Yellow Box with Lower Gain Circuit: 2:10 Orange Box with Middle-of-the-Road Gain Circuit: 2:48 Grey box with Higher Gain Circuit: 3:30 Fixed that for ya. ;-)
It'd be nice to have a terminology explanation. I could imagine a lot of people don't understand the terms gain, clipping, diode, Jfet, phase inversion,etc.
I find myself delving into the intricacies as of late, but still enjoy a simple, layman's terms vid like this. I recently started modding pedals and while I don't understand it all yet, I'm fascinated by how different types of diodes, transistors and resistors affect the sound of a pedal. I actually performed my second modification to a Marshall Guv'nor Plus today. I replaced the LED's in the clipping section of the circuit with 1N4001 diodes. The forum where I found the list of changes credited it to Brian. Apparently from a book that was published some time ago. I'm quite happy with the results and can't wait to try the other mods now.
Overdrive = Tube amp beginning to break up a little (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics) Distortion = Tube amp breaking up and clipping a lot (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics) Fuzz = Tube amp gain stage fully saturated, breaking up and clipping the top and bottom ends of the sine wave (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)...
I absolutely am a fan. What a great product....but.....put out by Dr Wampler, as well as demonstrated and explained by the man himself! Not to mention how open I've heard he is to hearing about new innovations and such.....which makes him even more "transparent". I just can't believe how much I wish I was getting to test these babies out regularly! I've not ventured into the diy stuff myself yet, but as a player I'm really impressed by their approach to tone shaping with every pedal! I've yet to find a bad pedal.....and that says a lot to me as a customer....so thank you. I do need a new switch in my Ego Comp, so maybe I'll have to try a little diy sooner than later lol. That's my only comp I use gigging and desperately want a Pinnicle deluxe.......but there again I could just get the Hot Wired V2 which is also killer.....arrrrggggh so much tone it turns me into a flapjaw! I have a cousin that makes pedals outta electric junction boxes.....or wood...or he will buy a pedal and just make the circuit inside.......sigh.....I'm ramblin on again. My best to you and your family, as well as your business! Cheers! Adam
Thank you for explanation. When I was younger I also had heard the word "booster" to get this specific kind of sound - is it about the same as 1 of those 3? I also have read that this effect is due to shape of electric signals going to amp and louders - namely e.g. triangular, rectangular and not sinusoidal as in the case of pure signal from the guitar. Am I right or not? Sometimes I got the effect when I set up my amp too loud, then kind of distortion appeared. For me - in this film - the greatest change for harsh sound makes on 1st place - fuzz, 2nd - distortion pedal and the less distorted sound gave the overdrive. It's only my opinion. Regards
So I'm getting a Marshall DSL 40C, which has a nice gain channel. I have a big muff already, but I was wondering whether I should get an overdrive or a distortion or both to complement the gain channel and the fuzz
Awesome demo ! Does fuzz pedal will work with the Fender DRRI 65 ? I red many forums, and people saying only OD is good on this amp...Had many OD boutique pedals but would kplike to try fuzz, but ......! Any thoughts out there ? Regards and many thanks from France
I now know the differences among those but what's the difference between a fuzz and a so-called high gain distortion? When a hear fuzzes cranked up it sounds a little bit to me like those high gain distortion
So technically why does the Klon achieve overdrive sounds in an unusual way. i remember that from an old video cast but not sure which one or exactly how.
I have a joyo vintage overdrive but when I use it, it doesn't really sound like it does anything at all. even when the drive and tone are all the way up, there's almost no significant change from my clean sound to the overdriven one. I have a (very cheap) crate amp, so I was thinking that the bad amp might be why? Idk man
@@kosmicwizard They have poor quality control. I ended up needing to cut wires and solder them back together to fix the connection issues with my delay pedal.
Depends on your taste. OD would work very well, too. It also depends on your gear. An OD is very good to boost an almost clean amp into breaking up (that's what the TubeScreamer was designed for- listen to Pride And Joy!). A DS is better in front of a clean amp, so could be your thing if you change from crystal clean to heavy distortion during songs. Or get yourself two OD pedals and boost with one into the other or OD into DS... there are tons of possibilities!! Both Angus Young and Slash get their drive from cranked Marshalls.
