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

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

I've got Standard fuzz gas so bad!

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

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

kosta wrote: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.

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

So, Boss FZ-2.

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

GardenoftheDead wrote: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.

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.

GardenoftheDead wrote: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.

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

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.

GardenoftheDead wrote: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.

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!