*it's spooky how old this new music sounds. I can only imagine how contemporary rock music might sound to someone of this decade if made with newer instruments FTFY
just want to say the pedal is classic for a reason...I just picked up The Eisenhower and it's so good it hurts! and Andy's playing at 4:30 is incredible...
I got the Build Your Own Clone “Leeds Fuzz’ kit (this circuit), so many tiny metal film resistors... but worth the effort... that thing is glued down to my board for life.
Thanks for finally explaining how the octave on the Super Fuzz works compared to an Octavia. My Malekko Omicron has more pronounced upper octave when the gain is higher and the volume of the guitar is up. Opposite for Octavia.
as an old Boss FZ2 owner- I love this fuzz. It's my favorite circuit. The Helix has this circuit modeled- it's the ''Wringer'' Fuzz. It gets damn close, and even cleans up like an Octavia. It's my favorite modeled fuzz in the unit. You'd never know listening to a mix that it wasn't a guy cooking through a 4x12 with a gnarly huge Univox on the floor. As always- killer playing from Andy to show the versatility of the pedals.
0:23 - I have two of these and I can relate to the expression on your face when you turn on this pedal. It immediately turns into a massive engine heaviest roar.
That tone in the intro section is killer, especially the heavier part! It's almost enough for me to forgive the omission of mudhoney - their first EP was named after this pedal!
Yep. Although the opening solo of Heaven and Hell blew me away. It sounded like Pete was playing a chainsaw (and I just came to the part where the reverb dude used that exact metaphor. Oh well.)
I own one and it’s incredible. I also own the SolidGoldFx Communication Breakdown which is a two stackable Tone Bender circuits ( MK 1.5 and MK II ) and the sound is spot on. That company makes a ton of really cool and very unique pedalsZ
Shin ei is awesome, one of the foundations of the type. ,the Gold foil pickup of Fuzz pedals , - no clean up, but the sound is too good to ignore. Have tried the Eisenhower, the 76, and an original Shin; The Dan Electro was the easiest to use, - they are doing some solid, retro stuff ,these days. As I've gotten away from high gain, the last of my Super's were traded last month,- but never say never.
@@AndyDemos Oh shit mercy I know Poison Ivy (my fave player) used a SupaFuzz and then a Univox SuperFuzz but also MCA's nasty, simple, perfect stuff uses this? I was thinking of getting a friend to build a SupaFuzz copy for me, but is there a Boss (reliable) that will get me close? Sorry for the late question! PS I forgot that I had the Whos Live at Leeds going and thought it was you playing haha kudos
@@MidnightStorm4990 In theory, yes. Tho I have always felt the FZ2 has something that the behringer doesn't in the low mids. I think the Boss tone controls are more precise and have a much better buffer, so that may have something to do with it. Because most of the circuitry is pretty much spot on otherwise.
Melanie from the Muffs was using one of these around '92. She left it on for the whole set. The orange models have an internal trimmer that can be set to gate the hiss when not playing. Recapping the old ones is a big help. Quells the popping and scratchy pot noises.
The first person I ever saw use this pedal was Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys (his was the Shin-Ei Companion version) but I first time I actually heard it was on Gratitude by the Beastie Boys since Adam Yauch used that for the main bass riff
I was 11 and could play three different chords! I bought my Univox Super Fuzz for $12 at Lafayette radio supplies. It was brand new and dusty. It was 1977 and I don't think it was something that they normally sold. I had no idea that Townshend used it from 68 to 78 until a few years ago. Kind of pissed me off because I was trying to get my Live At Leeds on. There is footage of Pete smashing a Super Fuzz to death in 1978 and he switched to using an MXR Dyna Comp soon after that. The trick is to back it off a bit with a good tube amp.
Love this sound and finally got around to ordering my personal favorite from Lastgasp Art Laboratories called the Sooper Fuzz 46 which packs a wallop of extra gain for the stoner doom sludge sound i'm going for.
