Post by DefJef on Jan 16, 2017 14:05:27 GMT
This just arrived this weekend and so far it seems to work best as a bass fuzz. I found that with full to half drive and the blend knob turned fully clockwise that the bottom three strings of a six string electric guitar sound genuinely fuzz enriched ie full of sustain and with a rich almost synth like tone, which is what I wanted. This becomes even better as the dial is turned counter clockwise towards the bass/buzz setting. Sadly though, here it loses any buzz on the top three to four strings (top E being almost muted to silence). By turning the main knob gradually clockwise from the bass/buzz setting, more and more of the top strings become audible but sadly the full sustained buzziness turns gradually more towards bright distortion instead.
I tried it using both neck and bridge pups on a tele and with a humbucker equipped SG and in both cases the neck was definitely the best. The higher output 'buckers perhaps driving the buzz a bit more.
The main fuzz knob seems to be a bit of a filter knob that is simply dialling out treble. The gain knob is nice at adding compression and sustain and the pedal actually has some extra tricks up it's sleeve once you go to some less crazy settings ("who wants those" did I hear you ask?). The dry blend knob allows a lot of subtlety to the pedal and with that knob set fully or mostly counter clockwise the pedal becomes a handy clean boost.
So I reckon the pedal's not a no hoper and it will provide interesting tones. However it's not exactly ESSENTIAL to me as I can get a similar fuzz effect using a distortion pedal with the treble rolled right off. It's dead cheap though and a natty little thing. I'd give it three stars out of five for it's stated aim as a fuzz pedal. Perhaps another one for it's flexibilty as a clean boost pedal too.
Coincidentally, for fuzz or, even better, bass fuzz the picture below shows pretty much the ideal settings. You won't hear much out of your top three strings like this though. Turn that dial a bit more to 9 o'clock and the top strings start to show themselves.
I tried it using both neck and bridge pups on a tele and with a humbucker equipped SG and in both cases the neck was definitely the best. The higher output 'buckers perhaps driving the buzz a bit more.
The main fuzz knob seems to be a bit of a filter knob that is simply dialling out treble. The gain knob is nice at adding compression and sustain and the pedal actually has some extra tricks up it's sleeve once you go to some less crazy settings ("who wants those" did I hear you ask?). The dry blend knob allows a lot of subtlety to the pedal and with that knob set fully or mostly counter clockwise the pedal becomes a handy clean boost.
So I reckon the pedal's not a no hoper and it will provide interesting tones. However it's not exactly ESSENTIAL to me as I can get a similar fuzz effect using a distortion pedal with the treble rolled right off. It's dead cheap though and a natty little thing. I'd give it three stars out of five for it's stated aim as a fuzz pedal. Perhaps another one for it's flexibilty as a clean boost pedal too.
Coincidentally, for fuzz or, even better, bass fuzz the picture below shows pretty much the ideal settings. You won't hear much out of your top three strings like this though. Turn that dial a bit more to 9 o'clock and the top strings start to show themselves.