Zvex Fuzz Factory
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SpeedDemon
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Re: Zvex Fuzz Factory
If you are looking for unique fuzz tone. Look no further than the Fuzz Factory.
Pecan said:
If you are looking for unique fuzz tone. Look no further than the Fuzz Factory.
lousy_player
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Re: Zvex Fuzz Factory
there is a band called Muse that uses a FuzzFactory extensively. See if you can find any of their stuff. Anytime you hear crazy distortion or wild feedback it's a Diezel head and a FuzzFactory. Great stuff, by the way.
there is a band called Muse that uses a FuzzFactory extensively. See if you can find any of their stuff. Anytime you hear crazy distortion or wild feedback it's a Diezel head and a FuzzFactory. Great stuff, by the way.
Gearjoneser
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Re: Zvex Fuzz Factory
I think Zachary Vexx is the effects genious of our times. While Mike Fuller from Fulltone just improves upon proven designs, Vexx is a true pioneer like Bob Moog.
I know it's probably out of most people's price range for a fun effect, but the pedals that excite me the most are the Probe pedals by ZVexx. The Fuzz Probe if friggin insane! The Wah Probe and Tremolo Probe are equally fun.
They're $270 though.
I think Zachary Vexx is the effects genious of our times. While Mike Fuller from Fulltone just improves upon proven designs, Vexx is a true pioneer like Bob Moog.
I know it's probably out of most people's price range for a fun effect, but the pedals that excite me the most are the Probe pedals by ZVexx. The Fuzz Probe if friggin insane! The Wah Probe and Tremolo Probe are equally fun.
They're $270 though.
Fresno Bob
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Re: Zvex Fuzz Factory
The Zvex Fuzz Factory can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It all depends on how much patience the user has.
You can dial in tons of fat fuzz tones, to match all your favorite albums, but it does take time to tweak it. The knobs are VERY sensitive, and can change the tone completely by making the most minute adjustments...which, to me, is a good thing. It gives so much range and possibilities. I believe now they include a HUGE list of knob positions to aquire certain "favored" tones, but honestly, the possibilities are endless.
The Zvex Fuzz Factory can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It all depends on how much patience the user has.
You can dial in tons of fat fuzz tones, to match all your favorite albums, but it does take time to tweak it. The knobs are VERY sensitive, and can change the tone completely by making the most minute adjustments...which, to me, is a good thing. It gives so much range and possibilities. I believe now they include a HUGE list of knob positions to aquire certain "favored" tones, but honestly, the possibilities are endless.
Re: Zvex Fuzz Factory
OK, I went back and played with mine in order to give a better answer. I hadn't played with it in a while because of a recent near-death experience involving a Line 6 adapter and I've yet to get around to getting it fixed. Luckily, it still works fine off of batteries thanks to a failsafe diode that blew. I guess this could be seen as another "plus" for this pedal.
Anyway, the most interesting things about this pedal (IMO) are the stab control and the comp control. When I first got it, I didn't really "get" the stab control and just left it full up (though it sounds good this way, I was really missing out on some neat sounds). Rolling the stab control backwards, the pedal begins to self-oscillate when you're not playing. Depending on how little or how much you roll it back, you can get varying pitches. Also, I've found that you can alter the pitch further by messing with your instrument's volume and tone controls as well as any in/out-of phase/parallel/coil-tapping features you might have.
With the comp control at around 3 o'clock or so (depending on whether you're using batteries or the DC-in in the case of the Vexter), you can get some interesting sounds somewhere between an octave pedal and a ring modulator.
Plus, it cleans up very well when you roll back the volume and seems to add a nice, cutting sheen when doing so.
OK, I went back and played with mine in order to give a better answer. I hadn't played with it in a while because of a recent near-death experience involving a Line 6 adapter and I've yet to get around to getting it fixed. Luckily, it still works fine off of batteries thanks to a failsafe diode that blew. I guess this could be seen as another "plus" for this pedal.
Anyway, the most interesting things about this pedal (IMO) are the stab control and the comp control. When I first got it, I didn't really "get" the stab control and just left it full up (though it sounds good this way, I was really missing out on some neat sounds). Rolling the stab control backwards, the pedal begins to self-oscillate when you're not playing. Depending on how little or how much you roll it back, you can get varying pitches. Also, I've found that you can alter the pitch further by messing with your instrument's volume and tone controls as well as any in/out-of phase/parallel/coil-tapping features you might have.
With the comp control at around 3 o'clock or so (depending on whether you're using batteries or the DC-in in the case of the Vexter), you can get some interesting sounds somewhere between an octave pedal and a ring modulator.
Plus, it cleans up very well when you roll back the volume and seems to add a nice, cutting sheen when doing so.