@@AndyDemos whoops! Just seeing it now at 2:49! I grabbed an EFY-6 a couple years back and it's a wrecking ball. Awesome that you've held onto your FY-6 all this time! Killer history/demo btw! Been obsessed with superfuzz since first hearing Live at Leeds.
I have an orange and blue one from the 70’s I bought off reverb years ago for 300 bucks. Still my favorite fuzz pedal. Plugged into my Hi-tone, some sort of portal opens up and sucks time away. It’s strange, next thing I know hours have gone missing.
Are you sure about the tone switch? My impresssion was, like you, that it's a mid-scoop, but I read somewhere that it's actually ordinary fuzz vs octave fuzz. On the assumption that I must be wrong and some bloke on the internet must be right, I went with that, until now here you are another bloke on the internet who agrees with my first impression! If you have an official reason for saying it's a mid-scoop, I'll revert to that. (I have one, oddly crammed into an enlarged cavity in the back of my first ever guitar, by the previous owner, with controls next to the normal LP knobs!)
A friend had an orange Super Fuzz with blue pedal pad in the late 60’s. I remember it well. I had a Rosac NuWa-Fuzz and later BMP with Cry Baby Wah-Wah. Just received the Behringer SF300 yesterday. Wish the scooped tone was less scooped. I like the heavy mids selection but could be less mids for my taste. Still, they’re incredible tones and unbelievable infinite sustain and great controlled feedback!
Hey, if you still have this, a big tip is to gingerly slide the mode switch while it's on, if you get it to the right spot, you'll hear an "inbetween" mode!!! its the only way I use the pedal.
@@yallimsorry5983 Yep! I saw another video by this same guy that said to do that. It’s much better that way. Like you, I use it only that way now. I wish on all octave fuzzes that they would have an octave blend (like the Ampeg Scrambler) or octave defeat like the Danelectro French Toast has since I like fuzz only most of the time. The Behringer is a fun pedal.
The JHS Supreme pedal is amazing. It is rude. The day I got it I was playing through it and my son came up and shut my bedroom door. He said I was too loud and could hear me outside. Oops. Not oops. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
i got to play on a Super Fuzz Pedal around 8 years back at a guitar shop in Houston Tx.... If i had the money they where asking for it at the time ...i would be playing it right now in 2020...But yeah if you can find one and it's not super over priced get one THE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ATE!!!
I had a red body/blue pedal Super Fuzz in the early 70's. I bought it used from someone for $25 and sold it in the late 70's for about the same price. If only I had known.... Oh yea, I also had a Silvertone amp head - same story, same sad outcome. :-(
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Andy, that Hagstrom in C Tuning paired with the Solid Gold Effects 76 Plus is the sonic equivalent of "Hulk Smash". I love it. I have the smaller 76 Fuzz in limited edition Jet Black with Orange lettering. Love the internal switch to change the attack from Germanium to Silicon/Germanium Hybrid. I want to get my hands on the Dead Fx - I Can't Feel My Face, Super Fuzz. Super small enclosure, and tons of tweakability but sounds gargantuan!!
Thanks, I love that Hag + Fuzz too! The internal attack is a really nice bonus feature, thanks for bringing that up. Good call on the (Dead)fx, I must try one!
Anytime Andy! Thank you for doing what you do! Please make a demo of the Dead FX Super Fuzz!! A side by side comparison with your Univox Super Fuzz wouldn't hurt either!! Just saying...😉👍
Re: that octave-up behavior, whilst the Octavia uses a full-wave diode rectifier to get those octaves, the Univox solely relies on an asymmetric clipping stage in the circuit.
I've spent so much time trying to find a 1:1 sonic match to the originals and I've still yet to. wattson efy 6 and dwarfcraft necromancer are my faves tho.
I think I like the sound of the Super Fuzz compared to a Big Muff.. the latter I can never get a good usable tone that isn't out of control in a bad way
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Andy is one of THE best guitar players on RUclips.he’s an original
I love Andy and I also love John Bolinger
That's exactly what a fuzz should sound like
Absolutely!
