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All right, boys. I spent this afternoon culling through trunks filled with a 35 year collection of cords and general stuff. The old songlists and love letters were kind of fun . But, I digress.

Here are a couple of photos of OldSchoolDave's pedalboard, circa 1979:

Safely coccooned inside its fiberglas'd ply case: And, open - with the dust of the ages still inside: When I get some more time, I'll have to test everything out. Inside the case; Foxx Wah Machine (I had two - one would rotate to the shop, for repair under their Lifetime Warranty...until they went out of business), E-H Small Stone Phaser, not sure what's in the home made box, but it might be a remounted E-H LPB-1 Power Booster, Maestro Octave Box (mostly for the ELP stuff we played in '76) and homemade Talk Box. Could have sworn at one time I had an E-H Big Muff Pi where the Octave Box is. But, it was the 70's and, well, you know... I'd completely forgotten about owning the E-H Compressor and Flanger . The two switches in the lower right corner were run to the Reverb and Tremelo jacks on my Twin Reverb.

And for more year-end giggles, remember threads on other forums about coil cords somehow being a magic part of some classic rock guitar sounds? Well, if one is magic, then two must be almost spiritual . Here is a pair of Electro-Harmonix coily cords connected via Switchcraft coupler (under protective duct tape seal) that I used for a band I played with in '77 and '78 (pre-wireless days, that is). We did a lot of moving around the stage. Not choreography, by today's standards, but whoever sang lead on a song would move to center mic whilst the others circled around. It took nearly all break long for the roadies to untangle the mess . As you can see, I come by the "Old School" nickname honestly.

Dave

Dave,
you have to bring that board to the next Convention!

Dr.HIWATT wrote: you have to bring that board to the next Convention!

A HIWATT-powered Talk Box would be a scary thing .

Dave

My pedal chain (no board) changes often, but this is the basic setup: Morley Wah > Meathead fuzz > Tube Zone > 3-way Buffer/Splitter //// Splitter output #1 goes through Delay > Reverb > Hiwatt 'Normal' channel ///// Splitter output #2 goes directly to the Hiwatt 'Brill' channel ///// Splitter output #3 goes to a tuner.

Pedals


Splitter up close


'74 DR103 inputs


I have other pedals that occasionally see action. Some of them are pictured here. The stereo panning/tremolo/chopper pedal is handy when using a two amp rig. I swap in the the Pork Loin and/or Choad Blaster for bass, but they're great for guitar too.


TZ and D*A*M Meathead


Dr. Scientist Red Radical Reverberator and Digitech Hardwire DL-8 delay/loop

Happy new year all,

No giggles that Electric Mistress will be worth a bob or two. Fascinatining tho'

C

OldSchoolDave wrote:

Dr.HIWATT wrote: you have to bring that board to the next Convention!

A HIWATT-powered Talk Box would be a scary thing .

Dave

There might be a trail of broken teeth on the stage