Pedals
Effects, filed beside the guitars. The story, the records, and the pedals and guitars they travel with.
Nothing in the pedal catalog matches.
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DS-1 Distortion
1978 · Distortion
The orange box Joe Satriani took on stage as the simplest, smallest, most reliable thing he could find.
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Dunlop
Cry Baby
1967 · Wah
An amp engineer’s shortcut, built into an organ pedal for horn players. Guitarists plugged in anyway.
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Big Muff Pi
1969 · Fuzz
Built to chase Hendrix, it missed, and made the smallest amp in the house sound like a wall.
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Deluxe Memory Man
c. 1978 · Delay
A warm, wobbly analog echo, and the kind of box that taught the Edge the repeats could be the beat.
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Tube Screamer TS808
1979 · Overdrive
Named for a screaming tube amp, and at its best when it hardly screams at all.
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Centaur
1994 · Overdrive
Bill Finnegan wanted an overdrive you couldn’t hear, and built about 8,000 by hand before he had to stop.
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MXR
Phase 90
1972 or 1974 · Modulation
One knob, and the quiet swirl Eddie Van Halen stepped on when he wanted to be heard.
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RAT
1979 · Distortion
Named for a basement full of rats, born of a wrong resistor, and at its best plugged in the wrong way.