Boston: Tom Sholz Gear

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Re: Boston: Tom Sholz Gear

I have a live Boston cd from Long Beach 1978..... It was a Radio Broadcast, i think King Biscuit Flower Hour aired it. Anyways i had read in interviews that Tom had made up some special homemade effects for him and the other guitarist on the first Boston tour, that took a lot of his time on tour to repair and keep them running right. There is an 8 minute verson of More Then A Feeling and the last half is a cool little jam. The effects are some sort of tape delay pitch shifting. I figure he must of made up a tape delay with some sort of wah wah type pedal to controll the pitch dives. The guitarists could also raise the pitches to extremes too...... It is a very cool effect! I guess the modern day pedal that is close is the Whammy pedal but it's still not quite the same.

WhoFan

That cool pedal is called the Hyperspace pedal:
http://rockmancentral.com/RockmanCentral/Start.html

He also developed other feects to go with his Marshall rig:
http://rockmancentral.com/RockmanCentral/Start.html