What's your fuzz about?!

[MechaGodzilla]

the thing with airtrash volume is that the pedal itself doesn't have a true "master volume", the blue knob maxes out at about 11 o'clock and then it adds a different kind of texture to the sound. nothing to do with my amps volume, which is ample!

[01010111]

i am philosophically opposed to the "fix a pedal with another pedal" mentality!

I definitely agree with this. When I’m recording I’ll do whatever dumb combinations of things I have to in order to make it sound right, but if I’m playing on my own or with other people the pedal needs to be able to hold its own.

I used to try this approach, if I had an enormous pedalboard with a programable switcher this wouldn’t be an issue. But where I want to keep my board relatively simple, each pedal has to be able to do its thing without help.

[D.o.S.]

I've really been loving the elements with the mix pretty low being smashed with another OD.

I've become one of those clean-blend into DI people.

Help.

[cosmicevan]

I'm bass primary and have not found anything better than the Sanford & Sonny BlueBeard, but as a big fan of Broughton Audio, I have the Maestro Fuzz, Locust Star, and Dystopia on my board...and also an unpleasant surprise for sputtery.

I've been finding myself grabbing the Ezhi & Akka BROM fuzz quite a bit lately too. That thing crushes getting into velcro and PLL territory.

For guitar, I keep grabbing the MAE / EAE Eldritch Blast. The added EQ gives SO much thickness on the bottom end, that I've been leaning that way over my DA120 for the Brrrrr sound. Really digging the MAE Maybe that was mentioned...should be another batch soon, if you are overseas, I think retailers just got some.

[frigid midget]

I've never really find good use for oscillating bleep bloop fuzz peds, other than the occasional solo noise sessions in my living room. Same goes for gated fuzz.
I might be getting old, but if a fuzz only sounds good in my living room, and doesn't behave when it has to play with other pedals, or if it dissapears in a loud mix...It's not my kinda fuzz.

- Medium gain MIAB type pedal or Rat in front of a Muff. A muff is too good to dismiss cause of how bad it cuts through a mix. Took me a while to realise that.
- Tricked out tonebender, like my Clusterfuzz. It's like a swiss army knife, does everything from overdrive to velcro.
- FZ-2. A class of its own, It's not a superfuzz or a beebaa or an octave fuzz. It's the shit.

[friendship]

i've been running a green ringer into a machine as a strategem in my war against tonality

[Warpsmasher]

Multiwave Pro for cleanish to gnarlsome octave up distortion on other octavey fuzzes, that may or may not be fuzzing pitch shifted signals...now with some occasional Pigtronix Octava somewhere in the mix for one more extra level of octascreamage.
Really enjoying the germanium madness of my Tomsline G-Fuzz (original spec Arbiter FF). Everything I hit it with yields different flavors of fuzz. Pickups, guitar knobs, even just a buffered bypass in front sounds different than going straight in. Dark boost causes different kind of freakstorms than a bright one...Hot Tubes is of the dark variety and is my still loudest OD/Boost, even after all the recent new ones.

[sutarappa]

I like this effort.

Picked up some nice jewelry in recent times...

Bass into noiseKick Diabeetus (fuzz+trem) into Peavey Mark VI -> Peavey 412. This on top of unfuzzed signal into Acoustic 450, distotion cranked -> Ampeg SVT-215.

Liquefies coverbanders, sunglass indoorers, mixdriver dodgers, and proximate females.

Luxuriant fuzz life. Gratitude.

[the_bright_undead]

THE SHIT for me has been running FF set gated and just about where it starts doing that PLLesque trails and ran into my HBE germania44.

Lately been running two separate combos:
EHX Blackfinger into a Dreamcrusher (also set with the bias rolled back for a fucked up decay), then into a model feT. The Blackfinger is more of a tube-powered boost with very little compression, it makes the Dreamcrusher go nuts.

also, been running the Clang into a Virus that i got from Jero. Killer! The Clang also works great after the Virus.

Right now the thing is all about stacking 2 octavias through the treble/guitar side of my rig through a 4x12 while running a Russian style bmp through the bass side through a 1x18

..

[rfurtkamp]

I'm still in love with my Test Pattern from Hell/Pest Tatterns.

Of late I've enjoyed slamming them with a purple pedal I had built by one of our long-time members, a dual treble booster (the booster half of a Bee Baa and a germanium Rangemaster with switchable order).

I could probably live with that combo in the dirt department without complaint.

