Fuzz in a suitcase!

[Mr.Huge]

Oh My!

"Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's FUZZ face"


http://www.wayhuge.com/fuzzface.jpg

[rockgardenlove]

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[aron]

Nice!!!!!

How do they sound?

[Mr.Huge]

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Sorry 'bout that. It's fixed now.

[O]

I believe this might be considered a dirty, fuzzy, suitcase bomb... 

[hairyandy]

Is that a carry-on my wayward son?   

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

[LP Hovercraft]

Stunning.  I wonder how fuzzy that would sound if all of them were in series with super-careful volume knob setting.

[rockgardenlove]

^Are they your pedals?  Because if so, you need to try that

[hairyandy]

Did anyone else notice that the suitcase is a vintage tweed?  Nice touch Mr. Huge...

[leonhendrix]

Nice!!

I have to make do with these

[leonhendrix]

Hey Mr.Huge your sitting on little gold mine there, check these links to fuzz faces on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-60s-FUZZ-FACE-RED-FUZZFACE_W0QQitemZ7413165821QQcategoryZ22669QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7411473068&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

[smnm]

I don't like theway the eyes seem to follow you across the room!

[Mark Hammer]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the "Eric Johnson" model in the lower left! I bet it sounds best of all of them. 

[BDuguay]

I was just about to mention that Mark. I'm sure the actual size and thickness of the rubber band is crucial though.
B.

[Roobin]

Personally i still can't believe how much Dunlop are selling them for now. £95 for two trannies, a handful of caps, two pots and a switch? It sickens me. If customers knew what they were in for...still they have to make money somehow.

[jonathan perez]

im going to buy a couple fuzz faces, gut them, and put my overdrives and flangers in em...

i REALLY love the fuzz face look.

[Mark Hammer]

Personally i still can't believe how much Dunlop are selling them for now. £95 for two trannies, a handful of caps, two pots and a switch? It sickens me. If customers knew what they were in for...still they have to make money somehow.

You forgot a few things, like:

• all the trannies you have to buy to find a pair that have the right specs
• the labour for selecting trannies (not at Chinese rates AFAIK)
• the labour for assembly (again, likely not at Chinese rates)
• a custom cast chassis that is not simply an order of 10,000 from a product line where the company already makes 300,000 a year
• packaging and shipping for a product of that size and weight

Yes, hype factors in there, as does needless advertising at the sort of rates that capucino-drinking ad people demand, but there is a whole lot of other stuff that people never think of.  Sure, there are a lot more "parts" to a Fab Metal Distortion, and it sells for $15 USD and sounds pretty good from all reports, but it wouldn't be $15 if they packed it in a cast metal chassis (as opposed to a quickie injection molded plastic one) used real pots (instead of essentially long-shaft trimpots), and took their time to select germanium devices and solder them in place.  Some things cost more because they cost more.  Once in a while you get something like the Vexter version of the Fuzz Factory, where a manufacturer says "What the hell.  I can knock off some of the fancy non-essential details, and deliver the same electronic product at a lower price point".  Or you get decisions to forfeit a feature or two and things like the Mini Q-Tron show up.  But stuff costs what it costs, and manufacturers wouldn't buy the inventory needed to assure continuity in production if they couldn't assure enough of a profit margin to make it worth their while to buy up all those Ge trannies and ask for another run of a chassis that no other manufacturer will buy or use because of trademark (so you can't sell it the way you can dump 1,538 1590Bs you bought and can't use anymore).

[leonhendrix]

im going to buy a couple fuzz faces, gut them, and put my overdrives and flangers in em...

i REALLY love the fuzz face look.

I did that with my modified MXR envelope filter

[hairyandy]

I love the "FBC" with the big, old Altec knobs Leon!

[leonhendrix]

The FBC is an easyvibe clone so it was supposed to say F**king big chorus-vibe but i didnt leave myself any room so i wrote Vibe on the front side.

Sadly i dont have these pedals anymore, i sold the Funk Face on ebay for a crap price only for the person who bought it off me to sell it for £100!!