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Dirt cheap bass-friendly Superfuzz clone? Behringer SF-300!

#61
This has got me thinking. As behringer are basically making clones are there other pedals that would be bass compatible. Does anybody have any experience with any of these? I'm particularly interested in the following:

TO100 tube overdrive
TO800 vintage tube overdrive
VD1 vintage distortion
VT911 vintage tube overdrive
VT999 vintage tube monster

Apparently the VD1 is modelled on the Big Muff and I have a feeling that either the TO100 or TO800 is a Bad Monkey clone. There is a thread on TB already concerning the VT911 and VT999 which were modded with new capacitors to make them bass friendly however I don't have that option at the moment.
Does anybody have any experience with any of these?
 
#67
You made me order it. Still not a fan of digital dirt, and since this place got me in to fuzz in bass, I simply cant get all I want from Zooms and the Ashdown NM2 alone. I hope the Behringer will by me time to get some more info about the more expensive Fuzz pedals that I am probably going to get eventually.
 
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Teijo K. said:
You made me order it. Still not a fan of digital dirt, and since this place got me in to fuzz in bass, I simply cant get all I want from Zooms and the Ashdown NM2 alone. I hope the Behringer will by me time to get some more info about the more expensive Fuzz pedals that I am probably going to get eventually.
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Check out the Spaceman Sputnik if you havent already if youre looking at expensive fuzzes. Nummy.
 
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#71
This thing is pretty fun. Not sure if it's a keeper yet, I ran it all by its lonesome. I need to get it on my board first. But so far, I like fuzz 1. It's more usable. Fuzz 2 is crazy scooped. The boost is WOW. I'd like to try it through my tubes. I could see myself using it just as a boost. We shall see.
 
#75
Just got it in and on the board, and I couldn't disagree more.

How is this $24, exactly? Sounds awesome, especially before my new American. Makes me ponder the BYOC Super Fuzz clone as a metal-housed alternative. I'm 100% on board though, this thing is great.
 
#76
I played around with mine yesterday. It def has some potential. I like the fuzz 1 setting best so far. The boost is friggen ridiculous! I'm gonna try it through my tube amp tonight and see how it sounds. Just gotta take it easy. I'm gonna spring for a vick audio fuzz box next week and hope that it'll knock the Behringer off. It's a keeper for me, but probably will not be main board material.
 
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#78
Tested mine with my band, and it sounded good. Even the guitar player complimented on the new bass sound, and then we all were amazed that a cheap little plastic box sounds so good. And once more, it was even better with the band than alone. All the fuzz sounds in my Zooms (B3 and MS-60B) have fuzz that is really nice on its own, but with a band they are useless to me. For me its the fuzz 1, the fuzz 2 is useless.
 
#80
For me, I didn't like it. I tried it in the mix at band practice and it did pretty bad. I'm not saying it won't work for others but it didn't work very well for me. It sounded pretty cool in my room on a setting or two but it just didn't hold up in the mix so it came off the board. I'd buy a vick audio fuzz box for just about double the price, which still isn't bad at all IMO, over this any day.
 

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