Ultimate Rhoads

Relax Andy P

You are right. Most people (even myself) see the "CRYBABY" logo on the pedal, so naturally think a Dunlop and don't have ANY idea of the history.
Same fucking pedal, but ok, to be exact, probably a Thomas Organ pre-Dunlop Cry Baby pedal!

No. That's a more modern thing to crank the volume and then set the gain. Back in the day, some people may have done that, in fact, there is a photo of Randy in session and a stand-alone D+ pedal with those type of settings with nothing plugged into it, but any photos of his pedalboard....YouTube 20...

yeah, we'll see about the D+. I'm betting it is stock, just like the other 3 MXR pedals in the board. The thing if the D+ IS moded would be to get rid of the shortcomings. The pedal sounds great when distortion is turned up 3-5 o'clock and volume to at least nominal, but problem is in the design of ...

Hey Flying Dutchman "By 'beefed up' did he meant adding the 'cascade mod' ?" Yes. That is exactly what Randy meant. As far as the inside of Randy's Marshall, the photo I included above with the circled resistor "out of place" Danny Thomas wrote about is Randy's actual amp gut sho...

Ok guys, I took a good HARD look at some thing... First, I looked at the guts of Randy's actual white head that were posted in a video and when Randy's head were reverse engineered by the folks at Marshall. I identified the one (470k) resistor that Danny said was "out of place" when he loo...

It's really great that all of the pedals IN the pedalboard are MXR. The D+ is very easy to duplicate and if nothing more than a stock unit basically, they can reproduce it, do some graphic work and make bank on nothing more than a stock D+. However, if it was modified in any way, that is going to be...

I gotcha. Well, I can look at the "gutshots" of Randy's actual amp and let you know. Danny communicated "well, there was an extra resistor in there" is clearly visible to me as an engineer, previous sr. technician, so I can parlay the components on ST1 PCB and see what it was doi...

Shockwave has it spot on. The Wah is a Dunlop Cry Baby, NOT a VOX. The Volume pedal is a Roland FV-2. Why just the D+ and not the Flange and Chorus...because they are stock and the Flange very, very seldom used (Flying High Again, a part comes to mind but that's about it). The Chorus, he did you a f...

I guess we'll find out what MXR found when they reverse-engineered the thing....finally!! https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jim-dunlop-randy-rhoads-distortion-2023?utm_content=guitarist&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR3Hgg4oaFORGM8aZ0ITh4lK...

Hey guys, just wanted to chime in from a technical standpoint. This is VERY exciting for me, as like they said, NO ONE has seen the inside of his board in FORTY YEARS!! Even my "clone" is based on IF his pedals were stock or not and how I would think Pete approached the design for Randy's ...

I can't seem to find my copy in my files. Must have misplaced it, but was able to find it online if anyone is interested. If not...don't view it!

ref: https://imgur.com/a/PHNvd

Looking to give it a go! Knew about it earlier in the year. Got a call from my drummer actually this morning 10:30a and said he watched it and enjoyed it! Gave him a new appreciation for Quiet Riot also. I LOVED Metal Health when it came out, but Quiet Riot wasn't really a group I adhered toward and...

That is amazing, and was a real labor of love. Kudos to you for taking the time to do it well and do it right! Total respect and love from me here...and I bet you could put one or two of these together for a small profit from some of the die-hards on here that would put them over the moon. Thank yo...

Hey guys I need to take some pro photos with a white or green background, but finished the pedalboard Labor Day weekend after finalizing on the custom looper I designed and used under the hood, painted the pedals gray like Randy's and finally spray painted "RANDY RHOADS" and "HANDLE W...

Hey guys I need to take some pro photos with a white or green background, but finished the pedalboard Labor Day weekend after finalizing on the custom looper I designed and used under the hood, painted the pedals gray like Randy's and finally spray painted "RANDY RHOADS" and "HANDLE W...