Effect profile /Gain

MXR Blue Box

Also catalogued as Blue Box

Explore the documented settings, signal-chain positions and roles of MXR Blue Box in dated rigs by John Cipollina. Every appearance remains tied to its supporting sources.

Pedalboards: 1
Artists: 1
Archive records: 1

Controls in the archive

BlendFootswitchOutput

How this pedal appears in the archive

These are not generic specifications. Every entry is tied to a dated artist rig and preserves what the sources support: its job in that rig, known settings and its place in the signal path.

How the archive verifies pedalboards

1984Dated coverage

2Cited sources

Documented April 1984 rig

John Cipollina

Stereo split-effects rig

Role in this rig

Feeds Cipollina's modified wah on the bass-pickup side to create the dirty, growling fuzz described in the interview.

Documented setup

Bass pickup path
Wired into the Vox wah
Exact control positions undocumented