David Toop

Mentioned in Toop's essay "Rush Pep Box".

Another characteristic of the pedal, exploited in pieces such as “Cloud Studies N. 2,” recorded for our first BBC Radio Three broadcast in 1973, was its destructive interaction with other effects pedals [3]. If it were used in combination with my second fuzz box, for example, the additive sound would be a cancelled sustain. In other words, the normal decay time of the more conventional pedal would begin as usual, but then fade away into a complex, spluttering distortion or disappear abruptly. In this configuration my guitar (at that time a Fender Esquire) could sound not unlike the hybrid electronic keyboard sounds popular from the early 1960s until the mid-1970s, such as the Rocksichord, Clavinet and Clavioline. One influence on our music came from Sun Ra, and since Sun Ra had made records with these and other electronic keyboards, this increased the attraction of the effect [4].