Somebody Recommend me a Tonebender I won't Hate

[Wizard]

i have played all the JMI stuff and Skinpimp and even a few vintage tonebenders, and i can honestly say i really am not fond of the way they sound. I would like them alot more if they were a whole lot harsher i'd think. Like buzzy chainsaw.

Now i love fuzz and i don't want to exclude the tonebender family from my list, so i was hoping the masters might help


oh heres a tonebender i do like
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBWCFJwmPk[/youtube]

[hclapp219]

Try the big box Tone Reaper, also known as the V1. It's all germanium, so it has some nice warmth to it.

[Gunner Recall]

Italian/1966 style maybe? Those are harsher/raspy. Funny since the dam 1966 is all the rage on TGP and you'd think they'd hate something like that.

I need a good one myself...
been looking at the hudson white heat, or I might hit up (fuzz)faceless since he's whipped up a few amazing benders for me already and he gets what I'm looking to throw down

[devnulljp]

Buzzy Chainsaw? Forget Tone Benders and go for an Elka DizzyTone. See if Ian Sherwen will build you one.
Ed's description is perfect: like having your face chewed off with a rusty chainsaw.

Depending on what buzzy chainsaw means, the closest I can imagine is the 2-trannie Vox Tone Bender circuit -- Stooges used those, so did Robby Krieger of the Doors, so that 60s buzz tone.

[dubkitty]

+1 on the big-box Reaper. for an even nastier BZZZZZZ in that vein, you might enjoy something in a Buzzaround; i have EQD Sound Shank #16, and like it very much.

[theavondon]

Have you tried a Buzzaround?

[whoismarykelly]

Buzzaround is where its at if you want more aggressive.

[hclapp219]

Try the big box Tone Reaper, also known as the V1. It's all germanium, so it has some nice warmth to it.

Wow, I had a complete reading comprehension fail. I thought you wanted less buzzy

[Gunner Recall]

Buzzarounds and dizzytones are for sure more buzzy, but they start to enter into the big muff super saturated sound and don't quite sound like tonebenders (though they are in the tonebender family).

[whoismarykelly]

Buzzarounds and dizzytones are for sure more buzzy, but they start to enter into the big muff super saturated sound and don't quite sound like tonebenders (though they are in the tonebender family).

It really depends on how you set them up. You can make one sound very thick and bassy like a muff, but a buzz will never have the scooped mid tonality or extremely compressed tone of a muff. They also dont have a buffer stage so they respond nicely to volume changes. They remain very tonebendery if you roll the sustain back a bit and play around with the timbre controls. Transistor selection can also make some dramatic differences.

[Gunner Recall]

Good to know, I've only tried maybe 2 of them

I've got a ghost dizzytone on the way, stoked to see how it measures up.

[dubkitty]

i find that there's a kind of continuum where my Tone Reaper and Sound Shank meet about 60-65% of the way up the gain scale, near the point where the Reaper maxes out. above that gain level the Shank can either go thinner, which gives a more Tone Bender-ish quality, or fatter for the compressed dense Robert Fripp sound depending on how you set the Timbre.

[sylnau]

This Buzzaround sound great.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=879VufN8Qdo[/youtube]

[Wizard]

AH AWESOME, thanks for the help. I've got a Skin Pimp buzzaround lined up to demo tomorrow, and we've got the creepy fingers one too... i'm really excited to try it. It's funny to me, The Tone Reaper by EQD sounds more muffish than tonebender to me, and the Hoof sounds more like my dream sort of tonebender than a muff! (though it can get muffy)

Buzzarounds and dizzytones are for sure more buzzy, but they start to enter into the big muff super saturated sound and don't quite sound like tonebenders (though they are in the tonebender family).

It really depends on how you set them up. You can make one sound very thick and bassy like a muff, but a buzz will never have the scooped mid tonality or extremely compressed tone of a muff. They also dont have a buffer stage so they respond nicely to volume changes. They remain very tonebendery if you roll the sustain back a bit and play around with the timbre controls. Transistor selection can also make some dramatic differences.

i actually love that tonebenders respond awesome to volume changes on the guitar, that is like the one thing i dug about them.

I will always be a muff guy. ALWAYS.

What do you think the dude from the turtles used in Buzz Saw? that's a cool tone.

THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!

what about takes on the roland Bee Baa? I hear that can sound like a chainsaw if i do it right.

[sylnau]

AH AWESOME, thanks for the help. I've got a Skin Pimp buzzaround lined up to demo tomorrow, and we've got the creepy fingers one too... i'm really excited to try it. It's funny to me, The Tone Reaper by EQD sounds more muffish than tonebender to me, and the Hoof sounds more like my dream sort of tonebender than a muff! (though it can get muffy)

Buzzarounds and dizzytones are for sure more buzzy, but they start to enter into the big muff super saturated sound and don't quite sound like tonebenders (though they are in the tonebender family).

It really depends on how you set them up. You can make one sound very thick and bassy like a muff, but a buzz will never have the scooped mid tonality or extremely compressed tone of a muff. They also dont have a buffer stage so they respond nicely to volume changes. They remain very tonebendery if you roll the sustain back a bit and play around with the timbre controls. Transistor selection can also make some dramatic differences.

i actually love that tonebenders respond awesome to volume changes on the guitar, that is like the one thing i dug about them.

I will always be a muff guy. ALWAYS.

What do you think the dude from the turtles used in Buzz Saw? that's a cool tone.


THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!

what about takes on the roland Bee Baa? I hear that can sound like a chainsaw if i do it right.

Have you tried the Plum Crazy FX Fuzzy Lady... cross between a fuzz face and a tonebender... one of my favorite!
Not so chainsaw... but with the bias know you can have all kind of tone even gated fuzz.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFpeKayB10[/youtube]