What's so great about fuzz pedals?

[drew_half_empty]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

dunno if because mine is an Si Fuzzface but I can't get it to a nice clean with the volume knob. The plain strings do clean up nice but the bass still has too much of that mush that makes the fuzz so characteristic.

I have the same problem with my BYOC fuzz face. I even payed a tech to install 2 of the bc108 transistors like what comes in the dunlop hendrix fuzz and it still doesn't clean up like the one in this video. Guess I shoulda just sprung for the more expensive one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqrQPbOhDo


Too bad, if it did I'd probably still have it on the board


Also, in the studio (and sometimes live) when my band did our last album I plugged a russian muff with the sustain & volume all the way up and the tone all the way down into a wah (fuzz before wah) and it got a pretty wicked sound for this one part. You could sort of controll the oscillation with the wah pedal--when it was towards the bottom no big deal, but the more you opened it up the more it screamed. Pretty sweet.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

fuzz is really noisy

my rat pedal has a fuzz knob to twist that shiz up that I dig, I use it for recordings and stuff

I like my tube growl out of the amp, but a lil fuzz goes a long way

It depends on the type of FUZZ you have.

http://gundrymedia.typepad.com/throbak_electronics/2006/11/fuzz_haze.html

My Throbak Fuzz Haze is super quite, i.e NO extra unwanted noizze when i am not playing, even at full gain !

Some cheaper units does add ALOT of bad noise . . .

 

[everdrone]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

cool man, thats definitely a quality classic rock fuzz based on the clips there

I see some fuzzes have built in noisegates lol

 

[frobro808]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

i just scored a a Big Muff! i've never played one til last night when my uncle offered to let me use it (til whenevs)... effing epic!!!! now i know why they're awesome. like prince... minus the chops

 

[philthis]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

I never liked them until I saw a guy play a Les Paul Classic through a small Fender combo, with a Foxx Tone Machine in between. Totally redefined fuzz for me.

http://www.foxxpedals.com/tone_machine.htm

so I wonder if this is the tone on the ZZtop song "Whats up with that" during that big fat solo and the general tone of the song as well?

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

i just scored a a Big Muff! i've never played one til last night when my uncle offered to let me use it (til whenevs)... effing epic!!!! now i know why they're awesome. like prince... minus the chops

Full hollow -->Big Muff -->Fender Twin Reverb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ETuWIbE

:cool2:

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

The Arbiter is also very nice for stone skipping. Never tried I just guess.

 

[Hank Grizzly]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

You can't beat a bit o' electro harmonix muff. Except with a fuzz face. I built my set up at home to get that 60s garage fuzz tone. The only problem really is price. This website is genius though:
http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

The Analogman Sunface is where it's at dawgs! Peace!

 

[astrozombie]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

stay tuned for my new thread. relevant to this topic.

 

[skynyrd]

Re: What's so great about fuzz pedals?

so I wonder if this is the tone on the ZZtop song "Whats up with that" during that big fat solo and the general tone of the song as well?

Billy used a fuzz pedal into the amps distortion alot on his recordings, if you listen really closely to a BUNCH of his songs that rude gritty nasty coolness is the fuzz pedal feeding the amps distortion and coloring it.