General Music Chat

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It was called a Royal Double Effect Machine. My first half decent pedal. Got it for Xmas 1970 when I was 15. Bet the folks had second thoughts after a couple hours of maniacal, psychadelic riffing drowning out Ray Conniff's Christmas Classics playing on the hi-fi.

No, don't think I've ever even seen that one. Strangest one I thought was the Mutron. Nothing like any control over what it did, the knobs just made it make more or less weird sounds faster or slower...and with a wider pitch variation. So psychedelic it would almost give you flashbacks...

Guy at a music store where I always got strings for my Mosrite double neck (mid 70's) would always hand me the new effects to try out, he said people came in out of the parking lot to see who was playing...I never paid much attention, I was having too much fun doodling on every new effect that came across the counter, whatever amp I wanted, usually a Ovation Breadwinner guitar, sometimes the Gibson L6-S. Echoplex was fun, although not exactly new...Mutron though was just plain weird.

He'd walk over, hook one up, turn the amp up a little and say have fun...told me one day someone had just asked if that was Joe Walsh...I figured it was someone with bad hearing - or a really good buzz going - I had just really butchered a Joe Walsh song intro...and hoped nobody heard it...but the flanger sounded really cool...

Standin' on the runway wavin' at the plane...

So I played with a lot of different effects, some I barely even remember but I don't think I've ever seen that particular one...

That one's a little before my time but I did have several Mutron pedals; the Phase Shifter could do that "The Rover" sound and I still have the volume-wah pedal.

That one's a little before my time but I did have several Mutron pedals; the Phase Shifter could do that "The Rover" sound and I still have the volume-wah pedal.

The Mutron pedal that I'd like to check out is the octave divider. That's what Neil Young uses for Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black). I love that huge, out of control sound.