Emma Pisdiyauwot

[WGTP]

The EQ is the easiest to hear for me, but I also notice differences in compression/sustain/dynamics, so I don't mean to over simplify. 

I still have 3 different breadboards with op amp, cmos and discrete distortion circuits in the lab...   

[caspercody]

So, if one uses a seperate EQ pedal, would it be safe to say you did not have to add a tone control on the distorion pedal?

[Top Top]

So, if one uses a seperate EQ pedal, would it be safe to say you did not have to add a tone control on the distorion pedal?

It depends on the design. Some of them have a tone control between gain stages, for example. If that is the case, then an eq before or after is not going to do the same thing.

There I go contradicting myself 

My point was mainly that I am able to cover my own fuzz needs with one fuzz and some shaping after it with eq depending on how it fits in the song. I have one regular simple two transistor fuzz and one octave fuzz. The music I make is not heavily distortion based though... so obviously a different situation than many.

[Taylor]

Worse - for me fuzz boxes and blues songs are pretty much the same.  Once you've mastered the 3 chords and 12 bars, they all start to blend into each other and all apparent differences start to boil down to tempo and key.  Of course, if you are a blues afficionado, then you can hear the sort of difference between any two Bo Diddley or any two John Lee Hooker tunes that most people would need a Herb Alpert and Motorhead tune to hear a similar degree of difference. 

Funny, I began feeling this way - regarding both fuzz boxes and blues songs - when I was about 16, while my dad (currently around 57 I'd guess) continues to send me links to blues tunes he loves but which all sound the same to me. Blues songs for me are like those simple penny games, where eventually the two players just have to make the first 2 moves and the game is over because the next moves are already known. I think blues guys could save some recording dough by just recording the first bar of each tune, then letting your brain fill in the rest.

[WhenBoredomPeaks]

I remember that i could predict most of the notes of a previously unheard guitar solo in most of the blues songs, i was proud of myself, now i am not that proud.

[Zapp Brannigan]

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