The most important element of a good fuzz isn't just a good fuzz pedal.. In my opinion, a great amp makes for a much more responsive and diverse fuzz tone, more than any other type of effect. Also matching the proper type amp with your style pedal and guitar. Great great show
I love the history and science bits...do more of that please! I am not suggesting you turn it into a lecture but those are the parts I like the most. I love the length of these videos also, just the right amount!
Watching the glorious bromance between you two blossom has been a privilege to behold. Subscribed to the new show, and am eagerly waiting the new videos. Awesome news to hear you'll be working with Andertons and Pete as well. If you want a suggestion, it'd be cool if you did some videos comparing Chinese pedals to the ones that inspired them. Particularly the Klones, the Tone City KoT copy, and the Tone City Mandragora (Kalamazoo copy). Maybe even compare the Angry Charlie to the MI Crunchbox. I know a few other channels have done this, but you guys actually know how to play guitar, and you always do a great job of micing your amps, so your videos are far more useful.
Thanks guys! I was one of the fuzzily unprimed, and now I feel much more primed. I don't know why it took me two and a half decades to get into fuzz, but now I can see that it could easily become an obsession! Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe owner here... I received it on Christmas Eve and still experimenting and loving it!
Not gonna lie, I absolutely LOVE that sound at 13:42. But that's because I like noise and The Dillinger Escape Plan and other marvellous explorations in grim dissonance. STRAYA!
Hey, you guys are great! So informative. Great chemistry. And always entertaining... You've probably helped millions of players, myself included, to make wise choices in the gear we spend so much of our money on.. Pedals, pedals, and more pedals!! Thanks guys. Great playing, by the way.... For our sakes, keep it up!
Hey guys!! Big fan of yours. I was wondering if in the near future, you could do a video on how switching a 12ax7 tube for a 5751 tube has an impact on a tube amp (in the first position AND on the Phase Inverter position). Does it REALLY give you more Clean Headroom, reduces volume, etc.? Also, what are your personal preferences on the matter? I would really appreciate it.
Band that really well used that discordant stuff Mick is doing at 14min is Norma Jean. A Small Spark vs A Great Forest was the track which immediately sprung to mind.
Dan and Mick, this is the BEST guitar related channel on youtube. You guys know your shit and do such an amazing job in passing it on. There's way too many guitar wankers out there that will "demo" a overdrive pedal by cranking the gain all the way up. I wish I was still living in Dublin and we could go for 347 pints of Guinness whenever you guys were visiting!!! Keep on rocking that pedal show!!!
If this was made today (2019) they would have had access to the EHX reissues of the Triangle, Op Amp and Sovtek Big Muffs. I would have liked to see them try those!
Back in 70's I was just trying to play and I bought a Little Muff Pi. When I plugged that in, all of a sudden I could play like a whizz. I was 14 and playing Black Sabbath. Some of the most Glorious Days of my life. I would love to buy another, but can't find them anywhere.
That Pedal Show is a great learning experience. I've learned more from you guys than I had learned the whole rest of my music experience. I sub'd to the new channel, and thank you so much!
I have a silicon OxFuzz on the way. Can't wait! Btw, you guys should do an episode comparing speakers. There's such a vast selection out there but you could cover the more common makes and throw in some wild cards.
Nice work, guys! I'd love to see an episode on running fuzz in front of a dirty amp instead of a clean one. Or even putting a fuzz in front of a light distortion pedal, which is what I wind up doing often. It's pretty fun.
Oh my God! I love that COG Effects Custom Dual Tarkin. That is my kind of Fuzz!! And that Infatuator, AMAZING Excellent video guys. I will be subscribing to your new channel, FEED my pedal addiction
to me the best sounding pedal here was that red mini fuzz face.. did you hear that? that Gnarly "wooooooo"... teetering on the edge of breaking throgh and/ or feedback,,,, love love love love... just ordered one..cheap too! half the price of the analog man sunface! (which is a great great pedal..dont get me wrong)
I agree I love mine. It is a very unique fuzz sound. Very aggressive and chaotic sounding, but it is a pretty versatile pedal. I go back and forth between the Band of Gypsys fuzz and an If6was9 Fuzz.
