My first effects pedal was...

[Flash Harry]

I got a zoom 505 and a cry baby for my birthday a few years back. Both good, 505 for versatility and cry baby for construction and doing a single job very well.

[Bro]

Mine was a BOSS DD-3, got it for my birthday. I played it for a while, than i put it away and forgot about it. Later i purchased more pedals and i got in to using it again 

[steveblues50]

my first fuzz box was a christmas gift from my mom in 1969.i believe it was made by ampeg but not positive.i should see if i can find info on what co.s were making them.it was the fuzz on happiness is a warm gun by ..well i think they were a little combo from liverpool ...ah memories.

[Tony]

Vox Wah. VOX WAH. vox wah. VOX WAH. vox wah.  Ah well, you get the joke.  But my first pedal was a Vox Wah.

[64Guitars]

my first fuzz box was a christmas gift from my mom in 1969.i believe it was made by ampeg but not positive.i should see if i can find info on what co.s were making them.it was the fuzz on happiness is a warm gun by ..well i think they were a little combo from liverpool ...ah memories.

According to this page, The Beatles used the Maestro Fuzztone, WEM Pep Rush, Vox Tonebender, and Fuzz Face.

[bruno]

My first pedal was a distortion box I built from a circuit in Everyday Electronics. Built on vero-board - bought all the parts in an electronics shop in Edmonton where you gave them the list and they found all the resistors, capacitors and transistors behind the counter. Still have it somewhere in the loft, and it still works :-)

[Farrell Jackson]

My first effects device wasn't really a pedal. It was an Electro-Harmonix LPB-1 Clean Power Booster. I got it about 1970 or so. I still have it around some where but I haven't thought about it in years.  I'm sure it still works because it was simple device that plugged direct to the amps 1/4 in jack and then the guitar chord plugged to it. It's a 9V driven little square silver box with an on switch and gain knob. It looked kind of funny sticking out of the front of the amp. I see that Electro Harmonix re-introduced it a few years back. My second effects was a Maestro Phase Shifter that had two gigantic wheels on the side to control with your foot. I remember one control was called Balls, lol! It's long gone though.

Farrell

[steelguitar]

For me, it was a wah wah pedal from Ibanez (WH10) ... buyed by my brother around 1988... and stolen by me 





It was an excellent pedal, used by John Frusciante of RHCP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJ9xnlp83Y

I remember trying to play Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile solo with that pedal on my Marshall amp with my Epiphone guitar...

Jean-Sébastien

[peterp]

Ibanez FL-301 Flanger I picked up many decades ago, still works.

[Geir]

My first pedal was a distortion box I built from a circuit in Everyday Electronics. Built on vero-board - bought all the parts in an electronics shop in Edmonton where you gave them the list and they found all the resistors, capacitors and transistors behind the counter. Still have it somewhere in the loft, and it still works :-)

I did the same, I think even it might be the exact same circuit. I think I still have the magazine somewhere, but the stompbox had to give up some of it parts to repair of other stomp-boxes later.