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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:40 am
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Everyone needs a Tubescreamer and mines a Maxon 808. Maxon made the originals fro Ibanez, then when Ibanez started making themselves Maxon carried on making their own versions, which sound as good if not better than the current Ibanez line.

For Fuzz its the 70th anniversary Hendrix Fuzz Face in the MXR box as it fits on my pedal board, has a DC input and sounds great


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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:56 am
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I use the Digitech Screamin' Blues OD. I don't use a fuzz.


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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:45 am
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If I could have only -1- distortion, it would be my old Ross. Unfortunately an old bandmate fried the damn thing a few years back...instead of putting a new battery in it, he tried to plug it into a 120 line and cooked it and I haven't been able to find another (reasonably priced at least) since.

I think the thing I really liked about the Ross was that while I had a nice edge to it, it really let the natural sound of the guitar come thru (assuming an electric has a "natural" sound). The greatest majority of distortion stomp boxes these days all have some kind of tone control...the way I see it is I have tone controls on my amp and on my guitar, I really don't need them on a pedal. Even these so-called boutique pedals from companies such as Fulltone, Wampler and Keely just sound nasty to me...over-priced weekend wanker junk in my book. Even if there isn't a knob, virtually all of them have some sort of switches inside the box to adjust the frequencies and such. I will say that the early EH Muff's (the Muff Fuzz, not the Big Muffs or the Pi's) actually have a pretty decent natural tone, but those things just have waaaaaaaay too much edge for my taste...and no way to back it off (it's got a volume control and that's it).

Right now I'm using a Boss DS-1, Boss OS-2 and a DOD American Metal and they do the job well enough for stage work (which one I use really depends on the club/room I'm playing) but yea...I miss that old Ross terribly. Singularly the best sounding distortion (to my ears) that I've ever used....and I've used quite a few.

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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:25 am
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http://www.ehx.com/products/english-muff-n

EH English Muff'n.

my first amp was a SS fender deluxe 112 plus, but I had no channel switch pedal for it. wasn't much impressed with the gain tones of the amp anyway, but the clean channel was beautiful. so a stompbox was the obvious choice.

brought a big muff, was great but I wanted a bit more scope for different sounds. loved the whole EH vibe though. couldn't afford a new tube amp, then came across the English Muff'n. i brought it without hearing it, partly because i was pretty sure it wasn't going to be crap, and partly because it looked great. :lol:

absolutely love it, sounds great and much more suited to what i want to play and sound like than the big muff. and it came in a wooden box 8)


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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:37 pm
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Right now I have a green big muff clone and a Boss SD-1, which I did the C6 mod on. It sounds very tubescreamery now.

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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:40 pm
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Moochy, I've got the wooden box for my NYC Big Muff. Wish they still came in those. Also had the wooden box for the Q-Tron a few years ago before I sold it...that thing was just way too much noise for me.

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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:42 pm
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I'm not much of a TubeScreamer fan. A little too dark and muddy for my tastes. I like the Boss SD-1. It seems more transparent to me. I had a Keeley SD-1 for a time and I regret selling it. I like my HotBox which is a clone of the original Marshall Guvner on a limited basis but mostly I use either the OCD or the Diamond Drive. The Diamond Drive is roughly halfway between a Tubescreamer and an SD-1; a little darker but not muddy. It has a micro-toggle that allows you to decide how much compression you want in your OD. For darker higher gain grind I like the Tech21 California set to the Carlos Santana part of the range.

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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:29 pm
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Just recently bought the Bogner Ecstacy Blue pedal and it has made me drop my ratings of virtually every other pedal I've ever used. It has a clarity, versatility and transparent tone that absolutely makes me go "wow" every time I play it. It ain't cheap, and they're not exactly Blues Drivers or Tube Screamers for popularity in stores or the used market, but dang, is this ever one incredible pedal. I'm saving for the Red pedal as we speak and making room on my board.

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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:07 pm
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Fender Blender and Fender FuzzWah with the built in volume control. The FuzzWah used a waxed twine drive to turn the wah pot. It broke a lot but the fuzz and volume control part still worked when the wah function died.


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Post subject: Re: Overdrive/Fuzz Pedals -- Your Favorite
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 1:45 pm
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For fans of the Uni-Vox Superfuzz, Wattson has just come out with another version of their FY-6 clone in a smaller, pedalboard-friendly enclosure and the price is 25% lower. I am checking it out. :D

http://www.wattson-fx.com/

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