All fuzzes on together was the funniest moment in youtube pedal reviews. ever. Mick's face at the end looks like he's just but seriously busted doing something very bad. :)
+1971SuperLead Technically Rat isn't really a fuzz (it is opamp based and uses clipping diodes but so does the Op amp muff) but it gets fuzzy at high gain so can get fuzzy tone but compared to saomething using germanium transistors it isn't quite the same.
+JimijaymesGuitarist I would never classify the Rat as a Fuzz pedal. It's basically a tweaked version of the MXR Distortion+. To disagree with teh video, I'm not sure if I'd call the Big Muff circuit a simple fuzz either. It's got four transistor amplification stages (opamps in some versions), two being diode clipping stages. Compared to Fuzzface circuits which are basically two transistors and some biasing circuitry. I've always considered Big Muff a distortion that can sound fuzzy. The scooped mids are what does it.
CAL NYC Really? A Rat is a tweaked MXR Distortion +? Because I love the Distortion +. I don't feel like the Rat is as dynamic (meaning the distortion fades quickly when rolling off the guitar"s volume) I love a dynamic pedal. Someone tell me what the most dynamic pedal is.
Yeah, I didn't think a RAT pedal was considered a fuzz pedal either. I've tried different fuzz pedals, but just can't get on with them. I do, however, have a few RAT pedals and love 'em. They seem smoother to me compared to fuzz pedals.
Thanks heaps :) Been following your channel since day one and I absolutely love it. Oh BTW, I'm a RAT collector and and RAT is both distortion and fuzz. I was waiting for you to dime the distortion knob on it to get into crazy crazy fuzz type unique to RAT. If you keep the distortion low with the volume at 3 or more you are in distortion heaven! But if you keep the volume at noon or 1 o'clock and dime the distortion with the filter at 2~3 you are in fuzz world. Cheers! And please if you can make a video about buffers and also about volume pedals. Where to put the buffers in the chain to help us use the volume pedals (volume pedals usually suck tones! grrr!) without the tone being affected. Thanks again!
What song was that at about 15:30 ? It's been itching at me and I feel like it's a Hendrix song but I just can't remember! It does sound glorious though.
fuzzes usually sound better the harder you work your amp. They generally don't sound great at low volumes. Try cranking your amp to the point just before breakup and then add the fuzz.
Hey Dan! Big fan of your work. Which Jackson Ampworks amps have you tried? I'm guessing you don't have the one in the video anymore given the video is from 4 years ago. I'd love to hear about your experience.
I credit the Big Muff to the large surge of guitarist that appeared in the early/mid 70s which fueled the 80s era. I remember the guitar as this thing that sounded nothing like the records and was frustrating. Then I plugged it into a Muff!! The coolest most incredible sound ever came out of the speaker and I was forever addicted. Had the Muff never appeared, a lot of guitarist like me would have gave up.
Hey guys, I was looking back through all your videos on Fuzz, trying to find the Fulltone soul bender, but didn't find it. Have you tried it? And is it worth me driving 20 miles to try?Of course you are the standard by which i judge all others. Cheers
Loved the 'Shin Ei Duo Fuzz', it is basically an analog octave-up fuzz with those harmonics (which now you just mentioned now that I watched it longer)
The square wave is rather smooth sounding actually, with flat tops and no peaks. Most fuzz tones, like a saxophone will produce a sawtooth wave. Nice history of the fuzz. Thanks
Pretty sure they didn't have fuzz pedals in 58. He used a fuzz face live in the 70s, but the original is just a super dirty cranked tube amp. Probably a fender tweed.
Corey Weatherford It doesn't matter what he used, what matters is his sound used on the track, wich undeniably had fuzz to it, Tony Iommi never used fuzz pedals yet there is fuzz in his sound aswell from the laney amp - dallas rangemaster combination, Link Wray claimed he used to punch holes in his amps for the effect, he is probably the reason why the fuzz effect exists.
Nice to see Link getting some love. Check Grady Martin out too if you haven't already. He was getting some great dirty tones with the Johnny Burnette Trio that sound mighty fuzzy to me.
Hey man you're awesome as always, keep on rocking! I just need an Univibe style pedal video, that's indeed an awesome pedal with no some many options as other pedal style! Cheers from Catalunya!
The EHX Good Vibe is a cool option, with photocells as original, but demos don't convince me.... as the Voodoo Lab Micro VIbe, also with photocell but no trem. The MXR is indeed cool and seems to sound great, although not photocells. I must definetly try them! (though the Fulltone seems the one for me...)
