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[quote=king_buzzo]on which songs do they use the blue box (mxr octave thingy) on?? i wanna hear how that thing sounds.
So ya wanna know one way the Blue Box can sound? (kind of the way it was meant to sound, rather than the fun funny noise way it can be used.) Led Zepp's song "Fool in the Rain", the guitar solo is 100 % Blue Box.
The real King Buzzo of the Melvins also used the Blue Box, then later DOD made a similar pedal for him called The Buzz Box. I think that may have broken down and he went back to his original Blue Box. I had an original 70s Blue Box I bought used in the late 80s for $35. It was cool, though I sold it when I got bored, a not so bright move. I say that because I bought a reissue one in the mid 90s and used it for a while, and while I liked it, it did not have the same tone (or quite as much low octave madness factor) as the original 70s era Blue Box I had once. Also, the original one had way more output, it could STOMP! The reissue did better when boosted by my Carl Martin compressor. My recomendation is that if one has the cash, shell out for the original non-LED version, probably would cost $200 or so on the vintage market, but trust me, it's more over the top. Wish I had kept that one. You see, some vintage effects use certain transistors, op-amps, etc, that are not available now. So the "reissuse" often do not sound exactly like the originals (unless you are buying a handmade boutique pedal replica, where someone has taken up the task to try and locate vintage parts, something a large company like Dunlop can't and won't do.) This is one of the reasons I won't get rid of my late 70s era Big Muff, the new ones are good, but don't sound exactly like it (close, though.) In regards to the Blue Box, I also think they (Dunlop) tried to "tame" the newer Blue Box to make it a little more user friendly, and lowered the output too much (probably to avoid risk of speaker damage.)
What I do have that is fun and gives some simular moments is a Rocktron Purple Haze pedal. It combines a low-octave (simular to a Orberheim octave synth sound) with an octave up like an Octavia, you can combine the two sounds, and it's total Robert Fripp mid-70s King Krimson prog fuzz fun.
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