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Old 05-23-2010, 03:21 AM
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Can you think of pedals named after foods?

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Below is my list of pedals that are, or could conceivably be, named after foods.

I have two questions -
  • Can you think of any more? (Even if they're a bit borderline, like the aguilar tone HAMmer)
  • Can anyone vouch for any of that are good on bass? I can say the Prunes and Custard is a funky effect, and the T-Rex mudhoney can actually give you a nice fuzz tone as long as you stick a bass boost after it... There are only a few others on this list that are bass specific - the bassweet, sub-lime and bass juice, but I haven't tried those.

    Also, if anyone can find me a food-themed DI/preamp, that would be awesome!


Thanks! List follows:


Crowther Hot Cake
Crowther Prunes and Custard

Frantone Hi-Ball
Frantone Peachfuzz
Frantone Creampuff
Frantone sweet
Frantone bassweet
Frantone sandwich

Danelectro PB&J
Danelectro French Toast
Danelectro Fish&Chips
Danelectro BLT
Danelectro Tuna Melt
Danelectro French Fries
Danelectro Corned Beef
Danelectro Black Licorice
Danelectro Rocky Road
Danelectro Grilled Cheeze
Danelectro Chilli Dog
Danelectro Hash Browns
Danelectro Pastrami
Danelectro Pepperoni

Danelectro 'Wasabi' series pedals


Fender Sub-Lime

T-Rex Diabolic Gristle Tone Manipulator
T-REX Gristle King
T-rex Mudhoney
T Rex Bloody Mary
T Rex bass Juice

Way Huge electronics Fat Sandwich
Way huge electronics pork loin
Way huge Swollen pickle jumbo fuzz

Celmo Sardine Can compressor

Gig-FX Pro Chop

Malekko Spring Chicken reverb

Nick Greer Royal Fromage
Nick greer fish press
Nick greer pork n beans
nick greer orange crush
Nick Greer Sweetback Driver

HAO Sole pressure

Effector 13 Soda Meiser Plus

Uncle Ernie's effects Honeydriver

AMT Tube Magnum

Electro Harmonix English Muff'n

Toadworks Meat JR,

Aphex 1404 Punch Factory

DOD Milk Box

Digitech Jam Man

ElectroHarmonix Bass Big Muff Pi (maybe)


Manufacturers:
Plum Crazy FX / Prune Works
Catalinbread
Red Onion
Jam Pedals
Rockett Pedals

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Old 05-23-2010, 03:58 AM
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Would my Korg Tuna count?
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Old 05-23-2010, 04:29 AM
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I'm not sure I would eat a swollen pickle in a hurry... Possibly a Big Muff...? Another couple could be:

BJF Blueberry

Mojo Hand Cream Pie

Devi Ever Cherry Pop sounds food like too, but has other connotations.
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Analogman Beano Boost
Analogman Dark Peppermint Fuzz
Analogman Peppermint Fuzz
Analogman Juicer
Barber Small Fry
Barge Concepts Grinder
BJFE Candy Apple Fuzz
BJFE Blueberry Fuzz
BJFE Blueberry Bass Overdrive
BJFE Dynamic Orange Overdrive
BJFE Green Apple Fuzz
BJFE Honey Bee Overdrive
BJFE Little Apricot Wonder
BJFE Little Orange Wonder
BJFE Pink Apple Fuzz
BJFE Purple Plum Phaser
BJFE Red Rooster Booster
BJFE Saffron Yellow Tremolo
BJFE Single Berry Overdrive
BJFE Smokey Orange Fuzz
BJFE Sparkling Orange Overdrive
BJFE Tasty Apple Fuzz
BJFE Tea Green EQ
Catalinbread Serrano Picoso
Catalinbread Super Chili Picoso
Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso
Chunk Systems Brown Dog (what? some countries consider it a delicacy...)
Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer
Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer
Keeley Java Boost
Lovepedal Pickle Vibe
Lovetone Meatball
Mad Professor Mellow Yellow Tremolo (it's a somewhat rare Coca-Cola product)
Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive
Mad Professor Tiny Orange Phaser
Menatone Red Snapper
Mojohand Huckleberry
Mojohand Sugar Baby Tremolo
Phoenix Custom Electronics Cream Tangerine
Phoenix Custom Electronics Octopus
Proco Rat and variants (yes, some countries eat rats...)
Robot Factory Meatwad
Rockett Pedals Chicken Soup OD
Subdecay Flying Tomato Mutant Fuzz
Z Vex Wooly Mammoth (cave man food?)

