@@wayne2150 yeah it's great. I think all three of these pedals offer something interesting, and I still have not sold any of them. I'm also not using any on my main pedal board, but that's more related to the music my band is playing :)
Really helpful video Bob. Have you by chance put them behind a buffer on a pedalboard yet? Just curious if any of them dont like that. I use a buffered TC Electronic tuner typically first in chain. Just curious - thanks!
Old fuzzes has less then unity output, unless they were flat out. But no one caress, as they were used with non master volume amps running flat out full
Interesting. Yeah I was watching the video from EQD where they talked about how their clone of the original Park Fuzz removes a resistor to increase the output level. And that makes me wonder -- wow, if this pedal is as quiet as it is, the original must be very quiet! So I guess JHS and Keeley must have both done mods that dramatically increase output level.
@@Bob.Silverstein for one, only Park Fuzz is all Germanium transistor. JHS is silicon mad Keeley is hybrid. By nature, silicon transistors has like twice to three time the outut level of Germanium. So JHS should be loudest (what it seems it is). Also it should be "raspier" by nature, what surprised me, JHS has the least topend (compareing to Park, where thr sweep of the Tone controll is WILD). Everything might change, if you run then into breaking up amp 👍
@@stanislavmigra today i was running the fuzz pedals into this crazy amp that i bought on craigslist and rebuilt during COVID. it was a Univox U45B branded as "Realistic" in a gigantic 1 x 12 vertical rectangular cabinet that smelled like it had been immersed in Axe Body Spray for 30 years. It was also not working properly. I removed the head from the cab and resold the cabinet, and built it into a custom small head. Then I ended up replacing virtually every single component on its horrible circuit board, repairing a hum problem, and fixing the broken tremolo (docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_tGC2oTJN6eAGBDhKmIYQCoRgFiAdH8DHBMj9YDeWnc/edit?usp=sharing if you're curious to see the crazy circuit). I run it into a 2 x 8" cabinet that I built, and it has shocking amounts of low-end and high-end. The amp sounds like the clean tones from an old Marshall, extremely sparkly with a very tight bottom, although it doesn't really break up that much unless you dime it. Anyway... my point was... the fuzz pedals sound great into that amp. I am probably going to record a video to showcase that amp's capabilities at some point. It's an extremely bizarre circuit topology, as well, where the power tubes are actually hybrid tubes that are half preamp, half power amp (6BM8). They run hot.
@@stanislavmigra Also -- thanks for that info about output of Si versus Ge. I did not know that. I had thought they were comparable aside from tonal characteristics and stability. Very interesting.
Love the Keeley Fuzz Bender! 👍
@@wayne2150 yeah it's great. I think all three of these pedals offer something interesting, and I still have not sold any of them. I'm also not using any on my main pedal board, but that's more related to the music my band is playing :)
Really helpful video Bob. Have you by chance put them behind a buffer on a pedalboard yet? Just curious if any of them dont like that. I use a buffered TC Electronic tuner typically first in chain. Just curious - thanks!
Old fuzzes has less then unity output, unless they were flat out. But no one caress, as they were used with non master volume amps running flat out full
Interesting. Yeah I was watching the video from EQD where they talked about how their clone of the original Park Fuzz removes a resistor to increase the output level. And that makes me wonder -- wow, if this pedal is as quiet as it is, the original must be very quiet! So I guess JHS and Keeley must have both done mods that dramatically increase output level.
@@Bob.Silverstein for one, only Park Fuzz is all Germanium transistor. JHS is silicon mad Keeley is hybrid.
By nature, silicon transistors has like twice to three time the outut level of Germanium. So JHS should be loudest (what it seems it is). Also it should be "raspier" by nature, what surprised me, JHS has the least topend (compareing to Park, where thr sweep of the Tone controll is WILD).
Everything might change, if you run then into breaking up amp 👍
@@stanislavmigra today i was running the fuzz pedals into this crazy amp that i bought on craigslist and rebuilt during COVID. it was a Univox U45B branded as "Realistic" in a gigantic 1 x 12 vertical rectangular cabinet that smelled like it had been immersed in Axe Body Spray for 30 years. It was also not working properly. I removed the head from the cab and resold the cabinet, and built it into a custom small head. Then I ended up replacing virtually every single component on its horrible circuit board, repairing a hum problem, and fixing the broken tremolo (docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_tGC2oTJN6eAGBDhKmIYQCoRgFiAdH8DHBMj9YDeWnc/edit?usp=sharing if you're curious to see the crazy circuit). I run it into a 2 x 8" cabinet that I built, and it has shocking amounts of low-end and high-end. The amp sounds like the clean tones from an old Marshall, extremely sparkly with a very tight bottom, although it doesn't really break up that much unless you dime it.
Anyway... my point was... the fuzz pedals sound great into that amp. I am probably going to record a video to showcase that amp's capabilities at some point. It's an extremely bizarre circuit topology, as well, where the power tubes are actually hybrid tubes that are half preamp, half power amp (6BM8). They run hot.
@@stanislavmigra Also -- thanks for that info about output of Si versus Ge. I did not know that. I had thought they were comparable aside from tonal characteristics and stability. Very interesting.