How'd your fuzz habit start?

[drunkenguitarist]

Back when I was first starting out I had a Park 10 watt amp with reverb. I thought it was just another cheapo nothing special run of the mill beginners rig. I always had a blast playing through that thing.
So I upgraded to another cheaper valve amp..after about ten years of playing straight in with no stomps (other than the occasional use of an old rv-3 and a vox wah that I had laying around) I kinda lost interest in the guitar..

I thought about the time when I had that old Park..so I began looking for one again..the early reviews always mentioned that it was geared towards "fuzz" lovers..so, with that I scoured all that I could find on fuzz pedals on youtube, ebay, etc..I saw a pgs demo on the catalinbread v8..i bought one..then a skreddy mayo, quickly followed by a D*A*M Meathead in Black & Gold that was incredibly bass heavy..pure doom in a box..

That was a little over a year ago..I think I've gone through at least 18 fuzz units alone..I love it all, I try not to discriminate..I just buy what I think sounds nice..I've had (or currently have) pedals from Mellowtone, D*A*M, Skreddy, Catalinbread, Blackout Effectors, MJM, Dice Works, EarthQuaker Devices...I can see no end in sight as of now...it's a sure sign of addiction when you begin to dream about playing through stomps that you've only seen online..

[bigchiefbc]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream was probably the first time I realized that the distortion sounds Billy was getting was WAYYYY different from the distortion sounds that Metallica was getting. And that I liked the first one a LOT more.

[steevdeadman]

When I realized that I hated the sound of distortion on my bass and wanted something more "organic" sounding... then I found one Ms. Devi Ever and the rest is history...

[elbandito]

I bought a Subdecay Flying Tomato when I first showed up here on ILF, just to see what the fuzz hype was all about. Tried it and loved it. Then Stanimal hooked me up with a Clarinot and it was all over... I realized that fuzz suited my style perfectly and that there were so many different flavours, blended with all kinds of other effects and it was like the whole world opened up to me. Before I found ILF, I was using just an 80's RAT and a Boss SD-1. Now they've both been shunted offa my board and replaced with the goodness.

The problem now, is that it's become an addiction. I've got so many different kinds, each with one particular sound that I use for different things... I almost need to build myself another board: One for "fuzz" and another for "everything else".

[Tag Intel]

Probably when I was 10 and she was 11. Best fuzz EVAR!

I already know I'm going to hell.

[Mudfuzz]

Ummo....

Well....

Ok, so...

From the start. yeah that works...

You see when I first started playing I got this headphone amp called Sideman, it had distortion, that was a big thing you see! That was it! it was noisy and terrible. Then I got lone of a RAT for a bit that was better... Then I got a "metal" ibanez sound tank... I lived in the middle of nowhere and there was no net and most of the catalogs didn't have much to look at... But then We move back the the SFBA when I was 16-17, no more being stuck in the desert! There were GOOD music stores They had pedals! So I bought my own rat.... then a DOD death metal... and then I got hold of a green Sovtek Big Muff [new mind you]! That was a eye opening event! FUZZ! I still remember taking my old Pbass in to GC and plugging that Sovtek into a SVT and the sound to behold! So I would say my quest started from the start but it took awhile for me to figure out the what I was looking for was fuzz.... and more fuzz... and more... and ...more

[leastwise]

http://www.effector13.com then then

As with me.

[Mudfuzz]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream was probably the first time I realized that the distortion sounds Billy was getting was WAYYYY different from the distortion sounds that Metallica was getting. And that I liked the first one a LOT more.

Funny... Metallica WAS my driving force for finding that fuzzy sound Of course I wasn't listening to the guitars

When I was 13 my sister gave me a metallica mix tape with this song on it..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c0Q5IRets[/youtube]
That's also it's the song that got me playing "for realz!"

[kosta]

BASS SOLO, TAKE 1!

