Gloss yellow Red Rooster OC71

[jerms]

here's one FS on TGP....

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=776152

[johnson]

here's one FS on TGP....

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=776152

I believe that one was mine, she was purty

[AGuitarPlayer]

I guess the OC71 Roosters are kind of old news at this point, but I recently acquired one of these in a trade (thanks Tom) and it really is amazing. I had been kicking myself for passing on one of the candy apple ones when they came up for sale on Downstroke, so I was stoked to pick this up.

Great "Sister Ray" rhythm sound and it picks up some crazy as hell sizzle after a fuzzbox, which had me wondering whether the Velvets used a treble booster on the White Light/White Heat record. I just did a google search and supposedly they used a Vox midrange boost and Tone Bender. Makes sense after playing through the Rooster.

Anyway, great job Linzi! This is one helluva stompbox!

[psycho*daisies]

I guess the OC71 Roosters are kind of old news at this point, but I recently acquired one of these in a trade (thanks Tom) and it really is amazing. I had been kicking myself for passing on one of the candy apple ones when they came up for sale on Downstroke, so I was stoked to pick this up.

Great "Sister Ray" rhythm sound and it picks up some crazy as hell sizzle after a fuzzbox, which had me wondering whether the Velvets used a treble booster on the White Light/White Heat record. I just did a google search and supposedly they used a Vox midrange boost and Tone Bender. Makes sense after playing through the Rooster.

Anyway, great job Linzi! This is one helluva stompbox!

i wonder if they got an endorsement deal with Vox, where a bunch of gear was given to them.

[AGuitarPlayer]

i wonder if they got an endorsement deal with Vox, where a bunch of gear was given to them.

I think they did.

Here's a pretty extensive Lou Reed eqpt list:
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/gear.htm

Looks like I initially read this wrong and Lou used an amp which was modified with a midrange boost rather than a outboard unit.

I wonder if the Tone Bender was actually a Vox since the list has Mick Ronson using a Vox Tone Bender on Transformer which was obviously not the case.

[imsilly]

I guess the OC71 Roosters are kind of old news at this point, but I recently acquired one of these in a trade (thanks Tom) and it really is amazing. I had been kicking myself for passing on one of the candy apple ones when they came up for sale on Downstroke, so I was stoked to pick this up.

Great "Sister Ray" rhythm sound and it picks up some crazy as hell sizzle after a fuzzbox, which had me wondering whether the Velvets used a treble booster on the White Light/White Heat record. I just did a google search and supposedly they used a Vox midrange boost and Tone Bender. Makes sense after playing through the Rooster.

Anyway, great job Linzi! This is one helluva stompbox!

i wonder if they got an endorsement deal with Vox, where a bunch of gear was given to them.

They definitely did, I read they were quite proud of the fact and if you look at them performing before that it is all old Brown Fenders they seem to be plugged into. I get the impression though that they would have sounded like they did either way. I know their producers were definitely going for a healthy amount of noise on their records quite deliberately and they had a lot of cool noise makers back then. Still love everything by the Velvets, Lou Reed and Nico. So ahead of their time really.

[psycho*daisies]

from that equipt list it looks like they got:
Vox Phantom VI guitar
Vox Phantom IV bass
Vox Tone Bender
Vox Super Beatle amp

and I'm guessing, possibly a Vox Continental combo organ (Sister Ray & others)
It says they got this gear before the 1st album, that would have been...1966. I kinda doubt that.
(Why would Vox give an endorsement deal to an unknown unrecorded group?)
Plus in those photos (Exploding Plastic inevitable etc)
It's still the Fender brownface Deluxe, Silvertone 1484, Gretsch and Guyatone/or whatever...(no Vox gear) and the first album
may have a lot of noisy guitar, but i think that's just overdriven amps, no fuzz...right?

I bet they got the Vox gear sometime in '67 and used it on White Light/White Heat sessions..This would probably be one of the early Tone Benders made in Italy by Jen.