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C Williams
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I got some graduation money in '90, and spent the lion's share of it at Thoroughbred Music for a generic pedalboard full of Bosses.
The CS-2 Compressor/Sustainer, PH1-R Phaser, CE-2 Chorus, SD-1 Super Overdrive and the DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion became the building blocks of my fledgling guitar style. I'd dial in some mean pick attack on the compressor, a perfect warm overdrive and a fine chorus and (for effect) occasionally get that DF-2 fake feedback or (my favorite) the squalling, level-boosting phase sweep. I knew there was more to the world of guitar effects, but for the time, these were more than I needed. I felt giddy and sort of rich from all the sounds available at my boot-tips.
These pedal sounds made it onto my seminar Porta-One recordings, and I ran everything through them... yes, even a Radio Shack mic through the chorus. It never complained.
I sold these pedals sometime in '93 or '94, and can't even remember what I replaced them with. I suspect it was my then-new Quadraverb GT, which I thought could do anything. Curse my foolishness and financial weakness!
It was just a few weeks ago that I started reminiscing, and man, what I wouldn't give to get those pedals back... especially that compressor, overdrive, chorus and phaser.
So, am I just being sentimental, or is there something to the notion that those pedals sounded better than any available from Boss today? I know my '97 CS-3 compressor sounded nothing like the CS-2... and yes, I waste my breath AND typing time bemoaning the loss of these pedals. Perhaps I should learn from this.
Tastes can go full circle in 10 years. The Quadraverb impressed me in '93 but would seem a joke today. Those humble metal pedals would, I believe, do my sound proud today.
The CS-2 Compressor/Sustainer, PH1-R Phaser, CE-2 Chorus, SD-1 Super Overdrive and the DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion became the building blocks of my fledgling guitar style. I'd dial in some mean pick attack on the compressor, a perfect warm overdrive and a fine chorus and (for effect) occasionally get that DF-2 fake feedback or (my favorite) the squalling, level-boosting phase sweep. I knew there was more to the world of guitar effects, but for the time, these were more than I needed. I felt giddy and sort of rich from all the sounds available at my boot-tips.
These pedal sounds made it onto my seminar Porta-One recordings, and I ran everything through them... yes, even a Radio Shack mic through the chorus. It never complained.
I sold these pedals sometime in '93 or '94, and can't even remember what I replaced them with. I suspect it was my then-new Quadraverb GT, which I thought could do anything. Curse my foolishness and financial weakness!
It was just a few weeks ago that I started reminiscing, and man, what I wouldn't give to get those pedals back... especially that compressor, overdrive, chorus and phaser.
So, am I just being sentimental, or is there something to the notion that those pedals sounded better than any available from Boss today? I know my '97 CS-3 compressor sounded nothing like the CS-2... and yes, I waste my breath AND typing time bemoaning the loss of these pedals. Perhaps I should learn from this.
Tastes can go full circle in 10 years. The Quadraverb impressed me in '93 but would seem a joke today. Those humble metal pedals would, I believe, do my sound proud today.
