Used & Vintage

Condition: Fair (Works flawlessly, but has some scratched; especially on the bottom of the unit and on the back panel)

Specifications

• true bypass switching
• non-stepped continuous volume control
• all steel construction
• fan cooled - whisper quiet fan keeps it cool
• dual speaker outputs
• plexi switch - switchable inductor coil adds brightness and presence
• 100v fixed AC tap - protects amplifier components and tubes
• 100 watt max load capacity, works with any wattage tube amp
• works with 4, 8, and 16 ohm tube amps
• 100 watt maximum output
• 120v - 240v switchable (it's made to be played anywhere on earth with an outlet)

Condition: Excellent

Street Price New: $299.00

Savings: $60.00 (and free shipping)

Warranty: 90 days parts and labor

Overview:

This is not the Taiwanese built Vexster, but the original, non hand-painted, USA Vexster series version.

The Box of Metal™ is an aggressive high-gain pedal with a highly-effective built-in switchable gate which dramatically reduces noise and unwanted feedback. Its gain and tonal characteristics are somewhat similar to high-gain tube amplifiers that have been the staple of hard rock and metal sounds since the 80's. On the right, there is a true- bypass switch with an indicator LED to bypass the entire effect. On the left is a gate switch which is only effective when the pedal is on (the gate cannot be used separately.) When the gate's LED (on the left side of the pedal) is ON, the gate will be active whenever the pedal is turned on. The gate is very useful for cleaning up any noise between palm-muted chords and lead phrases, but may be switched off to initiate feedback or to stretch out soloed notes that are fading into noise. Switching off and on the gate is silent so the gating action of the pedal can instantly be changed during any part of the performance to fluidly integrate soloing and palm-muted chords.

The Controls:
Gate: Adjust for your playing style. When fully clockwise, palm-muting will create an audible thump and bumping the strings will open the gate. Turn down to make the gate tighter. Gate is unaffected by other controls. Drive: Sets the amount of distortion. The BOM does NOT clean up. This control goes from hard to very hard. It may crackle when turned... this is perfectly normal. Treble: Adjust for treble content. Use this in tandem with your amp's presence and treble controls to get the precise top-end texture... the presence control is very important on your amp, if you have one. Midrange: Adjust to accentuate or scoop out mids. Bass: Sets the bass/sub-bass level. Volume: Sets the output volume of the pedal. Note that the LED on the RIGHT is for the BYPASS switch and the LED on the LEFT is for the GATE. The Drive and control is based on my original Super Hard-On gain control, so it may crackle when turned. This is perfectly normal.

Operation:
Plug your guitar (or any effect's output) into the right hand input jack. Plug the output into an amp or other effect's input. Enjoy in moderation. Watch the output volume setting... with the gate turned on, you may not notice just how loud the pedal is going to be until you play! Set the clean sound on your amp for any level of pristine cleanliness to heavy crunch. The BOM should do very well driving any amount of nominal distortion. The presence control on your amp will have a strong influence on the top-end texture of your BOM.

Battery Change:
If the performance of your pedal seems diminished or the LEDs become very dim, it's time to change your battery. Remove the four screws on the bottom of the pedal and carefully remove and replace the old battery, putting it back exactly in the center of the pedal on edge so that it is gripped tightly by the lid when it is screwed back in place.

Specifications:
Uses 1 9V battery (preferably alkaline, but the unit is shipped with a carbon-zinc battery.) The low current operation of this pedal's circuit will give you a long battery life. Current draw is approximately 10mA. A DC power jack (standard Boss configuration with center negative) is provided on the side of the pedal. Use a high- quality 9V adaptor for all high-gain effects! 

Condition: Excellent Street Price New: $69.97 Savings: $19.98 Warranty: 90 days Parts and Labor The GEB7 is 7-band equalizer created specifically for the frequency range of the electric bass. Since the frequency range extends down to the 50Hz range, the GEB7 is also great for adding depth and bottom end to acoustic guitars. Features 50Hz to 10kHz frequency range specifically designed for bass. Full range response, even for 5- and 6-string basses. Can be used as a "boost" or "cut" pedal using the level control knob. Great for acoustic guitar applications. AC adapter or 9V battery operation. 

Condition: Excellent Street Price New: $69.97 Savings: $19.98 Warranty: 90 days Parts and Labor The GEB7 is 7-band equalizer created specifically for the frequency range of the electric bass. Since the frequency range extends down to the 50Hz range, the GEB7 is also great for adding depth and bottom end to acoustic guitars. Features 50Hz to 10kHz frequency range specifically designed for bass. Full range response, even for 5- and 6-string basses. Can be used as a "boost" or "cut" pedal using the level control knob. Great for acoustic guitar applications. AC adapter or 9V battery operation. 

