HW: colorsound

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

There is some discussion of this on Starfarer's site, for example:
http://www.starfarer.net/storyofwah.html
http://www.starfarer.net/gtrstuff.html

The Coloursound wah pedal is, actually, a reasonably famous bit of  
cult gear, as it was quite a cool-sounding wah pedal.  One sees them  
pass by on e-Bay from time to time -- or used to, at least. I  
remember bidding in an auction for one some years back, when I still  
lived in the UK, but the price quickly started to get stupid!

(Much though I like cool old guitar toys, I think one needs to keep  
in mind that a lot of those famous sounds were made by players using  
whatever they happened to get access to -- and so there's only so  
much point in stressing over the gear! :)  And, clearly, Brock is  
like the antithesis of a guitar gear geek, so he probably had his  
Coloursound wah because he went out to buy a wah pedal and found that  
particular one at a price he liked!).

Cheers,
Carl


On 20 Apr 2009, at 11:21, Steve Swann wrote:

> So basically what I culd find on Colorsound is that they make a  
> boatload of f/x pedals.  Any notion what Dave was using?  If it's  
> varied over the years, which I presume it has, I always wondered  
> most what he was using in the late 90's to get that solid wall of  
> sound like in Hassan I Sabha...
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: Monday, Apr 20, 2009 10:54 am
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> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:33:12AM -0400, Steve Swann typed out:
>
> 	<snip>
>
>> I still think it's funny that Dave (based on what I've heard from
>  interviews and comments of his) apparently doesn't think of  
> himself as
>  much of a guitar player, while l could listen to him play guitar *all
>  goddamn day* (and I have), and prefer him over any number of guitar
>  players who win Guitar Player Magazine readers awards, and have  
> people
>  obsessively trying to copy their wanky "watch me play scales at jet
>  speed" style...  I know it's not quite the same thing, and that in
>  some ways it makes more sense to compare him to people like Malcolm
>  Young, but you guys know what I mean.  Dave's guitar playing is  
> one of
>  the great musical treasures of the world, I wonder if he has any  
> idea.
>
> 	I must have said this before, but there was some online Q&A
> with Dave, possibly even one of the IRC chats they used to do, in  
> which
> someone asked him what his favourite instrument was at the moment  
> and he
> named a sequencer. This caused someone else on the chat to beg for  
> more
> guitar and he made appropriate noises but said something like, "but I
> like sequencers..." So I think you're right, he doesn't know why we're
> so keen on his guitar. But there's loads of people messing with
> sequenceers out there, and many of them are doing *similar* stuff
> because now anyone can set this sort of thing up on a laptop, but  
> there
> is *no-one* playing guitar who makes it sound like Brock,[1] and I  
> don't
> think he gets that :-( Yours,
> 			      Jon
>
> [1] With the exception of the guitarist of the erstwhile doom band
> Warhorse, who was playing rather different stuff but still sounded  
> to me
> like he had managed to replicate Dave's old Coloursound pedal by
> sorcery. Their bassist was a big guy with mutton-chop sideburns and a
> Rickenbacker, too. I figure they knew what they were doing...  
> (Brilliant
> live band, I was very upset when I heard they'd stopped.)
>
> P.S. I've been having some trouble with the list today so if you  
> pointed
> anything at me I probably missed it, sorry.
> -- 
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
> 	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
>  Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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