That Shin Ei Duo sounded like it was using a ring modulator to create its fuzz tone. Is that what they were doing or was that modulation in the video caused by something else in the recording?
Hi guys, I'm in the market for my first ever fuzz....any recommendations for a good all rounder that covers most sounds that is other pedal and humbucker friendly? I don't mind spending a bit. Any advice would be much appreciated...ps loooove the show!
Couldnt find any videos where you covered fuzz and realised they are on this channel not the new one (well not really neww these days). Have either of you tried the Maxon Elements, Im looking for a MKII and its Wind considerably cheaper than alot of them, there is also Fire and Void which seem cool.
+Daniel TheGigRig For my money (or lack, thereof), the RAT is my favourite in this demo. It just sounds so delicious and you can tell it would really cut through everything else. Although the Shin Ei definitely has something!
So I've been looking for a fuzz pedal, but it seems to be very hard. I like the sound of the Swollen Pickle and some of the available fuzz faces, but I usually do not like Big Muffs. I play a Danelectro into a Marshall silver jubilee 1x12. I also have other guitars, but intend to use the fuzz mainly with the Dano Any recommendations are greatly appreciated
Question: Blackout Effectors Muskett or Skreedy P-19 ? - for Smoothest Sounding Muff / Fuzz ( to be used with a Fulltone OCD ) for primarily Leads & Solo's. I Want Violin-like "Santana Sustain" - without it Sounding: Fizzy, Flabby, or like Bees in a can. I also want to obtain the David Gilmour & Tony Iommi sounds. Any Input ???
Michael Caz big muff with a treble booster,with a Marshall style amp(in my case a fender bassbreaker 007 which already has a treble boost) will get you some killer Master Of Reality sounds
Can you guys do a fuzz shootout through a fender deluxe reverb type amp? So we can see the different characteristics of different fuzzes through a clean tone
It would be interesting to have an discussion about bias. For example tone loss with a lot of pedals. TheGigRig business models IS pedals put on a rig. Very often straight in to the amp gives best tone.
Great vid. I think I liked the tonebender the most. I still need to get one. I've just bought a fuzz probe. Bit disappointed that you didn't check the cleanup on that last sound haha
+ You want some FUZZ? Run an J. Rockett Archer Ikon on a clean boost setting into a JHS Firefly into a Big Muff and you'll have more fuzz than an all girls junior high school! It's amazing the tones that you can dial in with the 3 pedals stacked together. I stumbled on the set-up when I added the firefly. I had planned on replacing the Muff with the Firefly, as it's such a good Fuzz pedal...... But then I figured since I had room on the board for both pedals, to leave it in place until I needed the space. I'm glad I did!
Brilliant vid guys! I've learnt a lot from you guys and about gain structure and ordering pedals etc having just started building a pedalboard! Although will there be a video where you're NOT staring into each other's eyes? ha.
Er, schoolboy error about the supposed Fuzz Face you included: that particular Fuzz Face pedal is NOT a Fuzz Face circuit but a recreation of a modded Octavio/Octavia circuit (with the octave up removed) which Hendrix used in a Fuzz Face enclosure. That's why, as one of you mentioned, that it is not as responsive to a guitar's volume control. It is not a Fuzz Face (except in regard to Dunlop's product name).
I'm using a fuzz face 68 clone with germanium together with a voxac15c1/ac10c1 and telecaster. Dirty top boost an the FF on full both on gain and volume (just a hair back to get rid of the bumblebee sound). I control everything from my volume and tonecontrols. Sweet sounds all over from clean to fat lead. Almost always on:)
Daniel - is there a way I can send you a picture of my pedal setup and get your feedback (what am I doing correctly, what would you change and what you recommend) - basically I have a complicated setup where I switch between my guitars and Korg-MS20 (all going through my pedals), also I have a line selector which goes to my amp and ch 1 & 2 of my interface (which goes to the PA), let me know, keep up the good work!
Hey you guys at Pedal Show! Would you please do a demo of how you can get the Victory V40 1x12 to sound like something that compares with the Marshall JTM45 as a clean base for pedals, and demonstrate it through the angry charlie and OCD? I really wanna see that mid hump being articulate with the v40 in a similar way it is with the JTM :)
I went with an mxr classic 108. so far no oscillating annoyances even without the filter. I'm using a vox wah. problem now is I wonder what the others sound like?
