Foxrox Captain Coconut

Uhmm... come on! How hard is it to use an analog pedal!

So far,the best tone in thsi genre of effect I've heard.

While this pedal is not necessarily the mainstay of my sound, I wouldnt want to be without it. It is a brick house in contruction btw.

Dave Fox is very passionate about his work and wants to make sure his
customers are beyond satisfied..

I recently purchased the first production, Captain Coconut pedal by
Foxroxelectronics.com from analogman - Mike.
IF you are a fan of Hendrix, if you are a fan of SRV, if you are a fan of
Dave Gilmour, even John Frusciante of the RHCP or Lenny Kravitz... you will
find aural pleasure in owning this piece of work.
The initial idea of having three of my analog favorites: octavia, fuzz and
univibe in one box was
exciting enough but to actually sit/stand and play this joy box was
extremely satisfying.
I have owned several types of the 3 effects included in this pedal, as well
have played extensively through many others only to find The Capt. coconut
the finest example of all of them.
I put this baby's Provibe section up against, a Fulltone Dejavibe, P.E. Vibe
Unit, Voodoo Labs Microvibe, Roger Mayer voodoovibe, and to mention also the
dunlop univibe and rotovibe.

The Capt. Coconut Provibe for one is already in the hands of pro musicians
like Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz for good reason, the vintage
mojo of this pedal delivers what I would call a "swiss army knife" vibe. It
has a shape knob on it that appears to be a modeler of all the different
shades of what others have molded their ideal vibe to be. (width and shape
are very interactive)
Simple to say that you are not stuck w/ a one trick pony even on the vibe
standing alone next to its other two effects; the Fuzzfoot and Octave.
I can say I have appreciated some aspect of every other designers univibe
clone, but that in itself was the problem as they were somewhat
uni-dimensional. (doesnt make em bad,just limited)
Not the case with the Provibe section of the Capt coconut (btw. the in/out
jacks of the pedal allows u to patch in each effect in any order you want,
and comes with a jack to plug in a remote c.c.pedal to treadle speed
control).
For my ears and playing style..I want a vibe to emulate a watery rotating
speaker sound with lowend "wump", but at the same time allow me to hit the
speed knob down to slow and get that fat chewy phasey "schuuwow" sound. I
can do this w/ the Coconut.
Plus the chorus mode in its slowest setting with the width dialed back and
tubescreamer into the front gives a cool mellow swoosh for some 70's phaser
tone. I also found the
vibrato mode of the Provibe to be very usable, not just an add on feature
and not the usual sea sick wobble (which is available to a degree, if thats
your bag) I cant dial out of other pedals.. This vintage pitch modulation at
its warm finest.
In my head and to my ears the woodstock sounds of Jimi Hendrix can be almost
perfectly replicated with the Capt coconut pedal. The Fuzzfoot section of
the pedal also has an additional tone shaper called "grit" and is very
interactive with the gain and volume knob. I can get a nice fat stoner-rock
fuzz tone ala "Fu Manchu" with this and then move back on the grit knob for
perfect hendrix solo-ing, even on to some siamese dream era pumpkins.
Using both the Provibe and the Fuzzfoot at lower gain setting with the
addition of
a delay gets you into Floyd territory easy.
While I'm probably most impressed fuzz wise with Fulltone's "70s" fuzz and
69' fuzz, I want to be able to have both of those baby's in one pedal with
some additional gain smoothing qualities and this does that for me as well.
The octavia section of the capt. coconut to my ears is a cross section of
the RM Octavia and the Fulltone Octafuzz. Here again while I like both of
the other ovtavia pedals, the Capt. coconut delivers all the reso-clank
upper octave tones I like in spades. Diming the gain of this octavia into
the Fuzzfoot (dimed as well) gives you some cool volume swells that work
kinda nifty with a delay pedal.
You just can't beat the quality, versatility, and focused vintage sounds in
one box at $400. While this chunk of dough is tough to dole out, I figure I
save almost $300 w/ the Captn.

If you have owned a fuzz face clone, a univibe clone, and an octavia clone you'll now just how to use this.All others read the manual. This doenst mean its not user friendly but you have to understand how each effect works and interrelates to the other.

I recently purchased the first production, Captain Coconut pedal by Foxroxelectronics.com from analogman - Mike.
IF you are a fan of Hendrix, if you are a fan of SRV, if you are a fan of Dave Gilmour, even John Frusciante of the RHCP or Lenny Kravitz... you will find aural pleasure in owning this piece of work.
The initial idea of having three of my analog favorites: octavia, fuzz and univibe in one box was
exciting enough but to actually sit/stand and play this joy box was extremely satisfying.
I have owned several types of the 3 effects included in this pedal, as well have played extensively through many others only to find The Capt. coconut the finest example of all of them.
I put this baby's Provibe section up against, a Fulltone Dejavibe, P.E. Vibe Unit, Voodoo Labs Microvibe, Roger Mayer voodoovibe, and to mention also the dunlop univibe and rotovibe.

