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Let's talk Fuzz

#61
Really depends on your amp, cabinets, strings, and everything else...

For me, the Malekko B:assmaster is my favorite. Loads of texture (fuzz) while still maintaining note definition. IMO muddy notes only sound cool when you're playing solo, but you disappear when a guitar starts playing... I want each note to be clear and distinct in a band situation.

The Wooly Mammoth was great for similar reasons, but sounded a little too synthy for me (B:assmaster is more retro).

I'm not a fan of Muffs.
 
#64
warwick.hoy said:
QFT

OLC; Chunky Cheese (clone of the Lovetone Big Cheese): Great gated pinch tone,....leaks lowend like a civ. I have to keep this in a blend loop to regain my lowend. A lot of guys don't like clean blends with Fuzz (and Disto). On bass it's passable (for me),...on Guitar clean blends sound like crap.

For the Chunky Cheese,...I'd love to see it reworked to have the midbump setting and the gated setting and not loose lowend as badly,....either in the form of a clean blend or by modding the circuit.
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Mark, the owner of OLC circuits might be able to make such a thing happen if there is a demand. I just pointed him to this thread. :hyper:
 
#66
AwkwardLoudness said:
The Ezekiel has four circuits: one is a fuzz and the other three are distortion or overdrive.
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We can argue this I suppose...

From the origional marketing:
Ezekiel is a very high quality bass distortion amplifier that will cater for all your bass overdrive/distortion needs. Many flavors of distortion are available thanks to the unique four-position “Distortion flavor” rotary switch, from bright punchy valve like tones to raging heavily sustained Distortion.
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oh this one does mention 'fuzz'

“Distortion Flavor” switch- dials through four different styles of distortion from subtle overdrive to seriously saturated fuzz.
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I would guess something like this might be defined as a single circuit, but honestly I'm unsure when an extra switch moves something into 'multiple circuit' territory. I always assumed it was marketing speak.
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Overall, I'd a decent sounding pedal, with quite a bit of versatility. It's price/sound ratio didn't work for me at all.
In addition, ITS NOT A FUZZ

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To wander back to the topic. I really enjoy the dizzy tone clone (similar to a buzzaround) that I have but it's a bit bass shy. I don't think a blend would do it justice, but would love to see if it was possible to do a version more responsive for bass.
 
#70
hecTr0n said:
My favorite is the mxr blowtorch. Yes, its listed as a distortion / overdrive and sure it does that (with the blow torch button off) but is also capable of synth like buzzsaw fuzz tones. I wanted to be able to copy "time is running out" from muse and "starlight" and man does this pedal come super close if not there. With the blowtorch button off, it can be used as a clean boost, growling OD, to decently hard distortion. With the blow torch on, it turns into a completely different animal. Trip hip / dance synth is what I was shooting for and damn does it work well for it, able to get a good muff sound too. The blend and mirange eq switch makes this pedal so versatile.
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This.

A very underrated pedal. I should stock up so when they become 'en vogue' I can make a killing! :ninja:
 
#72
If I were to create a "perfect" fuzz, I would model it after the Civil War Muff, like the Grey Stache .

On a separate bypassable section I would want clean and fuzz volume (not a blend) as well a a semi parametric EQ. I would want to be able to bypass these features so if I wanted to I could return to just the standard CW muff tone it would be that easy.

I owned a Supercollider and a few other Muff based fuzzes that was the irritating part- the inability to imitate what they were modeled after. I love the Supercollider, but will the texture of the fuzz was spot of, I could never quite get the tone to match my CW Sovtek.
 
#73
Synth Mangler is fun but don't know how I'd apply it outside of electro which I don't play. I'm liking Pharoah Fuzz. Why's it so damn difficult to choose a fuzz pedal? All I ask for is one that sounds like I'm playing the letter V & keep my tone intact. "Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv." Is that so hard?
 
#74
Pickle. Pie. B.

seriously. i love the Year4545, the Gray Box is an odd unique beast, the Oxide is the best all arounder and synthy tight fuzz, the TAFM is a BEAST of cabinet destroying FIRE.... but for a buzzsaw to useful creamy BUT YOU'RE STILL THERE IN THE MIX box....

PICKLE. PIE. B.

..... Brought To You By The Letter "Vvvvvvvvv".
 
#78
One of the things I like about my Oxide is the ability to go from an ungated fuzz to a gated fuzz. So maybe a fuzz whose feature set includes ability to dial-in gatedness.

I agree with Jared that there are plenty of high quality, excellent sounding muff variants on the market to satisfy the muff heads.

What I love about the B3K is that unlike like all of the other overdrives I've tried, it sits in the mix with my guitar bands so nicely.

So, I'd like to see a Darkglass fuzz that is it's own animal, sits in the mix well with other guitars and has useful features like a gate and a blend.
 

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