Special-edition MXR Randy Rhoads Distortion+ Pedal (NOT a limited edition)

This devalues the 450$ I spend on the "limited edition" but I'm game anyway, I'll pick one up. One question I have though, they mention in this video that he set the pot in his wah to fixed frequency BEFORE the MXR+ and his EQ pedal?? I don't hear that at all.

EDIT: wrong video, I just watched an MXR vid where they stated that. Trying to find it.
 
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I just ordered one of these Stevenson NeoSoul brass bridges. Kinda pricy but hell what's your soul worth?
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I’m really tempted to order one, even though I have one from the limited run. Why not have the matching set?
 
So Nerd Alert, this is the vid I was talking about. They very briefly talk about him using the wah as a filter and it is pointed out in comments too. So he would have gone into the Distortion + and then into the 10 band and chorus with wah at the very end of the chain. Presumably set to where he liked the filter in high position because anything toe down made a horrible sound which he would sometimes throw in to certain songs like Children of the Grave or at the end of I don't know ( give it a sweeping sound). The super trebly hissing sound. So it's all coming together how he used that damn bloated distortion + because I can tell you I have an 81 and the polka dot limited edition and you need to tighten them. So he's getting the cut he wants with the wah and then adds the mids to taste with the EQ in between. Pretty damn creative actually. A bit like what I think Schenker ended up doing in early MSG, he'd either ride the nasal cocked wah OR he sometimes dials back the tone knob so it cuts more but isn't overly filtered and nasal. Genius. I've watched a few of the early MSG vids and he goes back and forth on that tone knob. Does it quick.

 
Greazygeo said:
I thought the video said the wah was at the begnning….vol pedal at the end.
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I'm confused because if you look at a pedal board, it's usually right to left..plug into your first pedal on the right and signal flows left out to the amp. He can't wire his wah backwards lol.. therefore it has to sit at the end even though all these online diagrams place it first which is where most people would put it. But hold on.. I suppose "IF" his pedals were mounted upside down in that chip pan, that wah would in fact be first wouldn't it... ahhhhhhhh makes more sense. Filter - distortion - add to taste with EQ. Volume controls how much delay is added in spots. Those pedals flipped upside down confuse the shit out of everything common sense about signal path :unsure: (visually anyway)
 
Ok, I definitely hear it now. Cocked into the distortion plus and evened out by the EQ. Genius. Off to try it out.

 
Kapo_Polenton said:
I'm confused because if you look at a pedal board, it's usually right to left..plug into your first pedal on the right and signal flows left out to the amp. He can't wire his wah backwards lol.. therefore it has to sit at the end even though all these online diagrams place it first which is where most people would put it. But hold on.. I suppose "IF" his pedals were mounted upside down in that chip pan, that wah would in fact be first wouldn't it... ahhhhhhhh makes more sense. Filter - distortion - add to taste with EQ. Volume controls how much delay is added in spots. Those pedals flipped upside down confuse the shit out of everything common sense about signal path :unsure: (visually anyway)
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Will have to rewatch the video again, but sure thought it said wah first. Dist + EQ Flange Chorus an volume. Schenker used his wah as a filter, probably others as well. Not many options back then. In 89 or 90 I stumbled on it trying to get the Loudness tones. Wah in the middle range into sd1 into my modded Superlead. Set the wah first, then adjust the amp eq around it. It as cool but really noisy and you were stuck with that sound.
Also kinda like the LeTekro flanger trick and EVH with the Phase 90. Trying to find ways to boost the midrange 😎
 
PiggySmallz said:
Don't forget about Dimebag
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Yeah, we need a special addition MXR EQ with noisy, vintage op amps and ceramic caps. It can have the KISS sticker on it too! Maybe it'll have a pre-set button too for Dime's settings.
 
matttornado said:
Yeah, we need a special addition MXR EQ with noisy, vintage op amps and ceramic caps. It can have the KISS sticker on it too! Maybe it'll have a pre-set button too for Dime's settings.
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"Collector's items".. I think Dunlop should release all of Randy's pedalboard and allow people to put together their own " chip pan". Now that's marketing.. sell only 1982 of them ( the year of his death) and watch the prices on that go through the roof.
 
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