My red LED mod NYC Muff has always been my number one but I'm really beginning to dig dialing in the Wolf Computer in non-crazy ways to get my fuzz on, these days.
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dub wrote:
Big Muff wall of sound meets Superfuzz evilness.
really. I had only heard of these in passing but that sounds super cool. is the FZ-2 related to it in any way? *goes and searches for schem* ...........
check it out:
Following the original Superfuzz there was a very similar sounding fuzz circuit floating around (used in the Ibanez Standard Fuzz, but was also sold under heaps of other brands), that circuit was then the basis for a whole bunch of fuzzes, a variation of which is used in the FZ-2... I'll see if I can dig up the exact quote I was looking at earlier.
The Bee Baa has some nasty sonic similarities, but doesn't have an octave effect. The precursors to the bee baa were the Acetone fuzzmasters, the FM-1 and FM-2, the Acetone guy went on to found Roland, which then begat Boss.
"Superfuzz Alternative manufacturers
Although the Univox is the most well known incarnation of this circuit, Shin Ei licensed this circuit out to dozens of manufacturers, including Ibanez, Apollo, Companion, Shaftsbury, Mica, JAX, Kent, Teisco, Marlboro, Royal, and many others. Sometimes it was packaged with a wah pedal, or with the tone switch being a footswitch, or both. This circuit is also very similar to the famous Fender "Blender", and Roland "Bee Baa". More recent applications of this circuit type can be found in Guyatone's TZ-2 Fuzz, MJM China Fuzz, Prescription Electronics' Outbox, Boss's Hyper Fuzz, and others, although most agree the newer versions do not sound quite the same."
mine's a tie between my made by mike shaftsbury duo-fuzz/superfuzz or my made by mike tonebender. both excellent pedals, turn them on together and your face melts like the german dude's on indiana jones!!!
Fender Classic Player 60’s Stratocaster>East Coast T1 Tele>
Epiphone Les Paul SL>Ovation 12 String acoustic>Peavey Strat DIY Relic
Marshall Origin 20H>James’s old purple 2x10
Marshall MG10 Combo
I have a fuzz factory, which is nice and works for me, but I've yet to find my favorite. I realllllly like what my NYC Big Muff does, but I tend to use it more as an overdrive.
I kind of fell in love with Aen's Eau Claire Thunder, which I completely plan to get once I get my debt settled.
I rearranged my pedals and somehow got my SHIVA in the perfect spot in the chain. before it hummed and squealed in a bad way like crazy, but no more. It's the most brutal thing ever. My old IC big muff is amazing as well. I have the big muff in front of the shiva. If I have the big muff on and step on the shiva it just gets a little bit more fuzzy, and more sustain, but a SHIT TON more low end. It's perfect. Tag team fuzz combo. So I guess my favorite fuzz in the combo of both
I like the danelectro french toast, sadly not made anymore. Cool sound, plugged bass into it and it was great. Cool octave thing as well. Great poor man solution to foxx tone machine.
