Vintage Distortion
Vintage Distortion
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 DOD FX 86B DISTORTION PEDAL  US $19.99
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 Boss DS 1 Distortion Guitar Effect Pedal w TA7136AP op amp NEEDS REPAIR US $15.50
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 vintage Ross distortion with original box US $90.00
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 Rockbox Boiling Point Overdrive Boost US $243.00
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 Vintage DOD FX50B Overdrive Plus in original box guitar effects pedal US $60.00
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 Boss BD 2 Blues Driver US $38.00
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 Vintage Rare Frantone Hep Cat overdrive guitar analog pedal fuzz distortion US $205.00
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 Vintage FX Overdrive Pedal VFX US $69.00
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 GNI X Treme Distortion Pedal US $149.00
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 Vintage DOD FX57 Hard Rock Distortion with Delay Pedal US $45.00
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 Seymour Duncan TWEAK Fuzz Distortion Fuzz Pedal Excellent US $39.95
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 Barber small fry US $125.00
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 Marshall Shredmaster analog distortion US $52.50
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 Wampler Pedals SLOstortion Distortion Brand New Free Shipping US $239.97
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 Danelectro FAB Metal Effect Guitar Effects Pedal D 3 US $34.95
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 RARE VINTAGE 1980 BOX LOGO MXR DISTORTION w U741CP CHIP CTS CODE 1378012 LK US $104.95
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 BOSS OD 3 OVERDRIVE PEDALNR US $9.99
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 1984 Vintage Whiteface Rat by ProCo with Box EC Free Shipping US $385.00
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 Radial Engineering Tonebone Classic Tube Distortion Guitar Effect Pedal US $10.50
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 Vintage MXR Distortion Plus 1982 Pedal US $99.99
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 Whirlwind Gold Box Distortion US $89.99
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Best Music Videos of All Time (That You May Have Never Seen)
One of my favorite subjects is and has always been music. I am a particular fan of good music videos. Good meaning they give me the feeling that it is 1982 again and I am watching MTV for the first time - MTV when it really WAS Music TeleVision.
1. Steppin Out - Joe Jackson (1982)
This is the very first MTV video I ever saw. It was 1982 and I didn't even know what MTV was. I was a 13-year-old girl babysitting alone for sleeping children in a quiet, dark house in front of the TV. I had the remote and landed on this new channel "MTV" and there it was -- "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson. I watched this "picture story" and was so enticed and excited that I immediately reached over to the end table, picked up the monstrous cordless phone (I don't remember the actual size, but based upon the time period, I'm sure it was sizable) and called my mom. I tried to explain to her in my excitement the true total awesomeness of it all -- how I had just watched a "story" played to a song, on "pay tv".
2. Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze (1982)
Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
This has to be the second MTV video I ever saw, and as we didn't have MTV at home yet, I watched it on one of HBO's half-hour music video shows. My 33-year-old mom fell in love with it, and actually introduced me to it. You may know "Tempted" or "Something So Strong" by Squeeze, but if that's all you know, you're missing out on their greatest song, and one of the best videos ever.
3. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John (1983)
I fell in love with song because of the original video. It's the story of a young couple separated during WWII because the young man is drafted. I have always been a vicarious time-traveler, and I especially love the music, clothing, and simpleness of that time period. My dear grandparents were separated during WWII and corresponded by letters for several years, marrying upon his return in 1946. When I watched this video as a young teen, I inserted myself into the video, into the most bittersweet, romantic scenario I could imagine. Today I can watch it and feel the way I felt then.
4. No Rain - Blind Melon (1992)
The 1990s were one of the best decades ever for music because of the "Seattle Sound" or Grunge. The first time I heard "No Rain", my attraction to Blind Melon was immediate. Their music seemed familiar to me somehow; maybe it was because of their traditional rock sound, or maybe it was just because I felt right at home in all those fields of wildflowers and could relate to The Bee Girl.
5. Cars - Gary Numan (1979)
Gary Numan - Cars
Way before Emo, there was Gary Numan. Gary Numan was light years ahead of the groups of my childhood. He introduced synthpop and electronic, a new look, and a new era of music. He looked good in eyeliner, he looked good without a tan, and he was wearing the quilted, red, casket-lining jacket WAY before Michael Jackson. He sent messages out to the universe, "Your teenagers of the future WILL LOVE VAMPIRES." What exactly was it that he had? I didn't know the name for it then, and cannot find the words to describe it now. All I know is this: First I loved Dark Shadows and Barnabas Collins, then I loved Video Killed the Radio Star, and THEN I loved Gary Numan.
6. Waiting On A Friend - Mick Jagger (1981)
"Everything old is new again." —Peter Allen
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." —Aldous Huxley
The Mick Jagger of this 1981 video would be completely at home in this day and age of laid-back, skinny jeans, long hair, pumped-up lips, and sweet, soulful jazz-rock. He wasn't waiting on a lady; he was just waiting on a friend.