Generally, here's how I explain it: Overdrives: They simulate the sound of a tube amp entering breakup. As a result, they the most natural sounding of all the dirt box types. They achieve this via soft clipping. The classic example is the Tube Screamer, and my personal favorite, the Airis Effects Savage Drive, which clips naturally because it has no clipping diodes in its circuit, which is interesting. :) Distortions: They sound much more harsh and crunchy than an overdrive. They achieve this by either stacking multiple overdriven elements into each other, or via hard clipping. Classic examples are the ProCo Rat, the Boss DS-1, and such. Fuzz: Pretty much a distortion out of control. They achieve this by using transistors. Classic examples are the Fuzzface, Fuzz Factory, the Big Muff Pi, and my personal favorite, the Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh.
Wampler doesn't seem to answer questions.So anyone out there I am trying to get a blues rock tone like on the youtube Danny Page Lick Friday No.4. Which is closer Overdrive or Distortion?
OD is the best, overall. You can always add more drive to create distortion and even more drive to create a fuzz like sound. Of course, they all have their places.
I guess you use Boss because it should not be a big commercial for Wampler pedals maybe? This is Wampler Pedals RUclips Channel, use your pedals, they are great :D
That was the best sounding Hot Rod Deluxe I have heard. These amps are the most sold by Fender but, I feel most of them are temperamental picky amps. They can sound bitchen or like total crap also.
I don't know if this is still the case, but those HRD's used to be deliberately underbiased at the factory (i.e. they ran them too hot, cooking the tubes). I guess that was Fender's way of idiot-proofing the harmonic output so they'd sell after being demo'ed at the store.
I noticed that the fuzz has been stepped on the most, and is dirtiest around the knobs, meaning its been used the most. The overdrive also has some wear but less so. The Distortion looks almost new. Is this your order of preference to these types of pedals? Ive been watching a lot of Sherlock lately.
fuzz=overdriven BTJ transistors hard clipping even at low gain. overdive= enough gain to soft clip. clipping ratio base on jfet transistor/tube pushed into overdrive by a boost. distortion= overdriven overdrive.
For classic rock, rock, some hard rock, and just for a boost I use an overdrive. For Hard Rock and Metal, I use distortion. Fuzz is just a little harder drive than overdrive but it doesn't color your tone as much as distortion does. At least this is what I understand having used all three types of pedals for a while.
+Lakoda Beebout thx for the reply man. I dont really like the sound of the fuzz, I have a distortion pedalbut forgot the name. does Slash from guns n roses use an Overdrive too?
+Death Metal Thrash Metal Yeah. Slash is definitely more of a mid-to-high gain overdrive kind of guy. GnR just wouldn't sound right with Distortion rather than Overdrive.
Overdrive is like if you were to turn up the volume of an amp past its decibel level. It's more airy and less gainy. Distortion has more drive and more of chug than overdrive. It has a more dynamic sound
it's actually the opposite. distortion is less dynamic. dynamic means that you have a lot of volume difference between soft and hard picking. with distortion pedals you lose a lot of dynamics. an amp is more dynamic when it's clean. and tube amps are more dynamic than digi or solid state amps...
The only reason I'd use overdrive is if I was doing Beatles esque rock or classic blues. Otherwise its distortion all the way. I've ditched my ODs and just have a few various distortion pedals.
I personally hate distortion pedals, I only own 1, a rat, and I either use it as an od or as a fuzz. I much prefer boosts and ods. I play with an all tube amp right on the edge of break up and I find distortion pedals just introduce additional noise to the floor. I own 5 boosts, 10 od pedals and 9 fuzz pedals. I think I am going to end up owning 25 fuzz pedals before I cull the herd, down to 5, but first I have to know which ones I love more than all the rest. Cheers.
Sonicake rude mouse, donner black rat , or harley benton rodent pedals will give you distortion and fuzz . There based on the rat pedal which doesn't get as fuzzy .