Condition: Excellent (with original box) Street Price New: $299.99 Savings: $70.99 (and free shipping) Warranty: 90 days parts and labor The Burriss Boostiest II is a combination of two totally independent gain pedals in a single enclosure. On the right side (input side) is a fully adjustable clean gain pre-amp. On the left side (output side) is a "TS"-flavored overdrive circuit. Both circuits feed from the same power source, a single 9V battery or a standard 9-volt negative-center wall-wart power supply. This power source is divided and stepped up to a 16V ~ 18V operating voltage for the clean gain boost side, and lowered or "browned out" for the overdrive circuit. Bob Burriss believes that this topography gives the best combination for a big, clean tone and a fatter overdrive tone. Both circuits are true bypass and can be used alone or together. 

SN. 7 of 10

Production Date: 9-28-2005

Condition: Near Mint with Box

Street Price New: $319.00 for standard, hand-painted model

Savings: $69.00

CHANNEL 1:
This channel is a conventional Super Hard-On (TM), which I will henceforth refer to as the SHO, in order to reduce potential offense to young ears and sensitive persons. Its gain control is on the far right, and its LED is yellow. If you are familiar with the SHO, you'll know that it's a very sparkly sounding high input-impedance preamp with incredible headroom, wide-ranging gain (unity to 60 X), and a maximum volume that will knock out your fillings. Channel one has no Master Volume control, but it's cascaded into Channel 2, which does...

CHANNEL 2 AND THE MASTER VOLUME:
This channel has the very same circuit as Channel 1, but the bleeder resistor on the output has been replaced with a Master Volume control, which allows the user to turn down the output volume even if the gain is set quite high. The knob on the left is the gain, and the middle knob is the Master Volume, and the LED is red. When both channels are on, or if only Channel 2 is on, the Master Volume is active. If you leave the Master wide open, you have two identical SHO pedals in one box, which are cascaded.
WHAT DOES THIS PEDAL SOUND LIKE?
You might wonder just how insane this pedal sounds when you crank up both channels and turn them both on. Well, I'll tell you. I can't get my Les Paul to stop feeding back at any audible volume level on my Marshall when both channels are wide open, and that's with the amp set at 1. I'm happy about that. Of course, this is not the only setting on the pedal. I don't think there's a musician around who wouldn't be happy to have multiple clean boost pedals set to predictable levels available on stage. This pedal gives you a total of four volume levels, ranging, at your choice, anywhere from perfectly clean to ragingly overdriven. Level 1, your guitar is true-bypassed with both channels off. Level 2, you turn on Channel 1. Level 3, you turn off Channel 1 and turn on Channel 2. This is easy because you can put your foot on both switches at once and alternate between the two channels if you want. Level 4, you turn on both channels.

There is no tone shaping in this pedal. It's two perfectly linear high-gain high input-impedance preamps that can be cascaded, with a total gain that ranges from unity to 3600. That's right, the maximum gain with both channels wide open is a whopping 3600, which is so completely distorted, hissy, feedbacky, and insane, that you'll never ever have a steady relationship again. Or a lease. Or a pet. Luckily, with the Master Volume, you can listen to what it would sound like to lose everything you love at a reasonable volume. Naturally, because there is no tone-shaping, your guitar just sounds like a really loud version of your guitar, and your amp sounds like a really big version of your amp, and if your normal tone is somewhat bloated, it will get very very bloated when you use this pedal set to high gains. It does best if you are close to getting the tone you want out of your gear already, but just need a boost to make it go over the top. Keep in mind that you can set up the two channels to give you any amount of gain, from a soft bluesy boost in two stages to a crunchy rock level, to a wild sustaining beast.

Condition: Very Good (with original box)

New Street Price: $225.00

Savings: $56.00

Warranty: 90 days parts and labor

From Guitar Player Review:

"Available for a short time in the mid-nineties, the Maxon OD820 handily expanded on the TS808’s well-established foundation by functioning as a clean boost as well as an overdrive pedal. The VOP-9 Vintage Overdrive Pro reintroduces the OD820’s circuit, which achieves its amazing headroom and clarity by internally doubling the nine-volt power supply to 18 volts and using a dual pot on the drive control that automatically blends a clean boost with the overdrive. For more compression, an internal DIP switch can be set to halve the power to nine volts.

