Looking for Robing Trower's tone (I know, I know...)

[trjones1]

A friend of mine asked me to look into getting a Robin Trower tone for him.  He specifically mentioned this song as a good example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8pJlbrEIQ

So obviously if you want that tone it helps to have the talent (and the Marshall stacks) of Mr. Trower, but beyond that, what do people think would be a good place to start, stompbox-wise?  My friend's been trying a Big Muff for the sustain and gain, but he doesn't like the scooped out sound.  He's looking for something fat.  Would the AMZ presence mod do the trick, or should I go in a whole other direction altogether?  What are your thoughts?

[Quackzed]

sounds like a fuzz octave up pedal... like an octavia ? is that what hendrix used? sounds like a bassy fuzz octave...

[Quackzed]

"Trower's hottest rig blasted his array of Strats through a pair of 100-watt Marshall JMP-100 Mark II heads feeding two 1960-B 4x12 cabs and had an impressive effects chain on the floor: custom preamp and clean booster pedals, a Dan Armstrong Red Ranger treble booster, a Tychobrahe wah-wah, an octave/fuzz Fender Blender, a Uni-Vibe chorus/vibrato, Mutron II phase shifter, and two Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistresses. All of those are available today as reissues, although Trower has now downsized his pedal board to a Jennings or Vox wah, a Tube Works Real Tube Overdrive, a Boss Tremolo, and a Fulltone Deja Vibe.

i think it must be the octave/fuzz fender blender.
i bet you could build any fuzz/octave blender and tweak it to his tastes, like with a bigger input cap for that phat low end.

[petemoore]

  It doesn't necessarily take X amount of watts, but the type of amp and the speakers...
  Then stereo or dual mono, those extras like reverb or echo, and mixed distortions through a stereo vibe or some other such modulator.
  There's what I'd call a Fuzz [perhaps it's an octave with more of a fuzztone type setting] ... complex high frequencies.
  The pickups and they way they're set on the guitar...
  You're talkin' about a player whos...got everything, or has many fine selections to work with at any rate.

[nbabmf]

A Big Muff is the wrong kind of fuzz to sound like Robin Trower.  You want a Fuzz Face type pedal.  He's also rocking the wah and some sort of 'vibe almost constantly.  He's obviously very much inspired by Hendrix, so you can't go wrong with the holy trinity of fuzz, wah, and Univibe!