How do you all use your fuzz pedals?
For me, I've found that fuzz is like ketchup: its perfect for flavoring a main course, but kind of gross by itself
I have a Fulltone '69 on my board, which has sounded the best of the fuzzes I've tried, and has unlocked some pretty cool tones for me. For me, its almost always driving / adding hair to another flavor of overdrive that's downstream of it. I love the additional texture and fatness it can deliver, as well as the responsiveness to my tone and volume knobs. I wire almost all of my guitars with a bass cut tone knob, which is particularly powerful for use with fuzz pedals. Seriously... if you haven't tried fuzz with a guitar with PTB style tone wiring, you REALLY owe it to yourself to try it out!!!
That said, even though the Fulltone was, to my ears, the best fuzz I've tried, it doesn't do it for me by itself. I've listened to plenty of other players rock fuzz pedals gloriously, but I can't seem to pull it off alone. I use batteries, don't have any buffers going into it, and I don't have any extreme temperatures in my living room but I just can't find a sound I like without stacking another kind of drive
What are you all doing with your fuzz pedals?
Any cool tips and tricks with fuzz that you've discovered?
For me, I've found that fuzz is like ketchup: its perfect for flavoring a main course, but kind of gross by itself
I have a Fulltone '69 on my board, which has sounded the best of the fuzzes I've tried, and has unlocked some pretty cool tones for me. For me, its almost always driving / adding hair to another flavor of overdrive that's downstream of it. I love the additional texture and fatness it can deliver, as well as the responsiveness to my tone and volume knobs. I wire almost all of my guitars with a bass cut tone knob, which is particularly powerful for use with fuzz pedals. Seriously... if you haven't tried fuzz with a guitar with PTB style tone wiring, you REALLY owe it to yourself to try it out!!!
That said, even though the Fulltone was, to my ears, the best fuzz I've tried, it doesn't do it for me by itself. I've listened to plenty of other players rock fuzz pedals gloriously, but I can't seem to pull it off alone. I use batteries, don't have any buffers going into it, and I don't have any extreme temperatures in my living room but I just can't find a sound I like without stacking another kind of drive
What are you all doing with your fuzz pedals?
Any cool tips and tricks with fuzz that you've discovered?
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