Plus, and Blue Box, you’ve got all this stuff. The
70s is the golden age of pedals. In the late 70s
Ibanez and Boss parallel each other. The TS9
comes out and the OD-1 comes. These are a
different style of softer overdrive, true overdrive
pedals as you know them today.
Boss is basically this massive company under
Roland, and because of this status people
are giving them first dibs on technology, such
as chip sets. So people who are inventing
methods to make audio circuits like bucket-
brigade chips for chorus and delay, who are
they offering it to first? They offer it to Boss. So
they make the Roland Jazz Chorus amp and it
has the first ever true analog chorus effect in
it. They put that into the CE-1, and then Boss
goes compact with CE-2, carries it on to CE-3,
the flangers, and that sparks the 80s rack units.
Electro-Harmonix are in the 70s as well as 80s.
In the early 90s it just keeps going forward and
then you end up with the boutique era. You
have these people who are basically boutique,
like Mike Fuller.
As technology happens, more effects happen,
and that’s how it is today. Today’s big thing
is DSP. Companies like Strymon, people like
that are doing really great things with DSP.
Technology will always inspire a new pedal.
That’s basically the nutshell of the path!
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Roland JC-120
May 2019
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