HW: colorsound

Tue Apr 21 05:54:02 EDT 2009

Recently, some of the Colo(u)rsound peals have been revived, with (as
far as possible) original spec components, but they are priced more as
"boutique" pedals and in a limited production run, rather than as the
more affordable items that they were originally.  You may find that some
of the modern multifunctional modelling pedals have emulations, but
don't quote me on that :-)  Equally, there are probably pedals out there
that have very similar circuitry & sound if you do a bit of research...

Cheers
Chris Warburton
NP:David Toop - Screen Ceremonies
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Subject: Re: HW: colorsound

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-----
> From: Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> Date: Monday, Apr 20, 2009 10:54 am
> Subject: Re: HW: Knights of Space audio mix
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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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