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I've never been a big pedal guy, but I've had my boss tuner since around '95 and the BDDI since 2002. The Broughton hpf/lpf is less than a year old and the best addition I could imagine..I finally had to make a pedalboard..lol. I really want one of the new black Boss tuners though..
If you mean oldest in the sense of the amount of years I have owned it (not so much the year it was originally manufactured) then it will be my Boss TU-3 chromatic tuner pedal. I don't use a lot of effects and pedals honestly. I'd like to get more into them if there is ever a reason though if not to just experiment a bit.
Have you tried one? I ask because I had one and couldn't see the point . . . YMMV.
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Cool thread.
Like many others, my tuner pedal is my longest serving pedal. Bought my Boss TU-2 in 2006. Besides that, it’s a Fuzzrocious Grey Stache that I bought in 2016. Never left my board since.
Like many others, my tuner pedal is my longest serving pedal. Bought my Boss TU-2 in 2006. Besides that, it’s a Fuzzrocious Grey Stache that I bought in 2016. Never left my board since.
My Boss LM2-B looks to be about the same age as the OP's chorus pedal:
This one isn't mine [I was too lazy to pull mine out and photograph it but they all look the same
]. Can't remember how long I've had it but it's the best 25 bucks I've spent in a long time. #2 would be my TC tuner. Can't go wrong with a good tuner.
BTW, if you're interestwed, here's what Ovnilab has to say about the LM2-B: Boss LM-2B
This one isn't mine [I was too lazy to pull mine out and photograph it but they all look the same
]. Can't remember how long I've had it but it's the best 25 bucks I've spent in a long time. #2 would be my TC tuner. Can't go wrong with a good tuner.BTW, if you're interestwed, here's what Ovnilab has to say about the LM2-B: Boss LM-2B
I don't believe my Volt Thrower has left my board since I got it off the classifieds here in 2015.
I have an old Korg handheld-style tuner, too... had it since the late 80s/early 90s... great tuner! I recently picked up a used Korg Pitchblack pedal, which is KILLER. The only thing it doesn't have that I wished it did is the built-in mic. Yeah, no doubt that Korg tuners are truly fantastic.
Hang on to that. You don't see many of them around anymore--and they've virtually stopped appearing on e-bay.
I'm glad I got one when they first came out.
When I play guitar I use an always-on DOD FX-82B bass compressor that I picked up in a pawn shop for $20 in the mid 90s. The foot switch has never worked in the time I’ve had it but it sounds great in front of a semi-clean Peavey solid-state amp, so it’s always on anyway.
The guitarist in my current band gave me one of those plastic Ibanez CP-5 “Soundtank” compressor pedals, which I think is from the early 90s, and it works well too. It bumps the low mids and attenuates the highs a little more than the DOD.
The guitarist in my current band gave me one of those plastic Ibanez CP-5 “Soundtank” compressor pedals, which I think is from the early 90s, and it works well too. It bumps the low mids and attenuates the highs a little more than the DOD.
Ha! Thanks. Most of the pedals are reasonably common (for TB, anyway) but have either been rehoused or simply stripped and redecorated: Polytope, Dispatch Master, Octabass, TurboTuner, Blackeye Effects Palmetto Boost (currently replaced with a SS/BS Mini overdrive), Fuzzrocious Demon, Grey Stache, and just a basic bypass looper that Fuzzrocious built in the last box.
So Anyway, I've also got a Zoom 506 and it still works.... also still have the 'Expression' pedal that goes with it.
I used mine as a practice amp with headphones so I wouldn't disturb the family.
Now I have it set up by my workbench and use it for tuning when I change strings. It's really underused.
The oldest pedals I use are (oldest to newest): Ibanez FP-777 Flying Pan (1976), Boss PS-3 (1994), Way Huge Saffron Squeeze (May, 1997), and Way Huge Purple Platypus (July, 1997).
The PS-3 is the only one that goes to shows with me, but the others I use when recording whenever the project calls for it (more often than not).
The pedal I have owned the LONGEST though is my Korg Pitchblack Tuner. Bought it new in 2008.
The PS-3 is the only one that goes to shows with me, but the others I use when recording whenever the project calls for it (more often than not).
The pedal I have owned the LONGEST though is my Korg Pitchblack Tuner. Bought it new in 2008.
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
MXR envelope filter, bought in '83
Still have the box, manual and receipt.
And it's still my favorite pedal.
Still have the box, manual and receipt.
And it's still my favorite pedal.
