The Fuzz Thread

[dronerstone]

Mainly out of curiosity (isn't that how it always starts???), can anyone recommend a decent MK1 style fuzz, preferably from an EU-based builder?

BPC is not an option.

I'm thinking JDM, but I wanna make sure who else is out there.

Sub 200€ please, I don't like buying a 1000€ "vintage correct" minimalistic circuit that'll probably stay shelved in the mancave.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

BPC is not an option.

Thankyou. Dodgy as fuck company.

Williams Audio seem to be pretty well regarded but I've not used one myself.

 

[keef]

No BPC ? But the pedigree ! A few builders that come to mind in the EU and price point:

Ghost Effects (not sure what they are new) used ?
JDM
Super Electric
Williams Audio
Wolf Audio
Manlay Sound Ronno Bender (I had his Super Bender MK2 sounded bright to me for that circuit, tried fucking with the internal bias)

 

[dronerstone]

No BPC ? But the pedigree !

Haha, nice

I don't doubt their stuff is alright, tbh

But that VERY checkered past, along with them hawking/jumping on various YUUUUUGE trademarks seems even worse than going full Turdinger, where at least the pricing is fair and you know what you're onto.

 

[keef]

Haha, nice

I don't doubt their stuff is alright, tbh

But that VERY checkered past, along with them hawking/jumping on various YUUUUUGE trademarks seems even worse than going full Turdinger, where at least the pricing is fair and you know what you're onto.

They are the crooks of Music Ground Ltd. Not sure how UK copyright works, but for fucks sake

For shits I tried and brought home a used BPC Zonk Machine from my local GC. Just because of their return policy.

Good luck on the MKI search. They are a finicky circuit, yet mind blowing. Keep us posted.

 

[dronerstone]

They are the crooks of Music Ground Ltd. Not sure how UK copyright works, but for fucks sake

For shits I tried and brought home a used BPC Zonk Machine from my local GC. Just because of their return policy.

Good luck on the MKI search. They are a finicky circuit, yet mind blowing. Keep us posted.

It's not urgent, so I'm sure it'll take a while to justify yet another purchase.

Leaning towards JDM or Wolf, thanks for the heads-up on the latter!

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Everything those Harrison cunts do is crooked. Even the bpc stuff with mislabelled transistors. Pretending to use parts that they don't actually use.

 

[keef]

Everything those Harrison cunts do is crooked. Even the bpc stuff with mislabelled transistors. Pretending to use parts that they don't actually use.

Spot on. Criminal.

 

[2112]

Hadn't heard about the Music Ground fraud and now I'm down a rabbit hole with it. Yungblud's Dad and Grandad

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Hadn't heard about the Music Ground fraud and now I'm down a rabbit hole with it. Yungblud's Dad and Grandad

Make sure you've got someone to come pull you out from that rabbit hole. There's so much fraud and thievery it'll keep you busy for a while. Fake guitars, stolen guitars, trying to pinch other peoples trademarks. They've been at all of it.

 

[dronerstone]

Make sure you've got someone to come pull you out from that rabbit hole. There's so much fraud and thievery it'll keep you busy for a while. Fake guitars, stolen guitars, trying to pinch other peoples trademarks. They've been at all of it.

Shameless goons!

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Shameless goons!

I shit on Behringturd all the time but I'd have a whole board of Behringturd and warm audio pedals before I'd give BPC or the Harrisons any of my cash.

 

[la szum]

Everything those Harrison cunts do is crooked. Even the bpc stuff with mislabelled transistors. Pretending to use parts that they don't actually use.

Joe Morgan'd NKT275'd.

 

[keef]

It's not urgent, so I'm sure it'll take a while to justify yet another purchase.

Leaning towards JDM or Wolf, thanks for the heads-up on the latter!

Also Square Wave BD, almost forgot.

Being in the MKI hunt, you may then want a Zonk Machine at one point. In that case, the JDM Elektrika is very good. MKI/Zonk switch and tweaks.

I sound like a used car fucking salesman. Back to the cave

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Joe Morgan'd NKT275'd.

Yeah BPC is a similar deal with mislabelled transistors except they also try and pretend they have some sort of legacy back to the 60s fuzz boxes. It's all just a sham like everything else the Harrisons have done.

 

[dronerstone]

JDM Elektrika is very good. MKI/Zonk switch and tweaks.

100% my train of thought.

 

[keef]

Joe Morgan'd NKT275'd.

Found bags of NOS in a warehouse he rented out or something like that.

 

[Dave Lewis]

First pedal to arrive here in 2026.
I hope it’s as good as a few of you have said

 

[dronerstone]

First pedal to arrive here in 2026.
I hope it’s as good as a few of you have said?
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You're in for a treat.

 

[DrewJD82]

Warming up my amp before checking out the Hendrix FF for the first time-

It's lighter than the EJ FF, like it's made of aluminum and the EJ is steel. The bottom plates even feel/sound different when tapping on them. Obviously not a big deal, just kinda stuck out to me right away, I actually thought the box was going to be empty when I pulled it out of the shipping box.

First impressions- WTF is up with the volume? I need to crank the thing past halfway for it to be unity gain with the amp, on the EJ FF it's at unity where it's at in the picture. VERY different than the EJ FF.....kinda weird, I like it as much as I don't like it. I'm going to have to play with it some more. It's got no mids in comparison to the EJ, the word 'brown' jumped out at me the second I compared them back to back.....that's the first time a color ever popped in my head in relation to a tone before and it's got nothin to do with EVH.

It's much more spitty, almost clangy in the top end, this would be horrible in a really bright amp. This actually reminds me more of what I'd expect a Smashing Pumpkins sig Big Muff would sound like. They both sound infinitely better being run into the NOTADUMBLE with the clean boost on, fills in the mids and removes a lot of the ratty/spitty sound.

When I get back from the dog park I'll toss an A/B clip up. Now I'm off to order the parts to start building my own FF. I'm a bit intrigued right now as these are both silicone fuzzes, I didn't look at the components that close but I'm so fucking curious what's doing all the tone shaping in there. As of now the EJ blows the Hendrix away, even though the Hendrix might get a little closer, tonally, to the actual EJ Fuzz Face sound I'm chasing.

I also predict some Analogman Sun Faces in my future. I'm not all that interested in germanium fuzz, surprisingly, so far my germanium experiences haven't been fruitful outside of the germanium Dover Drive. Though I'm sure at some point I'll get really curious about legit NKT275's or Red Dot's. I almost imupusively bought a "cheap" NKT275 Sun Face last week because it was $700 instead of the usual $950.