Fuzz Archaeologists, Your Help

[Chankgeez]

Listen to the shizz on this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsvpmg1F0Aw[/youtube]

Ain't no traditional versions here.

[Dandolin]

Snake likes Snake.

[HorseyBoy]

I played along with this track today with a few different fuzz boxes (I was bored and it seemed like a fun experiment) and I still think it might be a I.V Tonebender or a Fuzz Face, largely because you can get pretty much all those guitar sounds with a good germanium fuzz simply by keeping the fuzz on full and then rolling your guitar's volume off and on and switching pickups. I used a Castledine Stingray (Vox Tonebender clone). Rolled the volume off on the bridge pup for the thinner overdriven sounds, rolled it up and switched to the neck for the thicker, fuzzier sounds. Those two-transistor circuits are amazingly versatile like that.

[Faldoe]

First off, if you hate Da Blooze, get out now to preserve your sanity.

To the point--I heard this at a vinyl party this weekend, and was struck by the fuzz tone (skip to 6:00 for fuzz w/out all the backwards schtuff):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOtF2XGWzU[/youtube]

Anyone got any ideas of what fuzz this might be? Germanium Fuzzrite? Jordan Bosstone with a dying battery? Calling all fuzzstorians.

PS--is there a single "identify this fuzz" catch-all thread? Haven't seen one pop up, but if there is, I'll nuke this and re-post....

never heard this guy before. awesome stuff.

[Dandolin]

I played along with this track today with a few different fuzz boxes (I was bored and it seemed like a fun experiment) and I still think it might be a I.V Tonebender or a Fuzz Face, largely because you can get pretty much all those guitar sounds with a good germanium fuzz simply by keeping the fuzz on full and then rolling your guitar's volume off and on and switching pickups. I used a Castledine Stingray (Vox Tonebender clone). Rolled the volume off on the bridge pup for the thinner overdriven sounds, rolled it up and switched to the neck for the thicker, fuzzier sounds. Those two-transistor circuits are amazingly versatile like that.

Thanks. I'm sure you got there with those. My 1.5 "versions" (not OG, recent builds by SWIM) were pretty damn bright. But maybe my rig influence was predominant. I'm, as usual, interested in the synthy edge when he really let's it rip. I think I'm learning that, at least for the early fuzzes, guitar, and to some extent amp, are more critical to finding that edge than the particular circuit or build....