What is your favorite vintage pedal?

[Twinkie]

Do you have a favorite vintage pedal from the 60s, 70s, 80s, or beyond?

Along with something borrowed, something new, and something blue, most all of us have an older vintage pedal in our arsenal.

What stands out in your collection?

[bigmuff113]

This old big muff from '81

[jnepo1]

TC Electronic SPE (Sustain + Parametric EQ). I have 3 of them, and one has been on my main board since I bought them in the early 80's.

[gitold]

I have a Ross phaser on my board . Ive tried to find one I liked better over the 15 years I've had it but there it sits. I'm guesing its from the late 70's or early 80's.

[telepath]

Easy answer for me - Germanium Fuzz Face. Beauty :-)

[artdecade]

'85 ProCo Rat

[gtrguru]

Deluxe memory man. Don't own one but I would love to.

[TheSmokingMan]

the crazy 90s dod pedals with silly names and even sillier control labels like "loud butt face grunge" or "quarts cream pasteurization spill"

[gypsyseven]

I miss that MIJ Boss SD-1 i used to have...

[Twinkie]

So there are those pedals in your collection that are vintage, but not necessarily practical.

For me that would be a Maestro Fuzz Tone circa 1970. Once in while I take it for a spin and revisit my youth.

On the other hand I have a number of MXR products from the early 80s ranging from three Dyna Comps, Micro Amp, Distortion II, Flanger, and Stereo Chorus. I recently purchase an Envelope Filter from this era and have a Limiter from this same time period on the way.

I can see many of these 80s MXR pedals being a mainstay mixed in with the more modern Keeley, Xotica, and Pigtronix stuff. Also of note a Boss pedal of any vintage is usually great item. And let us not forget all those Tube Screamer fans out there...

[tele salivas]

I have replica's of old stuff, but no real old stuff. I have a few vintage guitars, and I'm not getting any younger. Getting kind of relic'd, actually.

[backalleyblues]

Hmm...

Still on board-'86 RAT, 70's Thomas Organ Crybaby, '95 (?) TS-5 Tubescreamer

In the pedal pagoda-SD1 from god-knows-when...

Wish I had (it died on me) MXR Micro-Chorus... loved that thing, especially moving the speed knob up to 3 o'clock-instant Leslie sound!!! Might get another at some point...

Franc Robert

[Flakey]

DOD FX10 Bi-FET Preamp

[TB72]

Boss DM2.

It's still my gold standard for slapback echo.

[bossking7]

An 80's Ibanez CS9 chorus

[damaged]

I'd have to say my mxr reissue phase 90. Sure it's not actually vintage but the circuit is a lot closer than the recent block logo versions.
For a pedal with 1 knob I can get 5 sounds from it, and it sounds great. Slightly noisy and not true bypass but I can handle that.

[BBill64]

Would kill for a vintage Univibe

[coldwar1977]

vintage EHX Small Clone !

[Tom Cook]

I have an old beat up TC Electronics Chorus / Flanger that still sound great .

[artdecade]

If we are only dreaming, I want Frank Zappa's Electro Wagnerian Emancipator.

In 77 he touted an "attractive little device" he called the Electro Wagnerian Emancipator, which he claimed combined a "frequency follower with a device that puts out harmony notes to what you're playing. You can have your choice of any 12 chromatic notes in four parts following your runs. You can't play chords with it, but linearly it'll follow you whether you bend or whatever. Its main drawback is that the tone that comes out of it is somewhat like a Farfisa organ."