Old School Digital

[KingsXJJ]

Hey Gang,

Any of you fine fellows swim in these waters in the old days? Amazing how far things have come…

 

[norminal]

Never got to mess around with the Yamaha stuff. My first foray into modeling was this guy:

 

[Piing]

My digital trip started in 1989 with this:

 

[JCW308]

Hey Gang,

Any of you fine fellows swim in these waters in the old days? Amazing how far things have come…

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I had one. It was dreadful!

 

[JCW308]

My digital trip started in 1989 with this:
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Same!

 

[norminal]

I wish I could find mine.

Don’t fret! Just download the IR here:

 

[norminal]

I posted this on Axe-Change years ago:

Axe-Change - Download Preset - Zoom 9002 - by lyricbread

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Axe-Change - Download Other - ZOOM_9002_TM - by lyricbread

Axechange - Fractal Audio Systems. The official source for presets and cabs for your Axe-Fx. Download presets and cabs, or upload your own creations.

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[[Nathan]]

Stock Squier, sub $100 combo amp and this guy... peak teenage rig

 

[2112]

Wild that the FX500 still for as much as they do now, all because of Slowdive.

 

[laxu]

The biggest mistake Yamaha did was to go from these:

to the Magic Stomp, which threw away all those nice controls for an awful menu hell:

While not as old as some of the others posted in this thread, I feel like there was an era when they wanted to cram digital displays into everything and then never thought about how to make them nice to use.

Now we are instead in an era where having some sort of display would be a good idea, but then manufacturers don't put them in.

 

[HomespunEffects]

My brother had the Yamaha FX500. It was a bit raspy.

I still have my Roland GP-100. If that counts.

 

[ragingplatypi]

The biggest mistake Yamaha did was to go from these:

to the Magic Stomp, which threw away all those nice controls for an awful menu hell:

While not as old as some of the others posted in this thread, I feel like there was an era when they wanted to cram digital displays into everything and then never thought about how to make them nice to use.

Now we are instead in an era where having some sort of display would be a good idea, but then manufacturers don't put them in.

I would love to get my hands on a DG-Stomp just to dissect this one super chorussy clean preset. I switched on it by accident and it wound up being the centerpiece for a song, but I never got a chance to figure out what it was doing.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

Lots of DigiTech stuff back in the day. RP3, (another one I can't remember that was black with 10 footswitches), GSP 21 (OG), TSR 12, TSR 24 and GNX 2. And a Peavey Tubefex.

Played Pink Floyd and Rush tribute gigs from '96 to '02 with a Peavey Tubefex with the TSR-12 in the loop into a Peavey Classic 50/50 power amp into a Peavey 410e cab. Piezo out into the RP3 direct to PA.

My digital adulthood began with an Axe-FX Std in 2008.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

 

[Vic Winters]

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

honestly, this is a young buck thread around this place.

 

[quadgear]

The biggest mistake Yamaha did was to go from these:

to the Magic Stomp, which threw away all those nice controls for an awful menu hell:

While not as old as some of the others posted in this thread, I feel like there was an era when they wanted to cram digital displays into everything and then never thought about how to make them nice to use.

Now we are instead in an era where having some sort of display would be a good idea, but then manufacturers don't put them in.

Wow. I can see where the Atomic Amplifire design came from.

 

[Digital Igloo]

This was mine:

 

[Sascha Franck]

Never got to mess around with the Yamaha stuff. My first foray into modeling was this guy:

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Still have it. And the accompanying floor controller. No idea where it hangs around, though.

 

[Whistler]