Vintage Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz | Reverb Tone Report 

Andy ripped a huge bong before recording this

Andy playing Electric Wizard...the best of both worlds

Andy playing Electric Wizard riffs completes my life

Damn it if this guy doesn't always play all the riffs from all the bands I like. Andy, you are the king.

Dem Wizard riffs, kid

Great to see this little gem get the attention it deserves, it has been my favourite since I first heard it on the Dopethrone album. Mine has been serving me well for years now

That low-end tho... Daymm!

This was the 3rd pedal I bought, I've had it in my rig for 20+ years. Fuzz 2 is just plain fun, and it's a speaker shredder when you crank it.

Bought one of these almost 20 years ago for just over $100, I believe. Returned it immediately because I was a newb that didn't understand gain staging. Playing into 5150 combo.... Ug. I'm still kindof stupid on occasion.

*MAXIMUM RESPECT FOR PLAYING ELECTRIC WIZARD!*

I have been a bit stopped up until this video. Thank you for that.

So glad it was Andy that did this demo. This is exactly the fuzz tone I’ve been looking for.

Superb pedal and very cool to mess around with. I’m glad I have one, in fact I also have the criminally underrated SD-2 that came out in 1993 along with the HM-3. A great trio of drive pedals.

I just got one and can confirm it lives up to everything. Boss needs to start making em again if not just a limited run

Wait, when did this pedal become vintage?! God, I'm old.:(

That grin says it all

They should do a waza craft version

No other Fuzz sounds like this thing of BEAST. The saturation in Mode 2 is quite amazing.

Just the right amount of fuzz

I had this pedal back in 1994. I couldn’t write much material with it because it was too abrasive, but my friend traded me his Boss Phaser for it so he could take advantage of the gain boost aspect of it. I wish I still had it.

Had one of these, as advertised they are absolutely insane. I sold mine when the value went way up and now for my Super Fuzz sounds I have a Wilson Knuckle Dragger. It can get as nuts as this pedal can but can also be much more subtle. Very cool pedal.

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Huge respect for the Electric Wizard riff.

Fantastic video!

My First pedaaaaaal!!!! Thanks, Andy! I don't like much of canal II, I think is very synth to me. But I love the boost function, is so high... My 20 watt trans ss has become a monster with this clean upgrade!!!!

YEAH! THAT INTRO!!! SICK!!

Starting the overview with Dopethrone is sick! Well, really what else. This is the signature sound.

that wizard bend at 0:16 !!!

I've had my eye on these pedals for a while now.

LOVE my FZ-2 & FZ-3.

Andy, my boi..... You're the man!! Shoulda ripped some Queens of the Stone Age here too man lol!! Love your playing man!! I know this came out years ago but man, your playing is just pure kick assery!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting the video with the EW's Dopethrone riff is a really awesome move! :D

Love to see this guy do the Double Muff

Boss will always be the King of Pedals!

The next one, the FZ-3 is my favorite. I love that thing with my strat

Glad I got one before this review came out!

0:25 that sound...amazing

Wish I hadn't sold mine, replaced it recently w/ Behringer's SF-300 Super Fuzz. Nice riffs Andy.

"Heaven and Hell" around 4:30 sounds awesome. And then "Tattoo" around 5:28? Double awesome.

My number one! Glad more people are recognizing it! Also, not, cuz I dont want them to get even harder to find. Hahaha

the boost is so awesome, and veryyyyy loud

If I recall, this is Joey Santiago's main fuzz for The Pixies

I very glad, because you play electric wizard riff with this pedal

andy you're a wizard!

this video makes me really happy. the never play stoner rock or doom in fuzz pedal demos,

Just traded this week my zvex mastotron for this. Best thing ever. Its unique and tweakable and the gain boost is amazing. This pedal destroys. Worth the hype.

Dig seeing Andy playing Hagstrom guitars now and then, I have a Swede Gold top and will never sell it

I picked one these up on clist a month ago for $30. It's a beast!

Best pedals to get the JCM-900 & Plexi sound demo?

