sold that too, but missed it and bought another pre-LED version a couple years ago after finding it for $29.

[Aceman]

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I would. My amp needed decent distortion.

Now - my second pedal....I'd have got a delay instead of a chorus.

Still have both today, by the way....

[big kurka]

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Lot of interesting and funny stories so far. My first pedal was a DOD Death Metal distortion pedal that i bought back around 98. I had just started playing guitar and wanted to try and make my 15 watt crate amp with a 10" speaker sound better. Little did I know back then. I still have it and the only amp it ever sounded good with to me is my jc-120. If I could go back I think I would get some type of doubling effect pedal.

[Mincer]

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My first one was a Next Distortion X. It sounded bad. But I loved it. Over the years I took it out to see if I could stand how it sounded with my older ears. Nope. Not for a minute.

[Sirion]

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My first was a BOSS Blues Driver. Decent pedal. I think I might actually have gotten it again, which really surprises me, given that I am pretty much past the pedal format. There still isn't much in the way of good overdrives in rack units.