4:50 - My face when a pedal I wanted on Reverb is relisted with free 2-day shipping
There was 0% chance that this video finished without some Fu Manchu. Love it.
it's spooky how 'new' both these pedals sound. i can only imagine how they must have sounded to someone all those decades ago
look after old 60s garage tunes
*it's spooky how old this new music sounds. I can only imagine how contemporary rock music might sound to someone of this decade if made with newer instruments
FTFY
@@Toolleeow if this sounds old to you you're the problem not the instruments
Awesome thought
@@Vinylhead66BlogspotDe such as ? Please, thanks
Wow !! Awesome sound. Nothing else like it. Andy is one of the best at keeping rock music alive !!
Love my Watson SuperFuzz. Bought it as soon as I saw Andy’s old PGS demo. Live at Leeds!
Me too. I had the old gray one years ago. Watson nailed it. Cheers!
I have one I bought at PGS. Don't use it as often as I should.
Damn some of the best playing I’ve seen from the man himself. “Here is my clean tone” killer.
just want to say the pedal is classic for a reason...I just picked up The Eisenhower and it's so good it hurts! and Andy's playing at 4:30 is incredible...
I got the Build Your Own Clone “Leeds Fuzz’ kit (this circuit), so many tiny metal film resistors... but worth the effort... that thing is glued down to my board for life.
Thanks for finally explaining how the octave on the Super Fuzz works compared to an Octavia. My Malekko Omicron has more pronounced upper octave when the gain is higher and the volume of the guitar is up. Opposite for Octavia.
Great job, Andy! Those pedals had as much fun as you obviously did. Fantastic sounds and great backgrounds on the pedals - thank you.
as an old Boss FZ2 owner- I love this fuzz. It's my favorite circuit. The Helix has this circuit modeled- it's the ''Wringer'' Fuzz. It gets damn close, and even cleans up like an Octavia. It's my favorite modeled fuzz in the unit. You'd never know listening to a mix that it wasn't a guy cooking through a 4x12 with a gnarly huge Univox on the floor. As always- killer playing from Andy to show the versatility of the pedals.
0:23 - I have two of these and I can relate to the expression on your face when you turn on this pedal. It immediately turns into a massive engine heaviest roar.
Sounds so late 1960s, beautiful.
I’m a simple man, I see a fuzz pedal, I click.
But I’m also a simpler man, I see Andy, I click.
Best video ever!! Andy you are the best, love fuzz sound so much, thanks for this video
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed!!
The super fuzz along with the rams head bigmuff are my go to fuzz pedals I love the jhs supreme I got it when they announced it on day 1 and loved it
The Supreme is my favorite fuzz nowadays. It's sooooo good
Damn, it's been a while, i've been following you sinced pro guitar shop demos. I'm your biggest fan!
That tone in the intro section is killer, especially the heavier part!
It's almost enough for me to forgive the omission of mudhoney - their first EP was named after this pedal!
I just listened to that today. That’s why I’m here!
@@resistor27 brilliant! they've got some other reissues coming soon too looks like
Best debut EP ever!
Touch me I’m sick.
when the venue guy asks if you want another beer 4:50
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My super fuzz was a Royale, these were sold in Canada in the 70s
Fredric effects Super Unpleasant Companion puts an FY2 and an FY6 in the same box and sounds like a building falling down while you're in it. Lovely.
I just got one and it’s absolutely sick! Needs more recognition!
Nostalgia and down the memory lane. Thanks for sharing.
Dat octave up face at 4:50 looks so high that it had to be at 4:20
I would love to see Andy, Josh from JHS and “That pedal show” guys together
Andy.....kickin out the jams 🤘🏼
Black Cat superfuzz! Just love that pedal
Thanks for bringing that one up!
This was my first guitar pedal ever in 1973. My next was a Crybaby wah for my Gib SG Standard. --- Memory Lane.