An amp being overdriven sounds fuzzy and distorted to me. I could swap these terms around and still be just as confused about the differences. Of course, these guys aren't pedaling their pedals on the basis of what they can't do or what they do do if you might buy another pedal do that.
It would have been useful to show us a sine wave diagram to illustrate hard and soft clipping, etc. Also a diagram or some sort of visual to illustrate the bass cutting etc. which is part of the output signal. Unless you know what these terms mean, just saying the words doesn't teach us anything. "OK, you say it's harder clipping. What's hard clipping?"
the difference between overdrive and distortion is fluent, imo. nothing really technically, just the amount of clipping going on. A fuzz is for me assymetrical clipping and lots of uneven order harmonics, much like push pull output circuits driven hard. buzzy and sharp.
Wampler pedals using Boss pedals for a demo is like Marshall using Fender amps to show the difference between tube and solid state. Hey Wampler, your pedals sound much better than the ones you used, you should try them sometime.
I kind of like the FZ-3. It's probably not what I'd use, but it's got a really distinct crunchy sound to it, really gravel-y, but still maintaining sustain, rather than rounded out or wooly sounding like a Big Muff. In order to get that sound with other pedals you have to mess with the bias a little more and it tends to make it very velcro-y and gated. So no, not the best fuzz, but it has a pretty neat sound. It's older brother, the FZ-2 was used by David Pajo of Slint. It's all over the album, Spiderland and I've always loved that tone.
The solution is always that you need to acquire more boxes. That will make your shit sound not bad. The yellow color is good, but make sure you have the green color and the red one and the brown one and the blue one too.
. problem guitar that e string so much loader than others that it clips first and many guitar chords roots notes are in high bass range. this some times can be fix with high gain and non feedback types because the other sing notes catch up. feedback design do not brighten like the should when gain is turned up like the fuzz face.
you used so bad pedals for the demonstration... you could have used a tubescreamer, a pro co rat and a big muff or a fuzzface for seeing the real difference between the real kind of sound that each type of pedal has
+daigoHR98 I understand your POV, however the SD-1 is a TS derivative, the Ds-1 is a popular distortion as well, and the Boss fuzz is a derivative of a big muff.
The OD and the distortion were fine, but the fuzz didn't really communicate the point you were trying to make. It barely sounded like fuzz....more like distortion with a gas problem. I have to agree with the comments... This fuzz sucks for this demo.
No, they're not! The circuit inside is the same, but the first one was lame and the last one goes all the way up to 11. AND it was grey, so it must be serious. Yellow is a weak color.
Overdrive is what my truck goes into on highway cruising speed. Distortion is how I see things after having couple too many adult refreshments. Fuzz is what I DON’T want her to have....you know...there.
What I learned from this video: "Overdrive", "Distortion, and "Fuzz" are not engineering terms that have any real meaning. They are, rather, merely marketing terms designed to sell more metal boxes to ignorant young men. This devious marketing ploy has spawned an entire industry devoted to pushing different species of multicolored junk, whereas inside it is always just a gain stage (and sometimes a tone stack). MARKETING SEMANTICS TRANSLATED: Overdrive = Tube amp beginning to break up a little (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics) Distortion = Tube amp breaking up and clipping a lot (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics) Fuzz = Tube amp gain stage fully saturated, breaking up and clipping the top and bottom ends of the sine wave (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)...
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Overdrive 2:10
Distortion 2:48
Fuzz 3:30
Yellow Box with Lower Gain Circuit: 2:10
Orange Box with Middle-of-the-Road Gain Circuit: 2:48
Grey box with Higher Gain Circuit: 3:30
Fixed that for ya. ;-)
It'd be nice to have a terminology explanation. I could imagine a lot of people don't understand the terms gain, clipping, diode, Jfet, phase inversion,etc.
Thank you! Been playing 40 years and never really new that about the bass frequency handling pre and post clipping (fuzz vs distortion).
Wow this is a great explanation of the differences between OD, distortion, and fuzz! It is easy to get confused on how they are the same thing.
Sweet! Direct and to the point! This was very informative. Thank you!