That's about all that I can think of or find right now. Should tide you over for a while I suspect.

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Old 05-23-2010, 04:38 AM
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Mmm Brown dog...
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It's actually not that bad I hear.
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Wow thanks, TheMutt, you know your foodstuff! Any faves for bass among those?

a couple more I found:

OL Circuits Chunky Cheese / Big Cheese.
OL Circuits Mint Condition
OL Circuits orange peel
OL Circuits Whisker Biscuit
Electro Harmonix POG (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POG_(drink)).

if we're allowing raw animals, there's the Danelectro Cool Cat series (Chinese rules would allow this), and Koreans could go for the 'Dr scientist woofer wailer' if the Brown Dog wasn't to their taste...
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Lovetone Cheese Source and Lovetone Meatball come to mind.
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Old 05-23-2010, 10:16 AM
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this thread is making me hungry!




. . . for pedals that is!
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Danelectro PB&J
Danelectro French Toast
Danelectro Fish&Chips
Danelectro BLT
Danelectro Tuna Melt
Danelectro French Fries
Danelectro Wasabi
Danelectro Corned Beef
Danelectro Black Licorice
Danelectro Rocky Road
Danelectro Grilled Cheeze
Danelectro Chilli Dog
Danelectro Hash Browns
Danelectro Pastrami
Danelectro Pepperoni
I own nearly all these. I even have a couple of the dorkie little purple pedal cases, and I use them all the time with guitar, very portable and kind of eye-popping for most listeners. Some of those pedals rock.

I've used the Tuna Melt (is that the tremolo?) with bass, it works great.

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In my world, definitely.
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I've used the Tuna Melt (is that the tremolo?) with bass, it works great.
It's on the 'to get' list for me then! not too common here in the UK though.
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Big Muff Pi. It's a pie that tastes fishy. I like it, though.
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It's on the 'to get' list for me then! not too common here in the UK though.
Yeah, the Tuna Melt tremolo gets it done on bass. I was using it for a couple of Zep tunes where JPJ uses tremolo, it sounded great, didn't rob my low end. About $20.00 a pop (used) this side of the pond, I hope you can find one over there.
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Fuzzrocious Munch the Muffin!!!!
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Fuzzrocious Munch the Muffin!!!!
and, indeed, their Black Russian (and overdose? I think drugs should be allowed here...)
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Wow thanks, TheMutt, you know your foodstuff! Any faves for bass among those?
Haha thanks, I'm actually attending college for restaurant management.
Out of the ones listed, these are the ones that I have owned in the past:

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Barge Concepts Grinder
Chunk Systems Brown Dog
Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer
Z Vex Wooly Mammoth
The Grinder was an amazing envelope filter (which I guess would mean that the Meat Wad and Meat Ball would be as well) but I didn't use it enough to keep such a large investment on the board.

The Brown Dog had a great sound, but I wasn't a fan of the bypass (some fuzz and noise bled through while bypassed).

The Octavius Squeezer just simply did too many things and the learning curve to program it was too steep. I never really got into fully using it.

The Wooly Mammoth was not quite as good sounding as the Brown Dog IMHO, but was a bit more useable and had true bypass. I sold it off because 2/3 of my basses are actives which sound very different from passive instruments with this pedal, and also I use my B:Assmaster much much more.

I also thought of another one, which I should have included in the original list since I am selling it.

DOD FX32 Meat Box

It's a subharmonic distortion something akin to the DBX 120A. It shoots out super low frequencies related to your bass signal and will really give the walls a good shaking. Unfortunately, after finding one, selling it, and finding a second one, I realized that it's not called for in the music that I am currently playing.

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DOD FX32 Meat Box
I'll have to keep an eye out for that one - I hopefully have a DOD 'milk box' compressor off fleabay on its way to me so they'd go well together...

Oh i think i found another one:

Pro Analog Dirt Royale w/cheeze

and thanks to ovnilab:

BBE Orange Squash
JHS Lime Aid
OKKO Coca Comp
PedalDoctor Tangerine Squeeze

and another 'is it raw, is it cooked?' one:

Freakshow Effects Brown Rabbit Distortion

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the FX32 is a pretty cool pedal.
It also has the additional feature (benefit in this case?) of actually looking like a piece of meat. Photo is of the actual pedal that I am currently selling. (see signature for details)
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