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Ok fuzz experts (I'm looking at you Benecol), I want to get one of these because it's the fuzz that Mick Ronson used on those Bowie albums.

BUT I already own a LBM AND I just bought a Fuzz Face off of Noirie, SO will either of those get me the same sound if I try?

In other words, is it worth getting Mike to build me a Tone Bender or am I just stupid because one of the pedals I already own can cover those sounds and I just have to figure out how.

Probably worth mentioning that I don't currently own any guitars with hambuggers so I may not be able to achieve something all that close anyway. Although I do have a powerful gutteral P90 in the neck of my fakeTele.

There are tonebender 2's and tonebender 3's, as I understand it, which are pretty different circuits, and some have two knobs and some have three. There's also a huge, tubescreamer-esque amount of geekery surrounding tonebenders, and prices to match. As I understand electrickery, they are a variant of a fuzzface circuit, but a fuzzface won't do the same things. In terms of production pedals, the BYOC is meant to be excellent as well as comparatively cheap; also, Mike makes a nice one (Rob's got one). There are loads of layouts floating around too.

And I'd like one - never had one...

I know that Ronson used the two knobber jobby at least.

Link for you. And I'd imagine a tonebender would sound heavenly with P90s.

the tonebender is a great fuzz pedal. they tend to have a more rounded sound than a fuzzface, in my experience. there's many different versions and a lot of them are the same pedal but a different maker. i have a tonebender clone mike made me and can say it's a very good fuzz pedal. very controllable from your guitar. humbuckers can make make my tonebenber sound splatty, P90's work well. single coils also work well and are normally favoured for some fuzz pedals.

FUCK OFF.

I just discovered that they make a sig copy of his original and it's £369!!!!

JMI Mick Ronson Signature MKI Tonebender Specification.

- 1965 Tonebender MKI Reissue
- New Old Stock OC-75 + 2G381 Texas Instrument Transistors

my clone is a mkI i think. based on a marshall supa fuzz

Mike could rustle you up a Mk1 for a bit less than that, I reckon.

£50 i think it was

Is it one of them grumpy old cock pedals that refuses to be daisy chained?

I don't think so.

mine is, i can power it on it's own but not in a chain.
i have it on battery all the time.

still has the original in there. fucker wont die.

FUUUUUUUU-

I must have one.

I've already decided it will be in an MXR size small enclosure and will be named the WEE BENDER. It shall be sparkly silver in a nod to it's glam rock tone. No room for a batt? Fine, no need for a batt.

Progrockabuse wrote:mine is, i can power it on it's own but not in a chain.
i have it on battery all the time.

still has the original in there. fucker wont die.

AAARGH!

Damn these fucking old pedals.

like this....

Yes, like that. Except mine will have a blonde wig and knee high platform boots.

needs bender on it somewhere however.