Josh at the Reverb Booth at NAMM
maybe there’s a problem that customers the first thing ever. The first pedal we could say People were using Leslie organs, but a Uni-
found. Maybe the pedal has a switch pop or was the Maestro Fuzz. That comes around in Vibe helped simulate the sound and give you a
maybe something funky. We’re going to fix that the early 60s. chorus. It’s not really a chorus pedal, it’s more
anyway, so I’ll take an extra day or two and kind
of spice the circuit up a little.
of a phaser.
Then when we get to 1965 everything starts
happening. The Tone Bender is invented at Then you get into the 70s and you have the
[WM] In closing would you be kind enough Macari’s Music on Denmark Street in London. development of more of these devices, you get
to give us the chronology of the classic pedal From that Tone Bender in 1965, one year later into some funky octave type stuff that’s trying
types? Dallas Arbiter makes the Fuzz Face based on a to be clean octave. You see people doing EQ
version of the Tone Bender. pedals, you see compressor pedals.
unit was a DeArmond Tremolo from the 40s. It Then in 1967 you end up with a wah pedal, By the late 70s you have straight-ahead
had a weird oil can thing in it. You set it on an and octave fuzz. Then you end up in 1969 with overdrive pedals like the DOD 250. You’ve got
amp. It really wasn’t a pedal, but that’s kind of the Uni-Vibe, the first-ever modulation effect. MXRs coming out – the Dyna Comp, Distortion
[Josh] The first ever guitar effect standalone
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