Favourite Superfuzz moment on a record? That solo at the beginning of Sparks on Live at Leeds.
CLASSIC moment. I’m right there with you.
Yep. Although the opening solo of Heaven and Hell blew me away. It sounded like Pete was playing a chainsaw (and I just came to the part where the reverb dude used that exact metaphor. Oh well.)
Lars Andreas Johansson Combination of the two, by Big Brother & The Holding Company for me.
Really would get that 76 plus pedal for that moment at 7:00, honestly the most impressive sound
I own one and it’s incredible. I also own the SolidGoldFx Communication Breakdown which is a two stackable Tone Bender circuits ( MK 1.5 and MK II ) and the sound is spot on. That company makes a ton of really cool and very unique pedalsZ
Jordan Dangelo interesting, I’ll check them out!
Shin ei is awesome, one of the foundations of the type. ,the Gold foil pickup of Fuzz pedals , - no clean up, but the sound is too good to ignore.
Have tried the Eisenhower, the 76, and an original Shin; The Dan Electro was the easiest to use, - they are doing some solid, retro stuff ,these days.
As I've gotten away from high gain, the last of my Super's were traded last month,- but never say never.
MCA(RIP) used one of these. Love the tones they got on Check Your Head
GRATITUDE! 👊
@@AndyDemos Oh shit mercy I know Poison Ivy (my fave player) used a SupaFuzz and then a Univox SuperFuzz but
also MCA's nasty, simple, perfect stuff uses this? I was thinking of getting a friend to build a SupaFuzz copy for me, but is there a Boss (reliable) that will get me close? Sorry for the late question!
PS I forgot that I had the Whos Live at Leeds going and thought it was you playing haha kudos
@@bigtimehilton3743 Reliable Superfuzz clones: the JHS Supreme in this vid :) and also the SolidGoldFX 76 Fuzz
@@AndyDemos alright!
Can I get a similiar tone on my Hyper Fuzz FZ-2 of the first tone of this video!? Damn, that was sick!
Yes! Try Mode I on the FZ-1 and set bass/treble pretty flat! Thanks!
@@AndyDemos wow! thanks, Andy! nice "talking" to you!
This also applies to the behringer Super Fuzz right?
@@MidnightStorm4990 In theory, yes. Tho I have always felt the FZ2 has something that the behringer doesn't in the low mids. I think the Boss tone controls are more precise and have a much better buffer, so that may have something to do with it. Because most of the circuitry is pretty much spot on otherwise.
Melanie from the Muffs was using one of these around '92. She left it on for the whole set. The orange models have an internal trimmer that can be set to gate the hiss when not playing. Recapping the old ones is a big help. Quells the popping and scratchy pot noises.
This was AWESOME!😁 They all sounded great but the 76 plus was BeAsT!!!!
The first person I ever saw use this pedal was Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys (his was the Shin-Ei Companion version) but I first time I actually heard it was on Gratitude by the Beastie Boys since Adam Yauch used that for the main bass riff
Excellent video, thanks...
I was 11 and could play three different chords! I bought my Univox Super Fuzz for $12 at Lafayette radio supplies. It was brand new and dusty. It was 1977 and I don't think it was something that they normally sold. I had no idea that Townshend used it from 68 to 78 until a few years ago. Kind of pissed me off because I was trying to get my Live At Leeds on. There is footage of Pete smashing a Super Fuzz to death in 1978 and he switched to using an MXR Dyna Comp soon after that. The trick is to back it off a bit with a good tube amp.
Love this sound and finally got around to ordering my personal favorite from Lastgasp Art Laboratories called the Sooper Fuzz 46 which packs a wallop of extra gain for the stoner doom sludge sound i'm going for.
Behringer does one of these. It's amazing and super inexpensive
Surprised the Wattson didn't get a shout out. Such a great pedal...
It is and I still have mine from the old PGS demo!
