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seriously, when someone asks you what fuzz is and they dont play guitar.....or maybe they do but are either teh brootz or teh noobz (or just plain dumb) what do you tell em?

Fuzz is the sound of rock music.

Also
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww22eEiubb0[/youtube]

I tell them its like distortion, but it makes your guitar sound good.

Yesterday I went in to my local guitarshop to pick up the big muff I ordered last week and the guy behind the counter said: "What's a big moof?"

I normally say something along the lines of, "it's what set jimi hendrix apart from all those blues guys that most people forgot about."

fuzz is

Precisely! Fuzz = love.

Fuzz is like distortion, but the clipping produces something closer to a square wave, which gives it that 'buzzy' sound.

Just say it’s when the guitars and bass go like this and make buzzy fuzzy noises.

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Simply, it is a form of musical distortion. I point to the waveshape form, which is usually broader sawtooth closing even a squarewave, producing quite different harmonics to the original signal compared to a distortion pedal.

Not that samurai would have been after links but here's a brief primer on something interesting http://www.geofex.com/effxfaq/distn101.htm

well it is quite simple actually, fuzz pedals make my guitar sound fuzzy. not smooth and glassy, not hot and twangy, not scooped and crunchy, but fuzzy! sort of like wool socks for my guitar....

if they dont get it i would play frank zappa's song apostrophe and tell them to listen to jack bruce's bass tone.....

if that still did not work, i would tell them it sounds like i am trying to electrocute some bacon.....



cool link bassus!!!

you know, that's a very good question... i suppose i'd probably describe it as "something sort of like a distorted bumblebee".
...but that'd only make sense to my stoner friends.

to the more lucid people I know, I'd probably describe it as "some serious shit".

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XKKbYADcM[/youtube]

Here you go!

A good reference point that most people can understand is The Stones "I Can't Get No Satisfaction".....one of the first and most famous fuzz tones in the public consciousness.

I usually tell people that don't understand the term fuzz ... " If I have to explain it , you wouldn't understand anyways" and then see what their reply is.

Don't you just kinda purse your lips and go: PHFZZGZGHZHZHZZZZZZZZFZFZFZZZZZZZZZZGZHZHZZZZZZ!