Which fuzz ??

[benecol]

I know it's one of those oft discussed scone/scone things as to whether russian muffs are distortions or fuzzes, but can you shed some light as to why? With your science?

[Mike]

It's a soft clipper, not a hard clipper.

It's all in the sound anyway, but the waveform isn't mashed up aggressively enough to be a Fuzz in my book. I always class Fuzzes as "Fuzztones", something which had a tonal quality of itself which can be independent of the guitar itself. For example, a Foxx Tone Machine sounds like a Foxx Tone Machine regardless of what you put through it, ditto Fuzz Face etc.