Easy! Jimi Hendrix‘s Fuzz Tone on any Amp! 

You've asked for it and here it is. Your guide to dial in your Fuzz to get that Jimi tone! Please wathc entirely and leave a like and or thanks 🙂 Use the chapters to navigate.... 00:00-00:24 Intro Jam 00:25-01:20 Introduction - what we do today 01:21-01:40 Equipment used in this video 01:41-02:37 Marshall tone and alternatives 02:38-03:43 Basic amp tone 03:44-05:47 Rumored Setting No 1 05:48-07:37 Rumored Setting No 2 07:38-13:59 Dialing in Jimi's Fuzz tone - how it's really done! Sound demos 14:00-14:41 Outro

Great demo and playing Mikel and feel this Fuzz captures a lot of the early tones before BOG.

Your Jimi sounds videos are priceless! So packed with stuff I wanna know!

I love watching your show!! You have fantastic insights on Hendrix’s style. Great work!!😁

Thanks very much for this video. Very informative. I've struggled at times getting a good sound with the fuzz and this will help a lot. I really enjoy all your videos.

Super thanks Mikel !!! Love your stuff !

🔊Great insights, awesome information, keep em coming🎸

awesome, as always!

Excellent video! Thanks!

That was awesome. Love your tone and playing. Subscribed. 😎👍

Your video is like finding gold! thank you so much man! I've bin real thirsty for gettin closer to Jimi's tone.

Hey Mike, I have really enjoyed your Hendrix videos my friend; thanks very much for sharing them!!

Great Video ....thank you man !

Thanks! I have been wondering this sometimes too👍 Wow i really have to try that marshall in a box pedal after fuzz thing.

Awesome video, this helped a lot! I just got a JHS Pedals Series 3 Fuzz pedal and have been playing around with it, this video helped me get it dialed in! Thank you!

Superb!!

Nice!👏👏

Great clip and pretty much the exact conclusions I've come to over the years obsessively studying Jimi. I think many don't realize or see in some of the limited live footage that later on by 1969 (probably when the Fuzz Faces came with silicon trannies) Jimi started switching his fuzz on and off more where earlier in 1966-1968 Jimi would often leave it on for entirety of songs. You'll see this clearly at Royal Albert Hall, Woodstock and Band of Gypsys, stomping on the fuzz for solos and specific parts. You can also clearly see in the 1969 Stockholm performance of Hey Joe Jimi does have the fuzz on thru the song and when it comes time for the solo Jimi quickly walks over, reaches down and dives the Fuzz control and cranks the Volume control on his Fuzz Face providing a less fuzzy, clear driving sound. This shows clearly Jimi was dynamic with how he used his equipment and also evolved with how he used it. Great clip 👌

I never liked how most fuzz pedals were always balls to the walls. I've always preferred a slightly fuzzy sound instead. I was glad to finally see somebody turn the fuzz control knob to different settings !

I’d love to see you do some analysis on Page. Love what you’re doing with Hendrix lately! You’re doing an amazing job.

Liked and and commented! For all people asking if the big teal JH-F1 is different sounding then the small one. I had both and they are 99% same. The big one sounded a bit less open and muddier, but I guess it’s due to the spread in transistors.

Perfect, this is exactly the video I've been looking for for months, I purchased this Fuzz recently and I must say that I'm happy, I like it a lot, your explanation is excellent as always, but I keep the amplifier a little dirtier at 4 and the Fuzz around 4 o'clock because I would like to create more saturation to create feedback, but despite this I can't even if I increase the gain of the amplifier, I think I need a good overdrive pedal but there are thousands of them around that I don't know which one to choose for the Hendrix sound

Mikel, The BasicAudio Gypsy Fuzz its a blue pedal that is based on a 60s preamp console which is what Hendrix would plug directly into the Olympic Helios preamp. You can hear them doing this on albums like Valleys Of Neptune, First Rays of the new rising run, Crash Landing, Midnight Lightning Album, The Cry of love. Hendrix 70s studio songs on these albums used mostly the Helios preamp with the Echoplex. The Helios preamp used transistors so it can get a very warm overdrive to a fuzz. You should do a video lesson about this setup to get these hendrix studio tones.

I used to put the Plexi pedal after the Fuzz, but then I thought of putting it first and I must say that it sounds good to me, I like it better

I like those monitor speakers on your desk a lot! Could you share with me which ones those are???

What r ur tone knobs set at. Great videos. Loving this channel. One of the best Jimi impressions I've seen. Keep it comin

Hi Mikel, I have a Marshall clone (18w with JTM45 tonestack) but I’ve never managed to get that truly bright aggressive Marshall sound… so, I ended up buying a revival drive compact to use in front of it. After watching your video, I went and got myself a mini fuzz face, exactly like this one you have there. I’m setting my amp with almost everything on noon, bass on zero (it’s a super bassy amp). Which settings would you recommend on the revival drive compact (I know you have one) in order to get a nice Marshall tone like this one you have on the video? Thanks man!!!

Very Good Video. I like your channel ... but i can't find the video where you explain the Jimi Hendrix's Marshals settings ..... con you link it hero or put the values of the pots? (volume, presence treble ... and so on). Thenk You so much and have a nice 2024

I use a Clapton Strat and an OCD pedal

I have a request - can you have a listen to the Police Blues (Blue Suede Shoes) and Once I Had A Woman on the Freak Out Blues album and give your estimate on what amp could have been used there? Perhaps try how close you can get to this bold percussive clean tone? To me it sounds a lot like the Record Plant sessions that were done between Woodstock and BOG, although they were a lot more fuzzy (which would be on Burning Desire album from 2006 - at least I think). Can a clean plexi sound like that? Do you think studio postprocessing is involved in getting that sound?