I find myself delving into the intricacies as of late, but still enjoy a simple, layman's terms vid like this. I recently started modding pedals and while I don't understand it all yet, I'm fascinated by how different types of diodes, transistors and resistors affect the sound of a pedal.
I actually performed my second modification to a Marshall Guv'nor Plus today. I replaced the LED's in the clipping section of the circuit with 1N4001 diodes. The forum where I found the list of changes credited it to Brian. Apparently from a book that was published some time ago. I'm quite happy with the results and can't wait to try the other mods now.
So good to see Travis back
Overdrive is oooOOOO
Distortion is uuuUUUU
Fuzz is ooouuu[ ][ ][ ][ ]
Overdrive = Tube amp beginning to break up a little (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)
Distortion = Tube amp breaking up and clipping a lot (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)
Fuzz = Tube amp gain stage fully saturated, breaking up and clipping the top and bottom ends of the sine wave (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)...
Fuzz = Cream Sunshine of your Love
Overdrive = Stevie Ray Vaughan Look at Little Sister
Distortion = Randy Rhodes/Ozzy Mr. Crowley
This is pretty much perfect! Thanks!
It really simplifies which is which if you put songs most people know!
Does anyone know which fuzz pedal Eric Clapton used on Sunshine of Your Love ?
He used the Dallas Fuzz Face in a Marshall JTM45
Distortion wins!
I absolutely am a fan. What a great product....but.....put out by Dr Wampler, as well as demonstrated and explained by the man himself! Not to mention how open I've heard he is to hearing about new innovations and such.....which makes him even more "transparent". I just can't believe how much I wish I was getting to test these babies out regularly! I've not ventured into the diy stuff myself yet, but as a player I'm really impressed by their approach to tone shaping with every pedal! I've yet to find a bad pedal.....and that says a lot to me as a customer....so thank you.
I do need a new switch in my Ego Comp, so maybe I'll have to try a little diy sooner than later lol. That's my only comp I use gigging and desperately want a Pinnicle deluxe.......but there again I could just get the Hot Wired V2 which is also killer.....arrrrggggh so much tone it turns me into a flapjaw!
I have a cousin that makes pedals outta electric junction boxes.....or wood...or he will buy a pedal and just make the circuit inside.......sigh.....I'm ramblin on again.
My best to you and your family, as well as your business!
Cheers!
Adam
Brian - this video is good but your recent videos are excellent! Big improvements over 3 years and that’s a good thing.
Thank you!
Wampler Pedals - P.S. I ordered a Tumnus Deluxe and can’t wait to play with it.
No one would be mad at you for using your own pedals in these types of videos. This is your channel after all!
Thank you for explanation. When I was younger I also had heard the word "booster" to get this specific kind of sound - is it about the same as 1 of those 3? I also have read that this effect is due to shape of electric signals going to amp and louders - namely e.g. triangular, rectangular and not sinusoidal as in the case of pure signal from the guitar. Am I right or not? Sometimes I got the effect when I set up my amp too loud, then kind of distortion appeared. For me - in this film - the greatest change for harsh sound makes on 1st place - fuzz, 2nd - distortion pedal and the less distorted sound gave the overdrive. It's only my opinion. Regards
So I'm getting a Marshall DSL 40C, which has a nice gain channel. I have a big muff already, but I was wondering whether I should get an overdrive or a distortion or both to complement the gain channel and the fuzz
Awesome demo ! Does fuzz pedal will work with the Fender DRRI 65 ? I red many forums, and people saying only OD is good on this amp...Had many OD boutique pedals but would kplike to try fuzz, but ......! Any thoughts out there ? Regards and many thanks from France
Thank you again. Old video but good content!!
I used to have a Shin-Ei FY-2 fuzz box. Hated it, but apparently it was a classic. Sold it for £120, got it for free in the 80s. Result!
Nice shirt, Dave’s guitar shop is epic. Dave is super cool too
I love this channel
Do you have a video on stacking overdrive pedals?
Ideal to have all three but if on budget, I would get just a distortion pedal and maybe delay/echo and wah pedal.
why does the tonebender mk1.5 or mkII sound more distortiony than other fuzzes? Is that just me?
