Everyone is so surprised at the riffs and I'm over here just basking in this wonderful obsession that is high gain signal destroying fuzz. Thanks for another great demo
I think you could have rolled back the tone a little more on the Rusty - probably would have gotten it a little closer to the Smiley when you were trying to match the tone up.
Not necessarily the WHOLE point of a fuzz face but the way you can use your guitar volume knob while leaving the pedal dimed is its killer feature. Neither of these cleaned up particularly well. A real fuzz face with a little delay has an amazing variety of sounds.
Silicon FF aren't known for the guitar volume knob clean up as the Germanium are; this remains a big selling point for all FF designs, however, and JHS understood that. You can get literally THE BEST harmonically rich clean tones with Ge types, along with all the driven sounds on the way.Might have to try this one, as Si is always less problematic, and the optional bias type switch provides much more versatility. Nice work; you showed the departure from most cheaper FF designs, including the Dunlop.
I’m sure others have mentioned already but the Rusty Fuzz is in no way a Fuzz Face circuit. It’s based on the Boss FZ-3. And unlike We As A Company I happen to love the way it ‘cleans up’ and view it as one of the pedals strengths
JHS Smiley is a Fuzz Face replica, while Rusty Fuzz is a Boss FZ-3 clone. FZ-3 is a Tone Bender kind of fuzz, instead of a fuzz face. So, this comparison doesn't make much sense.
@@frankie_18 no, TC never said that. Actually you can see in this TC promotional video, it literally says Rusty Fuzz is their take on FZ-3 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K4DlX0aa9ng.html
Some iterations of the Tone Bender are extremely similar to the Fuzz Face, so similar in fact that they can be used interchangeably (specifically the Tone Bender MkII if I remember right). So you’re both right. Also a comparison is certainly appropriate. You can compare a van to a pickup because they have different features and one or the other will work better for you.
The JHS is more musical, less abrasive. The fact that it’s so responsive to volume changes is huge-it will be more touch responsive overall. How is it with palm mutes? My 3 criteria for a heavy tone 1)have to be able to palm mute without weirdness 2) has to clean up musically, not just get quieter when you roll the volume back and 3) be a good lead tone on its own. I’ve always had the 1st and 3rd but ever had any luck with the second. I’ve finally got it all with a booster Orange MicroDark. Crushing tone until I roll back the volume and it ‘cleans’ up. The points in between are all useable for rock to metal to doom. The lead sound is great This pedal might solve that issue as well. A fuzz face into an overdriven amp is glorious. It’s expensive but that sound would be worth it
The Smiley cleans up very well, not sure about palm muting. Normally fuzzes are not the first choice for that kind of application, but we could be wrong.
I prefer rusty fuzz, i think cleans even better or more naturally like a amp breaking up, the smiley just cleans broken.. Actually, let me buy it now..
Well there is more clarity if you play a single coil guitar with theses pedals, but you can also put a tube screamer in front. It tightens them up alot. Set it as a dirty boost with the level up, and the drive roughly 1/4 of the sweep. I Run a EHX east river drive into my rusty fuzz sometimes. You have to dial back the tone knob some, or it will produce crazy harmonic squealing...... unless that's the sound your going for.
