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Favorite Fuzz Pedal....

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Post your favorite fuzz pedals...

Mine's the Fender Blender.
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Either, zvex woolly mammoth, or my Creamy dreamer modded russian muff.

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the isaac eaton wrote:Either, zvex woolly mammoth, or my Creamy dreamer modded russian muff.

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Forgot about the wooly mammoth's love those lots.
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I think my go-to would be a Russian BMP. I've modded mine in abunch of random ways and it sounds great.

I really like the Fuzz Face with the guitar volume rolled back - not really fuzz, but an amazing OD tone.
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I'd have to say it's a tie between the Fuzz Factory and the Skreddy Mayo for me.
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us big muff :oops:
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The one Mike built for me. It's the only fuzz pedal I've been 100% happy with.
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Big Muff wall of sound meets Superfuzz evilness.

I'm really glad I grabbed one before the financial crisis fucked over the NZ dollar.
No way I can afford any more vintage pedals now, aha.

I also love my FZ-2, it was the first pedal I ever bought.
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My red LED mod NYC Muff has always been my number one but I'm really beginning to dig dialing in the Wolf Computer in non-crazy ways to get my fuzz on, these days.
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Timhulio's green muff
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dub wrote:Image

Big Muff wall of sound meets Superfuzz evilness.
really. I had only heard of these in passing but that sounds super cool. is the FZ-2 related to it in any way?




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For a while now it's been my Devi Ever Hyperion.
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mage wrote:
dub wrote: Big Muff wall of sound meets Superfuzz evilness.
really. I had only heard of these in passing but that sounds super cool. is the FZ-2 related to it in any way?
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Following the original Superfuzz there was a very similar sounding fuzz circuit floating around (used in the Ibanez Standard Fuzz, but was also sold under heaps of other brands), that circuit was then the basis for a whole bunch of fuzzes, a variation of which is used in the FZ-2... I'll see if I can dig up the exact quote I was looking at earlier.

The Bee Baa has some nasty sonic similarities, but doesn't have an octave effect. The precursors to the bee baa were the Acetone fuzzmasters, the FM-1 and FM-2, the Acetone guy went on to found Roland, which then begat Boss.

yeah, here was the quote dug up on the D*A*M forum:
http://www.stompboxes.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 3&start=20

"Superfuzz Alternative manufacturers
Although the Univox is the most well known incarnation of this circuit, Shin Ei licensed this circuit out to dozens of manufacturers, including Ibanez, Apollo, Companion, Shaftsbury, Mica, JAX, Kent, Teisco, Marlboro, Royal, and many others. Sometimes it was packaged with a wah pedal, or with the tone switch being a footswitch, or both. This circuit is also very similar to the famous Fender "Blender", and Roland "Bee Baa". More recent applications of this circuit type can be found in Guyatone's TZ-2 Fuzz, MJM China Fuzz, Prescription Electronics' Outbox, Boss's Hyper Fuzz, and others, although most agree the newer versions do not sound quite the same."
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Post by Progrockabuse »

mine's a tie between my made by mike shaftsbury duo-fuzz/superfuzz or my made by mike tonebender. both excellent pedals, turn them on together and your face melts like the german dude's on indiana jones!!!

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Fuzz Face!
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Post by Sublimedo »

I have a fuzz factory, which is nice and works for me, but I've yet to find my favorite. I realllllly like what my NYC Big Muff does, but I tend to use it more as an overdrive.

I kind of fell in love with Aen's Eau Claire Thunder, which I completely plan to get once I get my debt settled.
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Yeah, Aen's pedal sounded absolutely fearsome in Robert's demo.
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I rearranged my pedals and somehow got my SHIVA in the perfect spot in the chain. before it hummed and squealed in a bad way like crazy, but no more. It's the most brutal thing ever. My old IC big muff is amazing as well. I have the big muff in front of the shiva. If I have the big muff on and step on the shiva it just gets a little bit more fuzzy, and more sustain, but a SHIT TON more low end. It's perfect. Tag team fuzz combo. So I guess my favorite fuzz in the combo of both
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Post by chrisplayer7 »

I like the danelectro french toast, sadly not made anymore. Cool sound, plugged bass into it and it was great. Cool octave thing as well. Great poor man solution to foxx tone machine.

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Sovtek Big Muff (+ Epiphone Riviera = instant Jesus and marychain, you can’t whack it!)
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