Wasn't there a famous trumpeter who had a chunk of lip skin stuck into his trumpet, thus giving it a special sound ?

While you are always having to think over "Is this thing borken?", I have heard a couple of very interesting Gorilla amps that I highly suspected were indeed borken.

Tommy wrote:William Reid's Shin-ei fuzz wah pedal used on Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and others is supposedly "borken".Wow. That would explain so much.

Supposedly part of the 3x10 Bandmasters special sound was the weird speaker loadEspecially when punished. It's all over the first Montrose lp.

Chris Squire's main Rickenbacker bass was famously borken.

Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion Jump to searchSantiago Durango Man, those pedals sucked.The Earth Sound Research Graphic Fuzz, which I've discussed at length on the PRF, almost seems to be Borken At Birth. The FILTER knob varies from pedal to pedal (I have one, I've played though three different examples), each pedal I ever tested had a different sound. Some oscillate all crazy, some don't. I'm sure that's why the pedal was a total failure, but therein lies it's wonky charm.

Clyde McCoy? He helped create the good wah wah pedals.We had a guy in Jr High School band that would play insane high notes, and the band master would say "You're going to blow your lip! Stop it!" I don't think he left any lip skin in his mouth piece, though.

William Reid's Shin-ei fuzz wah pedal used on Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and others is supposedly "borken".

My first ever guitar pedal was a used Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion that was either broken or out of alignment. For anyone unfamiliar with these, you can hold the pedal down as you make a noise with the guitar and it will "sustain" that sound. It basically samples your pitch and generates a keyboard like tone that is adjustable with one knob that kind of controls timber, octave, and tone all at the same time. With my borken one, you could run a drum machine into it and holding down the pedal created a faux bass line. I sold that pedal for whatever reason, but I had 2 more of these pedals later that didn't do this, which bummed me out.

jimmy spako wrote:Dub techno producer Stefan Betke, aka Pole, initially made a career and signature sound out of a borken filter.That's the one I was going to post. Great sound.