My quest for fuzz is over!

[twoheadedboy]

Okay, so I got my SD Tweak Fuzz in the mail today. Holy geez. This pedal is EXACTLY what I was hoping it would be. It's great for adding a tiny bit of grind to an already slightly overdriven tone, and it totally nails the huge, massive, square waved out tone so perfectly. I wasn't expecting it to sound THAT much like the Dirty Boy Afro Fuzz that it was modelled after, but it really does sound a holy bunch like it. I tried the pedal with a Reverend Slingshot with P-90s, an SG with Phat Cats and an Ibanez RG. The sounds were smooth and musical and fat with every single guitar.

For an idea of what this pedal sounds like, all you really need to do is scoot on over to www.bluessaraceno.com and check out the Dirty Boy Afro Fuzz clips. I'll probably post more later. For now, I'm going to play! :dance:

p.s. Thanks for Martinsixstringcustoms for hooking me up with the pedal in Canada.

 

[flank]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

can it get real smooth and compressed sounding?

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Yes, I think that's what it does best, is the really smooth and compressed thing.

 

[pac112]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

how does it compare to "older" fuzzes like fuzz face etc?

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Compared to the more vintage type stuff i've tried like the fuzz face and the fulltone '69, there is a lot more gain and aggression on tap. It's also a heck of a lot more versatile. You pretty much just get one or two sounds with most fuzzes, but with the Tweak Fuzz, some of the preset resonances are voiced tighter and brighter, and others are more flabby. This does NOT sound like a silicon fuzz to me. I know it is, but my ears don't believe it.

 

[Imp]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

man, i so got the thread title the wrong way :laugh2:

what tubes does your morris head have? i've always liked fuzz in EL34 amps, but i'm not sure they'd really match up with my EL84s..

tom

 

[martinsixstringcustoms]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Glad you like it, Tom

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

My Morris is a hotrodded '59 bassman clone with 6L6's. It's fairly JTM45-ish, but with more gain. It has a very marshally Mercury Magnetic's output transformer. It seems to work amazing with the fuzz.

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Actually, the Tweak Fuzz and the Afro Fuzz are 95% the same circuit. The only real difference is that the Afro Fuzz uses germaniums and the Tweak Fuzz uses silicon transistors with a special mod that make them sound identical to germaniums (with the added benefit that they don't shut down under heat).

We did a blind sound comparison with Blues, Alex Saraceno, Kevin Beller - our chief engineer - and me. Blues played the same riffs through both pedals. A/B. Back and forth. Then we had to guess which was which. Kevin and Alex got it. Blues and I didn't. It's that close.

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

man, i so got the thread title the wrong way :laugh2:

what tubes does your morris head have? i've always liked fuzz in EL34 amps, but i'm not sure they'd really match up with my EL84s..

tom

Yeah, I'm not sure how well the tweak fuzz would work with an EL84 amp. Most EL84 amps I try tend to break up a bit on the loose side, and can get flubby and gross on the low end if you aren't careful. Most of the settings on the tweak fuzz aren't very tight in the low end, so you might have some problems there. However, I have a fairly saggy rectifier tube installed in my Morris head, because I like a fairly loose bottom end. Adding the tweak fuzz only makes things looser, but in a really interesting way. My favorite tones from the tweak fuzz are the ones that sound like my amp is about to explode.

 

[Imp]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

ahaa! the neil young 'holy-crap-my-amp's-melting' special

i really didnt get on with the muff with my amp, and you're dead on with the flabby saggy bottom end comment - i used to have a gf like that, too :laugh2:

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

At times, the really square-waved out sounds almost sound like an analog synth, especially when there's so much gain that the initial attack gets way compressed and the notes sort of swell in.

 

[Imp]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

im getting that effect putting level and drive to 10 on an SD-1 and putting it into the red channel with the gain set quite low.. its almost santana ish, especially if you got reverb in the FX loop

tom

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

I can't wait to use this pedal live. I hope people's heads asplode!

 

[Young Angus]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Is this a Seymour Duncan fuzz pedal? Ive never heard of one.

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

They're just hitting the streets. They should be Down Under before the end of July.

 

[Scott Miller]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

Yeah---except it's spelled: "DAN UNDA"

 

[MBreinin]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

You can also check out the video of Blues demonstrating it right here on the SD main web page.

Mike

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: My quest for fuzz is over!

I have been playing mine since it came in...I LOVE IT!!!

I an gonna do a compareson to my Maye Axis fuzz pretty soon out of curosity, but I'll say this...so far I think I like it better!