Andy with a LP Deluxe and this pedal... obviously some Who has to come

My favorite fuzz pedal

would i be able to get a jack white tone out of this? like his lazeretto leads

Hey Andy, I know Nick from QOTSA used one of these (is that right?). Looking for the effect on the bass intro to Hanging Tree from Songs For the Deaf... maybe the Hyper Fuzz?

Never heard this guy play doom. Thank you!

DOPETHRONE !!!

Damn Andy you have the same record collection as me! Electric Wizard kills cheers!

Man, this needs a reissue. Could we convince Boss to do a Waza?

Andy has got the CHOPS!!!

My god, hell's coming to earth!! That low end...

It's Andy!!!!!!!!!

Heaven and Hell & Tattoo? I need to find one of these pedals. Townshend’s Live at Leeds tone is what made me play guitar.

Baader-Meinhoff Effect. Never heard of this pedal until a few weeks ago. And now, EVERYWHERE.

One of my favorite boxes of nasty.

Dopethrone!

Stop, stop! You had me at 5:28! I bought the damn thing!

luv wizard and luv andy🤤

Mine does not leave the studio, but I found similar sounds with the Fulltone Catalyst (discontinued).

God I love this thing

Andy is a fucking national treasure.

Sorry to admit, I have Berlinger copy. It’s a Beast. Supper Fuzz setting. Major Muff setting. Best Boost Ever, setting. Boss, ReRelease.

Opening with an EW riff gets an automatic thumbs up from me

Andy playing Dopethrone!

ayy big up Leeds

The Wizuuuuurdd Love you Andy

Got one yesterday. Bloody love it, except for the one problem that besets all Boss dirt boxes, that the tone controls sweep from "Okay" to "Too trebly", through "Way too fucking trebly", "The Treble Dimension where there is only treble" and "ruptured eardrums". Fuzz II is almost unusable to me. But set it to Fuzz I with both tone controls on zero and you're golden.

Drove the price of FZ-2 up this video did, never getting rid of mine no matter how desperate I am! If Andy could only showcase some of the old pedals I am selling....

I always knew Andy loves the bongs

Sounds so doomy 😍

3:57 what does he do here? i can't figure it out

This would sound amazing on bass

Sick

Andy rules

Bought one 5 years ago for 40 euro's, best deal I ever got, haha. It's a rather specific sound, but if that's what you want, there aren't many good other options.

The FZ-2 is the only pedal that I don't consider replaceable on my board -- everything else I can swap out with something similar and have it sound fine, but the Hyper Fuzz (or Behringer's absolutely amazing clone) is so unique there's really no substitution.

Dopethrone - electric wizard (it was the intro for this video)

Sounds amazing on my bass!

I just realized I've been watching this a lot since it was uploaded without hitting like. *Done* I think I'd be able to get some very similar t0anz out of the Danelectro Eissenhower.

I've always had a couple of these on my bass board cause they kill but they don't stack well with other pedals

Dopethroneeeeeeee

Andy playing electric wizard? Fuck yes.

What song is that at the start of the video

He couldnt NOT crack that smile!

Andy played electric wizard. I can die happy now.

Got mine in the 90s. Still with box and papers. Used it but never loved it, Metal Zone style w similar EQ, also silent and robust. Back then ( here in Spain ) the only pedals you could find were Boss, it was very difficult to see some Big Muff, MXR, Rat or whatever around. When I get this kind of stuff or a Fuzz Factory parked the Hyper Fuzz for decades. Now I can't believe the hype. Thank you God Of Noise! hope to get a fistful of dollars for it. Hopefully it can help to get me a dream guitar. Also similar story with a Marshall Blues Breaker, incredible, and I really don't like this.

This is a pedal that you need to let it ring, not so good for solos. Love it

Oh shit, what a fuzz

Bass in the thumbnail and the graphics in the video but not demo of the pedal using it?

I always wonder about some of these Boss pedals - are they analog or digital? I'm not asking out of tone snobbery... I let my ears decide if something is good or not. It's just a point of curiosity for me. I know most of their drives are analog, but what about the phaser, flanger, choruses, etc?

HEAVEN AND HELL

I just bought a plasma coil and played it a few hours and am gonna take it back and get a hyper fuzz. Plasma is awesome but it doesn’t really get a good “normal” tone . This is what my octavia clone sounds like but w eq which is what I need