Hi Mike, Do you have any treble bleed installed on your volume pot? If yes, could you give me a tip as for the value? Thanks 🙏

Any thoughts on the Roger Mayer fuzz face mods? It produces more output and gain of the 2nd transistor. That may be where the setting of fuzz 0 volume 10 comes from

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Hi, A Caline Orange burst or bb preamp does push a fender amp into Marshall territory?

I know it’s not a thing Hendrix did, but I found it really helpful: on my Telecaster I did a 50’s Gibson wiring modification so that when I roll down the guitar volume instead of losing treble, it actually drops some bass and low mids. The clean tone that you are getting by rolling down to 2 or 3 on your guitar, I get by rolling down to about 7. If I roll down to 5 or 6, the signal is 100% clean - not even the slightest bit of hair. I know Hendrix purists who want to only do the things that he actually did discount it, but it makes guitar volume cleanup *remarkably* easier, and you can even get passable ‘fake acoustic guitar’ tones by just rolling the volume down halfway.

Hi Mikel ! What amp settings would you recommend for an SV20H for getting that Jimi tone? Ive got a Sabaddius rainbow fuzz also, so I'm trying to dial in the best tone I can get. The fuzz has the "Wah Wah" trick feature so not sure exactly how to dial it in. Thanks Bro!

Nice sounds, but that particular mini Fuzz Face just isn’t like the bigger one. I tried out close to ten different mini ones, they were supposed to be the same BC108 Silicon transistors, snd circuit as the full size one that first came out in 2007 or 08’. They all had slight differences in how much volume knob cleanup, volume and gain. None cleaned up like the big one. The big one still will pickup radio signals as of this past week using it, but often I can move it and it will stop. I haven’t played another full size one, made more recently, but the one Mick from That Pedal Show used to use a lot, is very similar to how mine cleans up, and how Fuzzy it gets, even with the knobs dimed. Jimi may not have used a gated fuzz sound, but he would cock the wah or just go and tweak the amp constantly, trying to get more or less gain. I’ve went through many a Fuzz Face to find something that can do the tone I like to have for certain Jimi stuff, as well as other music I’m playing. I’ve had the coveted Anakogman White Dot and Red Dot NKT275 Germanium ones, that people swore by, and ended up selling one, traded another. Should’ve held onto them! 😄 I’ve had the Silicon Analogman ones as well, and the three different ones I’ve tried were great, but in a band with a fourth instrument, it just doesn’t cut through, and they didn’t sound good stacked with an eq, or a pedal for a mid boost. Then there are too many to list beyond those. The most recent I tried were the Pedal Pawn one, and the Deep Trip BOG. The Pedal Pawn is very noisy, and the Fuzz pot started making noises, to the point I quit using it. They are cool about getting them fixed or replacing them though, so I say give them a try with their other pedals. The Deep Trip BOG is an excellent pedal, that can do far more than a basic Fuzz Fsce, but it’s not much smaller than an Arbiter enclosure, so I don’t use it live. I think it’s a great studio pedal. I finally found the company Sitek, and got their Fuzzy Face, which is Germanium, but it’s not the old transistors. It works close to my full size Dunlop, with a contour knob, that can tighten it up, and a bias in case there’s an impedance issue. It also works like volume knob cleanup, until it starts doing the Velcro gated thing. It has a circuit that works anywhere in the chain, on top of just loving it, and it not being priced ridiculously, like some of these others. If I do get another to try it would be the Formula B Fuzz Ranger, which is a Rangemaster/Fuzz Face circuit, that can also be put anywhere in the chain, without a wah trick knob, and seems to have excellent cleanup as well. Cheers

One thing you can do if you want even more closer to Jimi tone is that, you flip your strat pickups (also take note if your strat has enough big pickup holes under plate to flip those). Like when Jimi flip normal strat to play it lefty way he also change the sound a little of his strats. Normally when strat pickups are normal way you get more bass under EAD strings and more highs on GBE strings and looser sound, but when pickups are flipped sound is tighter and bass and highs are more even. I have tried this with my strat so i know.

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Everyone knows the fuzz and volume are on full on your fuzz face and you use the guitars volume knob to clean it up and you set your plexi to the edge of break up and max the EQ to get the Hendrix tone.for Octavia get a roger mayer octavia and don't put the gain up high at all a tychobrah Octavia will work also.then a vox wah and univibe and you got Hendrix

Song at 10:32?

you have got the fuzz tone down my guy

4:46 The only thing lacking here is common sense, the video is about Hendrix and not a single note is from him.

David Gilmour STACKED this silicon fuzzface + germanium fuzz face creating a HYBRID fuzzface for the guitar solo TIME, which you can see on pompeii the blue silicon fuzzface and Red germanium fuzz face. When Stacking them you turn down the fuzzface gains to be low. Jimi Hendrix did this in the studio for his albums after electric lady land by using HYBRID fuzzfaces which you should make a video lesson about. Hendrix liked to "over bias" the silicon fuzzface because when you would overbias it has a more nasel edgy midrange tone while the Red germanium fuzzface was biased to be very Velco hairy like type fuzz so when you stacked to make a hybrid it was a good mixture.

The dark blue mini fuzz face is a lot closer to the silicon fuzz faces jimi had. The jimi hendrix fuzz face was designed for modern tastes and modern amps. It has less distortion than the real old pedals, and the pedals own eq is all wrong. The mini dark blue ff has the same amount and kind of distortion, and the right eq.