NPD - Fuzzfaceless-built Warmjet V Fuzz

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:22 pm

I am very happy indeed. Picked this up from the Post Office today; it's a Fuzzfaceless-built (I have a Mk1 Tonebender that he built, he's bloody smashing) and etched, Ghost Effects Warmjet Fuzz; Ian's (also of this parish) take on the WEM Project V fuzz, made famous (in a niche sort of way, but famous enough to me, anyway) by Brian Eno using it on 'Here Come the Warm Jets'.

It's a crackers pedal, and does lots of things. With the tone control right up (and the bias 1 tweaked right down - Tim Fuzzfaceless was good enough to stick the bias pots on the outside) it's REALLY bassy. The second bias control seems to control the whole splatty/muff continuum, as far as I can make out, but I'm still finding stuff as I mess with it - messing with bias 1 seemed to give a different phase-like character, which surprised me (not a swept phase, just a sound I appear to be having a hard time describing to you), and at one stage this afternoon, I managed to stumbled across a sound which reminded me of an Ampeg Scrambler in the way that the distorted sound sat behind the signal, making chords work well.

I'm ever so pleased, Tim is a superstar, and Ian from Ghost Effects is a very talented man.

(pretty guts below - and double props to Tim for the Bosch etch)

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 9:23 pm

I'd ask for a demo but i know it will be in vain

That is very tidy work, the case appears to be etched?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 9:29 pm

You know I don't like to actually play my gear Fran. And yes, Tim etches his pedals.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 9:41 pm

Nice, be interesting to see how that looks with age and wear. I cant remember a brand that etched there cases.

Post by **Doog** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:14 pm

It looks and sounds glorious..

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NickS · Post by **NickS** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:28 pm

Fran wrote:Nice, be interesting to see how that looks with age and wear. I cant remember a brand that etched there cases.

Moollon? Not that we see much in the UK, but there's a couple of things at Ludlow Guitars.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:13 pm

Bloody homesick expats, Ludlow Guitars is in Ludlow St. NY, not Shropshire.

UK dealer Sounds Great

soundsgreatmusicDOTcom emailed me, requesting this link to their site be removed. stellar PR they have over there.
-- dots

Post by **dots** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:56 am

Lol... I love how seo somehow passes as real marketing and not the code voodoo it really is.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:24 am

Hehe that was fast!

BTW, despite no less that three serious inquiries and talks with shop owners per year at NAMM, none for a dealer in Dear Ol' Blighty have turned into actual deals since SGM sold their stock many years ago...And if Owen or any other of you UK guys know shops that have been interested in carrying Moollon stuff do let me know, as we frequently have customers (Mostly London-based gents) buying pedals direct from our shop here in Seoul all the time and asking us why Moollon doesn't have an active UK dealer.

And yeah, most pedals we do are still etched in-house, staff of three that we are.

Granted, if I was the actual one doing the etching, I'd probably have melted my hand off a long time ago.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:03 am

Wha... I don't understand. Why would Sounds Great not want their link posted on a forum?

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:06 am

dots wrote:soundsgreatmusicDOTcom emailed me, requesting this link to their site be removed.

Andi wrote:SGM sold their stock many years ago

That'll be why, then? Not that they don't want us to help advertise their killer deals like the ProTone Rusty Cooler Overdrive on special at Â£79 instead of Â£179?

Post by **dots** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:23 pm

oh my fucking god. . . and now they won't stop emailing me about the same god damned thread. i wonder what will happen to the "reputation" (their word, not mine) should i flag their incessant badgering as spam?

George · Post by **George** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:54 pm

time to take a stand for forums everywhere

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:32 pm

What are they saying now? What is their problem? That we mention them at all? That's silly, and we've made it clear that they no longer stock Moollon.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:49 pm

They obviously don't want us to buy anything from them, or even know they exist? First and last I've heard of 'em.

Brandon W · Post by **Brandon W** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:52 pm

yep..if shortscale ain't good enough for them then fuck em..i'm done with them..

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:10 pm

Back to the matter at hand, what is this pedal exactly? One maker's take on one maker's take of a classic pedal?

Looks great anyway.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:10 pm

Back to the matter at hand, what is this pedal exactly? One maker's take on one maker's take of a classic pedal?

Looks great anyway.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:54 pm

Aye, that's pretty much it Paul: Ian of Ghost Effects makes them, and gave a few pedal makers some PCBs. Tim from Fuzzfaceless made it for me. It's based on the WEM Project V fuzz, which is what Eno used on Her Come the Warm Jets.

It's brilliant.

Post by **dots** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:46 pm

NickS wrote:What are they saying now? What is their problem? That we mention them at all? That's silly, and we've made it clear that they no longer stock Moollon.

same fucking letter, over and over.

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While Google has not specified your website in particular, the samples provided reflect that there may be links like this that have been placed on your site.

The presence of these links is harmful to our siteâ€™s good reputation with search engines and, unfortunately, retaining them may also be potentially harmful to your own websiteâ€™s reputation. So, we have opened a line of communication with their Googleâ€™s Web Spam team and are working to clear the penalty.

HOW TO DO IT

In order to get out of the penalty, the web spam team have asked us to submit all
the paid or unnatural links which are currently pointing to our site to them. So, we will submit them this list in the next five days.

HOW TO AVOID NEGATIVE ACTION FROM GOOGLE

If you can take the links down to: http://www.soundsgreatmusic.com/ then of course, I will be able to leave your site off that list.

We have identified that there are links on the following pages which link back to us are located here
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http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... 6284ca1505

We do not want to be the cause of a penalty to you, nor report anyone else's website to Google. Therefore, we sincerely ask for your assistance in resolving the problem. If you can get that link taken down ASAP then, we won't include your site when we report back to them.

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You can let us know by email or call us once the links have been removed.

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what i really find obnoxious is the tone makes it seem like we're at fault FOR POSTING A FUCKING HYPERLINK. like. . . isn't that the point of the internet? SHARING INFORMATION? i took the link (regarding which they sent multiple references for ONE link) down because they annoyed me, not because we did anything wrong. IT MAKES ME GET ALL ROBROE CAPSLOCK AND SHIT.