Comments on: What is this? – Unidentified guitar effect on early Dire Straits stage

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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:27:54 +0000

[...] It also includes a few backstage scenes from before the gig, and from the end of the set. Also, due to the various camera positions, you get a glance of the backstage line, and even on the floor where Mark’s effects were place, normally well hidden behind those monitor speakers (e.g. at 0:49 or 4:49). We can see the Morley vloule pedal and, left from it, the MXR analog delay. There seems to be a third little box about a feet left from the MXR. Of course the picture quality is not good enough to see any details, but nevertheless. I oberserved something similar in the Rockpalast videos, see this blog post. [...]

By: Vihar

Vihar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:28:19 +0000

I bet it’s an MXR Dynacomp.

By: John

John — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:46:34 +0000

Given that I know what the Morley and MXR delay look like and wouldn’t have been able to identify either of them from the picture, this is a total guess. Total speculation, but maybe a compressor or a clean boost… When are you going to let us know more about your theory??