The Fuzz Thread

[hehasthejazzhands]

I feel like the only person in the world that likes the sound of the MXR Blue Box with the blend dimed as a fuzz pedal lol

 

[Dave Lewis]

This Fuzz get a fair bit of use here.

 

[Aelred]

I feel like the only person in the world that likes the sound of the MXR Blue Box with the blend dimed as a fuzz pedal lol

That reminds me: I need to chase down a Reuss Evil Twin MKII.

 

[Blix]

Here's a few seconds of my Fulltone '70 (kicks in at 7 seconds) . Going into my Axe III as a front end, the "amp" is the UA Lion Super Lead plugin.
Mind the strained playing, I have my strat set up like SRV with 13-58, that thing is killing me

 

[creative360]

Back in the pre-Kemper day, twelve or thirteen years ago, during my version of the un-winnable tone quest—meaning that while waiting for some of the real, expensive shit to arrive, I put a good guitar a good amp and a bunch of Joyos to work for the fun of it and that was probably as great a tone as I ever got going forward, but I guess that’s not the point—along with everything else I tried, I got a fancy custom tonebender from a builder in England that was absolutely delicious. It wasn’t the super trendiest one of those guys, but maybe the second or third tier. Still no joke in terms of dollars. For whatever reason, along with so much else, I let it go. Honestly there were just certain things I felt were too expensive and flashy to live under foot on a stage. I still have a Basic Audio fuzz in the drawer, the famous one that everyone raved about at the time. It’s very good but definitely not the same as the one I let go. When fuzzes are right, for me anyway, they don’t even sound like a pedal they just sound like the true embodiment of your guitar and amp. How’s that for poetry. Anyway ever since I traded Analog Mike my old, broken big muff (with all the original paperwork which is why he was interested ) for a KOT, I’ve been planning on getting a Sun Face. The way I use fuzz in general is more like a cool near glorious death tweed or Valco from the 50s.

For whatever reason I only ever found out about the cool limited runs of those Fulltones way after the fact. They sound great.Fuzz is weird. There’s definitely something to be said for the legendary stuff, but then you’ll find some weird little thing at a yard sale that slays. And as for broken record posts, it’s pretty insane what you can pull out of the Kemper fuzz.

Also, it’s true that fuzz is the great misunderstood route to great tones. From what I read on the forums, and probably even how I chased it for a while, I think people are often turning to drives when we’re after something that is really a job for a fuzz.