[qersty]

I'm still in love with my Test Pattern from Hell/Pest Tatterns.

Of late I've enjoyed slamming them with a purple pedal I had built by one of our long-time members, a dual treble booster (the booster half of a Bee Baa and a germanium Rangemaster with switchable order).

I could probably live with that combo in the dirt department without complaint.

How does the boost part compare to the rangemaster? I thought it was just turning off a volume knob before the fuzz (i think im confusing this with some hohner? fuzz)

THE SHIT for me has been running FF set gated and just about where it starts doing that PLLesque trails and ran into my HBE germania44.

Lately been running two separate combos:
EHX Blackfinger into a Dreamcrusher (also set with the bias rolled back for a fucked up decay), then into a model feT. The Blackfinger is more of a tube-powered boost with very little compression, it makes the Dreamcrusher go nuts.

also, been running the Clang into a Virus that i got from Jero. Killer! The Clang also works great after the Virus.

Right now the thing is all about stacking 2 octavias through the treble/guitar side of my rig through a 4x12 while running a Russian style bmp through the bass side through a 1x18

..

compressor into fuzz is the shit!

i've been running a green ringer into a machine as a strategem in my war against tonality

How many folds is that? Sounds like it is a complete and utter eradication of any sinewave present

Multiwave Pro for cleanish to gnarlsome octave up distortion on other octavey fuzzes, that may or may not be fuzzing pitch shifted signals...now with some occasional Pigtronix Octava somewhere in the mix for one more extra level of octascreamage.
Really enjoying the germanium madness of my Tomsline G-Fuzz (original spec Arbiter FF). Everything I hit it with yields different flavors of fuzz. Pickups, guitar knobs, even just a buffered bypass in front sounds different than going straight in. Dark boost causes different kind of freakstorms than a bright one...Hot Tubes is of the dark variety and is my still loudest OD/Boost, even after all the recent new ones.

I miss my dark boost so much! Super awesome into my bass practice amp. I dropped it and it stopped making a sound, cant figure out what happened to it kinda sad cause it was my first diy pedal. I saw your post about the tomslin in the gas thread and it looks cool. is it negative ground? it would be cool to get a couple and see how different they are. the multiwave is cool. I looked up used prices cause i assumed they were outdated and uncool by now, shocked by how much value they have held

[sutarappa]

Onceuponatime, I ran a Dark Boost into a Malekko E. Filter. Sounded like a goddess who made a mistake... Then the Ampeg blew up, and sounds were elsewhere...

[qersty]

Onceuponatime, I ran a Dark Boost into a Malekko E. Filter. Sounded like a goddess who made a mistake... Then the Ampeg blew up, and sounds were elsewhere...

I would rock with any godess making a mistake my amp is in the process of blowing up. It sounds great but I think one is supposed to be cautious of a tube amp that sounds like INFANEM made it... (filter caps?)

[rfurtkamp]

I'm still in love with my Test Pattern from Hell/Pest Tatterns.

Of late I've enjoyed slamming them with a purple pedal I had built by one of our long-time members, a dual treble booster (the booster half of a Bee Baa and a germanium Rangemaster with switchable order).

I could probably live with that combo in the dirt department without complaint.

How does the boost part compare to the rangemaster? I thought it was just turning off a volume knob before the fuzz (i think im confusing this with some hohner? fuzz)

It's two different on the BeeBaa - one or the other. It's more of a dirty affair on the Bee Baa, a little fuller range. Feeding the Rangemaster into it has grand results simply because it makes everything go splat quite nicely!

I should note the Bee Baa boost doesn't have much clean, but it never goes to full on fuzz nor even close - it's a different character than the fuzz itself, and it's apparently loathed enough that half the Bee Baa clones change or omit it.

[Warpsmasher]

I miss my dark boost so much! Super awesome into my bass practice amp. I dropped it and it stopped making a sound, cant figure out what happened to it kinda sad cause it was my first diy pedal. I saw your post about the tomslin in the gas thread and it looks cool. is it negative ground? it would be cool to get a couple and see how different they are. the multiwave is cool. I looked up used prices cause i assumed they were outdated and uncool by now, shocked by how much value they have held

I've got all my new minis hooked up to the Caline power supply, which has 300 ma main outputs vs the other cheapos' 100 ma...it only gets hummy when the Frequout is hooked up to it (high MA draw/needs its own). I also have the Tomsline Black Teeth now, and am very happy with that too. Feel like I've already got the best two from Tom's line, definitely gonna keep an eye on them.