7. You Got Lucky - Tom Petty (1982)
You Got Lucky - Tom Petty
Back in the infamous '80s, we never thought we would live to see 25. I can speak for myself anyway. It was the age of the Cold War, the Big Bomb, the Wall. This video seemed so realistic back then. I'm not quite sure, in reminiscence, what type of world disaster would have left the sky that strange shade of rose,
or just a chosen few males riding around in a dune buggy/go-cart, but I was a believer.
8. Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac (1982)
I'm a huge Stevie Nicks fan. She's just magical, as are all her songs. When I used to watch this video, and when I watch it today, I get lost in the story. She goes up to the attic, looks into a mirror, and becomes "the gypsy that she was". The way I always interpreted it was that when she looked into the mirror she started reliving her former life as a gypsy. But in reading what Stevie says now about how the song was created, I am a little disappointed to find that the "velvet underground" was but a memory of the "poor" days before Fleetwood Mac, when she and Lindsey lived in a room with just a mattress donned with vintage coverlets, and a lone lamp.
9. Crash Into Me (Dave Matthews Band) - 1996
I'll never forget the first time I heard this song. I was rollerblading in Tampa, Florida in 1997, wearing a pair of bad headphones tuned into FM radio, and it came through garbled and distorted, and still I fell in love. The video is violins, medieval festivals, forests, the smell of rain, and raw romance.
10. Lay Lady Lay (Magnet and Gemma Hayes) - 2003
This is the best music video I have ever seen. I like everything about it, and it was a "love at first view". Everything works together to touch some special place inside of me that I didn't even know existed and could never find the way to myself -- the trailer park, the windmills, the breakfast truck including overly-fried, brown eggs, the really good-looking-in-an-unassuming-way guy, the "white trash" girl with bleached blond hair and heavy black eyeliner and oh-so-obvious lip liner, the Jesus sticker in the window, the kid with acne, and all the people who pop out of the bed (especially the ones with musical instruments). When Magnet rides his bike through the trailer park I just want to ride with him. How can I explain it? This has got to be The Best Music Video of All Time.
Cool fact: In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song "The Little Lost Child". Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illustrated song, the first step toward music video (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)...
About the Author
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should I use guitar effects?
I'm really trying to decide how I should get my guitar tone. My two choices, go with a marshall vintage modern and add a wah. So a real simple vintage style setup. Or get a great clean sounding amp and add a bunch of pedals for my main tone. Eventually moving on to a rack system. My main reasons I personally think the vintage method will sound better (maybe I'm wrong) because everybody says amp distortion sounds better than any pedal distortion even tube distortion pedals. But at the same time I like the flexibility and convinience of using effects pedals, also can anybody tell me how I could plug my electric guitar after all my effects into the PA? Maybe a DI box?
This is my perspective. After playing live for a couple of years, through a lot of gear changes, and having pretty much everything that could go wrong go wrong, my final conclusion is that it's best to keep things as simple as possible.
Anticipate things getting bumped. Anticipate batteries dying, power supplies failing, cords shorting out. If you assume that just about anything can go wrong, and prepare for it, you'll be in a lot better place than many others.
Don't use a DI box at the end of a path of guitar pedals - it won't sound very good. Part of the function of the amp/speaker interaction is that they not only give you your volume and flavor your tone, but pumping your signal through speakers rolls off high-end frequency that would otherwise be hissy, shriekey, statickey, etc. Roll of that high end and you're left with that great sound we all love.
I've heard at least a few different ways of getting great tone without having to lug around a big ol' tube amp. (i own a mesa boogie tremoverb, they are very heavy!)
One, you could use a smaller tube amp. This would help you crank those power amps to get that thick saturated sound, but you could still use your fx pedals. The epiphone valve jr can push a 4x12 stack, and it's only 5 watts, for instance. By limiting your watts you decrease your max volume, but you also lower the point at which you start getting that cranked tone. Try a couple, but you shouldn't need more than 50 watts of tube amp for just about any gig - the larger ones are all mic'd anyways.
Two, you could use a solid state amp. Look, Dimebag did it, so could you. Tubes can break or blow, solid states are usually pretty durable. A buddy of mine plays a Marshall MG... while I don't think it sounds as good as my mesa, it's a *lot* less complicated and easy to use. No tubes to worry about...
Three, you could use some form of digital modeling. I've used a couple, myself, umm... Boss Gt-3, Line 6 Pod and Pod 2, Behringer Vamp Pro, a Digitech from back in the day... Usually these things sound best when put through a power amp into a full-spectrum speaker, not a guitar speaker. I've had some success putting them through my amp's fx return jack, too, so they aren't colored/cramped by the preamp.
You can use a combination of a few of the above ideas - a multifx into a tube power amp, or a solid state into a speaker simulator. SS into a spkr simulator into a tube power amp... hmm...
I mention tube power amps because the best heavy guitar tones I've ever heard came from a Helmet concert - they've got multiple amps and effects going into tube power amps, and it sounded soooo sick...
Personally, I may just end up having to build what I want myself... homebrew myself a preamp and cab simulator...
Good luck, no matter which way you go! Don't forget to test drive a few different rigs so you know what you like and don't like!
Saul
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