Surf Sound, Any fuzz suggestions?

[Wild Zebra]

   How goes it.  I got a buddy who's looking for some fuzz boxes for some surf style music.  I was gonna make an Orange b/t boost since I got a couple AC 128's (any reports?) for starters, but was wondering if anyone had any input in the fuzz depot.  Seems to me some of the fuzzes I've made are to "over the top" for surf music, i.e. foxx TM and Shin Ei.  Well thanks ahead

[Mark Hammer]

You can try starting your search from here: http://www.zptduda.com/cowabunga/
o rfrom here: http://www.straitjackets.com/links.html#gear

[LP Hovercraft]

Mosrite Fuzz-Rite! 
Colorsound One Knob Fuzz
Hornet
Tone Bender

just a few for your more Davy Allen moments. 

[Mark Hammer]

Personally, I find it difficult to associate fuzz with surf music, although if "surf" gets expanded to include all the music for various American International Pictures movies that involve motorcycles, Hells Angels, mini-skirts, teenage rebellion, mind-expanding drugs, Bruce Dern and/or Peter Fonda, then perhaps you should consider not particular designs so much as selectable output caps and/or input caps.  The "hornet's nest" sound is partly a product of the harmonic content created, but also a product of the spectral content that passes through.  Rolling off the bass for a lot of different fuzzes will get nice 10-lb wasp tones.  If the design is Japanese or Italian, that's probably a good place to start from, though.

[Wild Zebra]

  Thanks for the suggestions.  I understand your view Mark.  I should get a more clear understanding of the sound my friend is going for.  I guess I could have said what Fuzzes were popular during the surf hey day.  But thats another can o worms, huh?  LP Those seem like a good start I'm sure he'll be sassified.  Haven't heard the Moserite or Colorsound, I'm sure they'll be right in the ballpark.

[Mark Hammer]

In some instances, the tone of the unit is a product of circuitry tacked onto the end.  The various Superfuzzes and the Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion all have a broad passive notch filter on the output that makes the high end buzz seem even more pronounced because it attenuates a lot of the mids.

[Yun]

The Ventures had some pretty good fuzz-Tones goin' .  I think (from the sound of it) it was a Maestro Fuzz-Tone, but i would rather buy the re-issues....

[fixr1984]

My father in law plays pretty much all the ventures stuff and all that surf music and he mostly uses a boss fuzz, but i brought my fuzz face over for him and he absolutly loved it. He said that it was a real good vintage sounding fuzz.