Vintage Script 1976 MXR Distortion + Effects Pedal / Randy Rhodes – Jerry Garcia – Thom Yorke

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Well-used with lots of road wear.  Sounds great and works as it should. All original and stock! Missing base screws. 

Date of manufacture comes from the serial number on the CTS pots which reads 1377608.  This states that the pot was made on the 8th week of 1976.

 

The MXR Distortion + (“Distortion Plus”) is a distortion pedal originally designed in the 1970s by MXR Innovations. As its name implies “distortion,” it’s a ‘distortion’ (parallel clipping) but has a rather mild sound. It has been cloned many times, most famously by the DOD 250 Overdrive (a distortion). The pedal uses a single op-amp and a pair of germanium diodes to ground (parallel-push) for clipping in a very simple configuration with only Output and Distortion controls, no tone control; the pedal uses no discrete transistors. Turning up the Distortion control increases the amount of distortion and at the same time cuts some bass from the signal. This pedal is perhaps best known for its crunchy heavy metal sound that was featured by Randy Rhoads in his work with Ozzy Osbourne. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead used this pedal exclusively for distortion in the late 1970s. Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü also used the Distortion + as part of his trademark guitar sound. Dave Murray of Iron Maiden has used Distortion + since the early 1980s. Thom Yorke of Radiohead has included the Distortion + for many of his signature distortion sounds, using a variety of guitars to achieve various tonal options. Rowland S. Howard (The Birthday Party/These Immortal Souls/Crime & the City Solution/Solo albums) also used this pedal across his career.

 

 

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