PERFORMANCE
Though similarities exist between the VOP-9’s warm vibe and the 808’s midrange-heavy harmonics, the VOP is far more vibrant and broad in its response. As opposed to the 808’s smoky midrange surge, the VPO maintains the original signal’s bass weight and is capable of sharper treble tones. The range of crunch aggression is dictated by the player’s touch, and the high dynamic ceiling can expand the compressed sound from your active pickups or humbuckers.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Make no mistake – Maxon’s Nine Series pedals are nothing short of production boutique instruments. For transparent overdrive choose the singing and spacious tone of the OSD-9 Overdrive/Soft Distortion or the screaming gain of the OOD-9 Organic Overdrive. If the TS808 is your holy grail, the 18-volt VOP-9 Vintage Overdrive Pro will amaze you with its clarity and power. As for the AD-9 Pro Analog Delay, I have to rank it as the most versatile, clear and accurate analog delay that anyone has built into a pedal thus far.

PRO – High-end tones, Pro-level headroom, Tough construction

CONS - Expensive"

Condition: Excellent

Overview:

A SIlicon based unit designed, as the name implies, the create the 200 Pound Violin tone made famous during the intro of  "Cliffs of Dover".

Features:

• Input Filter EQ: tightens / loosens the fuzz and overall sound properties produced at the output
• Input Gain Level: decide how hard your signal hits the circuit's front end. This can also have a tightening effect depending where you have this set.
• Internal Voltage Bias Trimmer: this control will help you set how fast the circuit cleans up and sags. You can also simulate "dead battery" scenarios.
• Fixed Output Depth: This is a fixed passive EQ tweek? to deepen the overall mid content, cut noise and simulate a 4X12 ca.
• Master Volume: sets volume to any desired level without loading. The E.J. 100K output pot trick. It is common knowledge that E.J. swaps out 500K for 100K on his fuzzes
• True bypass / LED status / 9VDC input jack - center negative - works any 9VDC power supply.
   

SN. AC-012854 Condition: Very Good with new tubes Fender's recreation of the venerable Western Electrics, Stand Alone Reverb unit. All tube driven with 6V6 power tube, 12AX7 and 12AT7 reverb driver and recovery tubes. Original footswitch is included Extra tube set included (used, but all functioning properly) 

Condition: Excellent

Street Price New $219.00

Savings: $94.00 (42%)

Warranty: 90 Days Parts and Labor

The fuzz and OD are wired in parallel, allowing you to pile on the gain without sacrificing clarity, dynamic response, punch or low end. The Octava frequency doubler is wired in front, delivering a unique type of gated, gnarly grind. Additional buffered output provides a clean signal for parallel processing, direct recording, or a side-chain trigger source for the Pigtronix EP-1 envelope phaser.

* Three original F.A.T. analog distortion effects
* Super low noise at all volume levels
* Perfect for direct recording
* Glass breaking Octava Up with on-board filter
* Blistering hot fuzz with 6-way rotary "shape" selector
* 5-stage tube sound overdrive
* Pigtronix 15VDC adapter included
* Massive Headroom
* Parallel overdrive and fuzz both go from clean boost to all out RAGE
* Individual output level controls on each effect
* Runs on 9-15 volts DC power (15 volts recommended)
* Buffered clean output (perfect for EP-1 trigger)

Pigtronix OFO Disnortion FX Pedal
The Pigtronix OFO Disnortion stomp box features a touch sensitive Overdrive, Fuzz with 6 different filters and frequency-doubling, Octava. Each effect is an original design and can each be used independently or in combinations to forge a tremendous range of musically responsive distortion sounds. The unique magic of the Pigtronix OFO Disnortion is parallel Fuzz and Overdrive, allowing you to pile on the gain without sacrificing clarity, dynamic response, punch or low end. Well voiced tone and shape controls allow you to focus each effect on its own frequency range. The Octava effects pedal is wired in series before the Overdrive and Fuzz, allowing the guitar pedal to produce a unique type of gated, gnarly grind that is absolutely devastating. A buffered output provides a clean signal for parallel processing, direct recording or a side-chain trigger source for the Pigtronix EP-1.

Overdrive There has never been an Overdrive quite like this. The Pigtronix Overdrive responds to the dynamics of your playing using a proprietary, 5-stage gain architecture that retains the natural tone of your instrument, while gradually breaking up as you play louder. The circuit is so touch sensitive, it has been described as "...more tube than tube." You must hear it to believe it! From clean or gritty boost right up through Plexi roar, the Pigtronix Overdrive is the most musical overdrive ever made.

Fuzz massive gain, full bodied sustain and flexible tone shapes define the fuzz effect. Pigtronix's unique version of diode-clipping provides plenty of compression and controllable feedback while preserving the dynamics of your playing style. The rotary tone control switch provides 6 musical EQ curves: Bass, Scoop, Treble, Smooth, F.A.T., and Full Range. The Pigtronix fuzz can go from clean boost to hair raising, shred fisted, freak out pandemonium!

