Fix this common Fuzz Face mistake that is wrecking your tone 

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Such great advice, and awesome video. Thanks for this dude, definitely gonna use this technique

Very well-made and informative video! Thanks!

Great video and info. Wish I would have watched this before I spent time to figure this out! Took a few days of tweaking with my fuzz face to dial it in - I was on the verge of saying screw it and getting rid of it. Once you find out the info you provide here is when you find the sweet spots.

Getting mine tomorrow, thanks for the advice!

Wow that sounds like good advice, and one that I have actually never heard before. I was expecting the same old "you shouldn't play it with a clean amp" line, but this is way more useful.

Killer demo on how to use fuzz. Sounds great!

Beautiful, concise demonstration!

Dude that is a genius idea!

Dude this is the best fuzz face video on RU-vid. Wish I saw this 3 years ago

Thank you for the tip bro, helped me a lot ! 👍

Thanks bro on Fuzz Face tip.....but what I'm really digg'in is your intro song...I went over to Spotify and checked out "Slow Jam"

Great tip 👍

Very helpful, thank you!!!

Excellent advice!

That's how I've always used my Fuzz Face, great video (:

Very helpful. Thank you.

Great advice!!

Going for the fuzz tomorrow for sure

Great video! Thank you!

It also depends on the fuzz face. Some people/companies make them better than others. As well, it depends on the transistors used and the biasing of those transistors. A well made fuzz face type can also produce a nice near overdrive sound, too.

Great tips, dies the red germanium react the same as the silicon regarding cleanup with guitar volume. Cheers

I recently bought an Analogman Sunface BC183 to use with a Milkman The Amp 50W. After the best part of a day spent tweaking, and reading furious opinions on TGP, I still couldn't get the sound I was after, nor even the sounds I'd heard from others. Then I found your video. What an awesome piece of advice: well explained, thoughtfully presented, and incredibly effective! Thank you for making this video and sharing your wisdom 👍

Thank you man, big help!

Sweet! I wonder what it will sound like. Maybe you could make a second video where you play the guitar.

How true do you think this is of alternate pedal choices that are more.s similar to a fuzz face than a big muff?

I wouldn't say "leave on all the time" is a necessity, but you definitely have to figure out how to ride the volume knob, that's the secret. I use mine almost as a channel in itself - my amp has just a little grit, then I have the option of the Fuzz Face (and all of its volume knob variations in between), or my more standard distorted tone (Tube Driver). I never mix the two pedals though.

Great 👍🏼 explanation

Never thought of using my volume knob to dial-in tone. Makes total sense. Thanks for the power tip.

thanks!

Now, that's how you should really use a fuzz. Been using Fuzz all the time and dialing only the volume knob. Now, I'm missing my fuzz factory that I regret selling lol

Thanks 👍!! Do you have a treble bleed on your pot?

Thats the real secret of Dallas fuzz face👌

Seems all fuzz pedals require tweaking but this one has big sweet spot

Hi, what were your amp settings(on the blues jr)?

How do you deal with the volume increase when you open up your guitar? My FF is perfectly clean at 7/8 and there's a big bump in level after 9.

I've found when you roll off the tone knob from the guitar you get boost more dirty!

did anyone notice some radio station interferences with this pedal (hendrix mini fuzz) especially when you roll down the guitar volume? on mine i can clearly hear it! :(

Thats what that volume knob thingy is for.🤣

Guitar Volume knob is a golden rule, but the non-100% setting on fuzz know is also very important. I'm not a fan of the "keep the fuzz all the way up" school either. Reminds of Josh (JHS) video on swapping the fuzz knob for another control.... yes .... but swap it with a trim inside to get that non-full setting. Perhaps it is a silicon thing, beacuse it tames the wild gain a bit and a slightly less tone suckking which makes for better clean up. less than 60% fuzz becomes dull, but between 60 and 90 is the magic.

This is how I use my germanium fuzz face pedal especially into an already overdriven amp

JAMESF, How do you get those Hendrix BELL clean tone instead of that SRV glassy cleans? I'm not sure how to get that hendrix BELL clean tone

Big tease on the intro cut away before the epic bend

Exactly

And don’t forget, never wear headphones😎

👍👍

Mmmmmmm, interesting

Vepa cha!

In my opinion a Fuzz Face is basically a Ferrari you can only drive from the passenger seat. All the mojo is there but you're missing a good steering wheel. An external input gain pot that replaces the gain/fuzz control and an external bias pot (along with boosting the available volume level) turns the Fuzz Face circuit into a much more versatile enjoyable circuit.

Ahhhhhhaaaahahahaaaahahahah......IT ALL MAKES SENSE. THANK YOU GOOD SIRRRRR.

Help me please!!! Delay after a FF Ge... Damm.. always fuck the tone.. trebleee and harsh... A try everything.. bufffer anfter, before, between... Always destroy my fuzz tone!!! :((( I just wanna use FF Ge and Delay.... Ahhhhhhh

19 people are idiots. This took me ages to realise unaided. I love being able to stand anywhere on a stage and have complete control of the sound.

When you wanna play hendrix style stuff but remember you can't buy a fuzz face because you're poor so you buy a behringer Super Fuzz and things are too heavy 😂😂

Can I buy your guitar?🎸🎛

Here's a news flash for you. You're looking at stuff from the bottom, looking up. What you should be doing is looking from the top, down. This pedal is part of a SET of mix & match pedals. Professionals in theory, USE a SET of pedals. Dunlop makes a SET of pedals designed to compete with other brands. Your concept that jimi hendrix is stepping onstage with 1 pedal, is WRONG. The JH fuzz pedal is designed for a SET of pedals. The general purpose fuzz pedal is ALSO designed for a SET of pedals. Manufacturers want to sell SETS of pedals. You won't get the TRUE sound from just 1 pedal. I can tell you the JH fuzz pedal won't make the 1960's sound by itself. I can also assure you the Dunlop fuzz won't make its TRUE sound without the Dunlop rotovibe pedal converting the signal at the end of the signal path before the amp. They're NOT your friends. Their pedals won't activate their TRUE sound without the other pedals. The JH fuzz pedal is useless without the other pedals from the JH set of pedals. It will NOT turn on the 1960's sound without the JH wah pedal. The JH wah pedal will not turn on its TRUE sound without the octavio, AND the Dunlop rotovibe pedal. The JH octavio pedal won't activated its sound without the fuzz pedal AND the Dunlop rotovibe pedal. So the fuzz requires 1 other pedal. The octavio requires 2 other pedals. The wah requires 3 other pedals. If you buy the full set, you won't have any bad sounds. None of the sounds in your video are the TRUE sound from those pedals. Dunlop claims to sell a SET of pedals. The TRUE sound will only work from the set. You've got to view Dunlop from the position of the SET of pedals not from 1 pedal. MXR pedals are also a SET of mix & match pedals. The MXR full bore metal pedal won't activate its TRUE vintage sound without the MXR carbon copy pedal. Listen to every review of the MXR full bore metal pedal and none of them actually produced the vintage MXR sound. They all produced a modern style broken sound. That pedal IS clearly labelled ' vintage MXR sound '. It just produces more gain in the style of 1980's randy rhoads. With a Gibson pickup and vintage marshall, the full bore metal pedal produces Randy rhoads sound with adjustment.