gated, splatty fuzz?

[insubordination]

Our own onthetundra makes the Make Sounds Loudly Blue Whale Fuzz, which is splatty and loud as fuck. And affordable, as all his stuff seems to be.

[Toonster]

Or something Dwarfcraft?

[hatshirt]

EQD Dirt Transmitter

[charge]

A Colorsound one knob fuzz is gatey splatty fun.

[Jero]

HOLY FUCK I THINK I MIGHT END UP GOING WITH AN AB SYNTH
just watched a demo, and I think it might be rocking what I need son!
You guys rock

Go with the 5K, you won't regret it.

100x this

wolf computer from mellowtone is one of my new favs, btw.

[Snowblind]

Or something Dwarfcraft?

would you you say TGD fits these characteristics?

[nightraven]

fuzzrite or tone bender mkI clones!

[Big Mon]

Devi US, or an OK. Also,Fuzzhugger Velcroar Oscillator.

[theavondon]

Dude, MKI bender.

[Dandolin]

So many varieties of splat, so many great recommendations. Devi is the Queen of gate and splat, and has a rainbow of flavors, previously noted. The Fuzzhugger Velcroar is awesome for splat, but as intended by Tom D., not as much with the gate (although I'm sure the Velcroscillator version can get much more gated). (Also--did anyone say Fix'd Fuzz yet?)

I think of splatty as describing both attack and decay, but moreso the attack. Gated, I think everyone understands as truncated sustain/decay. How truncated do you want the sustain/decay, and do you want it to just cut the note of clean, or sputter a bit for it dies completely?

Rather than just continue to throw out names of moar and moar different fuzzes, I'll suggest you look for fuzzes that allow you to adjust bias, sag/voltage, or even better, both. I've gotten gated splatt tones from the MI Audio Neo and EHX Germ 4 BMP, although I don't view either of those as fundamentally gated or splatty. I just recently got a 69 (SI Fuzz Face) from St that can really bring the splat and gate both [Edit--this was in a cold room--when I noticed and warmed things up to room temperature this fuzz became very reluctant to gate, and any splat was decidedly dainty--so here's an idea--put your fuzz in a meat locker].

If the fuzz also has a feedback/oscillation circuit (see Velcroscillator), this can lead to more fundamental gatedness in certain settings, or can power through the gate to make useful an otherwise unusable gated setting (eg. one that cuts the notes so short you lose intelligibility because it's all attack, no fundamental and it starts to sound like you're getting tracking misfires; or one where the attack and/or decay are too unpredictable to create consistent musical results).

ILF Member Sunmachine (Chris at Sunmachine Sonic Devices in Germany) has made me an incredible version of Dragonfly's DIY Classic Seven Fuzz plus a Green Ringer AND a Tim Escobedo Psychtar, called the Seven FInger Death Punch, which was demoed by Kayzer (see here: http://ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=14 ... ne#p295423) that does the widest variety of Splat and Gate of any pedal I've ever played--I've been meaning to give it a proper write-up because I think it is something the ILF 'hood at large would really enjoy, but I'm trying to work the kinks out of my demo machinery first.

And if Devi is the Queen of Gated/Splatty Fuzzes, Joh Lyons @ Basic Audio is surely the King--I'm housing a mini-tourbox of seven Basic Audio fuzzes right now that I need to do a write-up on, and almost all of them will go gated and/or spluttery--rather than just list all of his fuzz, I'll suggest you contact John, who is a super nice, approachable, knowledgable and intuitive guy, and describe for him what you're looking for--he'll be able to hook you up for sure at a very reasonable price.There's more for sure, but I've already exceed my TL/DR limit.

Oh--and Gnomeratron VTF--it will do anything you wish for--be careful what you wish for.

[Thomas2508]

Yeah Basic audio is a good place to start.

[oldangelmidnight]

Dwarfcraft Shiva can do a nice synthy splat.

[ghost_effects]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9uATFR5Cg[/youtube]

[Dandolin]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9uATFR5Cg[/youtube]

Doh!

The Sounds of Today answers theavondon's MkI call, but is obviously a specially tuned version, which is Ian's specialty.


As well, many of Ian's offerings can bring gate and splat, particularly ones fitted with various varieties of bias controls, but I can currently testify for the Ghost Effects Dizzy Tone and Supa Doom Bender MkI bringing both in beautiful shades of broken-ness as well--can't wait for my Mind Rocker to arrive, which will also bring me there.

Merhumblegrumble.

[ghost_effects]

when did you get a supa doom bender?
is it the blue one?