Octava This frequency doubler effect makes the notes you play sound one octave up. A filter control allows you to achieve singing octave up tones without adjusting your guitar's tone control. Stable intervals such as 4ths and power chords result in knarly, tweezed out grind, while other intervals create ring-modulator textures in all registers. The Octava is wired in series with the other 2 effects for harmonic filled lead tones and outlandishly bizarre crunch. Combine the Octava with both fuzz + overdrive and... fuggettaboutit! 

Condition: Good

Street Price New: $159.99

Savings: $60.00

Warranty: 90 days parts and labor

This bass-guitar-pedal is a monophonic bass synthesizer with simple controls but a genuine analog synth bass sound. It transforms your bass-guitar's sound into a synth sound, complete with a resonant filter with cutoff, decay control and a hold function.

The SYB-3 has 11 synthesizer modes: 7 Internal Sound Modes in which the bass guitar triggers and controls the built-in oscillator. 2 Wave shape modes that tweak your actual bass sound into something synth-like. And 2 T-Wah modes that give you a wah-wah bass sound. Two outputs facilitate individual synth and direct bass signals 

SN. 01158

Condition: As New with original box

Street Price New: $211.00

Savings: $42.00 (19%)

Man.....Mike Fuller and Robin hit it out of the park with this one. This is a truly dynamic overdrive pedal that is similarly responsive to my guitar's volume pot as nearly any high-end tube amp I have used.

Capable of incredible smooth, realistic, infinitely sustaining overdrive with a big, stringy low-end (lots of definition), but when you roll back the guitars volume a tad you get a reedy, honky tone that remains me of Warren Haynes' Govt. Mule tones.......and I'm talking about in to a nearly clean amplifier.

Touch responsive, huge sounding, sustain for days... and crystal clear when the guitar's volume knob is reduced for great live dynamics. Being that Robin uses Fenders as well as Marshalls, it had to work well with both types...it does. And Robin hits so hard that the front end of the pedal had to be tuned for those .012-.048 tuned-down strings...the RTO holds tight and smooth for Strat and Les Paul players alike.

Robin's quite happy with the way it turned out, and I think you will be too.

Roll back the guitar's volume a bit further and you get a snappy, percussive clean with a bit of musical compression.

A home run!

Condition: Like New with Box (Box shows some minor age)

Street Price New: $145.99

Savings $25.00

Warranty: N/A

Fulltone's classic Silicon based fuzz pedal. A staple for many years before being discontinued a few years ago.

As the name implies the fuzz tones generated by this pedal are of the early 70's style and are relatively explosive sounding tones heard during the Hendrix Band of Gypsies era recordings.

As with all Fulltone pedals, the 70's fuss is extremely well-built and housed in a 16 gauge steel box and Powder coated Deep Blue.  Ideally for older 4 input Marshall amps and Germinos, it has much more FUZZ than the '69 Pedal and includes a Mid control for extra clarity and cut.

Mike Fuller got his hands on The Blue Fuzzface used by Eric Johnson from "Tones" through "Ah Via Musicom" and incorporated a few of its tonal secrets into the '70 pedal with staggering sonic results!
 

Condition: Good (some chips in finish) Street Price New: $39.00 Savings: $14.00 A BOSS Classic. The DS-1 Distortion pedal provides a harder distortion effect. Instead of toneless, fuzzy distortion, the DS-1 faithfully reproduces the subtle nuances of playing dynamics--at any volume and allows the player to add distortion to any amp even those that only have a clean mode or channel. Reproduces dynamics of playing, from soft to hard Distortion, Level and Tone control to tailor overall sound as desired 

Condition: Excellent Street Price New: $87.00 Savings: $17.01 Warranty: 30 day parts and labor The venerable MT-2 was first released in the mid to late 80's as the ultimate way to take any clean tone and turn it in to a seriously thick Heavy Metal tone. WIth a parametric style EQ stack for the midrange and a high/low shelving tone stack, this pedal allows for perfect tweaking of lows, highs and midrange to achieve the exact Metal tone you are looking for. 

Condition: Excellent

Street Price New: $119.50

Savings: $24.50

Warranty: 90 days parts and labor

*Guitar Player Magazine's Editor's Pick Award winner The Direct Drive provides guitar players with classic amp tones! True to life overdrive with greatly reduced compression artifacts, this unit has it all... clarity, great guitar volume knob control, solid punchy articulate bass, gain range from a little juice to fat harmonic overdrive. Give your guitar playing a vintage voice with this stellar performer!