Your very first pedal

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ok, i couldn't find it in a search for a similar topic: what was your very first pedal? One.

Mine was a DOD Tec4x, multi effects pedal, I think... hated it. lol #TBT
http://dod.com/en-US/products/tec4x

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Mine was purchased by my parents for me back in about 1984... an original TS9 Tube Screamer. I mistakenly thought that it was going to turn my Fender Bassman head/cab into a fire-breathing Marshall stack. It didn't. But was an awesome first pedal! I ended-up getting an Ibanez Heavy Metal pedal a year or two later and that came closer to doing the trick if I recall correctly.
 
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the very first was actually a headphone amp I used as a distortion (arion hot watt). My friend had one and he sounded like James Hetfield so I had to have one. It'd be funny to pick up a used one for giggles.

The first "main one" was a boss super OD since I had gotten a marshall jcm800 combo off dude that worked at Peter Piper Music for like $300. He said the only pedal that it really worked with was that one so I went to my local music store in my hillbilly hometown and had him order it for me. The a-hole that ran the store charged me like $90 for it, but I didn't know any better, I thought that was the going rate (maybe it was closer to that back then I dunno). But I still cringe when I see them new for like $35 now. The dude was right though, that amp went crazy with that pedal, it was just like the Kill Em All sound to me. I had another jcm800 head several years after that, but it didn't react the same with it.
 
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Red_Label said:
Mine was purchased by my parents for me back in about 1984... an original TS9 Tube Screamer. I mistakenly thought that it was going to turn my Fender Bassman head/cab into a fire-breathing Marshall stack. It didn't. But was an awesome first pedal! I ended-up getting an Ibanez Heavy Metal pedal a year or two later and that came closer to doing the trick if I recall correctly.
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Well, that's damn creepy.

Up until you bought the Heavy Metal, we're exactly the same (but my TS10 would have been bought in.. '90?)
 
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Mine was some old Colour Sound fuzz in a really big ass enclosure. Hated it at the time but wonder if I'd like it more now......
 
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DOD American Metal back 84 or so. Had to have it at the time and hated it as soon as I got it.
 
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My first pedal wasn't just one. My uncle gave me his DOD Distortion, a wah pedal, and his Ibanez Delay. The delay didn't even work, but I had it.
 
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Mine was the digitech df7 distortion factory. I didnt have an adapter for it so had gotten those adjustable ones for cheap from radio store, it would make the pedal hum. I didn't know anything about parameteric eq back then & this pedal had a knob for changing mid frequency value.

I do use it once in awhile, some models in it do sound good if set right.
 
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My Boss BD-2 maybe? Or a Danelectro Spring King? Possibly a different dirt box, but I don't think so. I have owned less than a dozen pedals in my life.
 
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TS9 circa 1983. Tried every distortion in the place...many pedals....drove the old man who owned the store up the wall...but that's OK....he was cheap prick. I had NO idea about pedals at that time...just knew you stomped on 'em and they did "stuff". I still feel a bit of pride that my young and inexperienced ears picked out THE distortion pedal.
 
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It was some sort of Boss Chorus. It did do Andy Summers and Alex Lifeson really well. It might have been stereo. Though I only ever used it through one amp.

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Korg AX1G multi effects processor. Still have it, but haven't plugged into it for a few years.
 
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My first pedal was a beat up EHX Small Clone purchased in 2000, and it was either an original or an early reissue. I kind of wish I hadn't sold it because I've played lots of Small Clones since then and none of them sounded anywhere near as good.
 
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