I now know the differences among those but what's the difference between a fuzz and a so-called high gain distortion? When a hear fuzzes cranked up it sounds a little bit to me like those high gain distortion
Nice Dave's Guitar Shop t shirt!
I need an od, distortion, fuzz stacking guide from our main man guru, please!
So technically why does the Klon achieve overdrive sounds in an unusual way. i remember that from an old video cast but not sure which one or exactly how.
all important dirt guitar effects pedal.cause they are.
All Travis-era videos released in the post-Travis-era should have a disclaimer: * No Travises were harmed in the making of this video. ;)
I have a joyo vintage overdrive but when I use it, it doesn't really sound like it does anything at all. even when the drive and tone are all the way up, there's almost no significant change from my clean sound to the overdriven one. I have a (very cheap) crate amp, so I was thinking that the bad amp might be why? Idk man
It is both the inexpensive amp and the inexpensive pedal.
@@kosmicwizard It was the amp. Works totally fine after I bought a new one lol.
@@allihusk6519 good to hear! Not all joyo pedals are garbage, but the voodoo octave fuzz I tried sure was. Cheers!
@@kosmicwizard They have poor quality control. I ended up needing to cut wires and solder them back together to fix the connection issues with my delay pedal.
@@allihusk6519 I hear you, I don't think people should have to repair new pedals.
best video on youtube.
Somebody please remake the ...
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Wich one for hard rock? like guns and roses and that stuff
Depends on your taste. OD would work very well, too. It also depends on your gear. An OD is very good to boost an almost clean amp into breaking up (that's what the TubeScreamer was designed for- listen to Pride And Joy!). A DS is better in front of a clean amp, so could be your thing if you change from crystal clean to heavy distortion during songs. Or get yourself two OD pedals and boost with one into the other or OD into DS... there are tons of possibilities!! Both Angus Young and Slash get their drive from cranked Marshalls.
If you chain an overdrive into another overdrive into another overdrive and crank it up, will it clip enough to sound like a fuzz?
It can- depends on several things but it’s possible
@@wampler_pedalsThank you. It'd be a great experiment to see if you try that out.
@@wampler_pedals Thank you. Love to see that happen.
Generally, here's how I explain it:
Overdrives: They simulate the sound of a tube amp entering breakup. As a result, they the most natural sounding of all the dirt box types. They achieve this via soft clipping. The classic example is the Tube Screamer, and my personal favorite, the Airis Effects Savage Drive, which clips naturally because it has no clipping diodes in its circuit, which is interesting. :)
Distortions: They sound much more harsh and crunchy than an overdrive. They achieve this by either stacking multiple overdriven elements into each other, or via hard clipping. Classic examples are the ProCo Rat, the Boss DS-1, and such.
Fuzz: Pretty much a distortion out of control. They achieve this by using transistors. Classic examples are the Fuzzface, Fuzz Factory, the Big Muff Pi, and my personal favorite, the Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh.
just short notice - there is no transparent pedal, there are just different variations in saturation
Clean boost.
Nice strat
Wampler doesn't seem to answer questions.So anyone out there I am trying to get a blues rock tone like on the youtube Danny Page Lick Friday No.4. Which is closer Overdrive or Distortion?
I do as I get time, I simply can’t answer every single question, there isn’t enough time in the day.
I can’t answer your question without more info. RUclips link? Help me
Out here.
That is a youtube link.Danny Page lick Friday No.4. Thanks.@@wampler_pedals
There is no RUclips link
I don't want to have to learn how to create a RUclips link.If you don't want to watch the video like I do,thats fine.
OD is the best, overall. You can always add more drive to create distortion and even more drive to create a fuzz like sound. Of course, they all have their places.
I guess you use Boss because it should not be a big commercial for Wampler pedals maybe? This is Wampler Pedals RUclips Channel, use your pedals, they are great :D
That was the best sounding Hot Rod Deluxe I have heard. These amps are the most sold by Fender but, I feel most of them are temperamental picky amps. They can sound bitchen or like total crap also.
