NPD: Am I blue? Nope!

[Securb]

My MXR Blue Box showed up today and I could not be happier. The fuzz is unreal if you turn off the octave and slowly and faintly dial it in. Just a fat, loose, buzzy, thick as hell fuzz. It sounds great through the little Fender Excelsior and the Tele. I am very happy with the purchase and wonder why it took me so long to own one of these babies.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: NPD: Am I blue? Nope!

Worthless without clips...

 

[Hsb]

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Agreed, lets hear it

 

[Securb]

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I can bang out a bit of cell phone video for you in a bit.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Bass solos above the 12th fret are so fun.

 

[Liam1963]

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That grand, eh? I may have to check one out...

 

[GuitarStv]

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I found that the blue box was a really fun pedal to play around with, but hard to use in songs. It's amazing for making 8-bit nintendo sounds from your guitar though.

The over the top gated fuzz sound that it does is cool though.

 

[Silence Kid]

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The secret is you don’t need to blend in any octave

 

[Empty Pockets]

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I think it's funny to buy this uniquely weird effect and use it for half of what it does.

It's like buying a gaming PC for word processing.

 

[Hollywood Rock]

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[Blille]

Re: NPD: Am I blue? Nope!

My MXR Blue Box showed up today and I could not be happier. The fuzz is unreal if you turn off the octave and slowly and faintly dial it in. Just a fat, loose, buzzy, thick as hell fuzz. It sounds great through the little Fender Excelsior and the Tele. I am very happy with the purchase and wonder why it took me so long to own one of these babies.

Good to hear!
There’s no volume drop? I think I remember having that issue but it may have been a lemon.

 

[Securb]

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There’s no volume drop?

Nope, the output is variable so you can set it to actually give a boost if you want.

 

[Blille]

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Nope, the output is variable so you can set it to actually give a boost if you want.

I clearly must be remembering a different box. I may need to get one...

 

[Silence Kid]

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I think it's funny to buy this uniquely weird effect and use it for half of what it does.

It's like buying a gaming PC for word processing.

That somehow sounds like me I’ll admit - I usually just blend in a bit of octave for ‘thickness’ in regular use, but there are def. times I just go crazy with the octave.

As for volume drop, I remember feeling like mine was at one point afflicted but I either learned how to adjust it or got used to it.

 

[Securb]

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I brought it to practice tonight everyone but the bass plyer loved it (go figure). He was kind of right that pedal needs to lend itself to a specific song. If not an original something like "Spirit In The Sky"

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Cool! That’s an effect I can say I have never used, cept on my Ultimate Octave, and that’s a fuzz with a very specific effect, not a straight octave like this unit.

 

[gimmefuel]

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in regard to the volume drop thing....
https://www.noisefx.com/article/mxr_blue_box_mod?fbclid=IwAR00-4qmRZ7fAhggRDZC1ns8NggYnx8VFKtSUCfy0wrYHfyMjaMBb-fzs1s