Underrated "Vintage" fuzz pedals?

[MeSoFuzzy]

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

Aye! I tried the BB into the FB and vice versa, it was rad! I sold them a few years ago

[Gone Fission]

incorrect re: big spider

the spider is an ace tone fm-2

Has anyone done a full trace? First comment in the FSB thread suggests the Fuzz Master, with other comments leaning more towards the Standard Fuzz. Might be a mix of the two, especially as the Verellen has the JFET input like the Ibanez which the Ace-Tone doesn't.

With this whole family of Japanese-made octave fuzzes (Superfuzz, Kay, Fuzz Master, Standard, and a lot of other lesser-known brands, often in fuzz-wah pedals) there are some circuit differences, some of which are going to lead to audible differences, but generally we're generally talking apple varieties instead of apples and oranges.

[LaoWiz]

If there's a fet in the big Spider it's the Ibanez fo sho.

[D.o.S.]

NO THE BIG SPIDER IS A TOTALLY ORIGINAL CIRCUIT JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER FUZZ PEDALS EVER NO ONE EVER MAKES VARIATIONS ON THE SAME CIRCUIT THAT WOULD BE UNHEARD OF!

[hatshirt]

harmonic percolator!

[phantasmagorovich]

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.

You should try a better clone. The Barge version sucked in direct comparison. The og BeeBaa is titties though!

Ibanez OD850 (or some versions of the Maxon D&S, which are the same) is a lovely Muff


I also liked whatever else I tried, what should I say, I love fuzz. Percolator based on clones and the Shin-ei Companion were great.

[moose23]

incorrect re: big spider

the spider is an ace tone fm-2

Has anyone done a full trace? First comment in the FSB thread suggests the Fuzz Master, with other comments leaning more towards the Standard Fuzz. Might be a mix of the two, especially as the Verellen has the JFET input like the Ibanez which the Ace-Tone doesn't.

With this whole family of Japanese-made octave fuzzes (Superfuzz, Kay, Fuzz Master, Standard, and a lot of other lesser-known brands, often in fuzz-wah pedals) there are some circuit differences, some of which are going to lead to audible differences, but generally we're generally talking apple varieties instead of apples and oranges.

The Big Spider I was sent pics of was near identical to the fuzz section of the Standard Wau fuzz which is a slight variation of the regular Standard Fuzz. Defo not the Fuzz Master as all the coupling caps are 10uF rather than the 1uF in the FM 2.


not my pic btw,..

Yet to try any of the Maxons but they're on the list

[Josh Pelican]

BEE BAA.

BUZZAROUND.

[chuckjaywalk]

Earth Sounds Research Graphic Fuzz, though I've only played the IdiotBox Blasteroid clone of it. I love that thing.

[Bon Hoga]

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.

You should try a better clone. The Barge version sucked in direct comparison. The og BeeBaa is titties though!

My thoughts exactly.

[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.

You should try a better clone. The Barge version sucked in direct comparison. The og BeeBaa is titties though!

My thoughts exactly.

Yea... I probably should. Any good demos of good ones?

The Barge was pretty anemic and quiet.

[RR Bigman]

I'm not really an expert on vintage fuzz, but from experience I'd have to give a +1 to the bosstone, and dat PERCOLATOR.

[Bassboar]

Double Beat
Brassmaster

[zRobertez]

go blue box!

[edkoppel]

man, I can think of a bunch:

PAIA Roctave Divider (like a Blue Box and a fOXX Tone Machine combined)


the orginal ProCo Juggernaut
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkNlOnzPBIM[/youtube]

Jordan Creator


the ridiculously rare fOXX Select-a-Fuzz



to name a few...