@@AndyDemos whoops! Just seeing it now at 2:49! I grabbed an EFY-6 a couple years back and it's a wrecking ball. Awesome that you've held onto your FY-6 all this time! Killer history/demo btw! Been obsessed with superfuzz since first hearing Live at Leeds.
Mine was grey crackle finish
2 knobs on the front side
1971
that head nod at 4:50 says it all.
My dad has a similar hagstrom guitar, its from the time they ehere made in sweden, before 1980
I have an orange and blue one from the 70’s I bought off reverb years ago for 300 bucks. Still my favorite fuzz pedal. Plugged into my Hi-tone, some sort of portal opens up and sucks time away. It’s strange, next thing I know hours have gone missing.
0:22 is the sound all other fuzzes must answer to. This is what the lobby in Hell must sound like.
such a good demo
Best fuzz pedal ever.
It’s my favorite fuzz circuit for bass!
I had the red and blue Univox super fuzz pedal. And do I ever regret selling it
Me too! : (
Are you sure about the tone switch? My impresssion was, like you, that it's a mid-scoop, but I read somewhere that it's actually ordinary fuzz vs octave fuzz. On the assumption that I must be wrong and some bloke on the internet must be right, I went with that, until now here you are another bloke on the internet who agrees with my first impression! If you have an official reason for saying it's a mid-scoop, I'll revert to that. (I have one, oddly crammed into an enlarged cavity in the back of my first ever guitar, by the previous owner, with controls next to the normal LP knobs!)
Yes, upper mid scoop at around 1KHz. If you have an EQ, you can try it with any fuzz and it is very close to the tone, even without an octave effect!
We should have an Andy rig rundown video.
A friend had an orange Super Fuzz with blue pedal pad in the late 60’s. I remember it well. I had a Rosac NuWa-Fuzz and later BMP with Cry Baby Wah-Wah. Just received the Behringer SF300 yesterday. Wish the scooped tone was less scooped. I like the heavy mids selection but could be less mids for my taste. Still, they’re incredible tones and unbelievable infinite sustain and great controlled feedback!
Hey, if you still have this, a big tip is to gingerly slide the mode switch while it's on, if you get it to the right spot, you'll hear an "inbetween" mode!!! its the only way I use the pedal.
@@yallimsorry5983 Yep! I saw another video by this same guy that said to do that. It’s much better that way. Like you, I use it only that way now. I wish on all octave fuzzes that they would have an octave blend (like the Ampeg Scrambler) or octave defeat like the Danelectro French Toast has since I like fuzz only most of the time. The Behringer is a fun pedal.
The JHS Supreme pedal is amazing. It is rude. The day I got it I was playing through it and my son came up and shut my bedroom door. He said I was too loud and could hear me outside. Oops. Not oops. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
You had to get rid of it ? (Your son….not the pedal 😁)
@@randydevel It was a difficult choice but if I got rid of my son I’d have to go back to cutting own my grass again. 😁
@@bimscutney1242 Damn ! I feel you 😅
@@bimscutney1242 🤣
Son telling dad to turn it down...
For me I love the univox Comes thru with humbuckers and single coils
i got to play on a Super Fuzz Pedal around 8 years back at a guitar shop in Houston Tx.... If i had the money they where asking for it at the time ...i would be playing it right now in 2020...But yeah if you can find one and it's not super over priced get one THE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ATE!!!
First time I saw one of those was when I saw Ringo Deathstarr play.
What is that intro song ?
Thats was crushing
Any links ?
Thanks, just made it up!
AndyDemos U R THE TRUE MASTER ANDY
I had a red body/blue pedal Super Fuzz in the early 70's. I bought it used from someone for $25 and sold it in the late 70's for about the same price. If only I had known.... Oh yea, I also had a Silvertone amp head - same story, same sad outcome. :-(
Harakiri by Creepy Fingers best take on the Superfuzz hands down.
Good video Andy!
