Help identify this fuzz please!

[luckylazylefty]

Newbie to this forum and to fuzz in general. I'm in love with the guitar sound on this song... Incredible album overall if you've never heard it. Can anyone suggest what pedal may have been used? Also any general idea of guitar and amp for recording would be greatly appreciated. I'm generally into vintage gear, but would also be interested in knowing if something modern could get me close. Thanks!! https://youtu.be/G2vK5Zofu50

[Snufkino]

The video in the link is dead for me... I'm assuming this is the track:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX38bSv5KGI[/youtube]

1970. Sounds all crumbly/volt starved/gated. Could be something like a Tone Bender or Fuzz Face that's just got a low battery. Outside chance it's a Wem Pep Box or Germanium Fuzzrite but I'd say probably a Tone Bender Mk.I or II

Sounds good either way. I'll have to listen to more of their stuff.

[Pete]

Earthquaker Devices Tone Reaper, Dirt Transmiter and Dream Crusher are a few pedals that could probably get you close to that sound, I'd imagine... Thanks for sharing that track-band and song sound great

[nightraven]

Too tame to be a fuzzrite and it's quite unlikely that an American band would have had the expensive early British stuff (doesn't sound anything like a British Tone Bender anyway). If it's not just a fucked up amplifier on the recording then it's probably an Italian 2 transistor Vox Tone Bender that everyone in the US who didn't have a Maestro fuzz tone seemed to have.
Cool song though!

[HorseyBoy]

^ Agree with nightraven that it sounds like a two-transistor Vox Tone Bender. Those things did pop up everywhere in the States.

[luckylazylefty]

Awesome, thanks for the feedback everyone! It might be a stretch, but any thoughts as to what the guitar and amp might be? The few pics I've found look like a Les Paul, but I've never heard a Les Paul sounds like that! Maybe my ears are too used to what Les Paul came to mean for the 80s and beyond!

[kosta]

Sounds to me like a Les Paul through a Tone Bender into something Orange'ish with the guitar volume rolled way back maybe. Great sound!