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04-29-2008, 07:12 PM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | Fuzzy Reviews... a query
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1) I'm a Fuzz addict, I've admitted it and have now started to 'collect' the damn things.
2) I have a bunch of fuzz pedals in the house that are 'unreviewed'
3) I'm working on a standardized method (and website) for evaluating these hairy beasts (and making that information available) and was hoping for some feedback on 'best practices'.
Current plan: - Come up with some standard test "lines"
- Record each line X number of times where X = Number of basses used * the Number of wildly variable settings.
- The "core" basses would be standardized. 1 P Bass, 1 Active Jazz Style, 1 Fretless (Piezo). The three core basses would always have the same strings and configuration. Baseline references would be available. The idea is that these basses are not being sold or modified after the 'project begins'
- Use a RadialDI to provide a solid DI signal and eliminate amp/cab differences.
- Do a quick video review using my favorite bass (currently my birdsong hy5) playing with settings and whatnot recorded via mic/amp/cab.
In theory I can apply this to any pedal I get, but in order to keep myself sane for now the focus would be bass & fuzz.
What am I missing?
Am I insane?
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04-29-2008, 07:14 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | oh and I have an excessively long list of Fuzz pedals to start acquiring/reacquiring |
04-29-2008, 07:18 PM
| | | | Sounds like a very well thought out way of testing fuzzes. Do you still have the LBM? |
04-29-2008, 07:21 PM
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Lead Designer, Zeibek Boutique Pedals | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Hüstın, TX | | One more insantiy to consider: Some fuzz pedals reacts differently to the amps, as it does to DI/preamps. For example, some of them will also try to overdrive the preamp section of the amp. For the sake of being really through, you might wanna consider recording the samples both with an amp AND a DI/preamp  |
04-29-2008, 07:27 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | I have nothing to add to your methodology, but I am really curious to hear your clips for the MessDrive Hybrid + and the FuzzPotion. |
04-29-2008, 07:39 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by AqueousView11  Sounds like a very well thought out way of testing fuzzes. Do you still have the LBM? | I do not... but clearly that's was shortsightedness of my youth. |
04-29-2008, 07:42 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by musicelectronix One more insantiy to consider: Some fuzz pedals reacts differently to the amps, as it does to DI/preamps. For example, some of them will also try to overdrive the preamp section of the amp. For the sake of being really through, you might wanna consider recording the samples both with an amp AND a DI/preamp | Well... I need to keep entertained in the process and double the work for ummm... questionable return will prove frustrating in the extended. Looking to achieve a balance of fun/information. Of course the video recording will be via an amp. |
04-29-2008, 07:50 PM
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Lead Designer, Zeibek Boutique Pedals | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Hüstın, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by grygrx Well... I need to keep entertained in the process and double the work for ummm... questionable return will prove frustrating in the extended. Looking to achieve a balance of fun/information. Of course the video recording will be via an amp. | awesome idea nonetheless! I bet this will be very informative and legendary! |
04-29-2008, 08:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Oakland, California, USA | | Get the MXR Blowtorch, EHX Little Big Muff, Prescription Electronics Depth Charge, Malekko B:Assmaster, and ElectroniX MessDrive Hybrid+. 
Didn't you have an LBM before?
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04-29-2008, 09:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Very interested to check this out....I'd personally like to check out the MI Audio fuzzes and the Electronix Messdrive Hybrid+. |
04-30-2008, 07:06 AM
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Atypical, not a typical... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Carlisle, PA | | | Hey boo... Bad news...
I just sold my Blowtorch and used a little extra money to get a Woolly Mammoth...
I am no longer and owner....
Woolly Mammoth FTW though... |
04-30-2008, 07:11 AM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MysticBoo Get the MXR Blowtorch, EHX Little Big Muff, Prescription Electronics Depth Charge, Malekko B:Assmaster, and ElectroniX MessDrive Hybrid+.
Didn't you have an LBM before? | On the list, Had Before, Had Before, On the List, Have currently....
It's going to take awhile to really get a critical mass of Fuzzes, figured I would start with what I had an just build out. |
04-30-2008, 07:19 AM
|  | Administrator Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Lower Westchester, NY | | well, we could also use the same approach as basstasters did. I sent them a bunch of preamps, they recorded the samples and sent 'em back.
I'll happily lend you my Neo, as long as I get it back |
04-30-2008, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by grygrx It's going to take awhile to really get a critical mass of Fuzzes, figured I would start with what I had an just build out. | Yes, that's how I got started with the compressor reviews. I just posted the ones I had on hand, or had recently, and kept adding more over the years.
In retrospect I wish I had done the sort of organized reviews with few variables, and soundclips, as you are going to do and Basstasters has done. But it wasn't feasible for me, so my page will have to remain a collection of heavily biased and unscientific opinions. But I applaud your determination to "do it right"! |
04-30-2008, 07:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Rhode Island, USA | | | Are you planning on reviewing any of the dozen (at least) fuzzes that Devi Ever makes? I love my BIT, but I haven't heard most of the others on bass |
04-30-2008, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bigchiefbc Are you planning on reviewing any of the dozen (at least) fuzzes that Devi Ever makes? I love my BIT, but I haven't heard most of the others on bass | I had a GZ that I dismissed as 'not my thing'. I'd love to give a few more a spin including the BIT and the 'Bass Fuzz'. |
04-30-2008, 07:44 AM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson well, we could also use the same approach as basstasters did. I sent them a bunch of preamps, they recorded the samples and sent 'em back.
I'll happily lend you my Neo, as long as I get it back | I appreciate the offer, and will definitely consider taking you up on it after I get rolling (I expect this to be a few weeks out before I get started as I'm waiting for my P-bass mods you forced me to order yesterday). |
04-30-2008, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson well, we could also use the same approach as basstasters did. I sent them a bunch of preamps, they recorded the samples and sent 'em back.
I'll happily lend you my Neo, as long as I get it back | That's certainly one of the big one's that I want to hear. |
04-30-2008, 08:04 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Hmm, and maybe a sticky if it turns out real good. |
04-30-2008, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Sounds great!
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