The trick is changing the speaker 😉
I don't know if this is still the case, but those HRD's used to be deliberately underbiased at the factory (i.e. they ran them too hot, cooking the tubes). I guess that was Fender's way of idiot-proofing the harmonic output so they'd sell after being demo'ed at the store.
I noticed that the fuzz has been stepped on the most, and is dirtiest around the knobs, meaning its been used the most. The overdrive also has some wear but less so. The Distortion looks almost new. Is this your order of preference to these types of pedals? Ive been watching a lot of Sherlock lately.
fuzz=overdriven BTJ transistors hard clipping even at low gain.
overdive= enough gain to soft clip. clipping ratio base on jfet transistor/tube pushed into overdrive by a boost.
distortion= overdriven overdrive.
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0:26 What is the meaning of that word?
"intricacies" - complicated sh**e, dude. complex and detailed and stuff.
2:09 overdrive
2:48 Distorcion
3:30 fezz
boys
so if I want to play rock/hardrock I better use an Overdrive?
For classic rock, rock, some hard rock, and just for a boost I use an overdrive. For Hard Rock and Metal, I use distortion. Fuzz is just a little harder drive than overdrive but it doesn't color your tone as much as distortion does. At least this is what I understand having used all three types of pedals for a while.
+Lakoda Beebout thx for the reply man.
I dont really like the sound of the fuzz, I have a distortion pedalbut forgot the name.
does Slash from guns n roses use an Overdrive too?
+Death Metal Thrash Metal Yeah. Slash is definitely more of a mid-to-high gain overdrive kind of guy. GnR just wouldn't sound right with Distortion rather than Overdrive.
+Lakoda Beebout ok cool, thx man.
+Eddie McLaughlin I dont understand what you mean, my english isnt really good
Overdrive is like if you were to turn up the volume of an amp past its decibel level. It's more airy and less gainy. Distortion has more drive and more of chug than overdrive. It has a more dynamic sound
it's actually the opposite. distortion is less dynamic. dynamic means that you have a lot of volume difference between soft and hard picking. with distortion pedals you lose a lot of dynamics. an amp is more dynamic when it's clean. and tube amps are more dynamic than digi or solid state amps...
dejongeblondegod Thank you for the info! I always appreciate learning a little more about this kinda stuff. Especially when what I know it wrong
Steve Zahn not only acts, but plays guitar. Who knew? : )
did he play in film back to future?
The only reason I'd use overdrive is if I was doing Beatles esque rock or classic blues. Otherwise its distortion all the way. I've ditched my ODs and just have a few various distortion pedals.
I personally hate distortion pedals, I only own 1, a rat, and I either use it as an od or as a fuzz. I much prefer boosts and ods. I play with an all tube amp right on the edge of break up and I find distortion pedals just introduce additional noise to the floor. I own 5 boosts, 10 od pedals and 9 fuzz pedals. I think I am going to end up owning 25 fuzz pedals before I cull the herd, down to 5, but first I have to know which ones I love more than all the rest. Cheers.
Sonicake rude mouse, donner black rat , or harley benton rodent pedals will give you distortion and fuzz . There based on the rat pedal which doesn't get as fuzzy .
Why does distortion always sound the best?
this dude is a mix between pennsatucky (OITNB) and jack black.
An amp being overdriven sounds fuzzy and distorted to me. I could swap these terms around and still be just as confused about the differences.
Of course, these guys aren't pedaling their pedals on the basis of what they can't do or what they do do if you might buy another pedal do that.
It would have been useful to show us a sine wave diagram to illustrate hard and soft clipping, etc. Also a diagram or some sort of visual to illustrate the bass cutting etc. which is part of the output signal. Unless you know what these terms mean, just saying the words doesn't teach us anything. "OK, you say it's harder clipping. What's hard clipping?"
Would of used a Blues driver, Crayon and FuzzFace.
Bayley McNamee YES
Was the Crayon even out when this video was made? Kudos on the Fuzz Face though. I've got a germanium one, it lords over all.
the difference between overdrive and distortion is fluent, imo. nothing really technically, just the amount of clipping going on. A fuzz is for me assymetrical clipping and lots of uneven order harmonics, much like push pull output circuits driven hard. buzzy and sharp.
