Jan 062008
I’m not sure how far we’ll get with this one, but be creative. For the game’s sake, we’ll also allow the converse: cartoon or movie characters that sound like effects boxes – but if you go this route you’ll need to define the effect. I’ll kick it off with one of my favorites (andyr knows the other one I have in mind, for sure): Tube Screamer.
Your move.
Memory Man!
Wah-Wah box – Charlie Brown adults
Big Muff Pi.
Fuzz Face
One of my all-time faves: Dr. Q!
The Ibanez “T-Wah”: sounds like the name of a Japanese rapper.
Ibanez Modulation Delay sounds like female Transformers and demonic witches.
Mu-tron
Octaver
Marshall Shredmaster
Soul Preacher
Dr. Q
Dr. Q was already listed, HVB. I’d disqualify you from this thread if not for your previous mention of Soul Preacher.
yes, hvb, please adhere to the parameters the mod has set out, would you?
and for that matter, how does Octaver qualify?
If “Ibanez Modulation Delay sounds like female Transformers and demonic witches” as Kilroy suggests, then for the life of me, “Boss Heavy Metal Pedal” sounds like little pink fairies who sprinkle pixie dust on us in our sleep.
not really, but i just felt like having some fun.
havin fun is what we’re havin!
yes, any time we get to mention heavy metal pedals, transformers, Dr. Q’s, then our fun falls juuuuust short of the fun we have when using said objects.
nobody has mentioned the obsvious cartoon character / literary figment of our collective imaginations / pedal name.
THE RAT!
by the way, “memory man” is a fucking brilliant entry: it’s a pretty boring pedal name that takes on new life in the context of this thread.
and once again, rth *gives back* to the world of rock and roll.
Electric Mistress.
Who, clearly, would be appearing in the same kinds of cartoons that BigSteve has seen Big Muff Pi in.
Funky Winkerbeen
That’s for the guitarist who has a reputation as a lecher who seldom bathes.
Nice reversal, Mockcarr. You too, Andyr.
Here’s a simple but effective character: Cry Baby.
Ultron
Soda Miser
http://www.oohlalamanufacturing.com/soda.html
Ultraviolet
http://www.oohlalamanufacturing.com/ultra.html
Synth Mangler
http://www.oohlalamanufacturing.com/synth.html
The Synth Mangler is a cartoon villain if you LOVE the 80s, a hero if you hate them!
Two names I could see going to cartoon characters (maybe) are…
Meistro
and
Black Finger
Leslie Cabinet
A shameful, cowardly character, Small Stone.
The femme fatale of the Stomp Box Superheroes: Electric Mistress!
Now who needs to be disqualified from the thread?
I’ll add Beano Boost. He’d be at home in the lineup of some Chester Gould-inspired cartoon.
Funky Winkerbean is totally the name of a jam-band guitarist’s envelope filter!
Alexmagic wrote:
Shoot! I’ll take my knocks and disqualify myself from this thread. Sorry, folks. Please carry on without me.
Saffron Squeeze (part of the rare Way Huge pedal line).
Also doubles as a porn name.
Lovetone’s “Meatball” pedal is pretty close in name to the actual cartoon character called “Meatwad”.
If there isn’t a pedal called the Red Baron, there should be.