Those old Roland fuzz pedals are GREAT!

[KliPp]

I just dusted of my old Roland AD-50 and "took it for a spin"...Maaan! it's just so much fun! it's hard to stop playing
i made a crappy litte video so you could hear it :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g-2y0VHtEo[/youtube]

anyone else love these pedals?

[edkoppel]

yeah those sound cool!

not as agreesive, but I always like the BeeGee.
Its like the characteristics of a superfuzz without the octave.

[rfurtkamp]

On old Roland stuff (since a lot of the 70s stuff comes with their approximation of 'distortion' that's fuzz from hell at best), I'm partial to the really mean and buzzy; the distortion switch on the JC-50 1x12 is amazing for treble snarling stupid speaker-crackling hell. Roll off everything but a little mid and the treble and you've entered the garage of death.

The much-ignored Roland/Boss GL-100 "Guitar Driver" from the depths of the rack era covers it well and doesn't leave me stuck with the JC-50 sound for everything else (as much as I love it layered with something else).

The GL-100's "60s Fazz" (sic) setting is the starting ground to many mean things - mix, say, a Blue Box in, and really disgusting things start happening.

Sample is just the GL-100 on its own, with factory settings that I did while shopping for a pedal a few months when explaining elsewhere I did not want to sound like Hendrix today. Sample is clean/factory by the numbers 60s fazz/clean/fuzz a distortion circuit up the gain chain (the rack comes with 4 in one channel, 2 in another, and has basically every available 70s-80s Roland/Boss distortion circuit in a 2 channel rackmount.

[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/rfurtkamp/mean-existing-fuzz-sample[/soundcloud]

[devnulljp]

The Double Beat is awesome -- not such a great wah, but the fuzz is fantastic. I'm told you can mod it to more of a Clyde-type wah spec. Used to have BeeBaa as well, which is killer. If you ever get a chance, try one of the Ace Tone Fuzz Masters -- I've had a few FM-2s and they're huge sounding fuzzes. I love all that old Japanese fuzz.

[Jero]

If you ever get a chance, try one of the Ace Tone Fuzz Masters -- I've had a few FM-2s and they're huge sounding fuzzes. I love all that old Japanese fuzz.

Always want to try one of those, but never have any luck

[sylnau]

I would love to try the Double Beat Fuzz.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFx1I6MzkLk[/youtube]

Also, the Plum Crazy FX - H.M.F.I.C. witch is a Double Beat Fuzz with a Big Muff tone knob look very interesting.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJMc06j6x8[/youtube]

[nightraven]

my favourite:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLadTjfk3b4[/youtube]