Going down the memory lane ...

[organworthyplayer337]

My first pedal was a behringer multi effect pedal. I had to get two, both were defective

 

[gregmon79]

This was also my first ever effect. But I used 4 things, the octaver, the manual wahwah, the auto envelop and the EQ for a better slap tone. Once it died, it took like 10 years before I got anything else.

Haha that pretty nuts. I had mine and those others I had named. Used them a little. Had a couple for years but they slowly got lost or left places along the way. Crazy that digitech is the one that hung out haha. But I didn't even think about effects for years shortly after those. Then about 4 years ago I joined TB and it was all over. I got IN TO effects. I have over 50 pedals now.

 

[SOUTH PAW]

An EHX Big Muff in the late 70's. My first pedal made for bass was a DOD Phasor 401B I bought new in the early eighties and still have it.

 

[gregmon79]

My first effect was the Arion Bass Distortion. I traded it a long time ago for a MXR Dyna Comp I no longer have. I've recently been in touch with my high school buddies and they've been sharing old recordings and man, that distortion pedal sounds awesome! I need to find another one!

Yeah man some of those old Arion pedals sound awesome. I have the octave and it's super close to the OC2.

 

[SOUTH PAW]

....missed the part about pedal consumption. On that, I have since completed a bakers dozen, so it kept me open to varying my choice of sounds / flavors.

 

[Spectrum]

My first effect was the Arion Bass Distortion. I traded it a long time ago for a MXR Dyna Comp I no longer have. I've recently been in touch with my high school buddies and they've been sharing old recordings and man, that distortion pedal sounds awesome! I need to find another one!

MYy first pedal was also an Arion. A stereo chorus pedal I bought used sometime in the late 80s. I rarely used it with bass, but in recent times it's found its place with my synthesizer gear. It sounds pretty cool, gets a decent faux Leslie effect if you use the two output channels. I had to use some TV tuner cleaner on the scratchy pots and repair a broken battery wire but it's in good shape now.

Looks like this:

 

[bobba66]

My Teisco Del Ray screamed through my Cry Baby Wah. Both are long gone.

 

[tuba_samurai]

This was my first foray into effects. Used it for private practice a ton, but only ever used it once on a gig. Gave it away to a young bassist who was into heavy rock.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

I see more and more bassists using the zoom B3 .
I never tested it but always kept that prejudice that a zoom multi effect is horrible .... Then I realized why....
My first ever pedal was the Zoom 506 multi bass effect !!View attachment 797967

I think it was the worst pedal I ever had BUT it was the pedal that showed me the differences between fuzz and OD , phaser and Flanger ... Chorus ... And if I remember well it even had a compressor ....

What was your first pedal ?
How did it affect your pedal consumption ?
Anyone kept their first pedal ?

FIRST was a homemade FUZZ, as a project in electronics in high school (1981)
Gave it to a friend -- when i bought:
MXR distortion + 1983 looooong gone.
no Affect of my Effect consumption

 

[Veldar]

My first pedal was an Ashdown James Lomenzo (?) drive pedal, and I remember many people saying how tinny it sounded mostly due to me not knowing how to dial in sounds.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

I can't really call this an effect pedal, but I used a pedal to switch between the effects.

The Yamaha SPX90, IMO, still has some of the best Chorus sounds of any unit. I still have my original unit from the 80s.

 

[Rumbles]

My first was a Roland CE-1 Chorus Ensemble, at the time I had a Ibanez Blazer (circa 1982). I wish I still had that pedal.

 

[postalflunkie]

Bought new in 1983, still one of my favorites

 

[Rumbles]

Bought new in 1983, still one of my favorites

I never owned one, though I did try one out at my local music store. I don't know if I still have them, there was a series of information cards put out by MXR in the early 80's. They had a picture of the effect unit on the front, and the specs/sales blurb on the back.

 

[Pilgrim]

Univox Super Fuzz. Was not using it, so I sold it for more than $400 a couple of years back.

 

[okcrum]

I didn't use pedals for a very long time. Then I got in a project that did Flashlight, so I got an Boss ME-50B. It was ok, but didn't quite get what I wanted, so off it went.

I didn't use pedals after that for a few years (I don't count tuner pedals). Then I traded my Pitchblack for a Zoom MS-60B. That's what I use now. I don't need lots of patches. It sounds better than the Boss multi did, as well.

 

[wmhill]

By the way , I'm not saying the B3 is bad ... I couldn't say , never tested it.

I had it...it was all of that bad!

 

[Rumbles]

I had it...it was all of that bad!

As bad as the 707?

 

[wmhill]

As bad as the 707?

never tried that one (707)- but this thing sucked all my tone dry! I tried for some time to make it sound ok, but the only thing that helped was taking out of my system completely.

 

[frsbdg]

My first pedal was a Boss CS-3, which I still have. I bought it used in '95, and used it for 19 years straight until I replaced it with an MXR bass compressor. I still love it though.

Same here, but I bought mine about 30 years ago. Still works fine, but I just got a Zoom B3. Haven't decided if I want to use both together, or just use the compressor(s) on the B3.