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Dude, if I had any money....
Ok man, that's cool, cheers.

I just watched Excane's bass demo of it.
What's really amusing is that when you punch "mountainking electronics" into youtube, yours and excane's demos are all you get.

Well done, fellas.
Well done.

Isn't the Fuzzhugger Phantom Octave a gnarly octave down fuzzizzle? Maybe pair it with another motherhugger, and you've got yourself your new favourite fuzz.

Uncle Grandfather wrote:Dude, you need a mountainking electronics megalith.

You mean the big, $295 one that's only available in the US?

Been watching some more demo clips and what not, and I think I'm neaning most towards somesort of tonebender mkII or mkIII, or a foxx tone machine clone. I know I shouldn't expect much from something that cheap, but the Dano's build quality is supposedly not that great. Mxr also seems to build tone machines called "la machine". Not cheap, and no seperate swicth for the octave effect thpugh:s Anything else out there?

Anyway, I might also grab a blue box just for the hell of it, even though I'm already sure I'd rather want an octave up fuzz rather than an octave down fuzz on my board (or 2 octaves in this case). They shouldn't cost a whole lot used, I just wanna find out for myself how good or lousy it actually is

frigid midget wrote:

Uncle Grandfather wrote:Dude, you need a mountainking electronics megalith.

You mean the big, $295 one that's only available in the US?

yes....that is the one. its a dooozy if you can find one local i'd jump all over it. the huge box, which in reality is normal small box enclosure, is another one to look for.

For a great Foxx Tone Machine fuzz with separate octave up footswitch try the Homebrew Electronics UFO, you can sometimes find a good deal on these second hand and it's one of the most awesome, nasty and fat variaties I've heard so far.
If you're mostly a rhythm player a lot of the really crazy fuzz pedals don't really work for that I think, for riffs and lead type stuff sure but most of them don't handle chords all that well, you'll probably get more mileage out of a regular or octave up fuzz.
If you buy a Bluebox and you don't like it right away then you could try some mods that give it more clarity and midrange, that might just do the trick.
Ugly Grandpa is right about them British dudes, price quality ratio is usually pretty high on those, especially if you're from the EU.
You can never really go wrong with a Buzzaround, Dizzy Tone or Tonebender clone of some sort, great with chords, cuts through the mix well while still sounding thick enough, always useful and pretty versatile.
Oh yeah, if you wanna go Fuzzhugger then check out the Algal Bloom, there's a pretty good Musictoys demo out there on the tube.

Tristan wrote:For a great Foxx Tone Machine fuzz with separate octave up footswitch try the Homebrew Electronics UFO, you can sometimes find a good deal on these second hand and it's one of the most awesome, nasty and fat variaties I've heard so far.
If you're mostly a rhythm player a lot of the really crazy fuzz pedals don't really work for that I think, for riffs and lead type stuff sure but most of them don't handle chords all that well, you'll probably get more mileage out of a regular or octave up fuzz.
If you buy a Bluebox and you don't like it right away then you could try some mods that give it more clarity and midrange, that might just do the trick.
Ugly Grandpa is right about them British dudes, price quality ratio is usually pretty high on those, especially if you're from the EU.
You can never really go wrong with a Buzzaround, Dizzy Tone or Tonebender clone of some sort, great with chords, cuts through the mix well while still sounding thick enough, always useful and pretty versatile.
Oh yeah, if you wanna go Fuzzhugger then check out the Algal Bloom, there's a pretty good Musictoys demo out there on the tube.

So far I'm liking the HBE UFO idea. A LOT. So much that I'm willing to let go of my size rule and even ditch something else to make room for it on my board.

Finding a good deal on a used one might take some time though. But I'm also betting on a second horse: Just made a low ball bid on a vintage acetone FM-1. No way in hell he'll bite, but it was worth a try.

The more demos I'm checking the more I'm getting convinced that the blue box would be flipped faster than I can buy one and that I desperately want a good vintage-y octave fuzz on my board. The FZ-2 is based on a superfuzz and all, but both those effects only have the slightest hint of an upper octave hidden in there, and it's not switchable.

Anyway, I know for a fact that I'll eventually add a decent tonebender mkII/III to my arsenal, no matter what. But right now I'm focusing on clones and replicas of the FM-2, Ibanez Standard Fuzz, Tone Machine,...