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Less than 25% of my time spent playing guitar
25 - 50% of my time spent playing guitar
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More than 75% my time spent playing guitar (100%)
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Just curious how often you guys use a fuzz pedal when you play.
I like hearing fuzz tones on albums, but I find myself not using the fuzz effect very much when I play. I just don't seem get along very well with it. I actually use the octave fuzz effect a lot more, since it's a lot more fun to play with for me.
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I never use fuzz. I don't even own a fuzz pedal. I hear it's one of those pedals that have to be used properly or else they sound bad.
Patrick
Would a big muff be considered fuzz? If not I've never used it.
Fuzz + strat = nice tones
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I'm going through kind of a Queens of the Stone Age phase lately, trying to incorporate those huge fuzzed-out rhythm tones in the stuff I'm writing.
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I use it some. Prolly not more than 25%, but I do enjoy it for Santana tones and am trying to learn the Gilmour fuzz tones. I enjoy it!
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Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
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I don't use a fuzz pedal at all but I do use several OD pedals. Some I can dial in to get a slightly fuzzy OD if that makes any sense. I rarely use clean tones, and almost always have some sort of driver going. The radial tonbone can get some fuzzy od as well.
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I like my Cool Cat Fuzz, but I don't use it that often--only when I'm trying to mangle some Hendrix or Sabbath.
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Yes, though not a really typical one. To me, the Big Muff tonally falls between a distortion pedal and a more classic fuzz, like the Fuzz Face circuit and its many derivatives.Originally Posted by pes_laul
I like the classic fuzz pedals with Fender-style single coils, but not so much with humbuckers, and P90s kind of in between. 'Buckers just tend to get muddy and unfocused sounding with them. IMO, the Big Muff circuit can sound good with anything, when "dialed in".
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I use my Fuzz Face all the time. Mostly on the Fenders.
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I LOVE the sound of fuzz. Add it with a wah and I'm in another world. But right now while I'm learning, I'm pretty much sticking with clean sounds, maybe some gain or some tremolo and reverb.
Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Ultra; pretty red Squier Acoustic;
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Pedals: Dunlop Fuzz Face; Dunlop Crybaby Wah
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I use light overdrive or clean most of the time but definitely like fuzz every once in a while. I use it enough to keep one plugged into my board whereas some other effects (phaser comes to mind) come and go as needed.Originally Posted by Robert
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I recently bumbled upon fuzz while playing with some people in a semi-ambient playing circumstance. I was trying to find something for my Turbo Rat to do, and it did the job pretty well. So that is to say that I think I'll be using fuzz a bit more from now on. I almost never use it when playing by myself, but it seems to be pretty effective in certain situations.
Guitars: Gibson LP Studio, MIA Fender Precision, Carvin C350Originally Posted by Spudman
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I just bought a Way Huge Foot Pig fuzz and I LOVE playing around with it. It's based on the Fuzz Face from what I hear.
Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Ultra; pretty red Squier Acoustic;
Amps: Vox VT30;
Pedals: Dunlop Fuzz Face; Dunlop Crybaby Wah
My kids have: Squier Affinity Stratocaster MII; Fender G-DEC; Squire Acoustic; Jay Turser Strat-copy, Roland Cube amp
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I have a Boss FZ-5. Haven't really figured out how to use it. Two of the settings seem unuseable. Like horrible sounding.
I seem to be using my fuzz pedals less lately. Maybe it is the Fender Concert, as I think my fuzz pedals sound better with my Peavey. Maybe it is the music I am playing. I think it is more the fact that I have been using the Fender and that it does not like that pedal as well, and does better with overdrive, distortion, or just more volume for crunch. Too much distortion and the amph seems to lose a lot of its character.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
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Never really tried one. I always kinda tried to get away from fuzzy sounds and more like poweramp crunch. Maybe I should try one out some day.
Haven't used a distortion pedal either in, hm, twenty years now. Just OD's.
Dee
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With the Concert, sometimes adjusting out an OD is all that is needed it seems.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
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