a good fuzz is hard to find.

nothing from dunlop will cut it for you likely.

You'll probably dig the classic fuzz from roger mayer but there's no bias control.

The sun face is the best I know of, and you could get the dunlop modded to the proper specs and components by analogman for a fee.

the 69 fits what you are looking for better perhaps, depending on the amp and how loud you run it (the deal with all fuzzes really, they are finiky)

another option would be to beg and plead with dave fox to build you one or buy several of his fuzz cards, and build your own around them.

I know he's selling a hybrid fuzz concept right now, if it's got a fuzz card you could swap it for a more classic germanium sound.

Jacques also has The Mercer Box custom version that might suit you

I think the Foxrox stuff might appeal to you since you aren't really stuck with one sound, you can change if you want.


http://www.foxroxelectronics.com/stufforsale.html

exhausted wrote:

i wish he'd just release a stand alone fuzzfoot in the nice enclosure. i'd write him and try to describe what i want but i'll sound like an idiot.

gary louris's fuzz from early jayhawks' records. that's what i want.

i guess i'll save up and look at an analogman sunface at some point unless a '69 pops up first. anything custom from fox is going to be as much as the sunface anyway.

why not find a dunlop cheap or even a 69 fuzz and describe what you want to Analog Mike. He might be able to do it for you.

Pacomc79 wrote:

the 69 fits what you are looking for better perhaps, depending on the amp and how loud you run it (the deal with all fuzzes really, they are finiky)

Yeah... I'd probably audition a '69 before anything else, if I was in the market for fuzz...

I should be sending in my Fuzz Face to analogman pretty soon to have him do his magic, and will let you know how I like it.

Right now i actually have a Fulltone 70' Fuzz, running through a Fender Twin and I am very pleased with it. It had a bit more grit than the 69' Fuzz.

http://www.custom-sounds.com/epages/customsounds.filereader?4264823104462ae02741d94dcd01063e+EN/products/12107



ex, here is a page of the roger mayer classic (early) fuzz with sound clips.

there's one on ebay for less than 110 us.

exhausted wrote:

that's pretty much it right there. too bad the auction's US only.

oh, damn. sorry about that.

exhausted wrote:

it's ok. i read the reviews of it and didn't exactly get the warm fuzzies.

well the issue has always been that RM's seem to not sound great except at stage volume but this may be true with most fuzzes. I also have reliability questions, yeah RM did tons of research and was the man when he did all of Hendrix's stuff the company now is more or less interested in making money. It still sounds good (really good at stage volume, but there are plenty of options for the same price range.

Used 69 Fuzzes can be had for less than $120 some even $110 Bias control on top not internal like with RM.

I'm sure AM could easily mod it to 66 specs if that's your goal.

I have a couple fuzz's and I guess the best depends on budget and what tone you are looking for. If you want something that can cover it all get the Zvex Fuzz Factory, the new vexter is cheaper and has an led.
If you want Tonebender then you have a couple options, you can get e Pealworx Bender over under, awesome tone for reasonable bucks, you can also get a DAM MKII which is a tonebender clone. I bought a Lovepedal Black Beauty which is a germanium tonebnder type fuzz with a boost. Mine has vintage matched 69 OC81 germainiums, I waited a long, long time for that box and it is amazing. I also have a wall of noise from Lovepedal which is more off the wall fuzz, it is combined with an octave up effect for the perfect ringer clone.
If you want a traditional fuzz face, then you should look no further then Analogman's NKT 275.
Most people confuse the 2 types of fuzz, think early Zepplin for Tonebender, and Hendrix for Fuzz Face.

Does anyone know from experience how much adding a 9v plug to a fuzz pedal affects the tone?