Kind of a deafening silence in here, possibly because people here are too modest to call themselves mages. I'll be the first on the dancefloor, doing embarrassing dad dancing.
My fuzz tastes are pretty retro but I've always been surprised that so few few makers have gone after what I call the English Pastoral Fuzztone, the smooth, bassoon-like long-sustain fuzz of the early 70s. The absolute paradigmatic instance is Fripp's solo on 'Exiles' but the sound turns up on loads of records of the time. Much less common since. I suspect it's to do with amps as much as pedals and I'm not convinced it's achievable at less than 50w.
However the excellent Shoe Pedals made the 'Robert' fuzz for a while which got very close.
"She opened the case of my guitar and placed six fingertips to the pick-ups beneath the strings. She made me a tea from the dried orange skins on her fire, and taught me the way of guitar voodoo." -- Jim Carroll, 'The Book Of Nods'
I’ve always wanted fuzzes to be chunkier than they are. Like, if a chainsaw wasn’t so smoooth. Maybe a chainsaw with randomly shaped teeth. Maybe a mechanized boulder of a fuzz, rolling up a mountain covered in glass and tinfoil.
niftyprose wrote:Kind of a deafening silence in here, possibly because people here are too modest to call themselves mages. I'll be the first on the dancefloor, doing embarrassing dad dancing.
My fuzz tastes are pretty retro but I've always been surprised that so few few makers have gone after what I call the English Pastoral Fuzztone, the smooth, bassoon-like long-sustain fuzz of the early 70s. The absolute paradigmatic instance is Fripp's solo on 'Exiles' but the sound turns up on loads of records of the time. Much less common since. I suspect it's to do with amps as much as pedals and I'm not convinced it's achievable at less than 50w.
However the excellent Shoe Pedals made the 'Robert' fuzz for a while which got very close.
Lori S gets close to the same kind of tone on lots of Acid King stuff with her Little Big Muff, but it doesn't sound the same since they're tuned to C and not really operating in the same register. TBH lots of stoner rock stuff would fall into this zone, and the various Big Muffs can get there because Big Muffs are the best fuzz circuits ever for precisely this reason
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Personally, I would really love it if I could find a One Knob Fuzz that played nicely with high impedance pickups. The Ritual sounds fucking perfect on everything except my main bass.
I also wish there were more fuzzes like the yr2525 and yr4545. Those got up into supersonic audio territory. My hearing’s weird and I hear dog whistles. More fuzzes and audio equipment should play in those ranges.
I want more parallel fuzz.
Like rudimentary suboctave + octave fuzzes tweaked to sound good in parallel.
No independent switching, just fuzzes made out of multiple fuzzes, y'know.
Oscillating fuzz with pitch control using an exp-in, a lá LAL 88 with the ¿middle? switches would be coolio poolio. With just that mode it would be 2 knobs
Cydonia wrote: Too bad no one here is interested in talking about "gear"
BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
John wrote:I love how this forum has the GDP of Switzerland in pedals but the collective value of everyone's patch cables is less than the change in my couch cushions. And I don't have a couch.
backwardsvoyager wrote:I want more parallel fuzz.
Like rudimentary suboctave + octave fuzzes tweaked to sound good in parallel.
No independent switching, just fuzzes made out of multiple fuzzes, y'know.
Parallel fuzz is fun! I've had one and made my own by blending and there's a lot of veeery cool sounds to be had. So yeah I have to agree
i was thinking about parallel dirt last night after rehearsals. I was thinking how would be cool to have my usual Interstellar Overdriver sound mixed with the huge mid-scooped muff sound, and i don't mean a clean blend, but more like a blend where the low and high freq above/under a certain area are from the Muff, and only the remaining central/ mid-freq part of the signal stays exactly the same as the original overdriven sound.
