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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: Mr.Huge on December 06, 2006, 08:32:37 PM

Title: Fuzz Face
Post by: Mr.Huge on December 06, 2006, 08:32:37 PM
Okay, this is up on the Gear Page & HC... Just incase you missed it... Yeah... I'm being geeky...

Here's a clip of a totally stock Dunlop (brand new) Fuzz Face...
http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album97/FuzzFaceRed_EJ (http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album97/FuzzFaceRed_EJ)

Tell me that doesn't sound good...
Played through a '68 Marshall Plexi with matching 4x12 (green backs). Fender '57 reissue Strat... Effects are all post.
I guess it helps when you can play your guitar too... Flaco is a great player!

Tech Notes:
FuzzFaceRed_EJ
•   Red Fuzz Face (new Dunlop)
•   50-watt JTM 50 Marshall Head (w/ NOS Mullard Tubes)
•   4x12 Vintage Slant Marshall Cab with original 25-watt greeenbacks
•   Miked with 2 old Unidyne III Shure Bros SM-57s run into two Neve 1073 repro channel strips.
•   Drums courtesy of Spectrasonics Stylus RMX using all available expansion libraries.
•   Bass run direct into an Avalon 737sp.
•   EP-3 Echoplex and Roland SRV2000 used via Altiverb 5 convolution reverb plugin. (Custom made convolutions of the signal path from EJ's Ah Via Musicom-era mixing board path.)

I've also added some clips of a bunch of vintage and custom Fuzz Face clips here... I'll be adding about 10 more clips as soon as I have the matching Fuzz Face pic...
http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album97 (http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album97)

Tech Notes:
•   FLACO +
•   1969 Sunburst Stratocaster – STOCK... not a reissue
•   Into Fuzz Face (all FF used the same battery and cables... Only thing that changed for each clip was the Fuzz Face)
•   1969 100-watt Super Tremelo Marshall Head (w/ NOS Mullard Tubes)
•   4x12 Vintage Slant Marshall Cab with original 25-watt greeenbacks
•   Miked with 2 old Unidyne III Shure Bros SM-57s run into two Neve 1073 repro channel strips.
•   Bone Dry...noeffects

Also, New MXR sound clips here:
http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album98 (http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album98)

-Mr. Huge

Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: petemoore on December 06, 2006, 09:49:45 PM
  I haven't been able to hear about 1/2 of the soundclips lately...I get error alot, and this time, but forget how to fix it.
  Thanks for sharing...but I wonder how those sound too !!!
  I did manage to take a picture of my amp today, load it in the computer, then to Photobucket and paste the URL in another thread !!!
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: brett on December 06, 2006, 11:07:33 PM
Hi
That sounds great. 
Any chance of another clip with a lot less notes?
Do you think the FF suits the old amp with old valves? 
What differences would there be with a new amp (e.g. a JTM45 clone with higher gain modern tubes and modern brighter speakers)?.
cheers
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: bluesdevil on December 07, 2006, 03:19:47 AM
Thanks for posting the clips!! What position pickup were used in the grey and light blue FF's samples? Those are my faves, I think. Also it would be cool to hear a note ring out more, especially with a bend and slow vibrato.... kinda herky jerky in the playing style to get a good feel for 'em really. Thanks again.
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: MartyMart on December 07, 2006, 04:54:05 AM
It does sound good, but there's many thousands of dollars between the FF output and the
mp3  !!  a pair of neve 1073's  !   :icon_mrgreen:
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: mac on December 07, 2006, 06:58:53 AM
Marty, you are right.
The mp3 conversion at low rates makes any good recording sound strange or bad or flangy, in particular the solo ones. The mp3 algorithm at low rates is not suitable in the case of a Gauss-like freq distribution, ie, a narrow bell. It works better with flat distributions. For example, if you convert Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto by David Oistrakh at 128kbps, you'll notice that the compressed file will sound 'acceptable' when the whole orchestra is playing, but in the main solo Oistrakh's stolen Stradivarius, or "Strad" (sound familiar?) will sound like a cheap chinese violin... or "Squied". :icon_mrgreen:

Anyway, I close my eyes and imagine how this impressive gear would sound in aiff or wav, or in situ.

mac
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: RaceDriver205 on December 07, 2006, 07:01:40 AM
Excellent stuff! Guitar effects are after all, audio not visual devices. Its good for people to be able to hear all the effects so they can decide what they would like to build. Way better than hearsay.
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: amz-fx on December 07, 2006, 07:09:12 AM
Quote from: MartyMart on December 07, 2006, 04:54:05 AM
  a pair of neve 1073's  !   :icon_mrgreen:

Well...  they're reissues so they only cost $3,099.00 (each).   :icon_mrgreen:

-Jack
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: Phorhas on December 07, 2006, 08:27:40 AM
Huh - Mr.Huge, what are you trying to tell us - that tone has something to do with talent and good sound-engineering skills !??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: petemoore on December 07, 2006, 10:45:48 AM
  Would be interesting I think.
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: Peter Snowberg on December 07, 2006, 01:10:33 PM
Thanks, Jeorge!  :icon_cool:

Very cool!

I sure wish I could play like that.
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: Mr.Huge on December 07, 2006, 05:09:02 PM
Sorry... I moved the Fuzz Face sound clip folder....

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album106


-Mr. Huge
Title: Re: Fuzz Face
Post by: Mr.Huge on December 07, 2006, 05:10:22 PM
Quote from: Phorhas on December 07, 2006, 08:27:40 AM
Huh - Mr.Huge, what are you trying to tell us - that tone has something to do with talent and good sound-engineering skills !??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Yes... Yes I am.