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Well, joined a "90's cover band" at the start of the year and found a hole in my distortion sound. For the longest time, I've used more of a late 70's/early 80's Van-Halen sort of tone, but here, that only works for so much before I need some nice walls-o-mud and some raspy, ratty, garage-rock goodness........and I sold my Fuzz Factory years ago, and never liked the tone THAT much anyway after awhile, so I decided to take my first dip into the world of DIY pedals....and breadboarded quite a nifty mess together, only started this on Saturday and I'm already so far along I'm trying not to let myself prematurely put it in a box and put it on my board.

So here's a clip of the 5 transistor Fuzz I cooked up using the Jaguar and Bass VI. Let's just say there's a lot of "Biasing" going on between the transistors to alter the tone.



A big part of this pedal is to make the "glitch stuff" useable too for when I'm working outside the context of the band. Have some crazy ideas using the fuzz.

What tunes you covering with the 90's band Mike?

I'd have thought you'd get away with cascading an overdrive into a Big Muff for the more messy tones. I never got on with complex Fuzz pedals beyond experimentation at home, same with Feedback Loopers. They're too unpredictable to work into a band situation.
I admire what Matt Bellamy does with a Kaoss Pad, but as a device, they are more accurate than glitching pedals, in my opinion.