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Leigh Stephens

Stephens identifies a Fuzz Face and a wah-wah as the effects used with his SGs, Stratocasters and multiple high-power amplifier stacks during the original Blue Cheer period.

Board
Blue Cheer fuzz-and-wah core
Context
Original Blue Cheer live rig
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Core signal path
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
2 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Blue Cheer fuzz-and-wah core

Artist-documented effects inventory; cable order unresolved

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path

Asked by Vintage Guitar for his main Blue Cheer gear, Stephens names the guitars and Marshall stacks before explicitly listing a Fuzz Face and wah-wah. The same interview dates his tenure as 1966-1969 and ties him to the first two albums, both released in 1968. A community-hosted period photograph independently supports the presence of a long treadle wah and labels it a King Vox, but its original metadata and identifying details are not strong enough to promote that exact model here. No source establishes jack-to-jack order, settings, exclusivity or use on a particular recording. The display therefore follows Stephens' spoken enumeration and is marked as a reconstructed sequence rather than a cable trace.

Cited sources

  1. Vintage GuitarLeigh Stephens: Blue Cheer Flashbacks
  2. EquipboardLeigh Stephens effects inventory and period wah photograph