What's your favourite Superfuzz?

[Gearmond]

i thought the piercing abrasiveness was the whole point of the Superfuzz circuit.

[fungalattack]

Oh yeah the superfuzz is all about the metallic piercing abrassiveness!

[spacelordmother]

I've got Standard fuzz gas so bad!

[Radiohead625]

What about the Malekko. That's pretty bad ass!

[kosta]

This new Fredric Effects Super Unpleasant Companion is sounding (and looking) pretty f'n badass. It's a switchable Shinei Companion and Superfuzz in one pedal!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEz_F0MZrRk[/youtube]

http://www.fredric.co.uk/super-unpleasant-companion

[hatshirt]

This new Fredric Effects Super Unpleasant Companion is sounding (and looking) pretty f'n badass. It's a switchable Shinei Companion and Superfuzz in one pedal!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEz_F0MZrRk[/youtube]

http://www.fredric.co.uk/super-unpleasant-companion

i have the superfuzz part of that pedal in a bare mxr sized enclosure, and it fuckin rips! right now the only fuzzes on my board are fredric effects, being the superfuzz and harmonic percolator.

[kosta]

I bet man! That demo is fire. Thing sounds awesome.

[GardenoftheDead]

So, Boss FZ-2.

IT's the first octave fuzz I didn't absolutely despise.

[Fuzzy Picklez]

So, Boss FZ-2.

IT's the first octave fuzz I didn't absolutely despise.

Is it not awesome?
I tried one and really liked one of the fuzz modes and hated the other.
Overall pretty awesome pedal though.

[GardenoftheDead]

Fuzz I makes for a decent lead-boost kind of thing, but for rhythm I hate that splatty/compressed fuzz sound.

Fuzz II is awesome, especially on drop-tuned instruments, but I don't know if I'd ever use it live. It's got no midrange to speak of.

[WeHuntKings]

Fuzz I makes for a decent lead-boost kind of thing, but for rhythm I hate that splatty/compressed fuzz sound.

Fuzz II is awesome, especially on drop-tuned instruments, but I don't know if I'd ever use it live. It's got no midrange to speak of.

as long as you crank up the mids on your amp, it usually cuts through fine. i use it with a p bass through my v4 and i make the walls shake.

[fungalattack]

I'm getting a fz-2 on Wednesday!!!!!!! Hopefully it will be one of my new fav superfuzzs!

[Ancient Astronaught]

I've got both a super fuzz (monolith tectonic shift) and standard fuzz (verellen big spider) and while they are tonally similar they are very different. The superfuzz is more metallic sounding but I don't find the highs harsh, it also has more mids than the standard fuzz and cuts through a dense band mix well. The standard fuzz with out the tone control is more scooped with less highs but a huge low end, with the tone switch on its a mids monster that cuts through like nothing else with a great wooly tone. It's hard to say which one I like more as I use them for very different purposes. I can say though that a superfuzz definitely needs a volume control, the tectonic shift does not and once I get the tone I love with it, it has a huge uncontrollable volume boost.

[Fuzzy Picklez]

Fuzz I makes for a decent lead-boost kind of thing, but for rhythm I hate that splatty/compressed fuzz sound.

Fuzz II is awesome, especially on drop-tuned instruments, but I don't know if I'd ever use it live. It's got no midrange to speak of.

I found the opposite.

I loved Fuzz I, but honestly Fuzz II sounded like complete trash to me. Totally unusable. Absolutely no midrange. It sounded like a cheap metal pedal to me.

I really don't get what all the fuss is about. Fuzz I was great for splattery rhythm tones, cool leads, and just general octave madness.
I don't get it. MIds are pretty important.

[fungalattack]

I agree mids are essential in a live setting but for rocking out by myself I tend to scoop the mids a bit for the heavies. Live I turn up the mids and turn down the bass and treble. You gotta leave those frequencies for the cymbals and bass. That being said I significantly prefer fuzz II mode for the crushing downtuned heavies over splattiness. Sometimes it is cool to be lost in an indecipherable fog of disgusting noisy fuzz!