Fuzz: the Sound that Changed the World

[Joe Gress]

I think Os from Music Electronix is doing just that. I don't think he has a pedal over $150. The Messdrive Hybrid+, to my knowledge, is a completely original design so I'm guessing some of his other pedals are as well. Even if they are tweaked clones of the original, you're not paying boutique prices for them.

+1

His GeminiDrive design is original as far as I know as well. He is also a great guy to deal with.

 

[Jared Lash]

Seems now would be the best time for someone to come out with a new boutique pedal company and charge reasonable prices...

Sure, as long as they don't care about actually making a living. Yeah, the components for most pedals total less than $40 (some much less) but you show me a single wealthy pedal builder.

It's like asking for a custom bass for under $1000. The raw materials for my last one probably ran around $700. But the builder couldn't live off those profit margins. As it is, he lives very modestly and spends the vast majority of his time building basses.

 

[Joe Gress]

So I finally watched the whole thing. 3 things:

#1 - Some of those guys are characters man!

#2 - All it really did was make GAS go up.

#3 - I think the end of death by audio will be one of them falling off that ledge.

and it could have been louder.

 

[jucas]

Link Removed If you figure in finding someone to import it and shipping..........

In the end I think I am going to try and figure out how to build my own version of this: a Supper fuzz with a blend, active tone control and octave toggle, it might take me a few months to work it out and even longer to build most likely but when I ever get to it and if it works I think I would be happier then spending the $$$.

I'd been eyeing up youtube videos of newer versons of old fuzzboxes, but this post made me breadboard up a superfuzz with a blend. Left the octave and tone controls alone for now, and I gotta refine the first boosting stage before it gets boxed up, but it sounds great!

 

[Jared Lash]

So I finally watched the whole thing. 3 things:

#1 - Some of those guys are characters man!

#2 - All it really did was make GAS go up.

#3 - I think the end of death by audio will be one of them falling off that ledge.

and it could have been louder.

+1 on all four counts. I wish they'd included even more builders. Also, a few guys were very different than I imagined. Jeorge Tripps in particular was not how I pictured the guy behind Way Huge.

 

[RCCollins]

+1 on all four counts. I wish they'd included even more builders. Also, a few guys were very different than I imagined. Jeorge Tripps in particular was not how I pictured the guy behind Way Huge.

Keep in mind that Tripps was "an engineer at dunlop" when this was filmed, rather than "the way huge guy" - I'm not an enormous way huge fan but there IS a difference between him and the rest of the fuzz builders in that flick - he's an actual engineer and his boutique pedal operation got him a "real" job!

 

[smo]

I've yet to try etching boards. I hear it's a pain and I'm avoiding it at all costs.[/url]

Nah - it's pretty easy.

Wipe it clean with alcohol first.
Just use one of those blue etchant pens and be real careful about where you trace. Marking the whole thing in pencil first is a good bet. For simple circuits like a fuzz it wouldn't be too hard.
I would NEVER attempt something like a delay pedal tho........

And you don't need to wait for it to dry etc - just dunk it in Ferric Chloride and 20 minutes later, you simply wash off the blue stuff with alcohol.

I found that a simple texta, like a sharpie\artline etc will work, but not as neat or continuous as the blue etchant pens.

 

[megadan]

Cool, I hope I can watch this on my break or when I get home.

 

[Grimoire]

Why is anyone who doesn't have an American accent subtitled?

 

[RCCollins]

Why is anyone who doesn't have an American accent subtitled?

it's a US release... get over it

 

[Grimoire]

it's a US release... get over it

What's that got to do with anything??

 

[chrisisnotevil]

it's a US release... get over it

there's probably millions of people in the uk who couldn't understand a strong south yorkshire accent like dave from d*a*m's, let alone people from another country!

 

[The Lurker]

Seems now would be the best time for someone to come out with a new boutique pedal company and charge reasonable prices...

Time to get my soldering iron...

Oh and +1 to all the above.

I think that's exactly what a lot of these guys thought they were doing when they started out......


What puzzles me is why nobody's jumped into the market niche of making new germanium transistors.....

 

[RCCollins]

What's that got to do with anything??

they are subtitled because they might be difficult for Americans to understand. pretty simple really

 

[Grimoire]

there's probably millions of people in the uk who couldn't understand a strong south yorkshire accent like dave from d*a*m's, let alone people from another country!

True. Northerners are generally unintelligible.

 

[Grimoire]

they are subtitled because they might be difficult for Americans to understand. pretty simple really

My point is it's English, not mandarin, and might be indicative of a wider issue regarding laziness on the part of certain people in North America.

Anyway, enough of a side-track, back to the world of deranged pedal builders.

 

[chrisisnotevil]

True. Northerners are generally unintelligible.

ayewellhaddawayannonsensemanahcannaeseewhayertryintsaywithatlike...

 

[RCCollins]

My point is it's English, not mandarin, and might be indicative of a wider issue regarding laziness on the part of certain people in North America.

And then you go and call "northeners" "unintelligible"

don't be a snob. not when it comes to pedals, and not when it comes to dialect.

 

[The Lurker]

there's probably millions of people in the uk who couldn't understand a strong south yorkshire accent like dave from d*a*m's, let alone people from another country!

Hey, I live in western Massachusetts and think everyone from the eastern half of the state should have subtitles.....or speech therapy

 

[Grimoire]

And then you go and call "northeners" "unintelligible"

don't be a snob. not when it comes to pedals, and not when it comes to dialect.

It's not snobbery, not at all, I was genuinely surprised. As an Australian I have little right to comment anyway, speaking some weird dialect...