MXR Blue Box
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JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: MXR Blue Box
Isn't the DOD Buzz Box kind of a copy?
Isn't the DOD Buzz Box kind of a copy?
the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: MXR Blue Box
Easily one of the strangest EX ever but if you want what it does, nothing else will do!
Im sure you know it's a sub octave/fuzz but it has limited controls (just a blend between the octave only and the fuzz only) and a lever control...it also has an almost "gating" like effect that keeps it from holding a note very long at all which makes it spit and sputter all the time...I love them but like I said they are quite strange!
FWIW, I have owned an original and a reissue...both are pretty similar.
Easily one of the strangest EX ever but if you want what it does, nothing else will do!
Im sure you know it's a sub octave/fuzz but it has limited controls (just a blend between the octave only and the fuzz only) and a lever control...it also has an almost "gating" like effect that keeps it from holding a note very long at all which makes it spit and sputter all the time...I love them but like I said they are quite strange!
FWIW, I have owned an original and a reissue...both are pretty similar.
the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: MXR Blue Box
Yes and no...the Buzz Box was supposed to be a clone of the Blue Box but they used a different octave shifter that even though is a newer circut it doesn't work as well, they also used DOD "Grunge" distortion which sounds like crap IMO...the Buzz Box is a sub octave/Distortion but it is not really a clone of the Blue Box.
Yes and no...the Buzz Box was supposed to be a clone of the Blue Box but they used a different octave shifter that even though is a newer circut it doesn't work as well, they also used DOD "Grunge" distortion which sounds like crap IMO...the Buzz Box is a sub octave/Distortion but it is not really a clone of the Blue Box.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: MXR Blue Box
Everyone keep mentionning that Page used the Blue Box on a spesific song, "Fool in the Rain" i believe, and the first time i listened to the track, just to hear the effect of said pedal . . . man, was i dissapointed !!!
Nothing that i thought it would sound like !
If that is the only tone that's gonna come out of it, i almost want to say it sounds like a "one-trick-pony" . . .
. . . hopefully someone can correct me, and mention tons of other tracks to go and listen too !
. . . ANYONE ?
Everyone keep mentionning that Page used the Blue Box on a spesific song, "Fool in the Rain" i believe, and the first time i listened to the track, just to hear the effect of said pedal . . . man, was i dissapointed !!!
Nothing that i thought it would sound like !
If that is the only tone that's gonna come out of it, i almost want to say it sounds like a "one-trick-pony" . . .
. . . hopefully someone can correct me, and mention tons of other tracks to go and listen too !
. . . ANYONE ?
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the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: MXR Blue Box
Page did use one on Fool in the Rain and the Blue Box is sort of a one trick pony but if you want that trick there is no other way to get it...that is the most famous example to be honest...FWIW, J Mascis uses a blue Box from time to time but I couldn't name any specifis songs right off the top of my head and Buzz from the Melvins used one for a good bit of time during the Eggnog period...
Page did use one on Fool in the Rain and the Blue Box is sort of a one trick pony but if you want that trick there is no other way to get it...that is the most famous example to be honest...FWIW, J Mascis uses a blue Box from time to time but I couldn't name any specifis songs right off the top of my head and Buzz from the Melvins used one for a good bit of time during the Eggnog period...
the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: MXR Blue Box
FWIW, the setting Page had it set on was pretty mild...that box gets a lot wilder than that!
FWIW, the setting Page had it set on was pretty mild...that box gets a lot wilder than that!
Rich_S
HomeGrownToneBrewologist
Re: MXR Blue Box
Pat Travers had one on his pedalboard during the "Go for What You Know" era. Give me a few minutes, and I can tell you what solo he used it on...
Edit: I'm back - Travers used the Blue Box on the first solo in the live version of Makin' Magic. He's using some sort of filter effect downstream (an MXR Phase 100, I believe). It's a great sound - very spacey. It reminds me a bit of the Isley Brothers.
Pat Travers had one on his pedalboard during the "Go for What You Know" era. Give me a few minutes, and I can tell you what solo he used it on...
Edit: I'm back - Travers used the Blue Box on the first solo in the live version of Makin' Magic. He's using some sort of filter effect downstream (an MXR Phase 100, I believe). It's a great sound - very spacey. It reminds me a bit of the Isley Brothers.
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