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Little Bear BS1 "mammoth wooly" Fuzz

#22
I received mine and had a chance to briefly play with it. I have had a couple wooly mammoths and it does sound very similar. Based on memory, the gain range seems a little more "wild" on the BS1, but I am also using it with an active bass and when I had a mammoth I was usually using it with a passive. Overall a good pedal for the price
 
#23
I won one of these for $23, including the shipping. Looking forward to messing around with it. I'd wanted a WM for a long time, but didn't love the tone enough to justify $350 or whatever (of course, there are few things I love that much). But $4.25 and shipping to get close? Not a bad deal.
 
#27
as a stand alone pedal it's kinda meh..... i can definitely tell the difference from the real one, but i almost always use it with or before another pedal and it works for now. i will upgrade once the funds become available.
 
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#28
The only thing I noticed from mine is the pinched fuzz sound dies off on a sustained note and turns inot more of a distorted sound as it fades, but thats about the only thing thats weird about it. I love the sound from it, better than other clones Ive had, never had the real thing.
 
#31
I ended up selling mine on Ebay and basically breaking even. Even though I dug it, it would get noisy with other pedals in front of it, and its odd shape was a pain for my not-so-large board. I am still on the lookout for the perfect pedal that gets me something between overdrive and fuzz, and sounds good on both bass and guitar. My Lovepedal OD11 is just filling that role as best as possible in the meantime.
 
#32
Mine came in today. It's a bit bigger than I expected, but nothing too unwieldy. It tracks weird at some settings, but it retains low-end like crazy. It will probably work best as a fuzz for songs without a lot of note movement, as it gets almost too fuzzy at points. Still, I'm sure I can get a usable sound or two out of it, and for less than twenty-five bucks that's a steal.
 
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Yawsbass said:
Mine came in today. It's a bit bigger than I expected, but nothing too unwieldy. It tracks weird at some settings, but it retains low-end like crazy. It will probably work best as a fuzz for songs without a lot of note movement, as it gets almost too fuzzy at points. Still, I'm sure I can get a usable sound or two out of it, and for less than twenty-five bucks that's a steal.
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Using lower volume settings (11 o clock or less), and really dialing in that pinch knob somewhere in that sweet spot around 10-11 o clock) is what gave me the most usable tones that were more like a compressed boost and less like a fuzz. I was using a passive jazz, other pickups might vary.
 
#34
Anthonyfranklin9000 said:
Using lower volume settings (11 o clock or less), and really dialing in that pinch knob somewhere in that sweet spot around 10-11 o clock) is what gave me the most usable tones that were more like a compressed boost and less like a fuzz. I was using a passive jazz, other pickups might vary.
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Yeah, I had a similar experience. Using a passive Precision, the best sounds I got came from keeping everything below 3 o'clock. Above that it just got a little too crazy, but there were quite a few spots where it did sound more like a drive than an outright fuzz.
 
#35
Stoom said:
Just won one on ebay for £15 inc. p+p :) They sound great on all the youtube demos I've seen.
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I've got it and I'm very pleased with it. It holds the low end and the definition of a note very well while at the same time packing a lot of fuzz, it doesn't sound as messy or dull as other much more expensive fuzz pedals I've heard.
 
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#37
It is my only dirt pedal at this point. Very lo-fi, at some settings it is reminiscent of 8-bit explosion sounds, and a bit motor like.
 

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