FUZZ Addicts, over here!
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Sweet, this is gona be an awesome thread.
Hows the sunface man, I've always wanted a silicon sunface but its not that practical since I alr have one. It looks killer tho..
I dont have pics of my 2 headed monster closeup, only blur guts shots.
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I'll post my skrewball when I get back.
Hows the sunface man, I've always wanted a silicon sunface but its not that practical since I alr have one. It looks killer tho..
I dont have pics of my 2 headed monster closeup, only blur guts shots.
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I'll post my skrewball when I get back.
dudelove
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The Sunface is ridiculously dymanic and gets sparkly clean when the volume is rolled down. I MEAN it. Not like some people exaggerating how this high gain distortion pedal can get completel 100% sparkly clean. My pickups are very low output, both on my strat and my LP, so it doesn't quite reach ripping Hendrix solo gain levels but when I tried it with my friends guitar yes it did. Cleaned up beautifully as well. I may be happier with the red dot NKTs since I don't find the whole clean up till sparkly much use to me.
But Tommy's building me a custom 2 in 1 boost, with a treble booster on one side. I'll probably use it to hit the Sunface for more gain, the opposite of the Sunlion, where the Beano is after instead of before.
A BC108 would probably get you closer to the Band of Gypsies tone. I'd recommened the blue Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face by Dunlop. Cheaper and is real quality stuff.
But Tommy's building me a custom 2 in 1 boost, with a treble booster on one side. I'll probably use it to hit the Sunface for more gain, the opposite of the Sunlion, where the Beano is after instead of before.
A BC108 would probably get you closer to the Band of Gypsies tone. I'd recommened the blue Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face by Dunlop. Cheaper and is real quality stuff.
Always on the lookout for more Fuzz pedals 
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not a fuzz fan per se but interested in how the tone can vary my distortion ie. i always use the fuzz in conjunction with another pedal. my current fav fuzz is EHX's Germ 4 unit, ironically, it's the least fuzziest...
Dudelove: The boost sounds interesting, whats the other side of the boost then?
Im not really looking for a BOG tone in particular..I just like silicon FFs cos of their bite and high end. I'll check out the Hendrix FF, didnt really care for it cos of the size. Another one thats pretty good is the MXR classic fuzz
Btw, does anybody have devi ever's stuff? Sick pedals
Im not really looking for a BOG tone in particular..I just like silicon FFs cos of their bite and high end. I'll check out the Hendrix FF, didnt really care for it cos of the size. Another one thats pretty good is the MXR classic fuzz
Btw, does anybody have devi ever's stuff? Sick pedals
dudelove
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Jskadiang had heaps of Devis. I for one don't really like fuzzes that are just plain noise to me. Some people can make music with that, hats off to them. I can't. I'm into vintage sounding fuzzes, but I don't really have a thing for Big Muffs, Fuzzrites and the Shin Ei fuzz.
The other side of the boost is his '73 boost. I love Tommy's builds because he has very similiar tastes in tone as I do, and both of us are complete Jimmy Page freaks so he's always chasing that Jimmy Page tone. When your builder has the same tastes as you do, you will very well know that what he makes, you will definitely like.
The other side of the boost is his '73 boost. I love Tommy's builds because he has very similiar tastes in tone as I do, and both of us are complete Jimmy Page freaks so he's always chasing that Jimmy Page tone. When your builder has the same tastes as you do, you will very well know that what he makes, you will definitely like.
Oh ic, I like muffs but I find that its too scooped sometimes and the noise can be unbearable at loud volumes. The Devi Evers are quite unusable 4 me but I'd like to find a person that uses them well, interesting to hear how its used.
Sweet, I feel excited for u man haha. Yeah, I browsed thru his website and it seems like hes a pretty hardcore page fan from the pedals he builds.
It's usually that way for pedal makers, their pedals tend to have a distinct sound so it so if u like one its likely that the rest will sound pretty good to you.
Sweet, I feel excited for u man haha. Yeah, I browsed thru his website and it seems like hes a pretty hardcore page fan from the pedals he builds.
It's usually that way for pedal makers, their pedals tend to have a distinct sound so it so if u like one its likely that the rest will sound pretty good to you.
I was a fuzz addict... Si Fuzz Faces, Germ fuzz faces, various flavourings of the Big Muff, hybrid designs (e.g. Skreddy Screwdriver), musical odd-ball fuzzes (e.g. Trotsky drive, Jordan bosstone) and even the not-so-musical kinds (Fuzz factory, Devi stuff).
Tried going the whole vintage vibed, authentic stuff... but it didn't make me tick. I don't care if it was vintage spec-ed or what, though I appreciate it's rarity and peculiar (and oft-times, spectacular) tones. The inability to use buffered effects before (and sometimes after) was a serious flaw + many a time, I found that the vintage units sound best when their volume is driving the amp. Sounds really good then but it's too loud for a HDB Flat Dweller.
