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Personally, I feel like the fucked up/broken sound is just more accurate to my music and the tone I try to set. I find beauty in destruction.

I like my Test Pattern and Co because its an easy, simple alternative to Guitar Center sounds.

I like to use fuzz to actually make my music softer and more harmonic.
To turn the garden hose that is clean tone into a fluffy cloud, if you will.

To me, what distinguishes a fuzz is how the extra harmonics collide.
If you think of fuzz, or any distortion, as a shwackload of overtones, it's easy to visualize what a fuzz pedal is doing, and how the effect can be both dissonant and harmonious.
Some pedals seem to introduce a whole bunch of grimey tones, like a flat 6th or a sharp 2nd and their octaves and overtones, while others seem to accentuate the 4ths and other flowery things.The Earthquaker Terminal is an excellent example -- to my ear it's basically jazz in a pedal, as the overtones seem to slot themselves into the scale you're playing, aligning for the most part but contrasting enough to produce almost a constant sense of tension / resolution.

This is how I visualize the different fuzzes I try out, and why I like one over another.
I use fuzz to turn one laserbeam of sound into an army of puppies.

BitchPudding wrote:I find beauty in destruction.

Never have truer words been spoken. I hear ya brother