CRAVE Effects – Cool & Rare Vintage Guitar Effect Pedals
Unless there are compelling reasons to the contrary, only vintage guitar effect pedals have discrete CRAVE Guitars features written for them on these pages. While new/modern digital or hybrid pedals and multi‑effects boards may be great, there is something beguiling about vintage standalone analogue effects and the evocative sounds they make.
The reason for selecting these particular effect pedals is purely down to personal preference. They may be rare, common, unusual or just interesting stomp boxes. These pedals are ones that I want to own and use, rather than because they are collectable on the vintage market. Moreover, they are being looked after for posterity.
They vary in condition from pristine through clean to tatty. Originality is generally a good thing, although that isn’t always possible. To add an extra level of interest, where possible, they include original boxes and/or documentation, even though this tends to be the exception, rather than the rule. Ultimately, they are here simply because I like them and I think they are pretty darn cool. Nuff said.
CRAVE Guitars focuses on classic vintage effects mainly from American brands such as Electro-Harmonix, MXR Innovations and DOD, as well as Japanese manufacturers like BOSS (by Roland) and Ibanez (by Maxon). In addition, there are some other classic pedals from America, Europe and Asia. Why not begin your journey of guitar effect pedal discovery here at CRAVE Effects?
CRAVE Effects also differs from other CRAVE categories by featuring pedals from the early 1990s.
Click on the links below to view the features on each vintage guitar effect pedal…
Cool & Rare Vintage Effects from America:
1980 Electro Harmonix Bad Stone Phase Shifter
1977 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff π (Fuzz)
1977 Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man Analog Delay
1976 Electro-Harmonix Doctor Q Envelope Follower
1977 Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter Matrix
1978 Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff π (Fuzz)
1976 Electro-Harmonix LPB-2 Linear Power Booster
1976 Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer
1977 Electro-Harmonix Screaming Tree Treble Booster (NEW!)
1981 Electro-Harmonix Small‑Clone EH 4600 Mini-Chorus
1977 Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter
1987 DOD FX10 Bi-Fet Preamp (NEW!)
1991 DOD FX17 Wah‑Volume Controller Pedal (NEW!)
1995 DOD FX25 Envelope Filter (NEW!)
1988 DOD FX-35 Octoplus (NEW!)
1990 DOD FX50-B Overdrive Plus (NEW!)
1992 DOD FX52 Classic Fuzz (NEW!)
1991 DOD FX53 Classic Tube (NEW!)
1991 DOD FX54 Attacker (NEW!)
1988 DOD FX56 American Metal (NEW!)
1988 DOD FX65 Stereo Chorus (NEW!)
Cool & Rare Vintage Effects from Japan:
1980 BOSS CS-1 Compression Sustainer
1986 BOSS PSM-5 Power Supply & Master Switch
Other Cool & Rare Vintage Effects from around the world:
1975 Colorsound Supa Tone Bender (UK)
1977 Colorsound Supa Wah-Swell (Wah/Volume) (UK)
1970s Colorsound Swell (Volume) (UK)
1969 Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (UK)
1980 Jen Cry Baby Super (Wah) (Italy)
1989 Marshall The Guv’nor (Overdrive/Distortion) (UK)
1976 Sola Sound Tone-Bender Fuzz (UK)
1969 VOX Repeat Percussion (Tremolo) (UK/Italy) (NEW!)
1960s VOX Volume/Expression (UK)