ilovefuzz.com

That is some cool info there that is.

Here is another fuzz based tone that shook my world. Over all the whole album is in my top 3 favorite guitar recordings.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9T98ENMOaI[/youtube]

At age 11,I saw Blue Cheer covering "Summertime Blues" on MTV's Closet Classics. I wanted my guitar to sound exactly like Leigh Stevens' did.

I just started playing two years ago, wish I would have started long ago. I have always love the guitar the best. Lately, I have been listening to Todd, old old Cows, Tar, and lots of others in that vein. Noisy guitar with character always made me happy. After I bought my guitar I got into the world of DIY. It has tailed me off of getting better at playing, but god is it fun. Tonight I played my homebrew Scrambler through a Companion and the world was right. And this was after seeing Keith Morris's new band, Off!, who were fucking great and sounded like Black Flag. Was one of those shows that showed that old guys with passion can still rock it hard without being washouts. So for me, any music that stings gives me the bug.

...in the early 90's my bandmate build me a bassfuzz/fuzzface clone that had really nasty crunch and synth-violin sustain tones in the other extreme end. The pedal just got broken along the way and our ways parted. Did my metalz & jazz meanwhile mainly with overdrives and hi-gain distortions, but with also some vintage fuzz goodness by Ibanez and Schaller.
Anyhow, now I've been purchasing new gear for the last year or so, for my new projects, with a newly warmed up fuzz love. And boy am I glad for

I started down the rabbit hole of fuzz when I stumbled onto the music store Analoguehaven.com. I just started clicking on the names of pedal effects makers and Devi Ever probably had the most professional website. From her website I came across ILF and my addiction to fuzz became insatiable. I started with the Hyperion and then that led to the Sodameiser, then the Mellowtones, and then the rest. Oh, I was also looking to get back into pedals because I hated my Line 6 Pod XT Live. Everything about that unit just screamed DIGITAL.

I was going to be playing a gig that we decided to cover Dave Barnes' tune "Since you said I do" and I needed to get a fuzz for it and the rest was history!

Well, in 10th grade my friend Jason let me borrow his NYC big muff. It was an old 90's big muff. I had no fucking idea how to use it or who used fuzz besides for jimi hendrix, and plus than i was listening to orchestrated indie rock, bright eyes, and playing in a ska band. I was a straight into the amp kind of guy. Than i got high. Than i went to college and my junior year my (then) 14 year old brother said you should check out this band, they're called electric wizard and they're so heavy. We drove up to my grandma's house in Ardsley NY from my town in NJ listening to Dopethrone on the stereo of my moms CRV at full blast. It finished as we pulled in the driveway. I brought out my big muff and tried to get that thick sound, but the NYC muff was too trebely. So i gave up... I discovered a guitar shop in philly called DiPinto, and saw all these weird homebrewed pedals at the counter made by some company called Mountainking Electronics. I knew my brother wanted to sound like electric wizard, so i asked if they had any really heavy fuzz pedals. He handed me a pedal called "the super huge bass fuzz" and i plugged it into a marshall stack with a dipinto baritone. I had found my haven. I knew this was what my brother wanted. So for christmas, i bought him the Super Huge Bass Fuzz. Now that got things rolling. I than went to blip festival in NYC and saw Animal Style play. I was so intrigued about how he got his guitar to sound like an 8-bit video game, and he showed me his FX Doctor 8-bit fuzz. I was so surprised that it was a "fuzz" pedal. My brother got it for me for christmas. So in january of '09 i met this kid dan. Dan had a mellowtone singing tree. they didn't have those at guitar centers. I thought i sounded really neat, and he sent me to Fuzzhugger.com. I watched a video for a pedal called the wolf computer. I had never heard anything that sounded like that in my life, and i started relentlessly researching all of these different pedals. Needless to say, when i moved to london, i emailed Devi Ever a question about her Destructo Noctavia. She referred me here. You guys made me into the monster i am today.

devnulljp wrote:The first ring mod was developed by Tom Oberheim in 1968 and he went into production building them in 1970 -- there's a proto on the score of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (from 1970). Maestro started selling them in 1971, again too late.

