HW: colorsound

Tue Apr 21 13:15:16 EDT 2009

But no revived Coloursound wah?  I have it in mind that there was a  
Coloursound wah revival, but perhaps it's been discontinued.

Well, for those kinds of prices, I could get one of those snazzy  
Teese Wizard wahs or something.  Not at all associated with Hawkwind,  
but very fine wah pedals. :)

As it stands, however, since my old Thomas Organ Crybaby is kind of  
sick and weak these days, I simply use a stock Dunlop Jimi Hendrix  
wah.  (If it was good enough for Zakk Wylde in his pre-signature  
model days, then it's good enough for me .... ;))

Cheers,
Carl

On 21 Apr 2009, at 05:27, Chris Warburton wrote:
> In fact, try here:
> http://www.macaris.co.uk/product_range.asp?typeID=27&catID=5
> Cheers
> Chris Warburton
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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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