The pedal that started it all....

[Malpractice]

What pedal is the first one that got you hooked on effects?

Mine was a Danelectro Pastrami Overdrive. I paid 15 hard earned dollars for it. I was 14 years old. I dont know what ever happened to that pedal.

That started it though.....now I have 6 pedals on my board and about 10 lying around the house and 5 or six on loan...two in my car.

What was your gateway pedal?

 

[darincm]

I've been anti effects for almost 20 years......then I bought a POG

I've been experimenting with different effects ever since.

 

[4stringmangler]

my cousin had a big muff in 81, that started for me. i haven't been the same since.

 

[gnome_hunter]

an old old DOD fx25. still have the thing hooked up.

 

[jgsbass]

In '67 I bought a Maestro Fuzz Tone, followed by a Vox Clyde McCoy Wah Wah pedal ( which I bet was the first Wah Wah ever stolen) for guitar.

 

[Happynoj]

A Zoom 506II multi. There was one patch which made me go 'OMG! I want to sound like this all the time! It was a really synthy distortion with an octave down and a flanger (or maybe it was a phaser).

 

[Chris V.]

Russian Muff in '03. Took me a while before I really got into effects, but the next one was the V-Amp, which I then sold. After that there was NO stopping me.

 

[warwick.hoy]

I had a couple false starts with an original Zoom 506, that got trampled at a show and broken. Then it was an Ibanez TS-9 (that's the one in the Maxon frame right?) but poverty forced me to sell it.

I'd say that a Q-tron got actually go it started for me, and that wasn't too long ago. I traded it for some other effects. I may not have kept it but now that I'm stable financially I can definitely call myself an FX junkie.

 

[rratajski]

I used to sing...well, scream...in a band called TWO DAYS...
I saw Vision of Disorder play and saw their singer using a delay pedal for his voice that he carried around w/ him on stage, so I wanted to try it out. I bought a Boss DD-3 and love it.

When I started playing bass for real a few years back, the first pedal I bought was the Sansamp 3 programmable jawn (yuck!) which I sold and rebought a Boss DD-3...it's all gone fast from there!

 

[bigchiefbc]

I used only a Digitech BP200 for several years. All of the modulation and delay effects sounded great, but it was my dissatisfaction with all of the distortion tones and amp models that led me to begin seeking out other pedals.

 

[Thunderscreech]

The Little Big Muff, back when I was a guitard.

 

[kevteop]

an old old DOD fx25. still have the thing hooked up.

My first pedal was an FX25 too. I think it's still in a friend's garage where I left it 10+ years ago, but it would be hard to find in the huge pile of cables and cabs and drums and stands and stuff.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Ibanez bass chorus which fell off a stage onto the knobs and was dead. Then I bought a Ibanez PUE-5B.

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[Jared Lash]

I remember goofing around with some effects in high school but it wasn't until college that I actually started using effects in my playing. The first was a Boss Slow Gear that was given to me by my guitar player in the most successful band I was ever in back in around 1998.

I only used it in two songs (and later sold it for $25 which of course I deeply regret now) but that's what gave me the bug.

After college I was working full time and was really just a bedroom player and sold off all my effects. I started up again about three years ago and the first two pedals I bought were an EMMA DiscumBOBulator (from EricF) and a SansAmp BDDI (from RAM) here on TB.

 

[Doublefunk]

My guitarist had a Qtron that he let me play around on for a little while.
After playing with the thing for hours it really sparked my interest as to what different sounds i could get out of my bass.

 

[katri]

My first pedal was an ODB-3 but the one that started me on effects properly was when I got my original Guv'nor, great pedal but the bass suck is bad, I need a blend pedal for it.

 

[lowbass68]

Some piece of junk distortion I bought second hand in the early 80's. It was plastic and had a male 1/4" plug that plugged directly into the guitar or bass. It was cheap and noisy. Then I got a DOD chorus and it was like heroin. Been addicted to effects ever since.

 

[Valerus]

first two, bought at the same time:
Boss TU-2 & Line 6 DL-4

 

[slackinatthebas]

i just bought a boss ceb-3 and i love it. i can really see this getting out of hand preeetty quick. i'd like to get a bass big muff next... and maybe an envelope filter.... crap... i see what can happen when you get on talkbass now!

 

[rosstanium]

english muff'n got it started for me. then I discovered the woolly mammoth. now I'm addicted to grind and fuzz...subtle, hairy, and crazy.

then I started combining effects. now I'm screwed for life. it will never end.