Was Fuzz mainly a late 60's early 70's phenomena?

[B2D]

Re: Was Fuzz mainly a late 60's early 70's phenomena?

The best use of fuzz I ever saw was Joe Satriani using the fuzz size of his ultimate octave in 2005 as seen here - sounded AMAZING live... he went from his normal distorted lead tone to this and I was like "What is THAT? I need one."

[DreX]

Re: Was Fuzz mainly a late 60's early 70's phenomena?

My favorite fuzz of the few I've tried is the Biyang Fuzz Star. A lot of reviews say it's a Big Muff clone, but I have one of those beside it and they are nothing a like. The Fuzz Star is almost like a fuzz and distortion combined. Where as the Big Muff puts out a clean, creamy square wave, the Fuzz Star is much noisier, in a good sort of way, lots of crunch in the attack, and still very creamy, which is to say, little or no of the bzzzzz high end tone you get from a Fuzz Face type fuzz.

[ericmeyer4]

Re: Was Fuzz mainly a late 60's early 70's phenomena?

Nope.

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I was into it until the lead singer started growling. Great fuzz tone, but not my preferred style of singing.