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What are your favorite fuzz pedals for rhythm guitar/chords?

Some pedals seem to have a spongy amp-like quality that to me seems right for rhythm.

TAFM for anything and everything. I like an IC Muff every now and then too.

J-Fuzz wrote:TAFM for anything and everything.

I'm excited about the Four Eyes I've got coming too though.

monkeydancer wrote:

J-Fuzz wrote:TAFM for anything and everything.

Interesting. Do you use the clean blend on it when playing rhythm....I remember that dialing in a fair bit of clean blend on my Germanium B:assmaster made for some great rhythm guitar sounds.

I have at least some clean blend 99% of the time because it sounds amazing. For heavyish rhythm stuff I generally go for clean volume a bit lower than fuzz but not much, really adds something, and lets you play full chords without it being all intermodulation noise which is the real key to it. I've always wanted to try a brassmaster-type thing, I always thought of it more as a lead fuzz though from clips I've heard?

dorfmeister wrote:

monkeydancer wrote:

J-Fuzz wrote:TAFM for anything and everything.

Interesting. Do you use the clean blend on it when playing rhythm....I remember that dialing in a fair bit of clean blend on my Germanium B:assmaster made for some great rhythm guitar sounds.

That's what I love about the TAFM for rhythm. With the right amount of clean dialed in your chords stand way out in the mix.

monkeydancer wrote:I have at least some clean blend 99% of the time because it sounds amazing. For heavyish rhythm stuff I generally go for clean volume a bit lower than fuzz but not much, really adds something, and lets you play full chords without it being all intermodulation noise which is the real key to it. I've always wanted to try a brassmaster-type thing, I always thought of it more as a lead fuzz though from clips I've heard?

I used the Assmaster mostly for rhythm.....but I am talking the Germanium B:Ass and I would dial in a lot of clean blend...and I would also keep the sustain down fairly low when I used it that way....so that really changed the character of things.....I often would dial it in so the clean sound would be more pronounced than the fuzz.....and that clean tone would be surrounded by a halo of fuzz.... Really beautiful.....great shoegazery kind of thing for me.

That is the sound I miss the most now that I no longer have the Germ B:ass.

Four Eyes Fuzz amazing in every settings.

I should try TAFM one day.

This thread is making we want to either re-acquire a Germ Assmaster or buy a TAFM or Gnomeratron. I forgot how much I like clean blend on a fuzz pedal for rhythm guitar.

dorfmeister wrote:I no longer have the Germ B:ass.

I had that--little bit of Tobramycin cleared it right up.

dorfmeister wrote:I used the Assmaster mostly for rhythm.....but I am talking the Germanium B:Ass and I would dial in a lot of clean blend...and I would also keep the sustain down fairly low when I used it that way....so that really changed the character of things.....I often would dial it in so the clean sound would be more pronounced than the fuzz.....and that clean tone would be surrounded by a halo of fuzz.... Really beautiful.....great shoegazery kind of thing for me.

That is the sound I miss the most now that I no longer have the Germ B:ass.

That would sound really cool with a B:ass, that shoegazey thing is one of my favourite sounds of the TAFM, slap some modulation on it and it's half pretty modulated clean and half insane swooshy fuzz noise and all awesome. Clean blended fuzz is da best. I'm always sort of leaning towards getting a gnomeratron for insanity but never have the cash at the right time, one of these days...

lately been smacking the shit out of my Gretsch take on the bass vi tuned to drop C...

Often: DE SPAE, in loop BIT MANGLER > DE TBD. Total sonic mayhem, nasty, noisy, edgy, broken.

Also: Fuzzhugger fx Hugger in loop DOD Meat Box > Fuzzhugger fx AB-Synth / Ibanez Standard Fuzz. Wall of DOOOOM.

For another ghoulish flavor of doom metal Br00tlz: Ibanez Standard Fuzz > McSpunckle Mini Gnome (br00tlz) > And Aardvarks

And: Dwarfcraft TGD > DE TBD. Sick, works in the band context just swell if You're not in the wrong band.

Why not take it easy: Fuzzhugger fx Hugger (boosting hard) > Ibanez Standard Fuzz (clipping jsut a bit) > Boss Space Echo (shooshy-wooshy) > DE Bit Mangler (very easy settings for gating and boosting the dirty crapped chords)

TAFM is hands down my favorite fuzz especially for rhythm. Its nice to be able to dial in exactly the right amount of fuzz and exactly the right amount of clean tone so your sound stays heavy, but transparent enough for chords to come through.

Testify--Gnomeratron is so nice for the harmonic cloud shoegazery sound with the clean bend, and I really like my Culture Jam-built GGG Brassmaster for this too (the chewy/phasy/filtery overtones really heighten this effect for me)--I find with both of them, though, I crave just a little hair into the fuzz or on the amp for slightly better integration, but that's just personal taste. VFE Fuzz Cocktail does this nicely too--it's a Fender Blender clone--not sure if actual Blenders do the trick as well--don't have one. Also check the Black Box X-Ray Bass--sounds cool in this way on guitar. Not sure if the regular X-Ray works the same way.

For non-clean blendy overdrivey fuzzes, MI Audio Neo, PTD Bone Machine and EHX Germ4 BMP all give good hairy OD toanz without having to roll your guitar volume back at all, and then they give different flavors if you do roll it back; though on all of them you can go a little too far and end up with gated ring-moddy tones, and that''s cool, too, sometimes.

Not sure if it counts as "fuzz," but a Harmonic Percolator with a diode lift switch can also give very sweet fuzzalicious OD that resolves dissonant intervals very clearly considering the amount of shag on hand--I really like the sound of the Montgomery Appliances unit--can't wait for mine to arrive:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVRoiI16M0[/youtube]

Check it from 3:10--definitely a different flavor than the above, and not for everyone...Frederic's also do this trick very nicely.

My favourites: VTF. I like buzzsaw bumble bee boxes, and the VTF makes the shin ei clone I built sound like floppy labias applauding. So much earpain in that thing.
The Arc Flash is like a fuzzier, angrier rat. I like it boosted with a rat. It's suuuhhhhweeeetttt for 'gazin.
And an Aenima. It's got just the right noyz to clarity ratio.

From my experience the TAFM has dem lowz, so when it's boosted with a Rat and a lil clean blend it's pretty tight. I see why the bassists love it. Definitely bringz de heveez.