How old school are YOU?

[GIBSON67]

I'm so old school I just stomp my feet and clap my hands.

Electricity is for pussies

We used to DREAM of stomping our feet and clapping our hands...

We were SO old school that we had to whistle our tunes through the holes where our feet and hands used to be!

 

[Bull Rock]

I'm so old school I just stomp my feet and clap my hands.

Electricity is for pussies

You win

 

[Matthews Guitars]

Yes I usually play with a straight cord and no noise toys to mess up the signal. However I'm not above using a Tube Screamer for a clean boost.

Many things that are "old school" are old friends to me. Manual transmissions. 1970s Cadillacs with the high beam footswitch on the floor and the gas filler neck behind the license plate. Typewriters, VCRs, reel to reel tapes. Video recorders BEFORE the VCR was invented! Vinyl before the invention of the CD player. Telephones with cords on them. Rotary dial phones.

 

[StrummerJoe]

Geezer

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Reverb, for me, comes from the room you are in not the amp. At playing volume it just dirties it up IMO, nothing more pure than a clean signal.

Remember though, its all subjective, this is just my personal take on it.

Which room in your house has natural reverb?

 

[Matthews Guitars]

The garage, if it's empty! The last time it was that empty was 2004.

I love a great Fender reverb but when you start playing with overdrive, delay beats overdrive every day all day.

 

[Edgar Frog]

I'm 80's old scool. I plug straight into my pedalboard that plugs straight into my amp. So I plug straight in twice, 3 times if you count the loop. That's more times than anyone that only plugs straight into the amp. Slackers

 

[SmokeyDopey]

Really old school. My pedal's firmware has the earliest version. Ancient!

 

[jcm800gridlock]

Pedal guilty now. Pedal board plugged in front of the amp (only one amp with a loop and not used).

But in a band, it was straight into a Marshall.

I did use a tuner and Wah plugged in front of the amp as needed.

 

[DirtySteve]

I'm "kind of" old school. I only use a boost to tighten things up and I want it as transparent as possible.

 

[Lo-Tek]

It's like deja vu all over again

Pedals? No Pedals?

 

[Mitchell Pearrow]

When I first got my 2104 MV I used no pedals, but when we played live, I used a cry baby, this gave me more freedom, and was a great treble boost for my Explorer.
So this was back in 80 - 83.
Now I use an SD1, delay, and mxr micro chorus.

 

[fitz]

I have no shame, I'm a pedal whore.
I must be trying to compensate for something...

- I use them to make up for a complete lack of talent.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

I embrace tech. Use whatever pedals are required to do the job. Live, a floor tuner is essential. I like a wah. Modulation in loop. Whatever fun toys I decide to play with to make fun noises.
Depends on one's style and likes. Old school players likely play old school music which is fine. I play harder stuff and like to noodle with toys. I require, or at least like, different effects for different songs.
If one is covering a song live that uses a chorus or flanger is it not preferable to use the same?
Some of those videos make it sound like purists are somehow "better" than one using pedals. Ridiculous.

 

[tallcoolone]

I've been wrestling all night with setting up a MIDI rig for Friday. That's pretty damn old school

 

[DirtySteve]

I have no shame, I'm a pedal whore.
I must be trying to compensate for something...

- I use them to make up for a complete lack of talent.

Maybe I should try that.

My problem is I don't know how to use pedals like delay, flange, chorus, etc... I've tried to use them in the past, but it never worked out for me.

Now, I wasn't being completely honest before because I don't use it very much, but with my Harvard clone I do use pedals, I use a reverb and fuzz.

...and I do use a tuner pedal, but I don't think that counts.

 

[Bull Rock]

@DirtySteve check these guys out!
Watch till end

Rock is alive and kicking.

In a world now filled with mediocre new music, rises another true rock and roll machine defining the genre we all loved and grew up on. SRB

www.marshallforum.com

 

[DirtySteve]

@DirtySteve check these guys out!
Watch till end

Rock is alive and kicking.

In a world now filled with mediocre new music, rises another true rock and roll machine defining the genre we all loved and grew up on. SRB

www.marshallforum.com

I know these guys. I posted one of their vids a while back in the friday means rawk thread...or the other one, I don't remember which.

 

[Bull Rock]

Killer band! They know how to lay that shit down.

 

[nortiks]

Ok lets see a show of hands....who's pedal board here consists of a cable. How many of you guys plug straight in?

On a Hiwatt (clone), definitely.