I have certainly said it and will most definitely do so in the future too: one can't have enough fuzzes. Funny that I could find my other dirtboxes quite easily and they are more or less constant on my board, but I find every six...
I always liked the Big Muff type pedals (and Freud would most probably analyse this quite thoroughly...
I was listening to some fuzz demos when I found KMA's Fuzzly Bear effect. I immediately fell in love with the sound, so I looked it up. Turns out it is a slightly modified Jordan Bosstone. It scratches and cracks, even some octave effect can...
Already in the previous entry we talked about a very simple distortion design, but now we aim for a level of simplicity that can't really be beaten. It is an own drdFX design, inspired by the Earthquaker Devices' Bellows fuzz. I was searching for some...
The family of distortion devices is very large, but the hardest nut to crack is to find a good fuzz. Of course there are gazillions of fuzzes out there, but only a bunch of them sound really good. Often they are too shrill sounding with...
Yet antoher iconic piece from the imaginary Top 100 Guitar Pedals list: the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Most guitarists try this too during their life. The characteristics are the high gain with solid, compressed, sometimes violin-like sound. Very popular among stoner and grunge musicians, but...