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I posted the wrong video clip. I’ll try to find a better example, but I think it’s clear a Fuzz face is what I’m after.

Are any of the cheap ones worth checking out? By cheap, I mean the Dunlop stuff for under $100 used.
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
I posted the wrong video clip. I’ll try to find a better example, but I think it’s clear a Fuzz face is what I’m after.

Are any of the cheap ones worth checking out? By cheap, I mean the Dunlop stuff for under $100 used.
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The Hendrix one is a killer silicon Fuzz Face. The Bonamassa is a great one for low gain or humbuckers. The red one is decent, but pretty wooly. I’m not sure I’d use only the Fuzz Face straight into a clean Super Reverb. Philip Sayce gets good tones but his Super is set to ear bleeding levels. Sometimes I stack a Fuzz Face into an overdrive into a clean Fender. The OD rounds off the highs and pushes the midrange a little.
 
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ive heard good things about the bonamassa, ej, and new hendrix fuzzfaces from dunlop but have no real experience with them
 
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I heard they sound good but make everyone mad by not having a 9v adaptor plug-in and not fitting on a board well.
 
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every germanium fuzzface ive tried sounds best with a cheap non-alkaline battery
 
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PFDarkside said:
The Hendrix one is a killer silicon Fuzz Face. The Bonamassa is a great one for low gain or humbuckers. The red one is decent, but pretty wooly. I’m not sure I’d use only the Fuzz Face straight into a clean Super Reverb. Philip Sayce gets good tones but his Super is set to ear bleeding levels. Sometimes I stack a Fuzz Face into an overdrive into a clean Fender. The OD rounds off the highs and pushes the midrange a little.
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I did the pull V1 and swap it into the PI on my Super trick for earlier breakup, and it’s out in the garage currently, so I can run it at 5 or 6. Even with singles, it’s pretty hairy. Philip Sayce is a good example of the fuzz tone I like.

So you’re saying fuzz then OD? Heard Brian Wampler talk about od into fuzz. Tried it with the Big Muff, but as we’ve established, that’s not the sound I’m after.
 
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Thundermtn said:
I heard they sound good but make everyone mad by not having a 9v adaptor plug-in and not fitting on a board well.
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The minis all have standard 9V power inputs, have standard in/out arrangement, have LEDs and are pretty small. The Hendrix and J.B. are the same circuit as the big ones, except they use SMT resistors.
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
I did the pull V1 and swap it into the PI on my Super trick for earlier breakup, and it’s out in the garage currently, so I can run it at 5 or 6. Even with singles, it’s pretty hairy. Philip Sayce is a good example of the fuzz tone I like.

So you’re saying fuzz then OD? Heard Brian Wampler talk about od into fuzz. Tried it with the Big Muff, but as we’ve established, that’s not the sound I’m after.
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Sayce pushes his Super with a Tube Screamer, Klon, Ge Fuzz Face, Si Fuzz Face and Octavia. If you’re getting it to that level, a Fuzz Face should work great. Another killer option are the Fulltone ‘69 mkII and ‘70. You can get them blem for pretty reasonable and they are great Fuzzes.

https://store.fulltone.com/collections/cosmetic-blems
 
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Thanks to everybody for all the suggestions. I'm looking forward to trying out a few FF-circuit fuzzes.

Now, here's some more fuzzy goodness:

 
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One quirk of fuzzface circuits is that they work best if they're first in line. They interact directly with the guitar pickups; that's a big part of their beautiful touch sensitivity and cleanup. Putting other pedals between FF and guitar can degrade the feel and the sound quite noticeably.

If you must run something else in front of a fuzzface, make SURE its a true-bypass design and avoid anything with a buffer.

I do agree that if you're running a bright sparkly clean tone, an OD pedal will mellow the highs a bit. Pedals with a bit of mid boost tend to work well with Strats. If a TS type is too humped for your taste, the klone types offer a milder-but-still-warming mid character. I like the Mythical OD a lot.

Personally I love the Kanji overdrive with a Strat; it's rich, liquid and and amplike.
 
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PFDarkside said:
The Hendrix one is a killer silicon Fuzz Face. The Bonamassa is a great one for low gain or humbuckers. The red one is decent, but pretty wooly. I’m not sure I’d use only the Fuzz Face straight into a clean Super Reverb. Philip Sayce gets good tones but his Super is set to ear bleeding levels. Sometimes I stack a Fuzz Face into an overdrive into a clean Fender. The OD rounds off the highs and pushes the midrange a little.
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I have the square box Hendrix Band of Gypsies fuzz, its pretty responsive. I think for this anything in the Tonebender/Fuzz Face family would be good.
 
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Axis bold as Love and the first Jimi Hendrix Experience album are all germanium FF, Band of Gypsis is all silicon, but in Electric Ladyland ?
Germanium also ? There was no silicon Arbiter FuzzFace yet ?
 
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Sorry I corrected my typo.

Hendrix has something like 6 FuzzFaces (They said "halv of dozen") because there could be some inconsistency in the matching of Ge transistors and so he could pick up the best ones.
Did he already had a silicon one when he recorded Electric Ladyland and used both type of fuzz box (Ge / Si) ?
Maybe at that time all he had had Ge transistors (?)
 
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