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Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:03 pm
by Velcro Bottom
No, with that rig, YOU were damn sure awesome.

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:53 am
by coldbrightsunlight
manymanyhaha wrote:My first fuzz pedal! Played it through a Sovtek Mig 100 paired in stereo with a Marshall JCM 900 and did that exclusively for two years. It was awesome.

Edit: I was not awesome, IT was awesome :lol: :facepalm:
What a setup :excellent:

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:27 pm
by Jero
goroth wrote:
Jero wrote:Does anyone want to get drunk and buy ME an fz-2??
Done.
Thanks bb :hug:

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:50 am
by goroth
DONE

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:18 am
by lost in music
I really miss the days of those going for like $160 used and me thinking thinking that was too much.

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:20 pm
by Pepe
I bought my almost pristine looking FZ-2 in its mint box for 72 EUR in 2013. That was already the time when deals below 100 EUR were rare. It's still one of the best pedals that BOSS ever made.

Has it already arrived, Circuithead?

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:07 pm
by mcatano
The FZ2 is the first pedal I ever bought new from a store, and I didn't really understand what a fuzz pedal was or why I couldn't make it sound like quicksand or Fugazi or whatever so I probably used it twice circa 1999 and then put it back in the box and didn't touch it for 5 or 6 years. I think I traded it in when I found an OG fender blender (purchased solely because I had read that MBV used one) and I now have some regrets, though I still have that blender.

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:43 pm
by Circuithead
Pepe wrote:I bought my almost pristine looking FZ-2 in its mint box for 72 EUR in 2013. That was already the time when deals below 100 EUR were rare. It's still one of the best pedals that BOSS ever made.

Has it already arrived, Circuithead?
Hasn't arrived yet! Has been shipped though, so maybe in a week or so I assume.

I found an HM-2 on kijiji (popular canadian craigslist) sometime in 2015 for 50$. That's pretty much my only lucky break as far as guitar gear goes. Still have it and use it every now and then, more often as a thickener for other more scooped fuzz tones.

When I record things I often can't decide what I like most so I use everything on top of everything else and break my brain trying to mix them in a way that compliments eachother.

I already have a fuzz from Nine of Swords that gives me a tone that I really love so I'm probably going to use the FZ-2 as guitar 2 when I record.

Two Twin Earth tracks on the left, two FZ-2 tracks on the right, kind of thing.

Or maybe one track of each pedal on each side and see how they blend.

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:26 pm
by retinal orbita
Circuithead wrote:I found an HM-2 on kijiji
I found my HM-2 on Kijiji around the same time, this very nice young lady needed the money to see some screamocore band “From Autumn to Ashes” or some shit like that, she even brought it to the hospital I work at the same day if I could pay her in cash. I was very happy!!

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:32 pm
by Circuithead
retinal orbita wrote: some screamocore band “From Autumn to Ashes” or some shit like that
Oh my god haven't heard that name in years.

HUGE band in the mid 00's.

Was never a big fan but they had a couple decent jams. When everyone was jacked up on Poison The Well plenty of similar bands got a share of the pie. Hopesfall too was similar. I love the song The End of an Era by Hopesfall.

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:26 pm
by Jero
I listened to PTW and FATA *hides*

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:30 am
by goroth
I'm not sure I would admit to that publicly, but more power to you dude!

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:49 pm
by Circuithead
I got it today and played around for a few minutes with it.

It's definitely more throaty than my nine of swords Twin Earth, which is awesome because they will stack super nice in a mix and compliment eachother with their different tones.

My biggest surprise so far is boost mode. It sounds like the type of nice and smooth distortion that I've been trying to get when playing Mastodon type riffs where you want unmuted strings to flow into eachother instead of building up to a fizzy mess. I'm probably the problem here cause I can't play for shit, but having a tone that helps....helps!

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:49 pm
by Jero
goroth wrote:I'm not sure I would admit to that publicly, but more power to you dude!
:whateva: I'm not proud of it, but I own up to my mistakes :lol:

Re: It's christmas so I got drunk and bought an FZ-2 on ebay

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:35 pm
by BlackOceans
I blame Wizard for the FZ2 craziness, is this what it felt like to try to find a Tube Screamer at a decent price post SRV? I'm a fan of okay priced re-issues and decent clones when it comes to these things hahahaha

Glad your digging it man! It's deff on my list to try a OG if I can