Underrated "Vintage" fuzz pedals?

[edkoppel]

that's exactly it! thank you. is it anything like the old fz1? im guessing not...

approx value? i remember the guy back in the mid/late 90s telling me it was worth a lot, but that was then

Well, this was the fuzz used on the first couple of Black Keys records so they have gone up a bit in value in the last few years.
It doesn't sound like the FZ-1, instead think of an IC-Muff with less gain, but more growl.

I'm not 100%, but I can almost guarantee this is a MFZ-1:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ip4pBSMjng[/youtube]

they usually go for $200-$400 on ebay depending on condition.

[pigmaker]

cool sound. thanks! very good description with the ic muff.

[LaoWiz]

I will hopefully be doing some more experiments with the Gretch Contro fuzz circuit. It's an odd one that doesn't seem to get cloned. It's really strange as your signal starts out clean and when it decays the signal gets crossover fuzz. When I first tried it it sounded decent. Rolling back volume on the guitar makes it more fuzzy which is weird. I also took out the gain pot on it and jumpers the connections which made it a quite nasty fuzz with shitloads of volume.

[Jero]

I will hopefully be doing some more experiments with the Gretch Contro fuzz circuit. It's an odd one that doesn't seem to get cloned. It's really strange as your signal starts out clean and when it decays the signal gets crossover fuzz. When I first tried it it sounded decent. Rolling back volume on the guitar makes it more fuzzy which is weird. I also took out the gain pot on it and jumpers the connections which made it a quite nasty fuzz with shitloads of volume.

Messed with it a bit myself. Certainly a strange one.