Maybe your newer one there with an LED doesnt do this, but my original issue sure does color the tone, in a good way. I have a 1970 Univox Univibe, its my prized possession out of all my pedals, ive never heard a recreation sound a milky and cool as it, though there are some decent clones out there.

I used different effects that this guy, i like the old yellow stereo chorus from MXR, echo is an old echo plex, etc… anyone trying to chase down that old cool pagey hendrix wah sound might want to look at those dunlop hendrix wah’s that they started putting out back around 2007? ive had tones, old opriginal ones and the hendrix/dunlop i got sounded so much better i sold all my old ones, though i did mount it in a reissue vox v847 casing (the dunlop casing are very cheap)

prices on the old pedals have been rediculous for years, glad i was buying old analog pedals all through the 80’s when everyone else was dumping for digital… i have just about the whole 70’s MXR line of pedals in script logo’s and i doubt i paid any more than $150 for them all.

I had a cheapo Nobel Tremolo which eventually fell apart, that had something about I’ve not really replaced, even with the (on paper much better) Fulltone Supa-Trem.

i think the great thing about both Bruce and Stuart’s setups is that they were deceptively simple, but between the MXR Pitch Transposer and their willingness to try unorthodox settings on the few other effects they used, they managed to create a new sound that no other band since has really been able to replicate. that, along with Stuart’s brilliant songwriting ability, really made Big Country stand apart from other 80’s bands and why they still have an extremely loyal following, despite Stuart’s passing ten years ago.

Cheers.

SR

You never said what the Purple Peaker and Mutron actually do.

I’ve got a Fulltone Fat Boost (original version) that I like a lot. It adds some “meat” to the single coil sound of my Strat, clean or overdrive. And speaking of overdrive, after trying all sorts of pedals, I went with the Deltalabs TO-1 (Tube Overdrive-1). As I understand it, Deltalabs used to be a boutique pedal maker, but got bought out by Guitar Center. The TO-1 sound warm and smooth, with just enough midrange hump to make the guitar stand out in the mix. Chords sound like chords. No fizziness! Cost me $40, new. Actually, I like it much better than the new Tube Screamers (which sound harsh, to me), but it all depends on your rig, of course.

I used to have an MXR Phase (90, I guess) pedal. It sounded great on my bass guitar. The only thing I didn’t like was that you couldn’t control the intensity of the effect, only the speed. In the studio, of course, you could address that by running it through a channel insert.

I think the delay may be best of all and competes with the flanger for collectors value. It does what I want for the most part, but sometimes I would like endless, spacey delay. The flange gets crazy, gnarly feedback and also some nice note shifting sounds – maybe that’s the “swell”.. certainly not like other flangers to me. The chorus is just kind of standard. These are actually the only pedals I own now. Sometimes I run them all together.

Btw The boss Orange disortion is the DS1.