Just some FYI: It's spelled Shin-Ei, but it's pronounced "shin-ay" in Japanese. シンエイ
🎸👍🏻
Oh yeah! Super Fuzz baby!🤘🏼💀
Thanks for the video, how do you play without any picks 😲❤️❤️❤️🤔
They need to reissue these.
Nice!
I've always wondered why bands back then never cranked their fuzzes all the way up. Would've made stoner metal a thing thirty years earlier.
The Stooges were a little sludgy. Of course there was Black Sabbath but nobody copied them till the late 70s
Sabbath never used fuzz though! All Dallas Rangemaster tones!
@@homunculusSZN Indeed! Although I would say Tony's sound did have an almost fuzzy tone at times. His Laney and Rangemaster tone is incredible
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Blue Cheer
Andy, that Hagstrom in C Tuning paired with the Solid Gold Effects 76 Plus is the sonic equivalent of "Hulk Smash". I love it.
I have the smaller 76 Fuzz in limited edition Jet Black with Orange lettering. Love the internal switch to change the attack from Germanium to Silicon/Germanium Hybrid. I want to get my hands on the Dead Fx - I Can't Feel My Face, Super Fuzz. Super small enclosure, and tons of tweakability but sounds gargantuan!!
Thanks, I love that Hag + Fuzz too! The internal attack is a really nice bonus feature, thanks for bringing that up. Good call on the (Dead)fx, I must try one!
Anytime Andy! Thank you for doing what you do! Please make a demo of the Dead FX Super Fuzz!! A side by side comparison with your Univox Super Fuzz wouldn't hurt either!! Just saying...😉👍
JPTR FX Add Violence pedal is a take on this too
Keeley's Electric Mudd is based upon a Univox Super Fuzz; not an exact clone as it has some other controls, but still cool.
What are the setting around 1:50 please ?
I have the univox red and blue version. Is it 9volt DC?
is there any modern pedal that sounds similar to the super fuzz?
JHS Supreme!
Now i want the 76 Plus really really bad!
1. The wheel
2. Democracy
3. Distortion pedals
(Not necessarily in that order)
The intro was so tight that it literally sounded like guitar pro.
Re: that octave-up behavior, whilst the Octavia uses a full-wave diode rectifier to get those octaves, the Univox solely relies on an asymmetric clipping stage in the circuit.
the pedal that birthed grunge, i would say
Big ol Darcy and the Big Muff... Mudhoney used both... sometimes at once... and it is awesome.
Joe R M What? Like a Superfuzz Bigmuf......oh wait.?! Haha. Love some Mudhoney
What i want to do is take the board of a modern fuzz pedal, and put it in a mold of the orange superfuzz
I wonder why it's so hard to reproduce that 70s Univox Super Fuzz. I've yet to find any remake that sounds as thick and warm: any suggestions anybody?
Get either a Behringer SF300 or Boss FZ-2 they have separate controls for bass and treble.
I've spent so much time trying to find a 1:1 sonic match to the originals and I've still yet to. wattson efy 6 and dwarfcraft necromancer are my faves tho.
Check out the LoeSounds Superfuzz-
@@winstonsmith8236 Will do! I actually do have a black and grey Univox and I love it. But always lookin for a good match!
4:50 needs to be a gif
Now let's do the FY-2!
The Supreme is killer!
The Pete Townshend fuzz pedal of choice from 1968-78’
Absolute fucking bliss !!!
for those on a budget the behringer can do most of this perfectly.
I think I like the sound of the Super Fuzz compared to a Big Muff.. the latter I can never get a good usable tone that isn't out of control in a bad way
That’s super fuzz sounds absolutely nasty in a good way
The Behringer Super Fuzz....damn, I’m poor. But it sounds right on.
The best pedal for face melting solos
Is that Josh's?
aw, fuck yessss
The Hillel Slovak fuzz!!!
I had the 70s one. Don't know what happened to it. I think I paid $35 for it, now they cost $1000.
No mention of Fuzzlord's FU-2... :/
00:22
nice
Does it doom?