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...
If I say "fuzz", most of you will reply with "Fuzz Face" when playing an association game. In today's post I'm not going to write about this iconic pedal, but about one of its close relatives: the Zvex Mastotron. The Fuzz Face circuit is a...
The "fuzz" is the third typical distortion device in the arsenal of guitarists next to "overdrives" and "distortions". In some forums there are long discussions and debates about these categories. I don't want to play this game especially because I don't think that there is...