Underrated "Vintage" fuzz pedals?

[friendship]

Buzzaround should be listed with the closely related Dizzy Sound.

Fuzzrite and the related Orpheum. I'm not a doom guy, but to my ears the Orpheum would work pretty well for teh heavies.

That's not the first time I've heard hte Fuzzrite and Orpheum compared. What's the story with these two?

The worms and the spice, what is the relationship

I'm not a good enough fuzz folklorist to know the history accurately, and I haven't compared schematics in a while, but the Orpheum sounds like a Fuzzrite with a mid-scoop.

BTW, here's a video that does comparisons of DIY builds of almost all the early germanium fuzzes: http://tonefiend.com/guitar/fuzzdetective/ Joe did a follow-up one-off on the super-rare germanium version of the FY-2 Companion fuzz, too.

Very cool, thanks man.

[goroth]

+1 for the Bosstone.

Yeah

[moose23]

Ibanez Standard Fuzz

[pigmaker]

Ibanez Standard Fuzz

is this closely related to the rams head muff? i was under that impression for some reason

[theavondon]

I have no idea why the Bee Baa is not way more popular than the super fuzz.

[woolyh]

[rfurtkamp]

I have no idea why the Bee Baa is not way more popular than the super fuzz.

Neither do I, but ILF's tastes are strange.

And I don't abide by most of it!

[pigmaker]

i had a marshall supa fuzz clone kit from BYOC that someone else put together
i dont know if this speaks to byoc kits or the circuit itself, but it sounded so bad

[hazelwould]

I have no idea why the Bee Baa is not way more popular than the super fuzz.

I played the barge and pretty much lost all interest in that circuit.

[Gone Fission]

Ibanez Standard Fuzz

is this closely related to the rams head muff? i was under that impression for some reason

IIRC, Standard Fuzz is a close relative of the Super Fuzz (and is the basis of the Verellen Big Spider). The OD-805/809 is a triangle-ish Big Muff with a two-band eq with fixed-value bass. (I think it's a Baxandall/James tone stack. Yes, like Catalinbread did with a control added for the bass band.

[skullservant]

Yep the Standard Fuzz is pretty close to a Super Fuzz and is totally what the Big Spider is based off of. Super Fuzz sounds more 'square' to my ears, whereas the Standard Fuzz/Spider have more of a jagged rasp to them

[Jero]

i had a marshall supa fuzz clone kit from BYOC that someone else put together
i dont know if this speaks to byoc kits or the circuit itself, but it sounded so bad

That's pretty much a tonebender I think. The transistors chosen are pretty important there.

[adapt]

incorrect re: big spider

the spider is an ace tone fm-2

[MeSoFuzzy]

For me, the holy trinity of vintage-type (where clones are available and plentiful, or reissues exist etc as well) fuzzes are the Ampeg Scrambler (very mean octave up fuzz with a clean blend), Fender Blender (octave up), and the venerable MXR Blue Box.

I haven't tried the Scrambler, but the FB and BB are totally awesome

[rfurtkamp]

You owe it to yourself to play a Scrambler. It's a thing of vicious beauty run into a Blender.