RM Axis Fuzz Build Report

[Kleber AG]

:? You make me want to bredboard it for the :shock: third :shock: time  
Kleber AG

[brian wenz]

Hello Hello-
   The thing about the Axis is Mayer developed it in '68 and Hendrix used it off-and-on  [more and more...especially with Gibson guitars] 'til his death in '70 [Isle of Wight, Band of Gypsies, etc.]  I keep wondering why Mayer didn't spend more energy on making new circuits??  He started out with a winner and went downhill!   Oh.....that was a dumb question.....his original circuits didn't sell all that well!
Brian.

[johnabraham]

The new fuzz Roger Mayer has put out is based on a circuit he created in 1964 for Jimmy Page, this is much before any appearance of the british tonebenders.

The only thing commercially available was a Gibson Maestro Fuzztone at the time. It is hard to say what else was out there in about 63' or 64' that was even close to this.

Anyone have any ideas??? A CB radio, a phonograph? Robbie the Robot??

Heh, heh.  John.

[brian wenz]

Hello Hello-
 Yeah, that's what they say on the Roger Mayer site!  
    The fuzzes that Mayer "made" were actually Maestro fuzzes that he modified.  [The Maestro was made by the Shin Ei company in Japan.]
 The original Tonebender [by Gary Hurst] was being used by British guitarists from '59 or '60 onwards and was marketed by Sola Sound [years before any Vox, Colorsound, Fuzz Face, or Mayer stuff came out].
Mayer  also worked on Hendrix'  Fuzz Faces [which he didn't like...] and then came out with the original Axis circuit.
Brian.