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Seriously check out demos though, I have the MK1.
With the amp wound up to compress (7-8), the fuzz on 10 and a Strat rolled back to 3-4, I can get some of what I'm after - ie a touch of dynamic hair on what is otherwise a clean sound - but played like this, the amp's background hiss is pretty annoying
With the amp at a more user friendly volume (4-5), the fuzz is giving me full on fuzz with guitar volume on 10 and turning the guitar down to 9 is quite literally a buzz-kill (ie 2nd transistor is switching off)
Turn down the fuzz control on the Fuzz (attempting to get a more gradual taper) and it looses all of the high end
So.. what I'm looking for is a pedal that I can leave on at a setting and that will allow me to ride guitar volume, so at 10 I'm getting a dumbly type of lead tone and that cleans up to the amps tone once I get down to 7 - 5
Basically how I'd use the amp at stage volumes (ie with amp on 7-8 rather than 4-5)
Does such a pedal exist? ..doesn't need to be a fuzz, but it does need those dynamic characteristics and preferably cost less than an amp! ;-)
..yep, I can attenuate, but I really don't get on with the attenuated tones with 6L6s and other beam or kinked tetrodes (although they rock for pentodes)
Klon type-thing? (no experience with 'em)
Baz
A bunch of fuzz faces have an input gain trimmer to set the max input gain - the equivalent of turning your guitar down to 9 to so can not have to deal with the fluffy woolly tone when full up - also good for using humbuckers.
For the record I don't feel the Dunlop germanium fuzz face is very good but it should at least be a ballpark for the tones you are hunting.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Genuine Question - I know zip about pedals ..If I can find a drive pedal with the right compression / gain character (as you say) then what does the Fuzz give me over an above that?
For cheap something like a Caline Pure Sky which is a Timmy Clone. Fairly transparent with good eq
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I also don't really like Ge FFs either as they get too woofy at full fuzz and don't have enough gain either. Actually come to think of it I just don't like FFs other than for that little bit of clean sparkle you can get with them rolled down a bit.
You say:
"what I'm looking for is a pedal that I can leave on at a setting and that will allow me to ride guitar volume, so at 10 I'm getting a dumbly type of lead tone and that cleans up to the amps tone once I get down to 7 - 5"
Why not get a pedal that sounds like a dumble when on, then switch it off if you want your amps tone? that's a whole different ballgame from fuzz though. In fact in my head Dumble-tone is almost an anti-fuzz sound. Compressed, controlled, smooth, edgeless. Not a bad thing but different to fuzz.
Yeah, I'd agree with all of that.
I don't like Germanium Fuzz Faces either (Jimmi used a silicon one I believe) the Silicon ones are far less mushy and have a more cutting sound which I prefer.
If you want more of a Dumble sort of a sound into a Fender then you probably want something more like a: Timmy, Zen Drive, ODR-1, or one of the stacks of clones out there.
Check out the tones (both Ge and Si) Emerson Swinford gets in this demo and see/hear how he sets his amp up.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I'm used to going straight into the amp old school style (only not doing so on this occasion due to the buzzy-ness I always get attenuating 6L6s)
So I'm used to breakup and overdrive coming in gradually over a range rather than having a 'quantised' clean / dirty setup and really looking to replicate that as much as poss, but still get something recognisably Blackface Fender
Maybe I should just dime the crap out of it and where some cans Johan Segeborn style and fek the neighbours?
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I'll add that I pretty much have my FF on all the time and run clean to crazy all on the strat volume control.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Thanks again all for the input - really appreciated!
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
First up was a £25 Caline Pure Sky from Amazon - pretty good dynamics and a tone I really like / extension of the amp ..only downside of it, is that it it negatively flattens out the straight guitar tone when not switched on
..onto something here, so how about another pedal with similar circuit, but with a true bypass?
Pedal No 2 then, is an MXR Timmy Mini - bypass tone is now back to normal and a tad more definition (less mids / less compression, but a bit less dynamic?) when engaged
But here’s the thing ..I think I prefer the tone of the Caline ..if that bypassed properly, it would be the clear winner at this point
..but I reckon the MXR would sit in a mix better
..more testing needed, but at £25, the Caline is staying regardless