Re: What pedals/effects did Jimi use
Jimi used a Vox Clyde McCoy Wah Wah and Roger Mayer custom built and tweaked all of his Fuzz Faces. I think Fulltone makes the best sounding Fuzzface I've ever heard: the '69 Pedal. And also the best wah wah I've ever heard: the Clyde or Clyde Deluxe.
When I put those two Fulltone pedals together, the '69 into the Clyde Wah, it sounds just like Jimi.
For Jimi's Octavia sounds, I like the Prescription Electronics "Experience" pedal. I have one and Eric Johnson uses one for that spitty sounding reverse octave effect too. It's a cool tone...once in a while. It's a difficult pedal to learn though...
Jimi's chorus effect was the Uni-Vibe. Sounds like a Leslie Cabinet...which is what SRV used to get that effect: a real Leslie Cabinet.
A friend gave me an old Leslie cabinet he found beside a trash dumpster but I haven't got it working yet. It's pretty clean and all there but the wiring is a little torn up.
Lew