As it is right now, I just find the bare minimum - I dig a good Silicon FF, a good germ FF and a nice Muff. That's it... and I got them in Retroman's Sybil (click for high gain sound clip) and EHX's Germ4 Big Muff. How close they are to the real-deal-authentic-vintage tones - I don't care as long as they inspire me fingers.
An tweakable but safe fuzz to recommend is Subdecay's Flying Tomato (click for my sound clip). It has bass and treble controls + a switchable buffer (to handle wahs and other buffers). Very useful, toneful and safe. No weird squealing here.
Right now, I'm gassing for a PTD Mini-Bone. THAT was impressive... not only in sounding great and feeling good, it WORKED even on the low B of my 7 string. One day I'll try out Malcolm's with my 8 string...
Tried going the whole vintage vibed, authentic stuff... but it didn't make me tick. I don't care if it was vintage spec-ed or what, though I appreciate it's rarity and peculiar (and oft-times, spectacular) tones. The inability to use buffered effects before (and sometimes after) was a serious flaw + many a time, I found that the vintage units sound best when their volume is driving the amp. Sounds really good then but it's too loud for a HDB Flat Dweller.
As it is right now, I just find the bare minimum - I dig a good Silicon FF, a good germ FF and a nice Muff. That's it... and I got them in Retroman's Sybil (click for high gain sound clip) and EHX's Germ4 Big Muff. How close they are to the real-deal-authentic-vintage tones - I don't care as long as they inspire me fingers.
An tweakable but safe fuzz to recommend is Subdecay's Flying Tomato (click for my sound clip). It has bass and treble controls + a switchable buffer (to handle wahs and other buffers). Very useful, toneful and safe. No weird squealing here.
Right now, I'm gassing for a PTD Mini-Bone. THAT was impressive... not only in sounding great and feeling good, it WORKED even on the low B of my 7 string. One day I'll try out Malcolm's with my 8 string...
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dudelove
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Wait till you read the page he wrote about Page's gear. Its excessive and shows his incredible obsession with anything Page.
http://www.freewebs.com/wholelottaled/
Oh I really have to agree with that. Never heard how amazing my MKII sounded until its volume actually drove a clean tube amp. That was really something..
Godspeed64
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I've owned a couple of fuzzes before:
Lovepedal 200lbs
SoulsonicFX Skrewball
T-Rex Engineering Mudhoney
Monsterpiece Angry Dick 2000
B.Y.O.C Large Beaver (Ram's Head)
ProCo Deucetone Rat (Rats can sound like a fuzz in front of some hot tubes)
ProCo Vintage Rat LM308
ProCo Rat OD07DP
B.Y.O.C Mighty Mouse (Ruetz + MO'D specs)
Elite Tone Fuzz Monster
Hmmm. That should be about it LOL. So does that mean I belong in this thread?
I've only stuck with the Elite Tone and Mighty Mouse till now. The Elite Tone has been my staple for the past 2-3 years.
Lovepedal 200lbs
SoulsonicFX Skrewball
T-Rex Engineering Mudhoney
Monsterpiece Angry Dick 2000
B.Y.O.C Large Beaver (Ram's Head)
ProCo Deucetone Rat (Rats can sound like a fuzz in front of some hot tubes)
ProCo Vintage Rat LM308
ProCo Rat OD07DP
B.Y.O.C Mighty Mouse (Ruetz + MO'D specs)
Elite Tone Fuzz Monster
Hmmm. That should be about it LOL. So does that mean I belong in this thread?
I've only stuck with the Elite Tone and Mighty Mouse till now. The Elite Tone has been my staple for the past 2-3 years.
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Godspeed64
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PatheinRaindropMoe
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heh, no clips doing justice to a sound tonal measurement is just easy way out from the conditionally biased listening ability of human hearing, which in the first place aint linear at all.
Lotsa geetarers in seem to have problem capturing the sound that we all hear so gloriously when having the geetar and the amp, but when comes to capturing the moment of that sweet sound, we are all lost.
Haha, for picture threads, we can have the "this thread is useless without pics" jpeg, for a sound device thread, aint it funny to have one without sound example as well?
Sound clips from youtube prolly not counted as those fellas also never discussed sound here.
Lotsa geetarers in seem to have problem capturing the sound that we all hear so gloriously when having the geetar and the amp, but when comes to capturing the moment of that sweet sound, we are all lost.
Haha, for picture threads, we can have the "this thread is useless without pics" jpeg, for a sound device thread, aint it funny to have one without sound example as well?
Sound clips from youtube prolly not counted as those fellas also never discussed sound here.
Godspeed64
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Oei, this is one step up in Thread Quality Standards from merely complaining in that pedalboard pics thread... can lahhhhhhhh... don't like that lehhhh.
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