The Capt. Coconut Provibe for one is already in the hands of pro musicians like Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz for good reason, the vintage mojo of this pedal delivers what I would call a "swiss army knife" vibe. It has a shape knob on it that appears to be a modeler of all the different shades of what others have molded their ideal vibe to be. (width and shape are very interactive)
Simple to say that you are not stuck w/ a one trick pony even on the vibe standing alone next to its other two effects; the Fuzzfoot and Octave.
I can say I have appreciated some aspect of every other designers univibe clone, but that in itself was the problem as they were somewhat uni-dimensional. (doesnt make em bad,just limited)
Not the case with the Provibe section of the Capt coconut (btw. the in/out jacks of the pedal allows u to patch in each effect in any order you want, and comes with a jack to plug in a remote c.c.pedal to treadle speed control).
For my ears and playing style..I want a vibe to emulate a watery rotating speaker sound with lowend "wump", but at the same time allow me to hit the speed knob down to slow and get that fat chewy phasey "schuuwow" sound. I can do this w/ the Coconut.
Plus the chorus mode in its slowest setting with the width dialed back and tubescreamer into the front gives a cool mellow swoosh for some 70's phaser tone. I also found the
vibrato mode of the Provibe to be very usable, not just an add on feature and not the usual sea sick wobble (which is available to a degree, if thats your bag) I cant dial out of other pedals.. This vintage pitch modulation at its warm finest.
In my head and to my ears the woodstock sounds of Jimi Hendrix can be almost perfectly replicated with the Capt coconut pedal. The Fuzzfoot section of the pedal also has an additional tone shaper called "grit" and is very interactive with the gain and volume knob. I can get a nice fat stoner-rock fuzz tone ala "Fu Manchu" with this and then move back on the grit knob for perfect hendrix solo-ing, even on to some siamese dream era pumpkins.
Using both the Provibe and the Fuzzfoot at lower gain setting with the addition of
a delay gets you into Floyd territory easy.
While I'm probably most impressed fuzz wise with Fulltone's "70s" fuzz and 69' fuzz, I want to be able to have both of those baby's in one pedal with some additional gain smoothing qualities and this does that for me as well. The octavia section of the capt. coconut to my ears is a cross section of the RM Octavia and the Fulltone Octafuzz. Here again while I like both of the other ovtavia pedals, the Capt. coconut delivers all the reso-clank upper octave tones I like in spades. Diming the gain of this octavia into the Fuzzfoot (dimed as well) gives you some cool volume swells that work kinda nifty with a delay pedal.
You just can't beat the quality, versatility, and focused vintage sounds in one box at $400. While this chunk of dough is tough to dole out, I figure I save almost $300 w/ the Captn. vs. buying all the other effects in

I have only had it a week. In looking this thing over in and out I would say its a solid box through and through.

There are very few who understand customer service like Dave at Foxrox electronics. This guy is king.

props to analogman.com (sells em) and Dave at Foxroxelectronics.com
(designer mastermind)
maximum value/ this minimum amount of real estate on your pedal board for $400.

It took a little while to get used to all the controls.
With Octavia Fuzzfacec and Uni-vibe effects,
there is quite a bit of experimentation to be done.
After individually tweaking each effect, I was able
to get the sounds that I love. The manual looks great
if you can get past the small text. There's a lot of info crammed into it.

I play an American Standard strat into a reissue Vox wah pedal. That goes into the Captain coconut, an old analog delay and then my JCM-800 amp. I cranked it up and the sound is awesome. It definitely comes alive at high volume levels.
Provibe. It nails the Uni-vibe sound. I've owned two original Univibes and a Deja-vibe. This thing has the same sound plus a Center knob that helps to fine tune the sound.
Octave. I have an original Tycobrahe octavia and Captain Coconut nails it. It doesn't seem as shrill as other octavia clones I've heard.
Fuzzfoot. WOW - I immediately fell in love with this fuzz. I've been using an old grey hamertone Fuzzface for about ten years. It always bugged me how it would sound crappy from time to time. To my ears, this fuzz sounds as good if not better than any other "vintage" fuzz I've played.
Great feedback, great tone, now I can use my wah wah pedal going into the Fuzz because Fuzzfoot doesn't hurt the tone. The grit knob is something new to me and I really like it. I can get the sounds that I get when my Fuzzface battery is running low.
I was surprised at how quiet the whole box is, even with everything on!

It's built into a dye-cast aluminum box. Kind of like a big bud box. That's my favorite type of box.
I opened it up to take a look and the internal workmanship is excellent. The circuit board looks very well laid out and the wiring is neat. It looks and feels very road worthy. I like the washers on the footswitches. I could tell that no corners were cut.

I saw this box advertised at analogman.com. I was in a hurry to get one so I contacted the manufacturer, Foxrox Electronics (www.foxroxelectronics.com) and was able to get a prototype for evaluation. Since then I ended up buying it. Dave Fox at Foxrox Electronics is knowledgeable and helpful. I got to know him through email. I've put in first dibs on prototypes of new things he's working on.

I've always wanted a pedal that does what this one does.
I play in a cover band, Ordinary Men (www.angelfire.com\biz\ordmen). We do a mixture of guitar oriented classic rock stuff with some Hendrix and SRV thrown in. Captain Coconut is perfect for me. I have it velcroed to a board along with my wah wah pedal and a volume pedal. After that I go to an old EH Memory man, then to the amp. That's my current effects set up.