Wampler pedals using Boss pedals for a demo is like Marshall using Fender amps to show the difference between tube and solid state. Hey Wampler, your pedals sound much better than the ones you used, you should try them sometime.
Can somebody PLEASE grab a PROPER fuzz next time.. OK? PLEASE?!?!
+LuckyLicks ;)
+LuckyLicks Yeah, that fuzz is nasty...
I kind of like the FZ-3. It's probably not what I'd use, but it's got a really distinct crunchy sound to it, really gravel-y, but still maintaining sustain, rather than rounded out or wooly sounding like a Big Muff. In order to get that sound with other pedals you have to mess with the bias a little more and it tends to make it very velcro-y and gated. So no, not the best fuzz, but it has a pretty neat sound. It's older brother, the FZ-2 was used by David Pajo of Slint. It's all over the album, Spiderland and I've always loved that tone.
every fuzz is different - people associate the fuzz face sound (germanium) as 'fuzz' but every fuzz is it's own thing...
LuckyLicks shut the fuck up tech snob
why the fuck my shit sound bad maybe my amp is bad? i have cube amp tho and my guitar is pgm 3
The solution is always that you need to acquire more boxes. That will make your shit sound not bad. The yellow color is good, but make sure you have the green color and the red one and the brown one and the blue one too.
. problem guitar that e string so much loader than others that it clips first and many guitar chords roots notes are in high bass range. this some times can be fix with high gain and non feedback types because the other sing notes catch up. feedback design do not brighten like the should when gain is turned up like the fuzz face.
Hey Travis, it's pronounced "Wampler," not "Wampler."
Can I have a physics explanation, please? Without the "basically" "generally" "kind of"...
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Los tres sonaron horribles
o, por lo demás, ellos suenan igual
First comment ba ba booey ba ba booey
Weird.
Marty Mcfly?
2:03 thats not a fender man...
Stjärngossen he said "Fender Hot Rod Delxue". He was referring to his amp which is most definitely a Fender
Jin Song oh
you used so bad pedals for the demonstration... you could have used a tubescreamer, a pro co rat and a big muff or a fuzzface for seeing the real difference between the real kind of sound that each type of pedal has
+daigoHR98 I understand your POV, however the SD-1 is a TS derivative, the Ds-1 is a popular distortion as well, and the Boss fuzz is a derivative of a big muff.
big muff is technically more of a distortion than fuzz
some people (as I do) thinks that is a modern fuzz. But that is opinion land. However, Fuzzface would be a better option than boss
yes, o.k.
Good im not the only one who likes that Fz-3
The OD and the distortion were fine, but the fuzz didn't really communicate the point you were trying to make. It barely sounded like fuzz....more like distortion with a gas problem.
I have to agree with the comments... This fuzz sucks for this demo.
Fully disagree but, there you have it.
Howrible fuzz. Get a proper one.
Yep, the three of em just suck ass big time :/
Fuzz always sucks.
They’re all the same.
No, they're not! The circuit inside is the same, but the first one was lame and the last one goes all the way up to 11. AND it was grey, so it must be serious. Yellow is a weak color.
Overdrive is what my truck goes into on highway cruising speed. Distortion is how I see things after having couple too many adult refreshments. Fuzz is what I DON’T want her to have....you know...there.
yikes, pedo
What I learned from this video: "Overdrive", "Distortion, and "Fuzz" are not engineering terms that have any real meaning. They are, rather, merely marketing terms designed to sell more metal boxes to ignorant young men. This devious marketing ploy has spawned an entire industry devoted to pushing different species of multicolored junk, whereas inside it is always just a gain stage (and sometimes a tone stack).
MARKETING SEMANTICS TRANSLATED:
Overdrive = Tube amp beginning to break up a little (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)
Distortion = Tube amp breaking up and clipping a lot (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)
Fuzz = Tube amp gain stage fully saturated, breaking up and clipping the top and bottom ends of the sine wave (only doesn't sound as good, due to lack of tube harmonics)...