[bigchiefbc]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream was probably the first time I realized that the distortion sounds Billy was getting was WAYYYY different from the distortion sounds that Metallica was getting. And that I liked the first one a LOT more.

Funny... Metallica WAS my driving force for finding that fuzzy sound Of course I wasn't listening to the guitars

When I was 13 my sister gave me a metallica mix tape with this song on it..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c0Q5IRets[/youtube]
That's also it's the song that got me playing "for realz!"

Well, yeah I was talking about their guitar tone. I mean, you can really only hear Cliff's fuzz in Anesthesia and in a few little solos here and there like in Orion and Call of Ktulu.

[Mudfuzz]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream was probably the first time I realized that the distortion sounds Billy was getting was WAYYYY different from the distortion sounds that Metallica was getting. And that I liked the first one a LOT more.

Funny... Metallica WAS my driving force for finding that fuzzy sound Of course I wasn't listening to the guitars

When I was 13 my sister gave me a metallica mix tape with this song on it..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c0Q5IRets[/youtube]
That's also it's the song that got me playing "for realz!"

Well, yeah I was talking about their guitar tone. I mean, you can really only hear Cliff's fuzz in Anesthesia and in a few little solos here and there like in Orion and Call of Ktulu.

True fucking mix hogs

Still I just find it funny because you usually give that analogy yet my first influence for getting a fuzz sound is McTallica.

[devnulljp]

My first fuzz? I played in a bedroom band when I was a teenager. The other guitar player had a job (a rare animal in Thatcher's Britain I'll tell you) and he bought a Boss distortion feedbacker, so he gave me his crappy old pedal.



He was always pissed that I was louder than him too and could do all that Hendrix screaming feedback when all he had was the little orange stomp-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee box.

I do remember the day I realised the correct answer to the question "Which fuzz?" is "ALL OF THEM!" though. Not sure if that's a good thing or not

[Ghost Hip]

My Big Muff pi broke. I found devi ever posting her site on HC effects buy/sell/trade. Before I knew it I trade my Holy Stain for a DF and nano muff and a boss aw-3 for a 33.

[themanwhowasthursday]

My dad making me listen to the velvet underground as a kid, making it all of the through Sister Ray and trying the hardest to make a squire through a peavey bandit sound like lou reed and Sterling Morrison melting amps.

I was 13 and bought Siamese dream on the day it came out, put on giant pair of headphones and zoned out for about a week. this added to Loveless kind of made me want a giant wall of fuzz more than anything

at the moment looking at the desk next me there's a Disaster Fuzz, Fuzz Face, Big Muff, RAT, Fuzz Factory as well as a Sodameiser on the way

[magiclawnchair]

i found the paranoid album in the crawl space of the house in a box of x-mas albums when i was 10 or 11 or so. my dad was always listening to all kinds of music so i did not understand why this was mixed in with the x-mas albums so i pulled it out. damn! chills went up my spine through the entire first side!!! then i flipped it over and heard...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsLkL8DTHeg[/youtube]
and i freaked out!!! i listed to the album all day!!! so i guess i have always wanted some fuzziness!!!

i got a big muff when i started playing around 17. wound up with an old sort of beat up 71 sg delux when i was 19 and got a fender hot rod deville 2x12 around the same time. a year or two later i got a boss gt-5 and used that only for several years. about 5 years ago i stopped with the gt-5 and picked up a deucetone rat.

last year my bass player friend andy bought an eau claire thunder and brought it out to jam! holy crap did that sound awesome!!!

he let me borrow it for a few weeks and when he took it back i knew i needed to do something! digging around the dwarfcarft web site i rode a lynx over to devi's. i had never heard of her until last summer! then i went back to ride the other lynx. i found ilf. hey this place looks cool. oh fuzzhugger eh? thats a cool name. so i checked out fuzzhugger. damn, these are some pretty cool pedals and they are real affordable!!

i signed up for Kool Tom Dee said you can haz great wall v2, and it was good!!!

now, i am a sick man...