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 and MXR Innovations, 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?
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 Filter Matrix/Flanger
1978 Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff π (Fuzz)
1976 Electro-Harmonix LPB-2 Linear Power Booster
1976 Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer
1981 Electro-Harmonix Small‑Clone EH 4600 Mini-Chorus
1977 Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter
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
1977 Colorsound Supa Wah-Swell (Wah/Volume)
1970s Colorsound Swell (Volume)
1980s Dunlop Original Cry Baby GCB-95 (Wah)
1989 Marshall The Guv’nor (Overdrive/Distortion)
1976 Sola Sound Tone-Bender Fuzz