a good fuzz is hard to find.

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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    DirtLikeMe wrote:
    Does anyone know from experience how much adding a 9v plug to a fuzz pedal affects the tone?


    depends on the type of fuzz. i couldn't hear a difference between battery and adapter on the fulltone 70 (a silicon fuzz) but my fuzz factory (germanium) becomes more shrill and brittle with an adapter. it's not pleasant. it's much smoother with a battery.
  • DirtLikeMe
    DirtLikeMe Posts: 91
    exhausted wrote:
    depends on the type of fuzz. i couldn't hear a difference between battery and adapter on the fulltone 70 (a silicon fuzz) but my fuzz factory (germanium) becomes more shrill and brittle with an adapter. it's not pleasant. it's much smoother with a battery.

    Thanks for that bit of info.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    the new octron from foxrox is pretty cool, it has up and down octaves and what is essentially a mix control, and it's not digital.

    I'm thinking it has blue box all over it and might actually be a useable octave fuzz,

    I'm pretty sure a 66-69 fuzz face is probably right up your alley EX, the way Analogman does it is probably best as well, because the bias control will save you from the ill effects of temperature and the tone will be accurate. That and you won't have to search through 50 or so to get a good one like Eric Johnson and Jimmy Hendrix.

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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    the octron is a clean octaver i believe.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    exhausted wrote:
    the octron is a clean octaver i believe.


    indeed it is, all the more useable, because one can choose the type one uses. Probably sounds crazy with the big muff. Even more wierd with the FF.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    ah yes, i under stand now what you meant.

    this is the fuzz i'm watching right now. the analogman mod.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    haha check this out.

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41418&item=7316879002&rd=1
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    exhausted wrote:
    haha check this out.

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41418&item=7316879002&rd=1


    cool, I've always wanted a blue one.

    still with stuff like that, you never know if the tone is good, decent, or outright crap.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    exactly. that movie fuzz just an oddity, not an actual candidate for using. not without seeing the circuit.
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    exhausted wrote:
    exactly. that movie fuzz just an oddity, not an actual candidate for using. not without seeing the circuit.


    I think it's a steal if you can get the analogman under 100 bucks.

    you can always sell it to me if you don't like it, I'm actually the worlds largest collector of G. Snell used/built equipment.
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  • JofZ
    JofZ Posts: 1,276
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    the new octron from foxrox is pretty cool, it has up and down octaves and what is essentially a mix control, and it's not digital.

    I'm thinking it has blue box all over it and might actually be a useable octave fuzz,

    I'm pretty sure a 66-69 fuzz face is probably right up your alley EX, the way Analogman does it is probably best as well, because the bias control will save you from the ill effects of temperature and the tone will be accurate. That and you won't have to search through 50 or so to get a good one like Eric Johnson and Jimmy Hendrix.

    I'd love to deal with Lovepedal eventually but I can't get Sean to actually correspond.

    He still hasn't gotten back to you?
    I'll shoot him an email.
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    I think it's a steal if you can get the analogman under 100 bucks.

    you can always sell it to me if you don't like it, I'm actually the worlds largest collector of G. Snell used/built equipment.


    what do you think is an acceptable price for that thing? it's got $80+ worth of mods in it i figure.

    i've decide that, if i don't win it, i'll just order up an sunface. i wonder if there's a waiting list on them.
  • JofZ
    JofZ Posts: 1,276
    exhausted wrote:
    what do you think is an acceptable price for that thing? it's got $80+ worth of mods in it i figure.

    i've decide that, if i don't win it, i'll just order up an sunface. i wonder if there's a waiting list on them.

    sunface w/out mods ships in 2-3 weeks, which is pretty good for mike. Get the battery kill switch and the bass mod.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    exhausted wrote:
    what do you think is an acceptable price for that thing? it's got $80+ worth of mods in it i figure.

    i've decide that, if i don't win it, i'll just order up an sunface. i wonder if there's a waiting list on them.



    used, I say between 100 or so. over that you get into the 69 fuzz range.


    maybe 110-120 if it goes that high. not over that though.
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