How's that possible? What I mean to ask is, if there were only prototypes in the early 70's, how it there a ring mod used all over The United States of America s/t (recorded in 67 or 68--possibly between those years)?

IDK if I'm reading you correctly, but, if Oberheim did in fact design the first RM in the late 60's, it just doesn't seem like this band would have any relation to hm, much less access to nascent designs.

Or do you mean the first "commercial" ring mod?

PS, just because The USA is awesome:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0cuX0WSdhg[/youtube]

the raytownian wrote:

devnulljp wrote:The first ring mod was developed by Tom Oberheim in 1968 and he went into production building them in 1970 -- there's a proto on the score of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (from 1970). Maestro started selling them in 1971, again too late.

How's that possible? What I mean to ask is, if there were only prototypes in the early 70's, how it there a ring mod used all over The United States of America s/t (recorded in 67 or 68--possibly between those years)?

IDK if I'm reading you correctly, but, if Oberheim did in fact design the first RM in the late 60's, it just doesn't seem like this band would have any relation to hm, much less access to nascent designs.

Or do you mean the first "commercial" ring mod?

PS, just because The USA is awesome:Yes, looks like you're right. I guess Oberheim invented a ring mod and not the ring mod. The BBC had one at least in 1963 for the Dalek voice thing, so I guess someone somewhere was making them at least as studio units.
Guess I should try and save face and say I meant the first "commercial" ring mod, but really I thought that was the first. Doh!
Jeff Beck's still using his.

EDIT: Wikipedia says "In 1963, Don Buchla included an optional ring modulator in his first modular synthesizer, the Model 100. The ring modulator panel unit, Model 111, included two independent passive circuits that each attenuated the input signal by 55 dB"

So there you go. Learned something today.

Still no idea what Tony Iommi used though

devnulljp wrote:Still no idea what Tony Iommi used though

Black f'n magic. That's what.

kosta wrote:

devnulljp wrote:Still no idea what Tony Iommi used though

Black f'n magic. That's what.

Agreed

devnulljp wrote:Guess I should try and save face and say I meant the first "commercial" ring mod, but really I thought that was the first. Doh!

It ain't no thang... everybody makes mistakes! It probably was the first commercially-available rm, which makes the confusion understandable.

I did some Googling myself and saw the 1963 date as well...

I have also read that Iommi used a ring modulator, FWIW.

When I was a wee lad back in the late 70s I bought a Big Muff from a friend. Played it for my mom and she said it sounded terrible... With that endorsement I was hooked.

blooghost wrote:

kosta wrote:

devnulljp wrote:Still no idea what Tony Iommi used though

Black f'n magic. That's what.

Agreed

really guys, i love you all!!!

oh and iommi used a mustache!!!

pt.1 - Four years ago I was in my dads basement, and I played the opening riff to the W.A.N.D, by the flaming lips. I was using a dano black coffee at the time. he listened and said "hold on, let me go get something". he went into the other room and was holding a deluxe big muff pi, he said his friend gave it to him in high school and that he'd had it ever since. I plugged it in and it was awesome!

pt. 2 - two years ago I was looking for a jaguar, which led me to shortscale.org, and I video demo of Aen playing a Badtz-Maru bronco bass, which led me to dwarfcraft, which was pretty tutz, this was back when he only had the squaresnakes and possibly the tgd. i saw that he was subscribing to something called effector 13, so I clicked on that and a video of a (fucking huge) batch of pedals, but I took no real notice.

pt. 3 - a while after that, I found analogue haven, which stocked dwarfcraft, and which also led me to devi ever. i listened to sound samples of those pedals allllllll day, they sounded so awesome. then I got a shoegazer for my birthday... then a glitch comp, tbtp, etc etc.

now I feel